Why didn’t you speak up?’ what are we going to say?” said Flake, a Mormon former head of a conservative-libertarian think tank. Since announcing his exit, Bob Corker has been warning that Trump’s erratic behaviour could cause a Third World War. David Lublin of American University said this underscores the new reality of the Republican party and voters will soon get to weigh in, in hundreds of congressional and state races. “(Flake) readily concedes it’s now Trump’s party at the base,” Lublin said. “By driving out Flake, who’s not an old guy, who could have easily served several more terms, where does the Republican party go?

Source: National Post October 24, 2017 20:17 UTC