Gallup finds a major shift in Americans’ party affiliation just this year. https://t.co/a0PPHY8kZX pic.twitter.com/NkIucXjwzY— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) July 16, 2020
So 96% of 39% is still not 50% of the electorate. And then there's the future:
The House and Senate have been similarly overhauled. Since Trump took office in 2017, according to the Cook Political Report’s Dave Wasserman, nearly half of the House Republican Conference “have either retired, resigned, been defeated or are retiring in 2020.” Many of the GOP newcomers to Congress will be MAGA through and through, having won primaries where fealty to Trump was a determinative issue.
“Whether the president wins or loses, his policy views and style have firmly taken over the Republican Party — nationalism and white grievance, those kinds of things,” said Matt Moore, former chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party. “I don’t think that Trumpy politics will be leaving the stage anytime soon.”
Good luck with that, GOP.
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