A charged-up version of the divisions playing out nationally set off primaries against the sitting governor, attorney general and a congressman
Idaho’s dominant Republican Party is at war with itself up and down the ballot ahead of its May 17 primaries.
“Some people would describe it as conservative, and then far-right conservative,” said Tom Luna, the chair of the state Republican Party. That “far-right” camp, Luna continued, “would call themselves conservatives and everybody else moderates.” “It’s just this national rhetoric, and running to a narrative created by Trump that he started when he knew he was going to lose, and started telling the lie,” said Ahlquist, who is critical of the far-right slate of candidates. “And that filters down to Republicans in our state. And in a state as red as ours, that’s still the narrative because that’s what they do to get elected.”
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