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By Nov. 11, 2021, the false claim that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election only because of fraud was still driving Republican politics, but some GOP figures were increasingly willing to say so in public. The pushback was real, if still limited, and it showed how much work the party was doing to keep Trump’s grievance machine from looking like a permanent burden.
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By Nov. 11, 2021, the false claim that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election only because of fraud was still driving Republican politics, but some GOP figures were increasingly willing to say so in public. The pushback was real, if still limited, and it showed how much work the party was doing to keep Trump’s grievance machine from looking like a permanent burden.
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By Nov. 11, 2021, the false claim that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election only because of fraud was still driving Republican politics, but some GOP figures were increasingly willing to say so in public. The pushback was real, if still limited, and it showed how much work the party was doing to keep Trump’s grievance machine from looking like a permanent burden.
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