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Republican-aligned company to pay nearly $7 million to scammed MAGA donors

The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports a Republican-aligned financial services firm agreed Wednesday to repay $6.7 million to more than 40 investors who lost money in the collapse of politically connected First Liberty Building & Loan.

The payoff is tied to a widening investigation into a conservative group that created a massive Ponzi scheme primarily afflicting Republican donors. First Liberty Building & Loan’s restitution agreement is merely one facet of the “$140 million … scheme that defrauded some 300 investors overall,” reports AJC. “A recent court filing now contends First Liberty raised about $156 million from investors.”

First Liberty once courted conservative-leaning investors and touted its ability to “say yes to borrowers when the big banks said no,” but it shut down last June and took investors’ money with it. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission soon stepped in, filing a lawsuit accusing the company of operating an investment scheme. State agency probes soon followed.

The Wednesday settlement agreement comes weeks after Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s hit former Bankers Life adviser Nathaniel Darnell with a $500,000 fine and referred his case to local prosecutors for possible criminal charges over allegations that he deceived First Liberty investors, the AJC reports.

Retired electrical worker Thomas Todd invested $750,000 with First Liberty, and was even preparing to write another six-figure check when the company imploded.

“I pray for them every day — every morning. They need those prayers. But they also need to pay for what they did,” Todd told AJC, while adding that his donations would have been better spent going to churches and other religious charities.

“They didn’t steal from me,” said Todd. “They stole God’s money.”

AJC reports the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in July accused Frost IV in a lawsuit of orchestrating the scheme, funneling millions to the family to boost conservative causes. Federal authorities froze First Liberty’s assets, and Frost publicly apologized.

Georgia Republicans are loathe to denounce the Ponzi scheme connected to Republican financier and First Liberty founder Brant Frost IV — or to even address the topic. But Raffensperger is open about his willingness to investigate Republicans behind the scheme, and he appears to be slipping into an anti-corruption role in the state’s primary for Republican governor.

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Stephen Miller pushing Southern lawmakers behind closed doors: report

New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie says White House advisor Stephen Miller is cruising to create “subordinate class” by ending public education funding for undocumented children in red states. But this is about more than keeping some kids less learned than others.

Miller spirited Texas lawmakers away to a closed-door meeting in Washington last week, according to two sources in the meeting, where he commenced to challenge a decades-old U.S. Supreme Court precedent. That case, Plyler v. Doe, holds that it was a violation of the equal protection clause for states to deny undocumented children the same free public education state leaders provide to legal immigrants’ children — who are themselves citizens.

According to the Times, Miller wants to take advantage of partisan gridlock in Congress to encourage state lawmakers to pass the attacks on Plyler. But why is Miller so determined to “whittle down the 14th Amendment to essentially nothing,” asked Bouie.

In Bouie’s argument the 14th Amendment is “tied directly to the 13th.”

“The 13th Amendment states that ‘Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.’ It then adds, in section 2, that ‘Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.’”

But the 13^th Amendment was about more than just slavery, said Bouie. To the authors, it was “the foundation for the society they hoped to build” by outlawing “hereditary caste as much as” the end of chattel slavery.” Immediately after ratifying it, anti-slavery forces in Congress used it as an open door to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which established birthright citizenship and nullified the “Black Codes.”

The racist Supreme Court at the time neutered much of that good intent “as part of a larger political project to reconcile the white citizens of the United States” and give the white South the power to manage its own ‘affairs,’ and impose “imperial domination,” Bouie argued.

“Both Miller and the MAGA right are engaged in the same kind of work as their political forebears,” added Bouie. “It is no wonder, then, that they want to gut the 14th Amendment, which was revitalized by the struggles of Black Americans and other groups throughout the 20th century. Theirs is a project of subordination at home and abroad; of the re-inscription of caste and the recreation of tiered citizenship based on race and nationality. And now, as then, the 14th Amendment stands in the way.”

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'Every one of you blames the other side': Republican taken to task over blame game

Frustrated reporters appear to have lost patience with Speaker Mike Johnson and his House majority after the Republican leader on Friday shot down Democrats’ attempt to pass a pared down version of the budget that includes pay for ailing TSA agents and public safeguards against ICE agents, including body cameras and additional oversight.

But Johnson was contemptuous of the Democrats’ overture, calling it a ploy to “open the border,” and instead proposed a “clean, simple, continuing resolution” that fully funds the government without additional oversight.

“Republicans will do the responsible and honorable thing, and Democrats will continue to play politics,” Johnson told reporters.

But after weeks of reporting long lines and TSA agents abandoning their jobs for lack of pay reporters were having none of it.

“Mr. Speaker, … the American people are just sick and tired of every one of you, both Republicans and Democrats, coming to this podium and blaming the other side. People have been standing in lines three, four, five hours at a time. There's TSA workers that are selling their plasma. At what point is a leader on either side going to stand up and say, we have a path forward that everyone will agree to? This vote today will extend the shutdown under any circumstance.”

But Johnson eased effortlessly back into blame mode, while assuring that this was not what he was doing.

“No, it won't,” Johnson insisted, ignoring recent history. “… Look at the Democrats. They're voting over and over — last night, yesterday afternoon — we gave them a chance to fund Homeland Security. You know how many House Democrats voted? Four of them. They want to use people as pawns. This is not a political blame game. This is one party doing the job and getting the government funded in another. That's using people as pawns.”

“These people want open borders and they want criminal, illegal aliens in the country,” Johnson said. “They do not want to enforce the law. They want to defund.”

CNN anchors Brianna Keilar and Boris Sanchez were among the reporters laying down factchecks.

Keilar said Johnson is “very clearly in a very tough spot here.”

“You can tell by how he is pretending that Democrats are in control of the Senate and that the Senate bill that he and House Republicans are rejecting was not actually sent over to the house by the Republican led upper chamber,” Keilar said.

“He said Senate Democrats have foisted this on them as a radical, crazy agenda. But we do just need to note that if this is part of a radical, crazy agenda, it was good enough for Senate Republicans who do hold the majority in the Senate,” Keilar added.

Sanchez pointed out that Johnson “deflected questions about the senate majority leader putting forward the same bill Johnson rejected on Friday.

“It's also notable that [Johnson] is talking about Democrats wanting open borders. That's not what they were demanding out of this shutdown,” Sanchez said. “They wanted adjustments to immigration enforcement, policy changes to body cameras, masks being worn, judicial warrants being required to enter people's property. So, a lot there from Speaker Johnson that doesn’t pass muster.”

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MAGA in panic mode as insiders fear 'brutal' midterms following Florida trouncing

The MAGA world was deep into panic mode as soon as the official results of a Florida special elections landed.

On Tuesday, Democrat candidate Emily Gregory won a Florida state house special election against Republican John Maples — a district that President Donald Trump won with 11 percent of the vote roughly one year ago.

As an additional kick, the district happens to house Trump’s own Mar-a-Lago Club, putting the district, as one CNN analyst described it, right ‘in Trump’s backyard.”

Conservative writer Eric Daugherty tried to play down the win, arguing on X that the legislative session in Florida has already ended and that Republicans are “hoping for powerful comeback later this year to cancel it all out.” But the victory set off alarms throughout the rest of MAGAsphere, with one X commenter posting “I don't like how this ‘trend’ is going.”

“How in hell do we get 30 percent turnout in today’s politically charged environment,” demanded another. “Do we have that many lazy, unengaged Republicans who ignore special elections and maybe even (God heal us) the midterms?”

While some MAGA X users shrilly shouted: “Don’t run Blacks” as Republican candidates (losing GOP candidate John Maples was African-American), others argued, for Republicans to “work on our ground game.”

“These special elections are a sign we aren’t paying attention,” said the user. “Download ActiVote, fill out your info, and you’ll know when all races in your district are. This is bare minimum civic duty sh——, guys.”

Still another frustrated Republican posted: “Floridians, I’m starting to see a trend that shouldn’t be happening,” while a casual observer wagered “Midterms are going to be brutal for the GOP.”

CNN Analyst Harry Enten compounded Republicans’ frustration, saying the GOP loss in Mar-a-Lago “is unlikely to stay a Mar-a-Lago.” Nationwide discontent with Trump appears to be making many voters hostile and driving Republican voters into disinterest.

“Historically speaking, special elections have forecasted what will happen in the midterm elections,” said Enten. “… [E]very single time a party outperformed the presidential baseline in the next midterm election, what we saw — five out of five times — that party went on to win the U.S. House of representatives.”

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Longtime Republican laments the GOP collapse into the 'gutter'

Republican strategist Steve Schmidt says he’s been a Republican for nearly 30 years, long enough to see it’s sad “devolution” over the last few.

“Yesterday, was the 172nd anniversary of the Republican party being born in 1854,” Schmidt wrote on his Saturday Substack. “Horace Greeley, one of its founders, promised that it would be ‘the greatest party for freedom the world had ever seen.’”

The party, he points out, was born in the 1850s “in opposition to the expansion of slavery.”

“It was the party of Abraham Lincoln, the party that prosecuted the American Civil War and preserved the Union. Its founding purpose was rooted in human liberty and the belief that the United States could not endure half-slave and half-free. That mattered. It meant something. It was a party animated by a moral cause larger than itself,” said Schmidt.

But over the last two decades, the Republican party has been “pulled off course and into a low and perfidious gutter.”

“It is the party that Newt Gingrich built. It is a party of grievance, resentment and bigotry,” said Schmidt. “ … The party has become … in the main what the cranks who once lurked on its periphery were shunned for. It is a vessel of bigotry, extremism, religious nuttery and a radical ideology that places the jackboot of the state above the rights of human beings.”

The Party took a turn after the election of Barack Obama, when Schmidt said “what presented itself as a grassroots revolt against taxation and government overreach carried, beneath the surface, something darker: a politics increasingly fueled by resentment, identity, and conspiracy. Compromise became betrayal. Governance became secondary to performance.”

But the decisive break was the ascent of Donald Trump who “revealed what it had become.”

“The party that once claimed Lincoln as its moral compass embraced a leader who trafficked in lies, who attacked democratic institutions, and who redefined loyalty not to the Constitution, but to himself,” said Schmidt, adding that the ultimate transformation was at the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

“A mob, inflamed by a sitting president, attacked the seat of American democracy to overturn a free and fair election. And what did the party do? In large measure, it rationalized, minimized, or outright defended it,” said Schmidt. “That is the devolution.”

Today, said Schmidt, the party that once stood for the preservation of the Union and the expansion of freedom, stands for “power at any cost.” Its language of liberty has been replaced by the “language of victimhood,” and its commitment to truth has been replaced by a “willingness to believe anything — so long as it serves the cause.”

Today, he says, it is the party of “cowardice and treachery, submission and debasement,” as well as the party of “Florsheim shoes three sizes too big, and ideas that are uniformly small, cruel and dumb.”

“Political parties change. They adapt. They evolve,” said Schmidt. “But there is a difference between evolution and abandonment.”

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Top red state Republican in hot-seat after 'profane tirade' against the GOP

A candidate for Republican House speaker in Alabama is facing ouster after his “profane tirade” about the Republican Party got leaked to the press.

AL.com reports Stan Cooke, a candidate for chairmanship of the Alabama Republican Party, announced on Facebook that he would move to expel House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter from the party if he wins the chairmanship because of a comment Ledbetter let fly during a closed GOP House caucus meeting.

The shadow of an unpopular National Republican Party brand may be crashing against Alabama Republicans appeal among their constituents, and affecting the party’s chances of maintaining its comfortable majority in the House and Senate.

“My concern is you. We need to do what’s best for this body, period,” Ledbetter raged during the course of the meeting. I could give a s--- about the Republican Party.”

Cooke, who is also a pastor, said the comment could not stand.

“When Elected, I will place a measure before the Steering Committee and the Executive Committee to Immediately CENSURE Nathanel (sic) Ledbetter for his profane tirade against the Republican Party and ask the Steering Committee and the Executive Committee to EXPEL Nathanel (sic) Ledbetter from the Republican Party,” Cooke wrote, according to AL.com.

Ledbetter later issued a statement saying: “My priority has been and continues to be getting every Republican member of the Alabama House of Representatives reelected and growing the party’s supermajority.”

The audio only consists of about a minute, and Republican representatives in the room all declined to discuss the comment except to say that it was taken out of context, said AL.com.

“The quotes were clearly taken out of context,” assured Republican Rep. David Faulkner. “And our speaker cares deeply about all of us. And that’s the point that he was making. … He’s done an amazing job as speaker, and somebody shouldn’t be making comments like that against him. That’s unfounded and unwarranted, in my opinion.”

But the Republican dominated Alabama legislature is under stress this legislative session after discovering a new $200 million annual bill courtesy of President Donald Trump and Congressional Republican’s Big Beautiful Bill, which cut federal funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program serving about 750,000 Alabamians.

“It’s a matter of what can we do or should we do — or is there anything that can be (done) to prevent running into that $200 million wall?” said state Sen. Greg Albritton, R-Atmore, chairman of the Alabama Senate’s general fund committee, when speaking o the new cuts. “And right now I think that train’s got the light on headed straight for us.”

Prior to Trump and Republicans passing the Big Beautiful Bill, the federal government paid the full cost of SNAP benefits and 50 percent of administrative costs. But to fund the permanent extension of the Trump tax cuts, states will pay 75 percent of administrative costs starting in 2027. And the biggest change comes in 2028, when fficials say states will also have to pay a portion of SNAP benefits for the first time.

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Another GOP lawmaker enters race with Trump's knife 'firmly in his back'

Bulwark Congressional reporter Joe Perticone reports that Republican elected officials, GOP operatives and staffers, military officers, and chiefs of staff “seem to never learn” that handing over their loyalty to Trump meaning nothing.

“Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy is the latest to realize this only after the president’s knife has been embedded firmly in his back,” Perticone wrote.

On Saturday, Trump followed his grudge and endorsed MAGA-aligned Louisiana state representative Julia Letlow to unseat Cassidy in the Republican primary.

“Should she decide to enter this Race, Julia Letlow has my Complete and Total Endorsement,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “RUN, JULIA, RUN!!!”

Perticone reports Cassidy had been telling colleagues that White House staff had assured that Trump would remain neutral in the race. Perticone added that other Republican senators, including Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), tried to talk Trump out of endorsing Letlow and keeping his finger off the scale in Louisiana's elections.

“But Trump couldn’t resist. And Cassidy now finds himself stuck in a race that looks nearly impossible to win,” Perticone reports.

“It’s not as though Cassidy didn’t put in the work,” Perticone said. “The senator voted to confirm the president’s most deranged Cabinet nominations, backed his signature piece of legislation, posted fawning messages about him online and introduced a resolution nominating him for the Nobel Peace Prize. Cassidy also took the lead on an attempt to pass a major health care reform on Trump’s behalf ... Cassidy even swallowed his pride when Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s anti-vaccine HHS secretary, began reneging on commitments he’d made in exchange for Cassidy’s vote for confirmation.”

But Cassidy had voted to convict Trump in the January 6th impeachment trial years ago.

“[O]nce he did that, it became clear that he was never going to get free of the president’s bad side,” Perticone said.

Cassidy is probably doomed, said Perticone. It’s not unheard of for Republican voters to ignore Trump’s interventions and elevate seasoned politicians over MAGA challengers in GOP primaries, but Perticone says this is rare.

“When Trump decides he wants to wade into a Republican primary, it is awfully difficult for more level-headed people in his party to stop him. Cassidy will probably become the latest victim of this swamp monster of presidential resentment, but he certainly won’t be the last,” said Perticone “Even so, most Republicans behave as if it could never happen to them.”

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Republicans worry Trump's fundraising will 'siphon money from' midterm efforts: report

The New York Times reports President Donald Trump’s MAGA Inc. super PAC raised more than $100 million in the second half of 2025, with much of the money coming from wealthy donors looking for political favors. But the sheer size of Trump’s apparent pay-to-play scheme may be draining GOP coffers.

“The haul by MAGA Inc., detailed in a campaign finance report filed on Thursday night, reveals how aggressive fundraising has continued for a political operation that revolves around Mr. Trump, giving the organization over $300 million ahead of this year’s midterms,” reports the Times. “… The biggest donations were $12.5 million each from Greg Brockman, a co-founder of the artificial intelligence firm OpenAI, and his wife, Anna Brockman; and contributions totaling $20 million from the parent company of Crypto.com, a cryptocurrency trading platform that has lobbied the administration. Leaders of the fast-growing A.I. and crypto industries have courted Mr. Trump and gotten favorable treatment.”

Other donors, said the Times, included a nursing home magnate seeking an ambassadorship, a vape-maker and a woman whose father was begging a deal from federal prosecutors to settle charges that he bribed Puerto Rico’s governor.

In addition to MAGA Inc., Trump is making money for political nonprofit group Securing American Greatness and funding the construction of an new White House ballroom whose expense keeps growing larger with each month.

But the Times is reporting that some Republicans are expressing concern that “Trump’s continued fundraising will siphon money from party campaign spending vehicles and give his allies too much sway.”

And while White House spokeswoman Liz Huston rejects any suggestion that Trump’s decisions are shaped by donations, donors whose contributions to MAGA Inc. “have benefited from actions of either Trump or his administration” or are in industries that have benefitted.

The New York Times reports many donors have received invitations to exclusive events and meetings with Trump, including official White House functions. Several have also donated to the inauguration or to Trump’s ever-growing ballroom.

The e-cigarette company Juul, for example, donated $1 million to MAGA Inc. in early November, “less than four months after the Food and Drug Administration authorized the company’s vapes for the U.S. market,” reports the Times. “The move ended a lengthy standoff with regulators and lawmakers who accused the company of spurring an epidemic of e-cigarette use among youths.”

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Republicans will lose House 'by significant margin' thanks to Trump: former GOP governor

Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) told MS NOW that Republicans are likely doomed to lose the House in 2026 thanks to President Donald Trump.

[Trump] still commands a lot in the party, but I think as time goes on, as the economy doesn't recover, as we see healthcare costs increase, … I think there are Republicans who are beginning to say ‘enough,’ Kasich told NYU law professor and MS NOW legal analyst Melissa Murray. “And, remember, everybody who runs for reelection, they can't run on Trump.”

Kasich said he actually thought the Democrats were going to win the House “a long time ago,” but the state of the economy was now a driving factor, as well as heartless, very visible ICE raids and arrests of people “who have broken no U.S. law.”

“When you take a look at these two ladies who won the governor's races, [in New Jersey and Virginia] they were talking about affordability. These were not fringe issues,” Kasich added, warning Democrats that they “have a challenge … to stick to things like health care and the economy,” without getting lost on fringe issues.

But for Republicans, Kasich said the problem is a considerably more sticky.

“For the Republicans, you know, they're sort of stuck with this MAGA thing,” Kasich added. “And I've been a Republican all my life, an American first, a Republican second. But I have to tell you, I don't quite know what it's all about. I don't know what's the positive message there? It seems as though it's a message about tearing things down rather than building things up. And that is never a successful way to get elected.

“So, I think the Democrats are going to win the House, maybe by a significant margin, but don't screw this thing up if you want to win,” Kasich said.

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'That was brutal': Wisconsin GOP lawmaker flounders at 'hostile' townhall

A recent town hall revealed public speaking engagements have gotten no less calm for Republican lawmakers since they passed President Donald Turmp Big Beautiful budget bill this year.

“I haven't seen a negative reaction like that since we ran those focus groups on your early hosting,” said ‘Morning Joe’ political analyst Sam Stein to show host Jonathan Lemire. “It was brutal.”

As Wisconsin Public Radio reports, U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil (R-Wis.) faced a "hostile" crowd that shouted him down Thursday evening during his first town hall gathering since the passage of the “Big Beautiful Bill Act.” Amid catcalls and complaints over the new budget, several attendees expressed disappointment with the congressman, including one person who asked why he was not stopping ICE raids by masked agents targeting Wisconsin residents.

“Why are they wearing masks and why are they unidentified?” the audience member asked.

“We'll probably agree to disagree on some of my answer here but what I view is the moral hazard created by the Biden administration by allowing the U.S. border to remain unsecur—” Steil began.

At that point the Elkhorn High School auditorium erupted in a wash of boos as roughly 200 people, some carrying signs with slogans like “Resist,” “God is King no Others” and “Hands off SSI and Medicare” buried Steil in disapproval.

“It's completely fine that we disagree,” Steil told the crowd, looking shaken.

Morning Joe contributor Jen Palmieri said the scene was a positive for Democrats.

“There's one of two things happening in that town hall,” said Palmieri. “Either it was organized. by Democrats, and that shows that Democrats in Wisconsin are organized, and that's positive news for Democrats, or it was not organized and that is organic anger—and that is also positive news for Democrats.”

Wisconsin news reports some supporters left early and called Steil’s presentation “disgusting,” while others said Steil “got what he deserved” for being a Trump rubber stamp. The town hall remained raucous as the audience overpowered the microphone. Steil paused frequently to urge the crowd to stay civil and allow him to answer questions.

“We are a long way from November 2026, but any Republican looking to hold on to his or her job then has to look at that last night and feel a little bit antsy,” said Lemire.

“Here's the thing,” said Stein. “These Republicans have been instructed to not hold these town halls for a reason, because they're going to produce spectacles like that. The electorate, at least the electorate that is willing to get up and go to a physical town hall and express their opinions, is deeply angry with Republicans.”

Stein added that Trump’s numbers on many facets of immigration policy is underwater. “And if you combine that with the Big Beautiful bill, with Medicaid, with the possibility that there's going to be premium increases because of the Obamacare subsidies going away along with the issue of the cost of goods — that is a bad brew for Republicans,” Stein said.

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'Traitors to the principles of the party': GOP in disarray as centrists flee far-right purity test

The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports a far-right splinter group of the Georgia Republican Party appears to be further splintering.

Dozens of prominent Republican activists formally quit the far-right Georgia Republican Assembly with Georgia GOP chair Josh McKoon joining the revolt.

The group, which labels itself the “Republican wing of the Republican Party”, is hotly anti-establishment and powerful, says AJC. It even successfully blocked Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger from running as a Republican in 2026.

With tendrils in the old Tea Party movement that blossomed during the Obama administration, the GRA was the faction to appease when a GOP primary candidate needed to broadcast his or her conservative bonafides. But now AJC says the organization is backing a revived purity test lawsuit seeking to block candidates "who are insufficiently conservative — or, as one activist put it, 'traitors to the principles of the party' — from qualifying on the GOP ticket."

“Frankly, I do not know how I can continue to maintain membership in an organization that is contemplating or planning to file a civil action against the organization that I am responsible for running,” wrote McKoon, the Georgia GOP voluntary chair. “Therefore, it is with regret I resign my lifetime membership in the Georgia Republican Assembly that I served as a Charter Member of when it was organized over a decade ago in this state.”

McKoon added he remained “hopeful” the organization would “steer away from a course of action” that undermines the state GOP’s past success.

AJC reports GRA Chair Alex Johnson is dismissing the backlash, saying the GRA remains committed to “unify the party and uphold accountable, authentic Republican governance.” However, former Georgia GOP chair John Watson slammed the GRA’s cultlike dedication to purity tests.

“This is what happens when an organization takes its leadership cues from the legacy of David Koresh and Jim Jones,” Jones told AJC.

AJC reports that it’s unclear how the infighting will shape next year’s election, but it “underscores the ongoing challenges facing more pragmatic GOP figures like Raffensperger, who enjoy high name recognition and centrist support but face pushback with the party’s activist base.”

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