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The Washington Post: Top Republicans question Trump’s power over GOP
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
- Some Republican leaders are holding closed-door meetings to discuss Trump’s hold over the party, The Washington Post reported.
- According to The Post, discontent with the former president is growing among some top Republicans.
- The report says some Republicans think Trump’s fixation that the 2020 election was rigged could hurt them in elections.
Top Republicans are increasingly questioning former President Donald Trump’s hold over the party in closed-door meetings, The Washington Post reported.
They have been discussing his influence and fixation on what The Post described as “personal grievances.”
The report cited more than a dozen Republican leaders across the country — including Trump advisors — many of whom spoke with the publication anonymously because of concerns about retribution from Trump.
The report comes amid growing signs of divergence between Trump and some Republican leaders ahead of the midterm elections in November.
Trump has remained fixated on his claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him, and he has endorsed candidates who’ve backed that claim.
But some Republicans want to distance the party from the election-fraud narrative and focus on issues that they hope will draw votes from Republican-leaning independents, such as inflation or COVID-19 restrictions in schools.
According to the Post report, Trump has reacted with fury and yelled at advisors who counseled him not to fixate on the 2020 election.
“People aren’t necessarily seeing his messaging as much. They just say he’s not on Twitter, they don’t really know what he’s doing,” a senior Republican told The Post. “A lot of people now say to me: ‘He did great things, he was a great president, but it’s time for something new.'”
Trump has long portrayed himself as the scourge of Republican elites and recently spoken out against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has blamed Trump for the Capitol riot.
The New York Times reported over the weekend that McConnell was quietly waging a campaign to recruit candidates who would stand up to Trump.
Taylor Budowich, a Trump spokesman, told The Post that Trump had remade the party and that candidates he’d endorsed who could “successfully articulate his agenda” would win in November.
Source: Yahoo! News
Vic
February 16, 2022 at 10:30 am
Ah, a list of the Deep Staters? Of COURSE there was overwhelming fraud in the 2020 election AND the Georgia runoff for 2 Senate seats. When will this group of doubters realize that there will NOT BE trustworthy elections until this fraud is resolved and not allowed to go forward. Look at the consequences America is now grappling with, virtually for survival.
It’s like abusers. If you don’t stop them and punish them, they are emboldened and ESCALATE. They have been doing this for years and not stopped or called to account.
Trump is too much of an influence on our country? That’s bad for never Trumpers like Cheney. Of course, did you know her father is a partner in the law firm that handles Hillary Clinton interests, employ currently indicted Sulliman, and that Cheney as partner handles accounts primarily of CHINESE COMPANIES?
TRUMP is needed as President. Stop trying to paint his abilities and prowess as President in a negative light. You want to hear negative things from past government employees? There are plenty of them he got rid of, and more that needed to be. The level of corruption was unbelievable. Amazing he could get done all he did with those crooked people flocking around.
ox
February 16, 2022 at 11:30 am
It’s not a question of Trump’s power over the GOP. Who gave him the power? The politicians in the GOP. If they didn’t want Trump to have that power the Republican politicians would have ignored Trump. They would have told Trump to go fly a kite. The only ones ignoring Trump are the Republicans suffering with Trump derangement. Syndrome. Again I am going to remind the voters, not to put all their eggs in one basket. 2024 is still along way off. Anything can happen between now and then, especially if it involves Trump. Trump has just as much baggage in his closet as Lying Corrupt Quid Pro KING Joe. Neither one of them has a halo over their head. As the expression goes, Trump is the least evil of the two. In fact trump is the least evil, no matter who the liberal commie Democrats run for POTUS. The GOP better have a plan (B) just in case for some unforeseen reason Trump isn’t on the ballot.