GOP Senators Brace Themselves For Trump's New Vision For Their Party
By LAUREN FOX Published NOVEMBER 17, 2016, 6:00 AM EST
Republicans have the House, the Senate and the White House. It is the magic political trifecta the party has been waiting for – with one small hitch.
Everyone is holding their breath to see what version of President-elect Trump is sworn in. Is it the "build the wall," "drain the swamp," bad trade deal Trump many members made conscious decisions to run away from in their own elections? Or is a more pragmatic and malleable commander-in-chief about to emerge? Republicans are about to find out.
Trump ran on a populist message about border security and a rigged system, not a strictly conservative one that promoted the virtues of free trade and preached the gospel of social conservatism. But he won, and Republicans know they cannot pretend Trump's victory didn't help them preserve their own Senate majority.
Republican senators are trying their darndest to remain optimistic that Trump's vision for the Republican Party's future and their own are close enough. But you can't obscure it, if the Trump that lands in the White House is anything like the one on the campaign trail, there are going to be major differences.
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