Two anti-establishment GOP candidates “trumped” their opponents on Tuesday, with Corey Stewart winning the Senate primary in Virginia and Katie Arrington defeating Rep. Mark Sanford, R-S.C., in the primary for his House seat, hours after the president endorsed her with a tweet bashing Sanford.
In his early reaction to the results, Nate Silver wrote, “In contrast to last week’s results — which were pretty good for the GOP ‘establishment’ — the two most interesting outcomes of the evening featured problems for traditional Republicans and underscored the degree to which the GOP has become Trump’s party.”
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