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Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) will speak at the Democratic National Convention, according to CNN. He is scheduled to speak on Thursday, the night Harris will give her keynote speech. The former GOP congressman left Congress in 2022 after he became a MAGA target for voting to impeach former President Donald Trump for “incitement of an insurrection” over the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and

Former Republican U.S. Representative from Illinois Adam Kinzinger spoke at the Democratic National Convention Thursday night, calling Democrats as patriotic as conservatives. Kinzinger is a conservative who sat on House committee that investigated Donald Trump's role in the Jan. 6, 2021 riots. In a Democratic fundraising text sent Thursday, Kinzinger said he refuses to support Trump's "cult

Kinzinger, a congressman from Illinois who served for 12 years, is one of highest-profile members of Donald Trump’s party to endorse his Democratic opponent. “Tonight, as a Republican speaking before you, I’m putting our country first, because the fact is, I do belong here,” Kinzinger said. “I know Kamala Harris shares my allegiance to the rule of law, the Constitution and democracy.”

When Adam Kinzinger launched his career in Republican politics in 2010, the Illinois congressional candidate welcomed the support of Sarah Palin and Tea Party groups. It was widely assumed that the young military veteran — Kinzinger was only 33 when he first arrived on Capitol Hill — would be a reliable ally of the GOP’s conservative base. As regular readers might recall, those assumptions