Trump can lead the GOP without being in office

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Here is where former President Donald Trump could have stopped his speech on Sunday at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida: when he said, about five minutes in, “I want you to know I’ll continue to fight right by your side. … We’re not starting new parties. … We have the Republican Party.”

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