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The GOP’s answer to its post-Trump blues: More Trump
For a moment, it looked like the Republican Party was getting some distance from the former president. Not anymore.
Local and state Republican parties are censuring Republicans for disloyalty in states across the country. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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For a moment, it looked like Donald Trump might be losing his iron
grip on the GOP. In the wake of the deadly Capitol riot, 10 House Republicans joined Democrats in their vote to impeach him. Several other Republicans openly
suggested at least censuring the president.
Not anymore.
Local and state Republican parties are censuring Republicans for disloyalty in states across the country. The lawmakers who broke with him are weathering a storm of criticism from Trump-adoring constituents at home, with punitive primary challenges already taking shape. In Washington, party leaders who once suggested Trump bore some responsibility for the Jan. 6 violence are backtrac
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[ Editor’s Note: I was concerned about this happening early on, not because I am smarter that all the political pundits, but simply not seeing anywhere else for Trump supporters to go.
Moderate Republicans, the ones that used to always be able to compromise in a dialogue about proposed legislation, are an endangered species. There is no way they could ever attract the Trumper vote due to their antipathy toward conspiracies, which is the political crack cocaine to the T-mob, without which they all would remain in a permanent depression.
While Trump has mentioned a possible third party, literally a death threat to the Republican party in terms of ever seeing a majority again, why would he want to start from scratch, when all the state party Republican infrastructure is in place waiting to be used, especially fund raising?
Among President Donald Trump s 22 complaints about election fraud during the Save America rally earlier this month, he perpetuated lies from Pennsylvania House Republicans.
Repeating a claim first shared by state Rep. Frank Ryan, a Lebanon County Republican, Trump said there were 205,000 more votes than voters in the 2020 presidential election in Pennsylvania. Where did they come from? Trump said to his supporters Jan. 6 before they stormed the U.S. Capitol in a violent mob attack. You know where they came from? Somebody’s imagination.
That fraud claim has been categorically debunked and rejected by courts, which said the Trump campaign failed to produce evidence of widespread fraud.