An unexpected glimmer of hope in a dark political moment - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : In a state where Donald Trump won every county in both the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, it's a sliver of hope that someone with divisive views closely aligned with those of the former president lost by 20 points.
41% : No, I don't expect a mass Republican retreat away from Trump.
40% : Her call for normalcy seemed to echo what Nikki Haley often said during her presidential campaign about why Republicans needed to move on from Trump.
39% : Blevins did what most Republican aspirants to office believe they must do if they want to be viable candidates -- he eliminated any space between himself and Trump.
33% : And it happened on the same day that hundreds of thousands of Republicans in four states voted against Trump in their primaries.
29% : While handily winning each primary, Trump continues to lose hundreds of thousands of votes to candidates who are no longer in the race.
29% : These are protest votes indicating that there remains at least some stalwart Republican resistance to Trump, especially as his rhetoric becomes more dehumanizing and unhinged -- such as referring to migrants as "animals" or claiming that this nation will "cease to exist" if he loses to Biden in November.
28% : He claimed his decisions were motivated by a need to bring "attention to the same issues that got Donald Trump elected in 2016 -- securing America's borders, reforming our legal immigration system and, quite frankly, pushing back on this anti-white hatred that is so common in media entertainment.
28% : But in Wisconsin alone, Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, lost more than 120,000 Republican votes, most of them to Haley.

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