And he’s right for a fundamental reason: Trump’s vision of politics, a war between true Americans and a system that has betrayed them, describes how many Republican voters see the world. “This remains a Trump-ified GOP, with most openly embracing him and almost none openly confronting him.”īrownstein is right. “Pundits trying to will into existence a GOP that has moved beyond him are way beyond the facts,” the Atlantic’s Ron Brownstein wrote on Wednesday morning. It’s a splash of cold water on the narrative of a waning Trump. Rusty Bowers, the Arizona House speaker and star January 6 committee witness, lost a state Senate primary to - you guessed it - a Trump-backed election conspiracist. Jaime Herrera Beutler and Dan Newhouse, seemed on track to fend off Trump-backed challengers in Washington state’s open primary). Peter Meijer, one of 10 House Republicans to vote for Trump’s impeachment in 2021, lost his bid for reelection to yet another Trump-endorsed Big Lie supporter (two other House impeachment supporters, Washington Reps. In Michigan, gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon is cut from a similar cloth. In Arizona, Senate nominee Blake Masters and likely gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake are Trump-endorsed 2020 election deniers. Tuesday’s Republican primary results felt like a rude reminder of reality: In elections across five states, including the swing states of Arizona and Michigan, Trump loyalists won contests up and down the ballot. This speculation seems to be influencing the public: Predictit, a political betting market, now gives Trump and DeSantis nearly even odds to be the 2024 Republican presidential nominee.īut there’s more than a whiff of wishful thinking in these reveries, an almost willful forgetting of the many prior times when predictions of Trump’s decline have been proven false.
Over the last few weeks, there has been rampant speculation in the American press that former President Donald Trump’s grip on the Republican Party may be slipping - citing, in particular, fallout from the January 6 committee, a seeming rift with the Murdoch media empire, and the rise of Florida Gov.
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