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Republican voters are deeply divided over Trump. So why do most Republican lawmakers still support him? Kevin Arceneaux, Rory Truex © Joe Raedle/Getty Images Supporters of former president Donald Trump gather near his Mar-a-Lago estate on Monday in West Palm Beach, Fla. Many Republican senators, watching the harrowing footage of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection played at Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, were moved to tears, presumably remembering their own experiences that day. Yet it did not persuade many of them to vote to convict the former president on the charge of inciting the insurrection. Even though many prominent Republicans, including Sen. Mitch McConnell (Ky.), appeared to want a clean break with the president after the insurrection, those who turned on Trump have been rebuked by the party’s grass roots. And Trump has threatened to recruit and support primary challengers against Republicans who do not line up behind him.

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