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The GOP is finally waking up, the left says

Hats off in salute as the Quicken Loans Arena filled for day three of the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night. (Sam Hodgson/The New York Times)

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Hats off in salute as the Quicken Loans Arena filled for day three of the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night. (Sam Hodgson/The New York Times)
By Bria Felicien
June 25, 2018

1. Midterm Elections 2018: The Conservatives Who Want the GOP to Lose This Fall

From The Daily Beast: "The only way to save the Republican Party and the country from Donald Trump, some conservatives are openly saying, is for the Democrats to win this fall. They just might be right."

2. I lost because I wasn't Trump enough. All Republicans should worry.

From The Washington Post: "The Republican Party is facing an identity crisis."

3. Why We Are Leaving the G.O.P.

From The New York Times: "The Republican Party once opposed government intervention in the bedroom and the doctor's office. No longer."

ExploreThis moment shows the left’s ‘mob, media mentality,’ the right says

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Bria Felicien is a published author and staff writer at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She produces podcasts for the AJC.

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