BUTLER, Pa. — Zach Scherer, a 20-year-old car salesman and Republican activist in Pennsylvania’s Butler County, decided to run for a seat on the county commission this year — a move that ordinarily would mean seeking the endorsement of local Republican Party leaders. In Butler County, this raised an unusual question: Which Republican Party? Last spring, the officially recognized Butler County Republican Committee was divided by a right-wing grassroots insurgency, then divided again by a power st
Downtown Butler in a western Pennsylvania county where Donald Trump won nearly twice as many votes as Joe Biden in 2020, Jan. 21, 2023.
That struggle has played out in national arenas like Kevin McCarthy’s days-long fight to win the speakership of the U.S. House of Representatives, and in a contentious race for the chair of the Republican National Committee before this week’s meeting. In several closely contested states, state party leaders loudly supported his election claims, and backed the Republican candidates who earned Trump’s endorsements by doing the same. But many of those candidates were extreme or erratic politicians who would go on to lose in November, and their nominations have caused enduring divisions.
“The Republican Party could be great here; it really could,” said Amy Tarkanian, the former chair of the Nevada GOP, who was expelled from her county Republican committee after endorsing the Democratic attorney general candidate last summer. “But they made themselves irrelevant with their toxicity.” “What the establishment has said for years is, ‘I may not be what you want, but I’m not a Democrat, so you have to support me.’ That ends up being an excuse for ignoring the base,” said Sam Faddis, the leader of a statewide coalition of self-described “patriot” groups in Pennsylvania. A former CIA operations officer, Faddis has appeared often on Bannon’s podcast.
Scherer’s Patriot group made common cause with Halle, a born-again evangelical pastor, who had recently clashed with Lindsay and other local committee leaders. Matters came to a head in August, when members of the old and new guards tussled over the committee’s booth at the Butler Farm Show, prompting the event’s head of security to intervene — an episode that, mortifyingly for the Republican activists, took place in view of the county Democrats’ own booth.
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