This year’s election seems likely to plunge both Republicans and Democrats into a period of disarray no matter who wins the White House. And what becomes of a Republican Party that has been redefined by the president’s populist approach, and politicians like Cornyn who have been in the long shadow of Trump for four years? When Barack Obama won the White House in 2008, he reinvigorated a progressive public image of his increasingly diverse party. Sara Fagen, who was the White House political director for Bush, agreed: “Trumpism is cemented in,” she said. A White House victory, she argued, would give Biden a mandate to push for more sweeping overhauls.

Source: bd News24 November 02, 2020 17:26 UTC