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Jackie Calmes: The biggest losers — the GOP and Donald Trump

Former President Donald Trump hits out of the bunker during the LIV Golf Miami Team Championship Pro-Am Tournament at Trump National Doral Golf Club in Doral on Oct. 27, 2022.

What a well-deserved irony: For a party that all but certainly will win control of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Republican Party is the big loser of the 2022 midterm elections, second only to Donald Trump.

Those two facts are related, of course. Had party "leaders" cut ties to Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection he incited — as a healthy, pro-democracy party would have — Republicans might well have romped in elections across the nation. They had predicted they would, and they had more than a century of history on their

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