{"id":74067,"date":"2026-05-27T11:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/trumps-iron-grip-on-the-republican-party-has-never-been-stronger-what-about-the-country\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T11:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:03:08","slug":"trumps-iron-grip-on-the-republican-party-has-never-been-stronger-what-about-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/trumps-iron-grip-on-the-republican-party-has-never-been-stronger-what-about-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s iron grip on the Republican party has never been stronger. What about the country?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US president\u2019s backing of Maga extremists turns off the very voters Republicans need to win over in the midterms<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> gave it a minute.<\/p>\n<p>At 9.01pm it was confirmed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/26\/ken-paxton-texas-senate-runoff\">Texas attorney general Ken Paxton<\/a> \u2013 a hardliner backed by the US president \u2013 had triumphed over incumbent John Cornyn in the state\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/republicans\">Republican<\/a> primary runoff for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-senate\">US Senate<\/a>. By 9.02pm, Trump had started celebrating on social media.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/27\/trump-republican-party-maga\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US president\u2019s backing of Maga extremists turns off the very voters Republicans need to win over in the midterms Donald Trump gave it a minute. At 9.01pm it was confirmed that Texas attorney general Ken Paxton \u2013 a hardliner backed by the US president \u2013 had triumphed over incumbent John Cornyn in the state\u2019s &#8230; <a title=\"Trump\u2019s iron grip on the Republican party has never been stronger. What about the country?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/trumps-iron-grip-on-the-republican-party-has-never-been-stronger-what-about-the-country\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump\u2019s iron grip on the Republican party has never been stronger. What about the country?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}