{"id":8977,"date":"2022-09-28T16:26:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T16:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8977"},"modified":"2022-09-28T16:26:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T16:26:20","slug":"the-never-trump-wing-of-the-gop-never-had-a-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8977","title":{"rendered":"The Never Trump wing of the GOP never had a chance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The bad news for Never Trump Republicans this week wasn\u2019t just that Liz Cheney&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2022\/8\/16\/23309182\/liz-cheney-wyoming-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lost the primary<\/a>&nbsp;for her&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2022\/8\/12\/23301904\/liz-cheney-wyoming-donald-trump-gop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wyoming congressional seat<\/a>&nbsp;on Tuesday. It wasn\u2019t even that she lost by such&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/08\/16\/us\/elections\/results-wyoming-us-house-district-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an overwhelming margin<\/a>. It was that her loss fit a pattern in which the GOP\u2019s voters have roundly rejected Republican after Republican who voted to impeach Trump. Only two of the 10 House Republicans who did so will even be on the ballot in November \u2014 one of whom is running in a district that Joe Biden won by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/California%27s_21st_Congressional_District_election,_2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than 10 percentage points<\/a>&nbsp;in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s clear at this point that the Republican Party is a pro-Trump party, and that its voters recoil from candidates who are ardently opposed to the former president. The results of this primary season \u2014 and Cheney\u2019s loss in particular \u2014 show a Never Trump wing on the verge of extinction.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2022\/8\/19\/23311901\/liz-cheney-never-trump-republicans\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2022\/8\/19\/23311901\/liz-cheney-never-trump-republicans<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The bad news for Never Trump Republicans this week wasn\u2019t just that Liz Cheney lost the primary for her Wyoming congressional seat on Tuesday. It wasn\u2019t even that she lost by such an overwhelming margin. It was that her loss fit a pattern in which the GOP\u2019s voters have roundly rejected Republican after Republican who voted to impeach Trump. Only two of the 10 House Republicans who did so will even be on the ballot in November \u2014 one of whom is running in a district that Joe Biden won by more than 10 percentage points in 2020.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s clear at this point that the Republican Party is a pro-Trump party, and that its voters recoil from candidates who are ardently opposed to the former president. The results of this primary season \u2014 and Cheney\u2019s loss in particular \u2014 show a Never Trump wing on the verge of extinction.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,509,968,506],"class_list":["post-8977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-politics","tag-republican-party","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8977","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=8977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8978,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8977\/revisions\/8978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}