When Carter Wrenn says Donald Trumpâs hold on the Republican Party is slipping, I listen. Carter and I have fought on different sides of North Carolinaâs political wars for years, most notably the Jim Hunt-Jesse Helms Senate race in 1984. Despite that bitter campaign and our political differences, weâve become friends. Carter is smart, tough and experienced. Above all, heâs blunt and candid; he calls them like he sees them. Now, Carter is challenging the conventional wisdom that the Republican Party is Trumpâs party. He recently did a national poll with John Bolton, Trumpâs former national security adviser. Carter wrote: