<p>Troye told Ramos, "The party is still Donald Trump's party…. The party must choose its future."</p><p>Troye, a self-described "John McCain Republican," added that the GOP must decide if it wants to go back to being the party of the late Sen. John McCain and President Ronald Reagan or remain the "Trump party" — which, she stressed, is failing miserably from a national security standpoint." Trumpism, according to Troye, is a "racist movement" that promotes violent unrest.</p><p>"We must protect the security of Americans," Troye told Ramos.</p><p>Troye went on to say that another major failure of the outgoing Trump Administration is its response to the coronavirus pandemic.</p><p>"It was difficult to stay with a president who said that the virus was a hoax," Troye lamented.</p><p>Writing in Spanish on Twitter on January 17, Troye posted, "Thank you, Jorge Ramos and 'Al Punto,' for this important conversation. The future of the Republican Party depends on holding accountable those who have fed racism and intolerance and put our democracy at risk with their lies":</p><iframe src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/index.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-0&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1350954105305501703&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.alternet.org%2F2021%2F01%2Fpence%2F&partner=rebelmouse&theme=light&widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&width=550px" style="vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px; height: 384px; flex-grow: 1;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe><p>On Martin Luther King Day, Troye tweeted:</p><iframe src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/index.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-1&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1351174652559822853&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.alternet.org%2F2021%2F01%2Fpence%2F&partner=rebelmouse&theme=light&widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&width=550px" style="vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px; height: 269px; flex-grow: 1;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe><p>Unlike other right-wing Trump critics such as MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, the Lincoln Project's Steve Schmidt and Washington Post columnist George Will, Troye has not left the Republican Party. But she has repeatedly expressed her concerns about the GOP's future and made it clear that she was glad to see President-elect Joe Biden win in November.</p>
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