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In Georgia and other states Democrats are doing the unthinkable, reports the New York Times \u2014 and President Donald Trump\u2019s Republican Party doesn\u2019t appear to know how to deal with it.<\/p>\n

Read more George Conway warns Trump\u2019s \u2018delusions\u2019 sending GOP \u2018off the deep end\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s been nearly 10 long years of Republicans winning Republican primaries by glomming to Trump\u2019s side and out-Trumping their Republican adversaries. Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC) won her South Carolina Senate primary against Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) solely by virtue of Trump\u2019s endorsement, which still carried enough weight in the Republican Party to carry her over the finish line despite a devastating gaffe on international policy in an interview. Democratic operatives called her \u201cdumb as concrete,\u201d and even many Republican voters felt she was woefully unprepared to lead the state as senator.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe has a master’s and she’s helped people that are blind and she’s a lovely woman advocate. But I don’t feel like she has the experience,\u201d said at least one of many 2024 Trump voters surveyed by the Bulwark.<\/p>\n

Sen. Bill Cassidy went down in flames in Louisiana\u2019s Republican primary this year after Trump endorsed his opponent. It did not matter that Cassidy voted in line with Trump on nearly every issue, even agreeing to confirm Trump\u2019s controversial Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. despite strong reservations about Kennedy\u2019s anti-vaccine views.<\/p>\n

But loyalty to Trump is the litmus test for political viability within the Republican Party, regardless of other credentials or accomplishments. And Cassidy\u2019s opponent managed to out-MAGA Cassidy among Louisiana\u2019s mostly white Republican populace. Plus, Cassidy made the politically deadly mistake of voting to impeach Trump in 2021 for trying to steal the election with an elaborate fake electors scheme, and “miscalculated Trump’s vengeance,” according to critics.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, over in Texas, Sen. John Cornyn, lost his Republican primary to MAGA-tized contender Ken Paxton, despite Paxton\u2019s long rap sheet of long list of scandals. But Trump officially opted to endorse Paxton, sending shockwaves of panic and doubt throughout the Texas GOP due to Paxton\u2019s colossal flaws.<\/p>\n

A Trump endorsement is all it takes for Paxton and other Trumpy Republicans to win their Republican primaries \u2014 but Republicans must now content with the fact that general election voters are not the hard-right MAGAsphere that decides victory in GOP primaries.<\/p>\n

Read more Insider reveals White House now in \u2018constant state of chaos\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

In Georgia, for example, the Democratic candidate running against Republican contender Mike Collins is using a strategy based in large part on taking advantage of Trump\u2019s sagging approval ratings, with a Fox News poll in June finding Trump with net-negative ratings in Georgia, with 56 percent holding an unfavorable view of him. And \u2014 since the only thing it takes to survive a GOP primary is a Trump endorsement over witty conversation and solid policy \u2014 Collins\u2019 weak standing.<\/p>\n

Historically, Democrats running in deep-red Southern states have had to alinate their own party to get any traction at all, and even then their battle for \u201cRepublican-lite\u201d only lasted so long before a Republican ousted them. But incumbent Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff \u201chasn\u2019t moderated his votes or his message to appeal to a broader swath of voters, as Democrats in competitive statewide races often do in the conservative-leaning South,\u201d reports the Times.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead, he has dived into his party\u2019s efforts to thwart the president\u2019s agenda in Congress, and sharpened his attacks on Mr. Trump and Republicans on the campaign trail,\u201d said the Times.<\/p>\n

And not only is his message resonating with voters, The Times reports the Georgia incumbent is looking more presidential by the week.<\/p>\n

“Mr. Ossoff\u2019s strong position in the race, formidable fund-raising and increasingly prominent confrontations with Trump administration officials have supercharged speculation about his presidential prospects, a topic he stubbornly avoids,” the Times said.<\/p>\n

Read more Shots fired: CBS staff turn on one another as ratings tank<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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