The chair of the Pennsylvania GOP resigned two weeks ago amid a sex scandal. Now Trump is wading into the race to replace him. And not all local Republicans are happy.
Donald Trump’s campaign is injecting itself into a battle to lead Pennsylvania’s Republican Party — a race with serious implications for the president’s reelection hopes that has badly divided the GOP in the battleground state.resigned from the position
“People are pretty disgusted with the whole thing,” said Scott Wagner, a Republican donor who was the party’s unsuccessful 2018 gubernatorial nominee. “I’m afraid it’s going to backfire. It may be damaging to the president. This is sort of like a family issue. We don't need interference from the outside.”Sign Up
“It shows that they still believe Pennsylvania is going to be a battleground state, first and foremost,” said Mick McKeown, a former Trump administration official. “The next thing they’re doing by picking Bernie is not letting the party be divided again.”
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