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The Battle for the Future of the GOP Is No Contest

How can Tim Scott and Nikki Haley be what’s next for a party that has so completely embraced Trumpism?
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T in front of a row of American flags in a stately, COVID-emptied Washington, D.C., auditorium,talking about family. The South Carolina Republican explained that his grandfather, who grew up in the segregated South and never learned to read or write, had to cross the street if a white person was passing his way. Scott leaned to the left to represent the discrimination his grandfather suffered. His eyes pierced the camera. “Our family went from cotton to Congress

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