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Rep. Matt Gaetz promoted a onetime Democratic aide after other staffers quit.
Prominent Trump alumni joined a nonprofit named after the former president s America First agenda.
Tesla hired a former staffer for Sen. Richard Blumenthal as an advisor on autonomous vehicles.
Isabela Belchior raised eyebrows on Capitol Hill last year when she left the office of Rep. Sylvia Garcia, a Texas Democrat who helped prosecute the first impeachment case against former President Donald Trump, to work as a legislative counsel for Rep. Matt Gaetz.
Now, as Gaetz aides jump ship amid a federal sex-trafficking investigation into the Florida Republican, Belchior is rising up the ranks of the outspoken Trump ally s congressional office.
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KNOCKING ON WOOD: If the special election in Texas is any indication for 2022, the GOP’s ongoing identity crisis will leave it with a real mixed-bag of candidates in upcoming federal races.
Take Michael Wood, who has staked out a position far different from the 22 other GOP candidates in a special election to fill the seat of the late Rep. Ron Wright (R-Texas): He is campaigning against Trumpism, which he hopes will save him rather than be a death sentence, as it is for some who cross the former president. Wood says he voted for Donald Trump in 2020, but after Jan. 6 and his efforts to undermine the election results, Wood flipp