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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said former President Donald Trump‘s influence is waning, reiterating his blame towards his political foe for GOP shortcomings in the midterms. Mr. McConnell, who has had an increasingly strained relationship with Mr. Trump since the 2021 Capitol riot, said Mr. Trump helped cast voters an unappealing image of the Republican Party that broke the trust of the electorate. “We lost support that we needed among independents and moderate Republicans, primarily related to the view they had of us as a party — largely made by the former president — that we were sort of nasty...

A startling rash of threats and violent incidents targeting Republican voters in recent weeks is raising concerns about the increasingly toxic political climate, just as the 2020 presidential primaries are getting started.

... A new survey from Public Policy Polling finds that one-third of Republicans believe the Jade Helm 15 conspiracy theory that “the government is trying to take over Texas,” and another 28 percent of GOP voters haven’t made up their minds yet about the matter ...

<p>California's Republican voters want former Secretary of State Bill Jones as their candidate in a race against U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, the San Francisco Democrat who's up for election next year, according to a recent Field Poll.</p> <p>Among likely GOP voters, 35 percent prefer Jones; 23 percent want Mary Bono, a Republican congresswoman from Palm Springs; 6 percent back former U.S. Treasurer Rosario Marin; and 2 percent support Toni Casey, the former mayor of Los Altos Hills.</p>