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THERE was always going to be something of a scorched earth response by Donald Trump to leaving office after losing last November’s presidential election. Make chaos, create trouble, if I can’t have it then no one else can, has long been a leitmotif of the Trump political strategy even before he set foot in the White House. A long-recognised feature of extremism too has also always been a predilection to attack its own side. Few though within the US ­Republican Party could ever have imagined that Trump’s extremism would wreak the carnage that it has within their own ranks these pa...

David Pratt on The World: Are the once-mighty Republicans now simply the Trump cult? Exactly one week after impeaching Donald Trump, America on Wednesday will inaugurate Joe Biden as its next president. As the Republican Party finds itself cast into a political wilderness, Foreign Editor David Pratt looks at where the GOP goes from here There was always going to be something of a scorched-earth response by Donald Trump to leaving office after losing last November’s presidential election. Make chaos, create trouble, if I can’t have it then no-one else can has long been a leitmotif of t...

13 Min Read WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After riots at the U.S. Capitol by President Donald Trump’s supporters, the Republican Party is facing defections from two camps of voters it can’t afford to lose: those saying Trump and his allies went too far in contesting the election of Democrat Joe Biden - and those saying they didn’t go far enough, according to new polling and interviews with two dozen voters. A local resident looks at a billboard with pictures of supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump wanted by the FBI who participated in storming the U.S. Capitol, forcing Congress to postpon...

WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - After riots at the US Capitol by President Donald Trump's supporters, the Republican Party is facing defections from two camps of voters it can't afford to lose: those saying Trump and his allies went too far in contesting the election of Democrat Joe Biden, and those saying they didn't go far enough, according to new polling and interviews with two dozen voters. Mr Paul Foster - a 65-year-old house painter in Ellsworth, Maine - is furious at party leaders for refusing to back the Mr Trump's claims that the election was stolen with millions of fraudulent votes.

The 'Grand Old Party' could be left directionless as support for the outgoing president ebbs