Is the GOP anti-Trump resistance on life support?
Blaze senior politics editor and Washington correspondent Christopher Bedford addressed this question in his latest Beltway Brief. Now, he joins Jill Savage on “Blaze News Tonight” to expound on why he thinks the GOP’s anti-Trump movement is on its way out.
“I think it’s on its last legs, at least as far as its ability to create, to shape what goes on in the White House,” he says.
The best evidence that RINO power is waning can be seen in the failed attempts to sink several Trump nominees. Despite a vicious smear campaign, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was confirmed, albeit narrowly by Vice President JD Vance’s tie-breaking vote.
And even though RINOS “were unhappy with some aspects of RFK Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again agenda,” Kennedy scored enough votes from the Senate Finance Committee to advance to a full Senate vote. One of the votes that pushed him through came from Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Chair Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who, in the end, reversed his “no” due to enormous pressure from a very vocal MAHA movement, or perhaps because he “is up for re-election next year in Trump-loving Louisiana.” Either way, it’s a MAGA win. […]
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