Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Trump Turns toward the GOP Establishment

Trump Turns toward the GOP Establishment
Excerpt: Has Donald Trump become a swamp creature? After repudiating Steve Bannon for having the temerity to criticize his son, the president spent the weekend holed up in the Maryland mountains with none other than Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan. The man who was once the vanguard of the supposedly burgeoning populist–nationalist movement came out of his Camp David retreat with a newfound zeal for . . . supporting Republican incumbents in the 2018 midterm elections. “We need more Republicans. We have to have more Republicans,” Trump told reporters at a press conference. Though Trump added that he would support “anybody else who has my kind of thinking,” when a reporter asked whether he would throw his weight behind the Steve Bannon–backed candidates who are mounting challenges to incumbent Republican senators across the country, he responded: “I don’t see that happening. I think they’ve sort of scattered.”

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