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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe in Miami

Florida is a prime example of Trump’s vise grip on state Republican parties

Six white men and women stand in a line in front of a row of American flags, with everyone dressed in black and dark blue except Melania, who wears a lime green dress.
From left, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr, Tiffany Trump, Donald Trump, Melania Trump and Barron Trump at the White House on 27 August 2020. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

In practical terms, Barron Trump’s truncated stint on the political stage as a Florida delegate to the Republican party’s national convention was little more than symbolic. His father Donald Trump’s third successive presidential campaign as the Republican nominee was all but certain anyway, and the names of those who will confirm it are essentially inconsequential.

It did affirm to many analysts, however, how the former president has maneuvered to seize almost total control of the party’s state apparatus nationwide. Nowhere is that more apparent than Florida, where the capitulation was completed by the choice of delegates for July’s convention in Milwaukee.

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