Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

How Trump's War With Republicans Could End

If he abandons the GOP, it would doom his seriously damaged presidency.

August 10, 2017 at 8:18 PM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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President Trump's intensifying feud with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has led to speculation that this could be a prelude to a formal break with the Republican Party.

I have no idea what's going on in Trump's mind. And it's absolutely true that he's constructed an inner circle in the White House that has very few connections to the Republican network.