Sa'ar hires anti-Trump Republican strategists

• Date: 17 January 2021
• Published date: 17 January 2021
• Author: GIL HOFFMAN

Sa'ar hired Steve Schmidt, Stuart Stevens, Rick Wilson and Reed Galen, who are affiliated with the Lincoln Project, an American political action committee formed in late 2019 by a number of Republicans and former Republicans who aimed to prevent Trump's re-election and defeat all Republicans in close races running for re-election in the Senate.

Sources in Sa'ar's campaign said the team would be coming to Israel as soon as the coronavirus permits it, but until then, they would work via videoconferencing.

Sa'ar caused a storm on Sunday when he told a KAN Radio interviewer that he cannot endorse gay marriage because the issue is "heavy" and he did not want to make a promise he did not know he could keep.

After he was criticized by Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid, Israelis Party leader Ron Huldai and Tnufa party head Ofer Shelah, Sa'ar's New Hope Party released a statement saying that Sa'ar had helped advance the rights of the LGBT community in every post he has held in politics. For instance, as interior minister, he helped gay couples make aliya and required schools to educate pupils about the dangers of homophobia.

"There are those who scatter promises that they have no chance of keeping and there are those who make changes to help the gay community," the party said.

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