How Trump Kept His Grip on the GOP After January 6

“Six weeks after the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, Donald Trump’s pollster, Tony Fabrizio, conducted a survey of Republicans that looked at how well liked the former president was among several distinct groups of voters within the party,” the New York Times reports.

“A veteran GOP pollster who has worked on presidential campaigns going back to Patrick Buchanan’s first White House bid in 1992, Fabrizio saw how thoroughly Trump had remade the GOP in his image — and how enduring his popularity remained, even after the attack on the seat of American democracy.”

“The people who described themselves as the most committed Republicans were also the most likely to say they were committed to Trump, Fabrizio found in his post-Jan. 6 survey. Feelings about the former president, he explained in his analysis, were so intertwined with the understanding many voters had about what it meant to be a strong Republican that ‘Trumpism and party fidelity’ were becoming one and the same.”