Longtime GOP Strategist Quits ‘Corrupt’ and ‘Immoral’ Party

FILE — Steve Schmdit, who served as a top campaign adviser to George W. Bush in 2004 and John McCain in 2008, in Incline Village, Nev., May 23, 2012. Schmidt renounced his membership in the Republican Party in June 2018, nearly three decades after joining it, and called for a Democratic wave in the midterm elections this fall. (Max Whittaker/The New York Times)