Super Tuesday may underline Trump’s transformation of the GOP

Heading into Super Tuesday, former President Donald Trump


 remains on track to potentially win more primaries and caucuses than any previous Republican presidential candidate other than an incumbent.



His performance so far reflects his success at transforming the Republican Party in his image. He’s reshaped the GOP into a more blue-collar, populist and pugnacious party, focused more on his volatile blend of resentments against elites and cultural and racial change than the Ronald Reagan-era priorities of smaller government and active global leadership that former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has stressed. The refusal of almost any GOP elected officials to endorse his last remaining rival – despite the qualms some of them hold about the direction Trump is imposing on the party –testifies to their recognition that the former president now

 

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