Former President Donald Trump attends a rally in Perry, Georgia, sept. 25, 2021. Credit – Dustin Chambers – Reuters
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Donald Trump is no longer in office. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t have strength anymore.
Last week, the former president once returned showed how he intends to stay on the GOP brand and refused to settle for the Republican-led audit of the effects of the 2020 Arizona election which, in fact, remains the loser of the election. Trump continues to push for election reviews in Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and appears to be on track to achieve them. followers in races across the country, seeking revenge on the corners of his party that he has deemed insufficiently loyal.
Trump has turned the Republican logo into a mark of chaos and obstruction, though he does not hold an official position in the party’s hierarchy. His judgment continues and, especially among House Republicans, is itself a new normal. Trump’s moment when such resentment was celebrated. In 2009, when Rep. Joe Wilson yelled “You’re a liar!”To then-President Barack Obama, he apologized almost without delay for his explosion. Now, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s boos on Capitol Hill steps about abortion and her religion are met with deafening silence from the Republican Party. stripped her of her committee duties for selling conspiracy theories. )
Trump would possibly have fled Washington even before Joe Biden was sworn in, but his influence has never left him, especially among Republicans who, honestly, Trump’s combination of bravery and discontent is a winning cocktail for next year’s midterm victory and the 2024 race that, if Trump is to be d, it can also come with its return to the polls. In fact, CNN polls show that the Republican electorate prefers Trump to be the leader of the Republican Party by a 2-1 margin, even if they are the same. The electorate says it would be a tie if it really helped them regain the White House as a candidate. Trump still draws crowds across the country, and some $82 million in money in the early part of the year was transferred to Trump-affiliated accounts in a network of political committees.
It’s simple to dismiss replacing in what it means to be a Republican in those days as anything that only has to do with internal issues of the ring road; After all, the percentage of Americans who identify as members of the Republican Party hovers around 30% year over year (Democrats are roughly on the same level. in the United States it is that of unaffiliated voters, and has been for decades. )
The challenge is that for many electorates, supporting Trump goes hand in hand with rejecting some of the nation’s fundamental guiding principles. In communities across the country, road symptoms are still selling Trump’s re-election last year. U. S. President-elect: Two-thirds of the Republican electorate said in a vote released last month that Trump was the winner of the election, a figure that has remained constant since November despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. They urged Republican lawmakers to forget this reality, even if significant voter fraud is a fiction.
In a large poll of more than 10,000 people, Pew found that only 57% of Republicans who followed Trump’s recommendation to march to the Capitol and “fight like Hell” on Jan. 6 deserve to be prosecuted for the failure of the insurgency. That’s still a majority, of course, but that’s down from the 78% who said the same thing in March. And among Republicans who think the mob that stormed the Capitol and sent lawmakers underground on merit to deal with the consequences, the intensity has dropped, with 50% of Republicans saying in March it was “very important” to prosecute violators falling to 27%.
In other words, Trump and his allies have worked tirelessly to normalize the Jan. 6 attacks and, at least among Republicans, he’s painting. Her near-universal refusal to cooperate with the Jan. 6 congressional inquiry delegitimized her, and broader cadres to discredit her. A lax and fair election continues to result in a risk to American democracy. To borrow a comment from a former Arizona attorney general, a former Republican who was John McCain’s staff leader, Trump’s efforts to undermine American democracy may succeed where Russia failed. it’s something that all Americans across the political spectrum deserve to look at with concern.
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