The State of the GOP

Rob Portman, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Marco Rubio, Josh Hawley, the Capitol Hill police, ‘move on,’ and more

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Senator Rob Portman (left) and Arkansas gubernatorial candidate Sarah Huckabsee Sanders

Erin Schaff, Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

On Monday, Rob Portman announced that he was retiring, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced that she was running. This says a great deal. “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”

Portman is a Republican senator from Ohio (“Republican” in the pre-Trump sense). Sarah Huckabee Sanders, of course, is a Trump Republican, who is running for governor of Arkansas (a position her father once held).

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