Republicans have earned an electoral mandate unlike anything the party has seen since the 1980s.
Rachel Bovard, vice president of programs at the Conservative Partnership Institute and veteran of over a decade of working on Capitol Hill, told me on the latest episode of “The Signal Sitdown” that conservatives “cannot waste it.”
For the first time in 20 years, the Republican presidential nominee carried the popular vote. President-elect Donald Trump captured more than 300 Electoral College votes on the way to an election victory that reshaped the Republican Party’s coalition.
Republicans also retained control of the House and flipped the Senate. The future of Trump’s Make America Great Again movement seems secure for the next four years. But Bovard says its continuation depends on actually making America great again. …
