The Republican National Convention is shaping up to be a full-throated endorsement of nominee Donald Trump and his brand of Republicanism. Trump’s proposal to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border was welcomed into the GOP’s platform; the structure of the convention itself is based on a set of permutations to Trump’s campaign slogan; and the Dump Trump movement, between losing key votes on the Rules Committee last week and failing to force a state-by-state approval of convention rules on Monday, is basically dead.
So Trump is the official standard-bearer of the Republican Party. How do Republicans in Congress feel about that?
That’s actually a somewhat complicated question. But our friends at Cook Political Report, including FiveThirtyEight contributor David Wasserman, have analyzed public statements (or noted the lack thereof) from all 301 Republicans in the House and Senate and classified each congressperson’s degree of support for Trump into one of seven categories, from “True Believer” to “Trump Snubber.”
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