‘Bunch of Crazy’: Inside the South Carolina GOP’s MAGA Coup

Local Tea Party leader Pressley Stutts said Trump's instructions to the faithful were clear: "'Go purge, get rid of the RINOs in the Republican Party.' So we took him seriously."

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