Some have suggested that Donald Trump’s candidacy signals a future break in the GOP. The basic idea is that Trump’s campaign has tapped into, and galvanized, a vanguard of disaffected voters largely within the GOP base that are now so disaffected with the GOP as a party that they will no longer reliably vote for Republican nominees.
There is some evidence of this crack at the state level (for example, see Roy Blunt’s battle for reelection in Missouri this year), and the highest levels of the GOP are feeling the pressure. Furthermore, this pressure is probably going to increase between …read more
Source: Vox
