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...This is an audio transcript of the FT News Briefing podcast episode: Swamp Notes — GOP primaries and the power of incumbency Marc FilippinoSo far, the Republican primaries have not had many surprises....
...Sadly, no one in the Reaganite wing of the Republican party took the time to do it....
...So resounding was Trump’s victory that the Associated Press called the race right as the polls closed in the Palmetto State....
...So far the Republican primaries have had very few surprises. Former President Donald Trump continues to be the favourite....
...“New Hampshire is first in the nation, it is not the last in the nation.” Yet her bid could be hard to sustain....
...Meanwhile, Donald Trump, the GOP’s presumptive presidential candidate, was distracted by his legal entanglements....
...My question is whether this GOP extremism, albeit in lamb’s clothing, will destroy the Republican party or the US republic. It has to be one or the other....
...Democrats have honed in on a novel campaign strategy over the past few election cycles: elevate Trump-backed candidates in GOP primaries, and then blow past them in general elections....
...Christie dropped out of the race in January and Trump remains the frontrunner for the 2024 GOP nomination....
...Posturing by hardline GOP members scuppered the chances of a bill that largely mirrored a tough measure House Republicans supported last year....
...After Iowa and New Hampshire, Trump appears to be on a cruise path to the GOP nomination, despite all of the criminal and civil cases against him....
...GOP rises....
...Since 1952, the “first-in-the-nation” primary has launched many GOP presidential candidates to their party’s nomination, including Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George HW...
...“Open your eyes, Donald, the campaign has begun.” Trump, the first former president to face criminal charges, rallied Republicans around him to great effect in the GOP primary....
...About 40 per cent of New Hampshire voters are registered as independents and are allowed to vote in the GOP primary....
...Christie dropped out of the race in January and Trump remains the frontrunner for the 2024 GOP nomination. Schwarzman was once a Trump ally, giving millions to support his re-election in 2020....
...But now, the state’s Republicans look set to give Trump yet another primary win on Tuesday: the Roanoke poll showed that Trump had the backing of 75 per cent of GOP voters in Virginia, compared with just...
...The latest polling on the economy reflects Trump’s commanding lead among Republicans in early primary race states, where he enjoys the support of about half of Iowa’s caucus-goers and 44 per cent of GOP...
...Griffin gave $10mn to a super Pac supporting McCormick — twice as much as his donations to SFA Fund — and another $5mn to a super Pac backing Montana GOP Senate candidate Tim Sheehy, according to the person...
...Johnson said on Fox that he and Trump are “100% united on these big agenda items,” saying the former president and GOP presidential candidate “introduced” a loan-lease concept to support Ukraine with conditions...
...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....
...“It is now the responsibility of the GOP members to end the House Republican civil war,” Hakeem Jeffries, the top House Democrat, said in a letter to party colleagues....
...Texas, Florida, Missouri and other GOP-led states followed suit with anti-ESG initiatives and divestments....
...“The swamp took down the most popular grass roots Republican in the country.”...
...But Paulson’s policy preferences chime with the sorts of issues that many old school GOP donors will be pressing on the Trump campaign — a very different tone and set of interests than his more loyalist...
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