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20 January, 2021, 9:48 am
U.S. President Donald Trump holds a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress in Washington U.S, January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
LEVELLAND, Texas (Reuters) – Pat Cowan, a Republican official in west Texas, would rather blow up her party than see it controlled by “weak” Republicans who increasingly are distancing themselves from President Donald Trump since the U.S. Capitol riots he is accused of inciting.
“You can’t tell those Republicans from the Democrats!” she scoffed in an interview at her home in Levelland, Texas.
As the world continues to reel from images of the outrageous assault of the US Capitol by Trump's goons, history was made in the southern US state of Georgia this month. But first, a quick look at the past.