State Republican Parties Are Going Rogue

“Nebraska holds its primary election tomorrow. While all five Republicans in the state’s delegation — two senators and three House members —- are on the ballot, the state party is endorsing none of them,” the Washington Post reports.

“It’s the latest state Republican party in which far-right activists are taking control and attempting to root out traditional or centrist Republicans in order to nominate more like-minded candidates, regardless of their electoral chances in a general election…”

“State parties were once extensions of the national party, working together toward a common goal of electing the strongest Republican candidates. But that has changed in the era of Trump and the GOP’s painful identity crisis. Elements of the right are now more interested in far-right purity than electability.”