Trump has not yet taken over the GOP
Trump vs. McConnell
Sorry if this is coming as a duplicate - I may have made a mistake with a setting in Substack
It’s clear that Trump wants to be the center of gravity for the Republican Party. Nearly all Republican candidates support him, or at least refrain from criticizing him. His endorsement is often enough to win a primary race. He has installed his daughter in law as the co-chair of the RNC.
However, there is one bastion of the old guard that has mostly withstood Trump’s attempts to remake the party: the soon-to-be Republican-controlled Senate. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) who has led the Senate Republicans for decades, is the unofficial leader of the old school “establishment GOP” which is arguably no longer the “establishment” but still holds substantial power. McConnell’s faction believes in tax cuts and foreign intervention while Trump represents a turn towards populism. Trump and McConnell have fought over the future direction of the party for the past 8 years, backing different candidates in the primaries.
In the 2022 Senate race in Alaska, McConnell-aligned PACs spent millions of dollars attacking Trump-aligned candidate Kelly Tshibaka…
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