Trump attempts MAGA merger with old-line GOP

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President-elect Donald Trump brought his populist supporters into the Republican Party and now would like to include them in his administration, but not everyone in the GOP is happy about it.

The MAGA movement contains some people who are fervent Republicans but might deviate from what was the party line as recently as the George W. Bush administration or Mitt Romney‘s 2012 campaign on issues like immigration, trade, and foreign policy. 

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