After Midterm Rout, the GOP Chooses to Fight Harder Instead of reflecting after a crushing midterm defeat, Republicans are doubling down on Trumpism. The House GOP just elected hard-charging Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan as its new minority leader. President Trump promoted loyalist Stephen Miller to White House chief of staff. And the outgoing Republican majority scrambled to protect Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from impeachment. These are not the moves of a party trying to broaden its appeal. Outgoing Speaker Mike Johnson even declared that “the voters made the wrong choice.”…
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