Jeff Flake Turns Trump Into a Liability Republicans Can’t Ignore
Republican Senator Jeff Flake used October 26 to sharpen his break with Trump, underscoring how much the president’s own party was beginning to treat him as a political toxin. The Arizona senator’s public criticism came amid a broader Republican conversation about whether Trump’s behavior was dragging the party into the mud and making serious governing impossible. That kind of intraparty revolt is not just embarrassing. It is how a president starts losing the benefit of the doubt inside his own coalition.
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Jeff Flake Turns Trump Into a Liability Republicans Can’t Ignore
Republican Senator Jeff Flake used October 26 to sharpen his break with Trump, underscoring how much the president’s own party was beginning to treat him as a political toxin. The Arizona senator’s public criticism came amid a broader Republican conversation about whether Trump’s behavior was dragging the party into the mud and making serious governing impossible. That kind of intraparty revolt is not just embarrassing. It is how a president starts losing the benefit of the doubt inside his own…
Republican Senator Jeff Flake used October 26 to sharpen his break with Trump, underscoring how much the president’s own party was beginning to treat him as a political toxin. The Arizona senator’s public criticism came amid a broader Republican conversation about whether Trump’s behavior was dragging the party into the mud and making serious governing impossible. That kind of intraparty revolt is not just embarrass…
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