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Donald Trump still has a strong grip on the Republican Party.
But there is a small resistance group that detests the president.
Now they are planning how to handle Joe Biden’s four years in the White House for their purposes.
The battle for the election result seems to be over. The Electoral College has voted Joe Biden as the winner and top Republicans, led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, have grudgingly accepted him as the next president.
McConnell also shut down Donald Trump’s last hope by urging his colleagues not to object when the votes are counted in Congress on January 6.
The president has raised the idea of simply refusing to leave the White House after Joe Biden’s installation on January 20, according to CNN. But none of the advisers think they will pick up on that plan.
But no one believes that Donald Trump will leave the spotlight, or his heavy hold on the Republican Party. He has a huge crowd of fans who love him, the ability to attract media coverage of everything he does, and, since the election, he has raised nearly two billion crowns from donors.
Most of the money raised under the pretext that it will go to contest the election legally can be used by Trump after the mandate to travel, hold rallies, pay staff and campaign for candidates he likes. He also opened to run again in 2024. So the incentives are strong for Republican politicians not to challenge him.
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Donald Trump.
Plan to control Biden
The small group of Republicans who shunned the president, the so-called “Never-Trumpers,” and acted against him during his time in the White House, are now making plans to make the best use of Joe Biden’s presidency for their purposes, writes Politico.
The political site has spoken to dozens of members of the “Never Trump” movement who say they want to keep the pressure on Republicans who act as the president’s foot soldiers and offer protection to others who oppose conspiracy theories and attacks on the democracy.
Members of the resistance groups have different answers on how the party should get rid of Trump’s influence, but all agree that it is an almost daunting task.
– Can we recruit “Never-Trumpers” to stand for election? Can we find candidates for the center, is that the best? Is it better to help Biden? “I don’t think there is any direct answer at this point,” Tim Miller, a former Jeb Bush spokesman, told Politico.
Some high-ranking members of the movement believe that the best way forward is through the Joe Biden administration. They intend to use the contacts they have made in your immediate circle to make sure you don’t stray too far to the left.
– We can be a reminder that it can be a dangerous road to start going left. I have friends who will hold senior management positions and are just a phone call away. We have a conduit into the administration, Mickey Edwards, a former Republican in the House of Representatives, told Politico.
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Joe Biden.
I want them to lose Georgia
Edwards says that Republicans he knows who loathe Trump want the party to lose the Georgia by-election and therefore a majority over the Senate.
The analysis is that a Republican-led Senate will stop everything that Joe Biden is trying to accomplish, and that a paralyzed Democratic president carries great risk of a “new Trump” in four years.
Instead, they want to influence Joe Biden to deliver policies that downtown voters can appreciate, for example when it comes to migration.
Reed Galen, who represents “Never-Trump” group The Lincoln Project, says a long-term goal is to turn on Republicans who have gone too far in their defense of Trump and especially with regard to allegations of cheating. after the elections. In the firing line are the 18 state attorneys general and the majority of Republican members of the House of Representatives who supported Texas’ lawsuit in the Supreme Court.
– They can’t just drive through the car wash on January 21 and say they were just kidding, he tells Politico.
Another goal of some resistance groups is to identify vulnerable Trump advocates to challenge in the primary election to get more center-right Republican politicians into Congress.
Meetings with secret group
But within the groups, there are various analyzes of how it can be a way forward. Geoff Kabaservice has organized secret meetings with “Never-Trumpers” where they have had to answer a confidential questionnaire.
Among the questions was “Do you think Republicans can become a positive force in politics after Trump leaves?” and “Would you rather use your forces over the next two years to reform the Republicans, support the Democrats, or a third party?”
Kabaservice tells Politico that some want to reform the Republicans, others believe that the party should be burned and rebuilt from scratch, and some that a new party should be outlined.
And some Republican politicians who don’t want to do the unthinkable and formally join the Democrats may find themselves in the shadows.
– I see no way that I will be elected in the next four years because Trump and Trumpism will dominate. “I’ll probably be in the political wilderness for the rest of my life,” Joe Walsh, a former Illinois Republican in the House of Representatives, told Politico.
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