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'Strong signal': Voters choose drop-out over Trump's congressional candidate
Trump Lost a Primary. The System Is Bigger Than That.A Local Result, a National FableThe source is simple enough: in Michigan’s 8th Congressional District, Donald Trump’s endorsed candidate, Amir Hassan, trailed badly enough that he was projected to lose, while Thomas Smith, a retired engineer who had already dropped out, was winning with more than half the vote. That is the context. Everything else is commentary trying to inflate one GOP primary into a forecast of national collapse or recovery.Trump’s Power Has Limits, Not InnocenceThe actual power structure here is plain. Trump can still…
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