{"id":19921,"date":"2025-10-10T14:27:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19921"},"modified":"2025-10-10T14:27:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:27:01","slug":"trumps-staunch-gop-supporters-have-roots-in-the-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19921","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Staunch GOP Supporters Have Roots in the Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tea partiers give Trump a higher proportion of their support than do non-tea party Republicans, but Trump has always had a significant amount of support from both. The tea party as a movement motivated by debt and government spending was a myth. Someone truly angry about debt and spending does not support Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/2019\/05\/16\/trumps-staunch-gop-supporters-have-roots-in-the-tea-party\/#:~:text=GOP%20tea%20party%20supporters%20were%20most%20likely,stands%20for%20in%20a%202016%20postelection%20survey\">https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/2019\/05\/16\/trumps-staunch-gop-supporters-have-roots-in-the-tea-party\/#:~:text=GOP%20tea%20party%20supporters%20were%20most%20likely,stands%20for%20in%20a%202016%20postelection%20survey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tea partiers give Trump a higher proportion of their support than do non-tea party Republicans, but Trump has always had a significant amount of support from both. The tea party as a movement motivated by debt and government spending was a myth. Someone truly angry about debt and spending does not support Trump. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/2019\/05\/16\/trumps-staunch-gop-supporters-have-roots-in-the-tea-party\/#:~:text=GOP%20tea%20party%20supporters%20were%20most%20likely,stands%20for%20in%20a%202016%20postelection%20survey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[219,7,278,221,129,556,130,506,2229,170],"class_list":["post-19921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conservatives","tag-debt","tag-deficit","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-obama","tag-republican","tag-republicans","tag-tea-party","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19922,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19921\/revisions\/19922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}