Veteran GOP operative declares swing state's party 'functionally doesn't even exist' now

Veteran GOP operative declares swing state's party 'functionally doesn't even exist' now

A veteran Arizona operative who helped launch John McCain’s Senate career says the state’s Republican Party has been hollowed out by MAGA, and the polls in this year’s governor’s race suggest he may have a point.“I don’t know that a moderate Republican exists anymore,” Chuck Coughlin, who runs the polling firm HighGround, told MS NOW. “You know, the party’s been consumed by MAGA and the party functionally doesn’t even exist anymore out here beca…