How Trump´s intimidation tactics have reshaped the Republican Party

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59% : At other times, it plays out in public, amplified by right-wing influencers and Trump himself.
57% : "The result: By the time Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination on July 18, the party was fully behind him.
57% : In a tight race, Trump needs the support of Republican moderates, he said.
56% : In Arizona, where Trump recently seemed headed for victory, Harris now has a lead of seven percentage points over Trump with independent and unaffiliated voters, said Doug Cole, a Republican strategist whose Phoenix-based firm, HighGround, surveyed voters there in late July and early August.
56% : "It was the first time I had seen this kind of worship and idolatry, the way they talked about Trump," he said.
55% : He ran uncontested three times, in a county where Trump won more than 70% of the vote in 2016 and 2020.
54% : Polling aggregates show Harris and Trump broadly even among Arizona voters overall.
54% : ""WORSHIP AND IDOLATRY"In the new Republican Party, grassroots supporters have taken it upon themselves to enforce loyalty to Trump by identifying and vilifying Republicans they see as out of step with the leader.
51% : "Bacon says Bannon and other far-right commentators inspire an "ends-justify-the-means" mentality with their audiences in enforcing loyalty to Trump and his agenda.
45% : Paxton ultimately was acquitted, but the vote sparked rage from the Republican right - and ultimately from Trump himself.
45% : "There´s people that actually worship Trump like a deity."
45% : He said he worries about score-settling against enemies in a second Trump White House, citing Trump´s vows in speeches to exact "retribution.""They're going to be going after people," he said.DENUNCIATIONS AND THREATSTwo categories of Republicans have faced the heaviest fire from Trump, the review of his social media posts shows: his rivals for this year´s presidential nomination and officials who resisted his baseless claim that the 2020 election was rigged.
43% : He told himself the country would survive the next four years and then mend any damage caused by Trump, he said.
39% : Since launching his Truth Social media platform in early 2022, Trump has posted more than 600 attacks on fellow Republicans, singling out more than 100 party officials, activists and right-leaning media figures for condemnation, according to a Reuters review of his nearly 20,000 posts during that time.
37% : Trump backed Rice´s foe in the party´s primary election.
36% : Trump has imposed this fealty at every level of the party, from minor state and local officials to members of Congress, cabinet secretaries and rivals for the presidency, calling for revenge on those who resist his demands, vote against his interests or cross his allies.
36% : Trump also has gone after lesser-known state and local officials.
34% : "In cementing his third-straight Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump and his staunchest followers have used menace and harassment to fundamentally reshape the party of Reagan, purging officials and activists seen as insufficiently loyal to Trump and his Make America Great Again agenda.
31% : "Menace is a big part of the power," said Sarah Longwell, a former Republican strategist who publishes the Bulwark, an anti-Trump publication, and runs Republican Voters Against Trump, a political action group.
28% : Republicans who oppose Trump must consider the possibility they'll face threats or intimidation from his supporters and be driven from politics, she said.
27% : He still plans to vote for Trump, dismissing Democrats as too far left.
25% : Reuters documented at least 39 cases of elected national and state Republican officials who have been threatened or harassed since 2021 for taking actions or expressing views seen as contradicting Trump and the MAGA agenda.
25% : Fred Upton, a former Republican congressman from Michigan, also voted to impeach Trump over the Capitol riots.
24% : Trump framed his Kemp attack as part of a broad cleansing of the party.
23% : Both called Trump unfit for office but later recanted and said they would vote for him.Trump´s salvos against fellow Republicans bring political risks, some political experts say.
23% : "Trump had help in hounding him.
23% : When Trump became president, Fogal disagreed with his comments denigrating immigrants, Muslims and women.
21% : Then, days before the party´s nomination vote, Trump ripped Rogers on social media, calling him a RINO and endorsing his Republican opponent, who unseated him.
20% : Trump ridiculed early rival Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, more than 250 times as "DeSanctimonious."
18% : Trump berated Kemp at an Aug. 3 rally as "Little Brian" for refusing to help overturn the last presidential election.
18% : He´s never-Trump, hates Trump," Bannon said, urging the audience to call the lawmaker´s office.
18% : Trump blasted Bowers as "weak" and "wrong on everything," and he backed a Republican rival in a 2022 state senate race.
18% : But in May 2020, as racial justice protests swept the nation after the police killing of George Floyd, Fogal publicly broke with Trump.
17% : After the vote, Rice and the nine other Republican House members who defied Trump were targeted by Steve Bannon, the former chief strategist in Trump's White House.
16% : Trump also subjects lower-tier party officials to opprobrium, often triggering copycat harassment and political defeat.
16% : DeSantis, who later endorsed Trump, did not respond to a request for comment.
16% : He also criticized Trump for authorizing the National Guard to use force on protesters in Washington.
14% : One state politician confided to Rice he wanted to denounce Trump, too, but knew voters would throw him out, Rice recalled without identifying the individual.
13% : He's a disloyal guy," Trump said of Kemp.
13% : After Rice cast his ballot to impeach Trump in January 2021, then-House Minority Whip Steve Scalise immediately phoned him, Rice told Reuters.
13% : Upton said lawmakers are desperate to avoid attacks by Trump and Bannon.
12% : One recent target: Brian Kemp, Republican governor of the battleground state of Georgia, which Trump narrowly lost in 2020.
12% : In a December 2022 social media post, Trump savaged Upton after the lawmaker´s name was floated as a candidate for House Speaker, calling him a "RINO" and "a disaster for anything having to do with the word Republican.
10% : As Trump competed with Haley for the Republican nomination, some of his supporters posted violent messages on social media, calling for her death or physical abuse.
8% : Trump piled on, calling Rice "a disaster" who was "respected by no one."

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