Trump Has Become the Establishment Trump Takes On the Indiana Primaries, Thomas Massie and Mark Kelly
Indiana just delivered the first shot in the war for the future of the Republican Party — and the most revealing data point isn't who won. It's that over 40% of Hoosiers are independents locked out of a closed primary while Trump and Pence-era moderates eat their own. Add Trump's all-gas-no-brakes campaign to eviscerate Thomas Massie and Pete Hegseth's attempt to demote Senator Mark Kelly for telling troops to refuse illegal orders, and you've got a no-BS briefing on how fast Trump went from insurgent to establishment.
Trump ran as the anti-establishment wrecking ball. Two years back in Washington, he is the establishment — and Indiana voters know it. In…
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→ Four things from today’s episodeWhy Trump has become the establishment he ran against. and Indiana voters can feel it
The first battle in the war for the soul of the GOP. Trumpists vs. moderates in a Pence stronghold
The 40% nobody's talking to. independents locked out of Indiana's closed primary
Door-to-door reporting. libertarian-leaning Hoosiers don't want Washington's thumb on the scale
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