Dent: GOP's new litmus test is ‘Trump loyalty’
By Olivia Beavers - 09/11/17 10:50 PM EDT Retiring GOP Rep. Charlie Dent (Pa.) on Monday aired frustration over factions within his own party in which Republicans have created a "litmus test" based on loyalty to President Trump.
The co-chairman of the centrist Tuesday Group says Trump has shaken up the balance of power in his party.
“I’ll tell you what, the battle prior to Donald Trump was this: We had the purists versus the pragmatists — and the pragmatists were largely the governing wing of the party, of which I was a part. That was the battle, that was the litmus test," Dent told host Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s "Hardball."
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