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We'll get to that momentarily.
But what this means is the GOP really is fractured.
On a whole host of issues, the GOP can't quite agree.
Is the GOP for free trade, as it had been from the 80s through 10 years ago?
Or is the GOP for tariffs?
Is the GOP for more legal immigration or for less immigration totally?
Is the GOP for war in the Middle East?
Is the GOP anti-war?
Does the GOP like Israel?
Does the GOP not like Israel?
All these little fissure issues.
Is the GOP for, I don't know, against only transgenderism, but for the rest of the LGBT movement?
Is the GOP anti-LGBT?
You could really go down a whole host of issues and realize there are these fractures going on.
especially pronounced over foreign policy, especially pronounced over the Trump coalition.
And yet, weirdly enough, this GOP primary shows the clearest example of GOP unity we've seen in years.
You just got Ted Cruz, Tucker Carlson, and Trump, at least implicitly, all on the same team.
All of those guys in recent years have publicly hated each other.
And you have obviously Ted and Tucker going at it.
Ted and the president obviously fought a very, very bitter primary campaign 10 years ago, although they've worked very, very closely together since then.