{"id":137628,"date":"2024-12-16T09:40:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T02:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=137628"},"modified":"2024-12-16T09:40:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T02:40:23","slug":"romney-admits-the-trump-maga-agenda-he-stood-up-to-now-dominates-republican-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=137628","title":{"rendered":"Romney admits the Trump MAGA agenda he stood up to now dominates Republican Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"main\">\n<div data-testid=\"nsc-wrapper-support-us\">\n<div class=\"hydrate-root\" data-component=\"SupportNSCNative\" data-loading=\"lazy\">\n<div class=\"sc-hez36s-0 jBfdop\">\n<div class=\"sc-hez36s-1 hKRbzg\">\n<h3 data-testid=\"support-nsc-title\" class=\"sc-hez36s-2 cKIkhp\">Your support helps us to tell the story<\/h3>\n<div class=\"sc-hez36s-8 dWUzhG\">\n<div class=\"sc-hez36s-13 doTReP\">\n<div class=\"sc-hez36s-12 iGXncB\">\n<div>\n<div data-testid=\"support-nsc-collapsed-content\" class=\"sc-hez36s-7 hKrnEq\">\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 hlPMMm\">From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it&#8217;s investigating the financials of Elon Musk&#8217;s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, &#8216;The A Word&#8217;, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 hlPMMm\">At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 hlPMMm\">The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"sc-1uza6dc-1 euTVax\">Your support makes all the difference.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><button class=\"sc-hez36s-4 bErStG sc-hez36s-14 ggPDxB\"><span data-testid=\"support-nsc-dropdown-mobile-open\" class=\"sc-hez36s-6 jWuFRk\"><span class=\"sc-hez36s-5 vaVnf\">Close<\/span><svg class=\"sc-eaj12q-0 kMSyUM sc-culv3z-0 jIhHch sc-a5wy94-0 jhbxrS\"><use href=\"#ee6613da15642019\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><button class=\"sc-hez36s-4 bErStG sc-hez36s-15 gibhIT\"><span data-testid=\"support-nsc-dropdown-tablet\" class=\"sc-hez36s-6 jWuFRk\"><span class=\"sc-hez36s-5 vaVnf\">Read more<\/span><svg class=\"sc-eaj12q-0 kMSyUM sc-culv3z-0 jIhHch sc-a5wy94-0 jhbxrS\"><use href=\"#ee6613da15642019\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/gop\">GOP<\/a> Senator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/mitt-romney\">Mitt Romney<\/a> said on Sunday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/maga\">MAGA<\/a> Republicanism now wholly dominates the Republican Party, echoing the skepticism of those who have been waiting for some kind of \u201cpost-Trump\u201d Republican Party to emerge.<\/p>\n<p>Romney is one of Trump\u2019s most frequent critics in the GOP and voted for the impeachment of the president-elect in 2021. This election cycle, he opted to retire from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/congress\">Congress<\/a> rather than face an inevitable primary challenge backed by the former-and-future president.<\/p>\n<p>In a lengthy live interview Sunday with Jake Tapper on CNN\u2019s <em>State of the Union<\/em>, he said that traditional conservatism had been wholly subsumed by MAGA Republicanism within the GOP, he seemed to back away from the idea that there would be a return to the kind of neoconservative policy alignment pursued by the Republican Party under the Bush administration or embemified by Romney\u2019s own 2014 campaign for president. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMAGA is the Republican Party and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> is the Republican Party today,\u201d Romney said, before going on to predict that the next election cycle would see that trend continue under whom he saw as the presumptive 2028 GOP nominee: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/jd-vance\">JD Vance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prompting himself to ask whether the GOP should \u201cchange\u201d, Romney stated that the Trump faction\u2019s successful peeling-away of working class voters from the Democratic coalition would require the party\u2019s policies to shift to align more with working-class interests, but said that it was the Democrats who were really in \u201ctrouble\u201d as a result.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Democrat Party is the one in trouble. I mean, I don\u2019t know how they recover,\u201d said the senator. \u201cUnion guys, and gals &#8230; have left the Democratic Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on to blame that trend on the Democrats\u2019 embrace of transgender rights and a focus on cultural issues while the party ignored economic issues. <\/p>\n<p>Romney was also asked about his prior criticism of Trump, to which he laid out how he had assumed the ex-president would lose the 2024 election: \u201cI was wrong about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think most people disagree with me. I&#8217;m willing to live with that,\u201d he said of his thoughts about Trump\u2019s fitness to lead the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Party\u2019s shift away from populist messaging was apparent after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/kamala-harris\">Kamala Harris<\/a> took over the ticket in July, and has been blamed for her failure to win back reliable Democratic voters in numbers needed to defeat Donald Trump. <\/p>\n<p>Numerous campaign officials have also noted, however, that Harris largely dug herself out of a pit where the party found itself after months of near-constant reminders from voters that they were concerned about Joe Biden\u2019s ability to serve as president and disgusted with the Democratic Party for ignoring it. Still, the party suffered major losses among key demographics including younger voters, Americans without college degrees, and Latino voters \u2014 to name just a few.<\/p>\n<p>The across-the-board defeat resulted in a landslide for Donald Trump in the Electoral College, while Democrats lost the Senate and the House makeup was largely unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>Romney is one of many of the former president\u2019s opponents who have essentially come around to acknowledge his ideological victory over the senator\u2019s own wing of the party throughout 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Others came around and made such admissions after Trump cleanly swept through the GOP primaries this spring, losing just one state to rival Nikki Haley.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/mitt-romney-trump-maga-republican-gop-b2664745.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. 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