https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2024\/03\/04\/trump-republicans-chairs-survey-00143360<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Last February, the county chairs were less supportive of Trump than Republican primary voters as a whole. Yet as time went on, and Trump consolidated support among rank-and-file voters, the chairs fell in line. It\u2019s a reflection of the state of the GOP that has existed since 2016 when Trump first snatched the nomination away from the establishment and took over the Republican Party.
\nIn the pre-Trump era, GOP leaders clearly played more of a role in steering the direction of the party. The 2012 campaign is instructive: Many different candidates were briefly the favorites of rank-and-file Republican voters, from Rick Perry to Herman Cain to Newt Gingrich to Rick Santorum. But throughout the cycle, party elites\u2019 money and endorsements stayed focused on Mitt Romney, and that\u2019s who got the nomination. This year\u2019s ongoing survey of county chairs illustrates how Republican elites are now more responsive to the grassroots rather than the other way around \u2014 either because they lack the interest or the ability to do anything else.”<\/p>\n
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