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The Day GOP Resistance to Trump Died

The last two serious prospective primary challengers to the president have dropped out, even as an appetite remains for a rival among Republican voters.
Source: Athit Perawongmetha / Reuters

If you’re looking for a date to chisel on the gravestone of the Republican resistance to President Donald Trump, June 1, 2019, will work nicely.

That’s the day that Maryland Governor Larry Hogan , “I’m not going to be a candidate for president in 2020.” The day before, former Ohio Governor John Kasich , which was only very slightly ajar, on his own 2020 run. “There is no path right now for me. I don’t see a way to get there,” Kasich said on CNN. “Maybe somebody wants to run and

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