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GOP Candidates Are Distancing From Trump — This Tells You More Than Polls
During this week's podcast, Chris Cillizza and Matt discuss:
— Multiple Republicans in competitive midterm races are publicly distancing from Trump for the first time in years.
— Why candidate behavior and ad strategy are more revealing than polls.
— Trump assembled an unusually broad 2024 coalition (Hispanics, young men, farmers, MAGA, some America First doves, podcast audiences) and then chose fights that fractured it.
— The “Roadhouse”/Patrick Swayze Rule” of immigration: enforce the border, but “be nice.”
— Trump as a gifted outsider candidate who is a poor governing president: the same…
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