Overview

• Bruner announced his resignation in a Monday column for The Bulwark, declaring, "I quit the Republican party and my job as an accomplice."
• He most recently spent five years as a senior fundraising strategist at Campaign Solutions following more than a decade in Republican politics.
• He writes that the party has become "increasingly corrupt" and has "devolved into a cult of personality" since 2015 under President Donald Trump.
• While naming Trump and his congressional allies as the driving force, Bruner says consultants and operatives like himself enabled the party’s direction.
• He concedes his exit "won’t shake the GOP to its core" and calls on colleagues with doubts to refuse a "tainted livelihood" and leave.