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New York Times columnists say the \u201cyou only live once\u201d (YOLO) caucus of the Republican Party is preparing to upset Trump\u2019s plans just as his beleaguered GOP Congress slides into a Democratic changeover in November.<\/p>\n

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\u201cJohn Cornyn (R-Texas) is a member of the Senate Republican leadership team, but having lost his re-election bid, he\u2019s now eligible to join the Louisiana Republican senator Bill Cassidy, who lost his primary in the \u2026 YOLO Republicans [caucus],\u201d said retired radio journalist and NYTimes columnist Robert Siegel. \u201cThe idea is that you\u2019ve been loyal to Donald Trump in nearly everything, but now that you\u2019ve been defeated by a MAGA-backed opponent, you\u2019re a lame duck. You can actually vote in accordance with your real principles, assuming you can remember what those were.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under this scenario YOLO Republicans might \u201cactually influence events now that their spines are out of storage,\u201d Siegel added.<\/p>\n

Conservative columnist Mona Charen said already the so-called caucus, containing Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) are \u201cmaking some pretty forthright statements\u201d regarding Trump\u2019s unpopular slush fund. And NYTimes columnist E.J. Dionne Jr., said if the three of them vote together it could pressure Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) to cast \u201cno\u201d votes that up to now had no real effect on Senate proceedings.<\/p>\n

But even as this emerging caucus of Trump dissonance gears up to break the president\u2019s iron hold on the U.S. Senate, Republican voters are getting discouraged by the president\u2019s antics enough to stay home.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn September 2022, only 38 percent of Republicans identified as MAGA Republicans,\u201d said Dionne. \u201cAs of May, the proportion had risen to 62 percent, so this party is MAGA-fied. But in the electorate as a whole, the only people becoming MAGA are Republicans, so that Americans who call themselves MAGA rose from only 11 percent to 19 percent. So, MAGA\u2019s a really small percentage, and what I would call the MAGA gap between the Republicans and the rest of the country has gone from 27 percent to 43 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more Struggling Republicans are carrying corrupt albatross around their necks: analysis<\/a><\/p>\n

Look no further than the \u201csharp turnout declines\u201d in the Republican primary, Dionne said. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn the first round of the Texas race, there were more people who voted in the Democratic primary than in the Republican primary,\u201d said Dionne.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo hundred thousand more,\u201d Siegel added.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah. And then, in this runoff, the total turnout was 1.4 million. Donald Trump got 6.4 million votes in Texas in 2024. This is a dispirited party, and the part that\u2019s dispirited is the non-MAGA part, and I think this is a real problem going forward for the Republicans,\u201d said Dionne.<\/p>\n

Charen said controversial MAGA Texas senatorial candidate Paxton\u2019s identical performance in the initial primary round and then in the follow-up runoff suggested MAGA people will stick with Paxton \u201cno matter what.\u201d But the primary also reveals that Republican candidates will be unable to wash off the stink of President Donald Trump\u2019s unpopularity with less MAGA general election voters.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this party, Trump has managed to spray his musk over every single candidate, so that they cannot escape it,\u201d said Charen.<\/p>\n

Read more Driven by his conscience: A lifelong Republican quits the GOP<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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