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...Michael Whatley, who was previously chair of the North Carolina Republican party, was selected as RNC chair, and Lara Trump was picked as RNC co-chair last week during a meeting in Texas....
...“I have never seen the Republican party so unified as it is right now.” But Trump’s margin of victory masked disunity lurking in the Republican electorate....
...Possible successors include John Thune of South Dakota, John Cornyn of Texas and John Barrasso of Wyoming....
...Doug Burgum Governor of North Dakota Burgum, 67, was a political novice when he first ran for governor of North Dakota in 2016....
...Chair Ronna McDaniel is now gone, replaced by two Maga allies: Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump and Michael Whatley, former chair of the North Carolina Republican party....
...With Donald Trump on an apparent glide path to the Republican party’s nomination for the White House, another race is under way: to be his running mate....
...South Carolina senator Tim Scott, North Dakota governor Doug Burgum and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy — who all ran against Trump in the primary before endorsing him — will join the event....
...Whatley is chair of the North Carolina Republican party....
...In deep red North Dakota, for example, a 2022 ballot measure received the support of 45 per cent of voters in a state where just 32 per cent backed Joe Biden for president in 2020....
...(If we remove North Dakota, which is a bit of an outlier — it has a low misery score but a very low approval rating — the correlation looks even stronger) Other measures of distress, such as transitions...
...At a rally in Indianola on Sunday afternoon, Trump accepted the endorsement of Doug Burgum, the Republican governor of North Dakota who suspended his own long-shot bid for the White House last year....
...“I have never seen the Republican Party so unified as it is right now,” said Trump in his Saturday night victory speech....
...Which raises the question why Republicans are pushing so hard on a sure election loser. The answer is that the party’s evangelical tail is wagging the party’s dog....
...Michael Whatley, a close ally of Trump from North Carolina, is the new chair of the RNC, and Lara Trump, the former president’s daughter-in-law, is co-chair....
...Trump insisted the Republican party was firmly behind him on Saturday night, telling supporters: “I have never seen the Republican party so unified as it is right now.”...
...The top tier of Republicans is followed by North Dakota governor Doug Burgum, a billionaire former software executive who dropped out of the race last week, and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who is polling...
...On top of his polling lead, Trump has also won endorsements from former primary rivals Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor who dropped his bid on Sunday, North Dakota governor Doug Burgum, Senator Tim Scott...
...“So the House Republicans and the Republican Party understand the necessity of standing with Israel....
...And Texas may be less reliably Republican down the line compared with South Dakota and Wyoming (leadership positions are often preserved for lawmakers in safe seats)....
...But allies of Schumer, the Democratic Senate majority leader, had also signalled their desire for Moreno to be the Republican party’s nominee....
...“The Ukraine piece is, clearly, on the Republican side, the most controversial one, I think, the one that has the most difference of opinion . . ....
...Republican lawmakers led by Senator Marco Rubio raised concerns about the Chinese company’s links to the Communist party over the weekend....
...And there are signs that voters — especially independents who make up a larger share of the Arizona electorate than either of the main parties — could turn away from Republican candidates over abortion....
...Doug Burgum, the Republican governor of North Dakota, has suspended his long shot bid for the presidency, further whittling the field of GOP candidates six weeks before the Iowa caucuses....
...“This makes us all safer, in Europe and North America.” The US Senate is expected to approve the package early next week....
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