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On his way out of office, former President Trump helped inspire a political coup. Nearly 70% of Republican voters still believe the big lie that Trump espoused, declaring that Democrats did not actually win the 2020 presidential election.

But lying was not unusual it marked the Trump presidency. More than 30,000 lies espoused by the former president have been proven false, yet Trumps base still holds strong and Michigan is a great example.

Kristina Karamo recently won the GOP nomination for secretary of state, but was largely unheard of outside Oakland County until Trumps endorsement. Now, many moderate Republicans and Americans are wondering if there anything that can break Trumps hold on the Republican Party.

As these people run to the right or run Trump-ward, how are they going to try and pivot back in a way thats never had to happen before? Gunner Ramer, political director for Republicans for the Rule of Law

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Gunner Ramer is the political director for Republicans for the Rule of Law, a national nonprofit. His colleague, Sarah Longwell, recently wrote, Trump supporters explain why they believe the big lie, for The Atlantic.

Ramer says his nonprofit frequently conducts focus groups with Trump voters, and that not only do most Republicans still believe the election was stolen, they want Trump to run again.

They say they like his policies, but we push them on it and the main response is, we like the America first agenda, Ramer says.

Shikha Dalmia is a visiting fellow with George Mason Universitys Mercatus Center, where she started a new program to study and resist the rise of right-wing populist authoritarianism around the world. She further explores this topic on her Substack, The Unpopulist.

Dalmia says a lot of Republicans are trying to out-Trump, Trump.

What we are witnessing right now, says Dalmia, is a movement of right-wing populism thats very much focused on the other the foreigner they are the ones being scapegoated.

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The Republican governor of Arkansas, Asa Hutchinson, has admitted that an anti-abortion trigger law that he signed on to the books would lead to heartbreaking circumstances if Roe v Wade is overturned, in which girls as young as 11 who became pregnant through rape or incest would be forced to give birth.

Hutchinsons remarks give a revealing insight into the twisted human and political quandaries that are certain to arise should the US supreme court, as expected, destroy the constitutional right to an abortion enshrined in Roe v Wade when it issues its ruling next month. The governor told CNNs State of the Union on Sunday that in 2019 he had signed the Arkansas trigger law, Senate Bill 6, which would ban almost all abortions the instant Roe were reversed, even though he disagreed with its lack of exceptions for incest and rape.

Asked why he had put his signature on the law, despite the fact that it would prohibit all abortions other than in cases where a pregnant womans life were in imminent danger, he said: I support the exceptions of rape and incest I believe that should have been added; it did not have the support of the assembly.

Under intense questioning from the CNN host Dana Bash, the governor was asked why an 11- or 12-year-old girl who is impregnated by her father, or uncle or another family member be forced to carry that child to term?

He replied: I agree with you. Ive had to deal with that particular circumstance even as governor. While its still life in the womb, life of the unborn, the conception was in criminal circumstances either incest or rape and so those are two exceptions I think are very appropriate.

He added that if the supreme court does throw out the constitutional right to an abortion, then these are going to become very real circumstances. The debate and discussion will continue, and that could very well be revisited.

But Bash pressed Hutchinson on what would happen if the absence of rape and incest exceptions cannot be revisited in the law that he had personally approved, pointing out that his term as governor comes to an end in January. If you cant change [the trigger law], that means girls who are still children, 11- and 12-year-olds, might be in that situation in a very real way in just a couple of months, Bash said.

Those are heartbreaking circumstances, Hutchinson replied. When we passed these trigger laws we were trying to reduce abortions, but whenever you see that real-life circumstances like that the debate is going to continue and the will of the people may or may not change.

A report by the Guardian this month found that at least 11 US states have passed laws that ban abortions without any exceptions for rape or incest. Such trigger laws are legally written in such a way that they would come into effect the second that the constitutional right to an abortion embodied in Roe were overturned.

Earlier this month, a draft majority opinion of the supreme court written by Justice Samuel Alito was leaked to Politico. With the apparent backing of five of the six conservative justices on the nine-member court, it would eradicate federal abortion rights in the most aggressive terms.

The court has insisted that the draft is not final and that changes to its wording or outcome are still possible. But the country on both sides of the abortion divide is bracing now for Roe to be undone and power over womens reproductive choices to be handed to individual states like Arkansas.

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Wirt Yerger, Jr. died May 2nd at 92. He founded the current Republican Party out of whole cloth beginning in the fifties. Back in the same period, I asked a prominent Sage in Greenville why we werent Republicans? He explained that the Republican Party at that time was controlled by a black attorney from Mound Bayou who lived and practiced in Washington. Perry Howard chose the convention delegates and what patronage there was.

It was a competition between the termed black and tans and the lily whites. This is just an indication of the political climate at that time. For example, in 1948, the Deweys forces paid Perry Howard $1,500 for the Mississippi votes. The bag man on the way from New York to Washington died on the train while he was trying to deliver the money.

The bag mans widow claimed the money and they had to pay twice. This story was confirmed to me by Lynn Hall the chairman of the Republican Party and by John Osborne a prominent reporter for the New Republic. In the late 1960s, Wirts good friend and mine Charles Blum slated to become the next Mississippi chairman.

He had a family problem that caused him to withdraw. Wirt turned to me and said you would take it if we cannot find anyone and the rest is history. I became state chairman in 1966. Wirt doggedly pursued what had to be done. For example, I met Wirt at his brother Swans wedding. He soon named me county chairman without anyones permission. Election was to come later.

The process of building a party was far more complex than this. He pushed to get every county in the state organized. There were miles to go but we were on a trajectory. By 1964, the Goldwater National Convention, the south and the conservative were clearly becoming the majority. Mississippi was on its way to become a majority Republican State. Rest in peace, Wirt.

Clarke Reed lives in Greenville, Mississippi. He is a former chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party.

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MINOT, N.D. Jeffrey Powell is an administrator at Mayville State University and the Democratic-NPL candidate for secretary of state. He was endorsed by the partys executive committee (he made a late decision to run so didnt attend the partys state convention in Minot) and in November will be facing off against one of two potential Republican candidates.

State Rep. Michael Howe is squaring off with Bismarck mechanic Marvin Lepp in the NDGOP primary.

Powell has been watching that race, and on this episode of Plain Talk, said it frustrates him when the Republican candidates talk about election integrity, arguing thats a code word for voter suppression.

He said the primary job of a secretary of state is to protect the right of the people to vote, and he accused Republican lawmakers of enacting laws to suppress votes in past legislative sessions.

Powell also spoke about running as a Democrat in a state that has become deeply Republican over the last couple of decades. He said there is a sense of fear among Democrats who think about running for office in North Dakota. He acknowledged that both Republicans and Democrats have become more extreme in recent years, but that the alleged danger is more keenly felt by people who are more likely to be Democrats.

Powell said he hasnt personally felt any danger in running for office.

Also on this episode, Dickinson-based oil worker Riley Kuntz, who is challenging incumbent U.S. Sen. John Hoeven for the NDGOPs primary nomination, spoke about why he decided to mount what he admits is a long-shot bid to defeat one of North Dakotas most popular political figures.

He said he was disappointed state Rep. Rick Becker, who challenged Hoeven at the NDGOPs state convention, wasnt successful and felt he had to continue the challenge to Hoeven.

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WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) discussed thefuture of the Republican party and the Biden Administrations disastrous energypolicy on Fox Business Kudlow. Excerpts and full video are below.

On Future of the RepublicanParty:

The Trump doctrine matters. Donald Trump tapped into somethingreally important that Americans care about: an America First form ofconservatism and an America First form of trade. Id lovefourmoreyears with Donald Trump as well.

I also have a lot of friends andknowa lot of peoplewho want the Donald Trump face back because they want that same fightingspirit. But whatever the field looks like, they better be prepared toarticulate an America First Trump doctrine. If they dont, they are missingwhats been going on in this country and whats been going on in the RepublicanParty for the last several years.

I submit that you and I probably felt a little bit differentlyabout international trade 5, 6, or 7 years ago than we do now or globalizingthe economy or Americas role in foreign policing efforts. Donald Trump did notjust tap into something Americans feel, he educated us on what our prioritiesought to be. I respect him for that and I appreciate that. Thats still whereAmerica is and still where our party is. If you want to be the President of theUnited States or United States Senator, Congressman, or Governor, you betterunderstand that.

On the Biden Administrations Energy Policy:

If people believed [what Secretary Granholm espoused], Joe Bidenwouldnt have a 26% approval rating today. The problem with this Administrationis they never learned from their own mistakes. Either they believe their ownrhetoric or they resign themselves to losing in November and they want to do asmuch damage as they can before we get there.

Words matter. Larry, you and Kevin [Hassett] were talking aboutmarkets. Markets respond to politics, geopolitics, consumer confidence,investor confidence, taxes, and regulations. If you have a tax increase,regulation increase Administration talking like this, markets have to respondto that. [The Biden Administration is] still in charge and they will be in theWhite House forthe nextcouple of years. So these are significantwords. Sometimes I like to think that maybe shes just ignorant. She has saidso many crazy things, quite honestly, but Im afraid they kind of believe it.

How about when you push this [environmental, social, andcorporate governance (ESG)] nonsense on the [Securities and ExchangeCommission], the Federal Reserve, the Comptroller of the Currency, [U.S.Department of Agriculture], and every chamber, every administrative agency andsubagency? Theyre all pushing the same narrative thathas a chilling effect on investment.

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