In my two-week trip throughout Pennsylvania, talking to Republican voters ahead of next year’s closed party primary, there were several common, at times conflicting, themes coming from conservative voters. First and foremost, they want to win. They’ve lost three major elections in a row here, and they are very aware that Trump has been at the front of or at least behind each of those losses.

Second, they still like Trump and liked his policies and are furious at what they consider never-ending attacks from the political elite in both parties and in the press aimed at him.

And third, they may not say it out loud as Tems did, but there is much less resistance to them moving away from Trump than polling has captured. This may be in part because they don’t want to tell pollsters what they really think.

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