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The Republican Party is perceived as being in disarray by many high-profile pundits, some of whom believe that the GOP needs to leave former President Donald Trump behind if it wants to regain power in Washington, D.C. An April 9 analysis by Jonathan Martin and Nicholas Fandos of The New York Times had this headline: “How a Defeated Trump Is Making a Muddle of the GOP.” Martin and Fando wrote that GOP leaders were confused over what their party stood for and called Trump’s continued influence over issues trumpeted by Republicans a “bizarre turn of events.”
But with or without Trump’s help or influence, it won’t be “bizarre” at all for the GOP to surge in 2022, for two strong reasons.