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Lid blown off of Trump’s defiant new midterm strategy
Trump Can Lose the Midterms and Still Win the PartyThe Real Power Is Not in the NumbersAxios reports that Trump is acting as if he does not care whether Republicans get crushed in the midterms. That detail matters because it identifies where the actual power sits. It is not with the nervous Republicans in Washington, who are apparently trying to manage a man who has no interest in their survival. It is with Trump, who can shrug at electoral damage because the party has already been reorganized around his personal leverage.The story is not about a president losing discipline. It is about a…
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