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According to the Washington Post, Trump was a "big winner" last night.

At least in Republican primary politics, Tuesday once again proved he’s the king. Republican politicians on the ballot Tuesday who dissed him in 2016 raced to undo that, and those who didn’t do it convincingly enough lost their primaries.

In Minnesota’s competitive governor’s race, Republican voters nominated a relative outsider, Jeff Johnson, over a former governor, Tim Pawlenty, as Pawlenty struggled to get out from under the fact he called Trump “unhinged and unfit” during the campaign. -WaPo

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(Notice the picture on the wall behind him?)

“The Republican Party has shifted,” Pawlenty bemoaned during his loss. “It is the era of Trump, and I’m just not a Trump-like politician.”

Meanwhile, last week's GOP Kansas governor's primary also paid off for Trump - his riskiest endorsement yet, as Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach bested Gov. Jeff Colyer by a slim margin. Kobach helped to lead Trump's voter fraud commission.

The Post notes that any Republican on Tuesday's ballot who went against Trump in 2016 (or now) "needed to pivot quickly."

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-15/trump-wins-big-tuesdays-primaries-wapo