College Republicans’ Populist Faction Makes Stunning Break With Trump Over Midterms, Broken Promises

A network of conservative college groups that identify with the America First movement has publicly turned on President Donald Trump after Tuesday's midterm elections, which went badly for Republicans. The College Republican Patriot Coalition says responsibility for the party's heavy losses belongs to the Trump administration and the GOP itself, not to Democrats or to rank-and-file Republican voters, according to Daily Caller.

In a statement, the coalition said young supporters had canvassed, phoned voters and cast their first ballots for a movement that pledged lower costs, mass deportations, a revival of domestic manufacturing and an end to overseas wars. What they got, the group contends, was a conflict undertaken on Israel's behalf, deportations that fell short, and a struggling economy. It accused party leaders of insulting and manipulating the base after two years of warnings.

The coalition called the war with Iran the administration's worst betrayal, noting that Trump had vowed there would be "no new wars." It urged him to remove officials who have not carried out the mandate voters gave him in 2024, stop the Iran conflict immediately, and turn to the affordability pressures that it says are pushing young Americans out of their own country.

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