標題: After Trump, what future awaits the US Republican Party? [打印本頁] 作者: geemong 時間: 2021-2-21 15:56 標題: After Trump, what future awaits the US Republican Party?
After Trump, what future awaits the US Republican Party?
In the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump, seven out of 50 Republican senators
voted to convict the former president of inciting insurrection. This has raised more
questions than it has answered about where the Republican Party is going.
It still looks like Trump’s party, but for how long? Bill Cassidy, one of the seven
Republican senators who voted to convict Trump, says Trump’s power over
the party will “wane”.
He will certainly hope so. The Republican Party of Louisiana has already censured
Cassidy for his disloyalty to Trump.
On the other hand, Lindsey Graham, one of Trump’s top allies, believes Trump and
his supporters are so important to the future of the party that Republicans should
nominate his daughter-in-law to replace retiring Senator Richard Burr
(who voted to convict).
Some in the party see Trump as a major liability who will only get more toxic.
He is the first president since 1932 to oversee the loss of the White House and
both houses of Congress in a single term.
Joe Biden got the highest vote share of any presidential challenger since 1932 in
the highest-turnout election since 1900, earning 7 million more votes than Trump.
However much Trump energised his supporters, he energised more of his
opponents.
