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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Chris McGreal in Columbus, Ohio and David Smith in Washington

‘It’s time to move on’: have the US midterms finally loosened Trump’s grip on the Republican party?

Donald Trump can be seen standing between two marble and gold pillars.
Donald Trump has dominated the Republican party but candidates he endorsed failed to perform as well as expected. Photograph: Andrew Harnik/AP

Sitting at the head table in a white and gold ballroom, beneath glistening chandeliers and an ornately corniced ceiling, Donald Trump looked sullen as midterm election results flashed up on a giant TV screen.

Across Florida, 200 miles from his opulent Mar-a-Lago estate, the mood was quite different. In Tampa, Governor Ron DeSantis was celebrating his landslide re-election by repurposing lines from Winston Churchill.

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