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Had the feckless, cowardly, go-along-to-get-along, Chamber of Commerce, Koch-addicted, Romney-McCain-Bush, National Review GOP won the day, Hillary Clinton would have won, and Roe would have been affirmed last week by a 7-2 majority.

Politico ran a hit piece on U.S Senate candidate and former Missouri governor Eric Greitens based on an anonymous poll they later admitted “felt unfair.”

Democrats, media pundits, and Hollywood stars threw tantrums on social media on Sunday after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) told Fox News Sunday that he would not vote for President Joe Biden’s multi-trillion-dollar “Build Back Better” bill.

Appearing Tuesday on CNN’s The Lead, The Bulwark editor-at-large and Never Trump pundit Bill Kristol said people in his social circle who voted for President Joe Biden in 2020 will likely not support him again in the wake of the fatally botched withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan.

President Joe Biden has nominated former Arizona Senator Jeff Flake, a prominent “Never Trump” Republican, as his choice for U.S. Ambassador to Turkey.

Former NJ Gov. Christine Todd Whitman said an alternative to the GOP is taking shape in response to those who still support Trump.

For some in Never Trump, the close identification of Trump with the pro-Israel cause may have prompted them to abandon it.

Never Trump Republican candidate Michael Wood, who was endorsed by Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) and received a campaign donation from Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), suffered an enormous defeat in Texas’s Sixth Congressional District special election over the weekend, placing ninth in the race and barely reaching three percent of the vote.

Former President George W. Bush told The Dispatch podcast on Friday that if the Republican Party “stands for … White Anglo-Saxon Protestantism, then it’s not going to win anything.”

Meghan McCain, daughter of the late Sen. John McCain, said her father “despised” Lincoln Project cofounders Steve Schmidt and John Weaver. 

Steve Schmidt, MSNBC pundit, resigned from the Lincoln Project on Friday and claimed he was sexually abused by a man when he was 13. He also described his resignation as partly motivated by a desire to create a vacancy on his organization’s board of directors for a woman.

Lincoln Project TV host Nayyera Haq resigned from the Never Trump organization Friday amid a growing number of allegations of sexual harassment against co-founder John Weaver. 

The Lincoln Project, a left-wing super PAC, spent the entirety of its political advertising budget to assist Democrats, despite its founders and directors marketing themselves as conservative Republicans.

John Weaver — the co-founder of the anti-Trump super PAC Lincoln Project — addressed the “inappropriate” sexually charged messages that he has been sending to men, stating that he is gay.

The anti-TThe anti-Trump Lincoln Project is building a database of Trump officials and staffers with the intention of holding those people professionally “accountable” for supporting the president, according to Stuart Stevens, a Republican operative who works with the Lincoln Project.

Renowned anti-Trump activists, including members of the Lincoln Project, which led a campaign intimidating lawyers representing the Trump campaign, are celebrating the Supreme Court’s decision to dismiss a legal challenge to the 2020 election results filed by the State of Texas as they rip into supportive Republicans across the board.

Joe Biden plans to create a “position that reaches out to conservatives,” according to Cedric Richmond, whom the former Vice President has tapped to lead the White House Office of Public Engagement.

The Pentagon finally issued an on-the-record statement that defended Defense Secretary Chief of Staff Kash Patel against false allegations.

The Never Trump Lincoln Project released an ad on Wednesday urging voters to give the Senate majority to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) by voting for Georgia Senate Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff.

Mattis prompted a backlash from conservatives after he calling to eliminate “America First” from the nation’s national security strategy.

Never Trump stalwart Jonah Goldberg published an essay Friday in which he argued that President Donald Trump “is trying to steal an election he clearly and unequivocally lost.”

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is fighting back against far-left Democrats and Never Trump Republicans who are targeting supporters of President Donald Trump by adding them to a list and “holding them accountable” after the election, highlighting Pete Buttigieg staffers who have signaled support for the effort.

Despite the Lincoln Project’s joining together with Democrats against Trump, it appears the friendship may be on shaky footing.

President Donald Trump spoke in the early hours of Nov 4, declaring he is on course to win the 2020 election, and promising to take any contested result to the Supreme Court.

The Lincoln Project, a political action committee (PAC) opposing Donald Trump, raised nearly $60 million since its establishment last year.

“We’ve had to beat the really stupid dumb people, the Never Trumpers, we’ve had to beat the RINOS — that’s ‘Republican in name only.’ RINO. I love that term,” Trump said as the crowd laughed.

Two ads from the Women Speak Out PAC were blacklisted by Facebook after the Dispatch published a fake fact check, a bald-faced lie that claimed the ads were “partly false.”

Flynn Jr. rebuked Republicans who argue that Americans do not care about alleged FBI corruption under the Obama administration.

Democrats hoped that Republican defections from President Donald Trump would help former Vice President Joe Biden in the 2020 election, but an article in The Nation observes that Trump is consolidating support, even from “Biden Republicans.”

Bret Stephens, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and author who opposed Donald Trump bitterly in 2016 and thereafter, has written in praise of the 45th president for negotiating peace agreements between Israel and some of its Arab neighbors.

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the Democratic Party’s key impeachment witness, declared that he now is “absolutely a Never Trumper” in his first-ever television interview with NBC Nightly News.

Shortly after President Donald Trump’s 2016 inauguration, a co-founder of the Transition Integrity Project (TIP), a group that recently “war-gamed” potential outcomes of the 2020 elections and transition, outlined varying ways to oust Trump including declaring him mentally unfit and carrying out a military coup.

Former consultants for failed Republican presidential primary candidate Jeb Bush are now working with a “Never Trump”-associated group to help Democrat Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris win the swing state of Florida.

The left fumed over a naturalization ceremony aired during the Republican National Convention’s second night.

Former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s former allies at the agency are now working with failed Never Trump leaders to elect Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden.

The Democrat Party launched “Republicans for Biden” on Monday, the first day of the Republican National Convention, featuring over two dozen former GOP lawmakers who are endorsing the former vice president.