“State Republican parties in roughly half of the most important battleground states are awash in various degrees of dysfunction, debt and disarray,” the New York Times reports.
“With former President Donald Trump tightening his grip on the Republican presidential nomination, the widespread problems have caused deepening concern among top Republican officials. There is no one explanation for the disparate party struggles in the swing states that matter most for the presidency. But across the map, state parties have become combat zones for the broader struggles inside the GOP between the party’s old guard and its ascendant Trump wing, with rifts that can prove divisive and costly.”
