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Vets Want What Trump Refuses to Promise: a Nonviolent Election
Organizations representing thousands of veterans asked Republicans to pledge to stop the violent rhetoric and voter intimidation.
Are Republicans squandering their sacrifice?
Photographer: Samuel Corum/Getty Images
As hundreds of North Carolina Republicans gathered over the Memorial Day weekend to elect delegates to the party’s national convention in July, a coalition of military veterans showed up and asked party leaders for a simple pledge: renounce violence this election.
The veterans were from different political parties and diverse backgrounds. They spoke about their combat experience in Iraq and Afghanistan. They recalled the sacrifice of those who died fighting terrorism.