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And the candidates are not at all what conservatives in the anti-Trump camp wanted. They’d hoped, with varying degrees of optimism, that this first big electoral test of Trump’s hold on the Republican Party would bring evidence it’s moving on from both him and his style.
But for these onlookers, the primary season has been a near-crushing disappointment.
“Things are bad, is my analysis, things are bad,” said Sarah Longwell, a never-Trumper GOP strategist who holds focus groups of MAGA Republicans. “The party is not going back to anything that looks anything like the party I came up in.”
Consider the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. No one ever expected a great survival rate for these folks in the 2022 midterms. But most have either jumped off the train or been pushed off by Republican primary voters, leaving perhaps just two with a chance of retaining their seats next year.
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy.), whose nail-biter primary is Tuesday, could make it three (but it’s not looking good for her, as my colleague Paul Kane notes today). She has a double target on her back, for also participating in the Jan. 6 investigative committee.
“I certainly would have liked it if more of the impeachers weren’t driven from public...
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