Always Trumpers: The president’s unbreakable wall – By Juliet Bartz, Mike Allen, Jim VandeHei, Orion Rummler (Axios) / Oct 13 2020
Trump Loyalty Index for Republican members of Congress
The index measures both voting loyalty, according to FiveThirtyEight’s Trump Score, and how members reacted to seven of President Trump’s most controversial moments. Click on the square to read the full reaction. If the square is not clickable, no reaction was found. Scroll to the bottom to see the scores for members who took office after 2017.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/
Data: Axios research and FiveThirtyEight’s Trump Score. See our methodology here. Note(*): Senator Mitt Romney did not join Congress until January 2019. However, statements he made as a prominent GOP figure prior to his time in office were taken into consideration. Chart: Naema Ahmed, Sara Wise, Juliet Bartz, Orion Rummler/Axios
More than 85% of elected Republicans who have been in Congress throughout President Trump’s term have largely stood by him through seven crises that would have crushed most politicians, according to a comprehensive new study by “Axios on HBO.”
Why it matters: The data shows how Trump’s grip on the Republican Party has tightened — especially in the last two years — as his dissenters have largely piped down, been tossed out, or currently face the threat of losing re-election.
How it works: The Trump Loyalty Index, built over the past year by Juliet Bartz of “Axios on HBO,” shows in empirical terms the intense loyalty Trump commands.
- The index measures both voting loyalty, based on FiveThirtyEight data, and whether members said anything critical on the record during seven of Trump’s biggest crises: his “Access Hollywood” recording, the initial travel ban on Muslim-majority nations, his comments on Charlottesville, his “shithole countries” remark, the “go back” tweet, his call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and his Bible photo op.
- You can search the “Loyalty Score” of your representative and senators in the above graphic.
By the numbers: In 2016, 42% of the 178 Republicans who have been in office since Trump’s candidacy criticized him during the “Access Hollywood” fallout.
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