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Former Jeb Bush campaign staffer Tim Miller was responsible for giving anti-Roy Moore information to the Washington Post, according to text messages obtained by Big League Politics. Tim Miller is the co-founder of America Rising super PAC, which was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars apiece by the Republican National Committee and the Senate Leadership Fund during the 2016 campaign cycle. Miller now works for Definers, which is a major vendor to America Rising. He served on the Bush campaign in a communications role and has since established himself as an anti-Trump Republican lauded by the anti-Trump left for his...

A number of prominent Republicans who bashed Donald Trump during the election campaign have now come out in support of the President-elect. Despite dozens within the party stating prior to election day that Trump was fit to be president, most of those critics seemingly fell in line behind their new leader on Wednesday. Some of Trump's most vocal opponents were among the Republicans to publicly back him in the wake of his stunning triumph - including many who had been beaten to the presidential nomination by the Donald.

The stream of down-ballot Republicans breaking with the Trump campaign over Mr. Trump's past vulgar language has now been capped by the notice from House speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) that "he will not defend or appear with" Mr. Trump, and that "rank-and-file" Republicans are on their own "to do what's best" in their districts. Ryan's counterpart in the Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), for his part, is giving the presidential campaign controversy the silent treatment: "I don't have any observations about it."  But The Hill observes: More than a dozen senators have either rescinded their support of the GOP...

Donald Trump should retract his comments, not defend them. There is no place for racism in the GOP, or this country.

RUSH: We had a sound bite yesterday from the No Labels convention in Manchester, New Hampshire, which now is run by Jon Huntsman, Republican and -- ah, I'm having a mental block on the Democrat. It's Huntsman and there's some Democrat, you know, used to be the guy that ran McCain's media back in 2008. I can't remember. Mark, can't remember his last name. Anyway, we played for you a sound bite from this yesterday where Trump got a question about women and so forth, and we played his answer, and it turns out that that woman who asked the...