put this in some perspective here. it s not that a name is losing this race, and it s not just that president trump weighed in on this race at the last minute and will probably, we could guess, be crowing about this. this is a bigger story. just a week ago we were talking about a primary in alabama, a republican member of congress named mart roby, who had denounced president trump in 2016 when he was candate trump and wouldn t vote for him. she got challenged in that republican primary in alabama by somebody who said, hey, i m with the president. you can t rely on her. you can rely on me. she finished in the 30s in that race a week ago. she s been forced into a runoff, and now mark sanford going down. two incumbent republican members of congress in the last week. it looks like felled or potentialltrump insurgencies. this is a big thing about where the republican party is and where it s going. what else tells us something big about where the republican party is and where it s going? it