What Will Republicans Look Like After Trump?
How the party reacts after November will depend on a lot on the media — and that’s a big problem.
What next?
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With President Donald Trump now clearly behind in the polls, there’s been a wave of speculation about what the Republican Party might look like after losing the election. Probably the best thing to say about this is that it’s massively premature: Trump could well narrowly win a second term, or former Vice President Joe Biden could get more than 400 electoral votes — or anything could happen between those two possibilities. And even if the president loses, presumably the party’s reaction would differ depending on the margin of defeat and other variables.