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The Republicans Who Won’t Quit Trump

The GOP establishment is coming home to the former president—again.
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Prominent Republicans criticized Donald Trump for two years. So why are even these supposed moderates now pledging to support him?

First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:


Career Over Country

Breaking up, Neil Sedaka many years ago, is hard to do. But it shouldn’t be impossible. When a Republican governor Donald Trump as a “three-time loser,” that the party will lose “up and down the ballot” if Trump is the 2024 Republican presidential nominee, and calls the former president it’s easy to imagine a responsible politician who has packed his bags and is waiting on the steps for his taxi back to the world of sensible adults.

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