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The Republican Party in the United States includes several factions, or wings. During the 19th century, Republican factions included the Half-Breeds, who supported civil service reform; the Radical Republicans, who advocated the immediate and total abolition of slavery, and later advocated civil rights for freed slaves during the Reconstruction era; and the Stalwarts, who supported machine politics.

In the 20th century, Republican factions included the Progressive Republicans, the Reagan coalition, and the liberal Rockefeller Republicans. In the 21st century, Republican factions include conservatives (represented in Congress by the Republican Study Committee and the Freedom Caucus), moderates (represented in Congress by the Republican Governance Group), libertarians (represented in Congress by the Republican Liberty Caucus). During and after the presidency of Donald Trump, Trumpist and anti-Trumpist factions arose within the Republican Party.

Modern factions

During the presidency of Barack Obama, the Republican Party experienced internal conflict between its governing class (known as the Republican establishment) and the anti-establishment, small-government Tea Party movement.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] In 2012, The New York Times identified six wings of the Republican Party: Main Street Voters, Tea Party Voters, Christian Conservatives, Libertarians, The Disaffected, and The Endangered Or Vanished.^[5] In 2014, the Pew Research Center split Republican-leaning voters into three groups: Steadfast Conservatives, Business Conservatives, and Young Outsiders.^[6] In 2019, during the presidency of Donald Trump, Perry Bacon Jr. of FiveThirtyEight.com asserted that there were five groups of Republicans: Trumpists, Pro-Trumpers, Trump-Skeptical Conservatives, Trump-Skeptical Moderates, and Anti-Trumpers.^[7]

In 2021, following Trump's 2020 loss to Democrat Joe Biden and the 2021 United States Capitol attack, Philip Bump of The Washington Post posited that the Republican Party in the U.S. House of Representatives consisted of three factions: the Trumpists (who voted against the second impeachment of Donald Trump in 2021, voted against stripping Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments, and supported efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election), the accountability caucus (who supported either the Trump impeachment, the effort to discipline Greene, or both), and the pro-democracy Republicans (who opposed the Trump impeachment and the effort to discipline Greene but also opposed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results).^[8]

Also in 2021, Carl Leubsdorf of the Dallas Morning News asserted that there were three groups of Republicans: Never Trumpers (including Bill Kristol, Sen. Mitt Romney, and governors Charlie Baker and Larry Hogan), Sometimes Trumpers (including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley), and Always Trumpers.^[9] Pew Research Center identified four Republican-aligned groups of Americans: Faith and Flag Conservatives, Committed Conservatives, the Populist Right, and the Ambivalent Right.^[10]

Republican factions in Congress in the 21st century include conservative factions such as the Republican Study Committee^[11] and the Freedom Caucus^[12] as well as the moderate Republican Governance Group.^[13]

Conservatives

The conservative wing grew out of the 1950s and 1960s, with its initial leaders being Senator Robert A. Taft, Russell Kirk, and William F. Buckley Jr. Its central tenets include the promotion of individual liberty and free-market economics and opposition to labor unions, high taxes, and government regulation.^[15]

In economic policy, conservatives call for a large reduction in government spending, less regulation of the economy, and privatization or changes to Social Security. Supporters of supply-side economics and neoliberalism predominate, but there are deficit hawks and protectionists within the party as well. Before 1930, the Northeastern pro-manufacturing faction of the GOP was strongly committed to high tariffs, a political stance that returned to popularity in many conservative circles during the Trump presidency.^[16]^[17] The conservative wing typically supports socially conservative positions, such as opposing LGBT rights and supporting restrictions on abortion, though there is a wide range of views on such issues within the party.^[18]

Conservatives generally oppose affirmative action, support increased military spending, and are opposed to gun control. On the issue of school vouchers, conservative Republicans split between supporters who believe that "big government education" is a failure and opponents who fear greater government control over private and church schools. Parts of the conservative wing have been criticized for being anti-environmentalist^[19]^[20]^[21] and promoting climate change denial^[22]^[23]^[24] in opposition to the general scientific consensus, making them unique even among other worldwide conservative parties.^[24]

Social conservatives

The Christian right is a conservative Christian political faction characterized by strong support of socially conservative policies. Christian conservatives principally seek to apply their understanding of the teachings of Christianity to politics and to public policy by proclaiming the value of those teachings or by seeking to use those teachings to influence law and public policy.^[25]

The National Rifle Association of America (NRA), led by Wayne LaPierre since 1991, and similar groups such as Gun Owners of America focus on gun rights and the 2nd amendment.^[26] These groups support and rate candidates for political office, as well as engage in legislative lobbying or litigation related to gun laws.^[27]

In the United States, the Christian right is an informal coalition formed around a core of evangelical Protestants and conservative Roman Catholics, as well as a large number of Latter-day Saints (Mormons).^[28]^[29]^[30]^[31] The movement has its roots in American politics going back as far as the 1940s and has been especially influential since the 1970s.^[32] In the late 20th century, the Christian right became a notable force in the Republican Party.^[33] Republican politicians associated with the Christian right in the 21st century include former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and former Senator Rick Santorum.^[34] Many within the Christian right have also identified as social conservatives, which sociologist Harry F. Dahms has described as Christian doctrinal conservatives (anti-abortion, anti-LGBT rights) and gun-rights conservatives (pro-NRA) as the two domains of ideology within social conservatism.^[35]

Libertarians

Libertarians make up a relatively small faction of the Republican Party.^[6]^[36] In the 1950s and 60s, fusionism—the combination of traditionalist and social conservatism with political and economic right-libertarianism—was essential to the movement's growth.^[37] This philosophy is most closely associated with Frank Meyer.^[38] Barry Goldwater also had a substantial impact on the conservative-libertarian movement of the 1960s.^[39]

Libertarian conservatives in the 21st century favor cutting taxes and regulations, repealing the Affordable Care Act, and protecting gun rights.^[5] On social issues, they favor privacy, oppose the USA Patriot Act, and oppose the War on Drugs.^[5] On foreign policy, libertarian conservatives favor non-interventionism.^[40]^[41] The Republican Liberty Caucus, which describes itself as "the oldest continuously operating organization in the Liberty Republican movement with state charters nationwide", was founded in 1991.^[42] The House Liberty Caucus is a congressional caucus formed by former Representative Justin Amash, a former Republican of Michigan who is now a member of the Libertarian Party.^[43]

Prominent libertarian conservatives within the Republican Party include New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu,^[44] Senators Mike Lee and Rand Paul, Representative Thomas Massie, and former Representative Ron Paul^[45] (who was a Republican prior to 1987, then joined the Libertarian Party from 1987–1996, back to the Republican Party from 1996–2015 and has been a Libertarian since 2015). Ron Paul ran for president once as a Libertarian and twice more recently as a Republican.

The libertarian conservative wing of the party had significant cross-over with the Tea Party movement.^[46]

Neoconservatives

Neoconservatives promote an interventionist foreign policy to promote democracy or American interests abroad. Many neoconservatives were in earlier days identified as liberals or were affiliated with the Democrats. Neoconservatives have been credited with importing into the Republican Party a more active international policy. Neoconservatives are amenable to unilateral military action when they believe it serves a morally valid purpose (such as the spread of democracy).^[47]^[48] Many of its adherents became politically famous during the Republican presidential administrations of the late 20th century, and neoconservatism peaked in influence during the administration of George W. Bush, when they played a major role in promoting and planning the 2003 invasion of Iraq.^[49]

Prominent neoconservatives in the George W. Bush administration included John Bolton, Paul Wolfowitz, Elliott Abrams, Richard Perle, and Paul Bremer. During and after Donald Trump's presidency, neoconservatism has declined and noninterventionism has grown among elected federal Republican officeholders.^[50]^[51]

Republican members of the 118th Congress with neoconservative stances include Senators Tom Cotton^[52] and Lindsey Graham.^[53]

Moderates

A faction that has shrunk since the 1990s, modern Republican moderates are sometimes known as "fiscal conservatives, social liberals". They tend to represent blue states or swing seats that are competitive or vote for Democrats in general elections.

Moderates tend to be conservative-to-moderate on fiscal issues and moderate-to-liberal on social issues. While they sometimes share the economic views of other Republicans (i.e. lower taxes, free trade, deregulation, and welfare reform), moderate Republicans differ in that some are for affirmative action,^[54] LGBT rights and same-sex marriage, legal access to and even public funding for abortion, gun control laws, more environmental regulation and anti-climate change measures, fewer restrictions on immigration and a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, and embryonic stem cell research.^[55]^[56] In the 21st century, some former Republican moderates have switched to the Democratic Party.^[57]^[58]^[59]

Prominent 21st century moderate Republicans include Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine^[60]^[61]^[62]^[63] and several current or former governors of northeastern states, such as Charlie Baker of Massachusetts,^[64] Phil Scott of Vermont, Larry Hogan of Maryland, and Chris Sununu of New Hampshire.^[65] Another moderate Republican is incumbent governor of Nevada Joe Lombardo, who was previously the Sheriff of Clark County.^[66]

One of the most high-ranking moderate Republicans in recent history was Colin Powell as Secretary of State in the first George W. Bush administration (Powell left the Republican Party in January 2021 following the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol, and had endorsed every Democrat for president in the general election since 2008).^[67]

The Republican Governance Group is a caucus of moderate Republicans within the House of Representatives.^[13]

Liberals

They are a small faction of the Republican Party, have the same economic views as moderate Republicans, support more environmental measures, have open views on recreational marijuana, socially liberal, and are generally young or celebrities.^[68]^[69] Liberal Republicans tend to represent blue states.

Among 21st century liberal Republicans are actor and former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California,^[70] incumbent governor of Vermont Phil Scott, and former Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker.^[71]

Trumpists (MAGAs)

As of 2021, the dominant faction in the Republican Party^[72] consisted of Trumpists, supporters of a movement associated with the political base of Donald Trump.^[73] The role of the Tea Party in paving the way for a Trump faction is a subject of debate.^[74] When conservative columnist George Will advised voters of all ideologies to vote for Democratic candidates in the Senate and House elections of November 2018,^[75] political writer Dan McLaughlin at the National Review responded that doing so would make the Trumpist faction even more powerful within the Republican party.^[76]

Anticipating Trump's likely defeat in the U.S. presidential election held on November 3, 2020, Peter Feaver wrote in Foreign Policy magazine: "With victory having been so close, the Trumpist faction in the party will be empowered and in no mood to compromise or reform."^[77] A poll conducted in February 2021 indicated that a plurality of Republicans (46%-27%) would leave the Republican Party to join a new party if Trump chose to create it.^[78] Nick Beauchamp, assistant professor of political science at Northeastern University, says he sees the country as divided into four parties, with two factions representing each of the Democratic and Republican parties: "For the GOP, there's the Trump faction—which is the larger group—and the non-Trump faction".^[79]

Lilliana Mason, associate professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University, states that Donald Trump solidified the trend among Southern white conservative Democrats since the 1960s of leaving the Democratic Party and joining the Republican Party: "Trump basically worked as a lightning rod to finalize that process of creating the Republican Party as a single entity for defending the high status of white, Christian, rural Americans. It's not a huge percentage of Americans that holds these beliefs, and it's not even the entire Republican Party; it's just about half of it. But the party itself is controlled by this intolerant, very strongly pro-Trump faction."^[80]

Although the Trump faction of the Republican Party has produced no manifesto,^[81] Rachel Kleinfeld, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, describes it as an authoritarian, antidemocratic movement that has successfully weaponized cultural issues, and that cultivates a narrative placing white people, Christians, and men at the top of a status hierarchy as its response to the so-called "Great Replacement" theory, a claim that minorities, immigrants, and women, enabled by Democrats, Jews, and elites, are displacing white people, Christians, and men from their rightful positions in American society.^[82]

In 2022, a faction emerged of Trump loyalists within the Freedom Caucus known as the 'MAGA Squad', including Paul Gosar, Marjorie Greene, Matt Gaetz, Madison Cawthorn, Louie Gohmert, Mary Miller, Mo Brooks, Andy Biggs, Scott Perry and Lauren Boebert. While "not a formal caucus", it was described as more radical than the mainstream Freedom Caucus,^[83]^[84]^[85] and supportive of primary challenges against incumbent Republicans during the 2022 United States House of Representatives elections.^[86]^[87]

In a speech he gave on November 2, 2022, at Washington’s Union Station near the U.S. Capitol, President Biden asserted that "the pro-Trump faction" of the Republican Party is trying to undermine the U.S. electoral system and suppress voting rights.^[88] Elaine Karmaarck, founding director of the Center for Effective Public Management, writes that although Trump is clearly a major player in the Republican Party, he remains a factional leader, while Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and other contenders are maneuvering to take over the Trump faction.^[89]

Anti-Trumpers

A divide has formed in the party between those who remain loyal to Donald Trump and those who oppose him.^[90] A recent survey concluded that the Republican Party was divided between pro-Trump (the "Trump Boosters," "Die-hard Trumpers," and "Infowars G.O.P." wings) and anti-Trump factions (the "Never Trump" and "Post-Trump G.O.P." wings).^[91] Senator John McCain was an early leading critic of Trumpism within the Republican Party, refusing to support the then-Republican presidential nominee in the 2016 presidential election.^[92]

Several critics of the Trump faction have faced various forms of retaliation. Cheney was removed from her position as Republican conference chair in the House of Representatives, which was widely perceived as retaliation for her criticism of Trump;^[93] in 2022, she was defeated by a pro-Trump primary challenger.^[94] Representative Adam Kinzinger decided to retire at the end of his term, while Murkowski faced a pro-Trump primary challenger in 2022 against Kelly Tshibaka whom she defeated.^[95]^[96] A primary challenge to Romney has been suggested^[97] by Jason Chaffetz, who has criticized his opponents within the Republican Party as "Trump haters".^[98] Representative Anthony Gonzalez, one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump over the Capitol riot, called Trump "a cancer" while announcing his retirement.^[99] Christie, who is running against Trump in the 2024 Republican primaries, called Trump "a lonely, self-consumed, self-serving, mirror hog" in his presidential announcement.^[100]

Organizations associated with this faction include the The Lincoln Project,^[101] Republican Accountability Project^[102] and Republicans for the Rule of Law.^[103]

Political caucuses

Election year	Republican Study Committee	Republican Governance Group	Freedom Caucus
2020	157 / 213	45 / 213	45 / 213
2022	156 / 222	42 / 222	46 / 222

Historical factions

Birchers

Members of the John Birch Society, known as Birchers, were an influential faction from the 1960s to the 1980s, associated with the radical right.^[104]

Half-Breeds

The Half-Breeds were a reformist faction of the 1870s and 1880s. The name, which originated with rivals claiming they were only "half" Republicans, came to encompass a wide array of figures who did not all get along with each other. Generally speaking, politicians labeled Half-Breeds were moderates or progressives who opposed the machine politics of the Stalwarts and advanced civil services reforms.^[105]

Progressive Republicans

Historically, the Republican Party included a progressive wing that advocated using government to improve the problems of modern society. Theodore Roosevelt, an early leader of the progressive movement, advanced a "Square Deal" domestic program as president (1901–09) that was built on the goals of controlling corporations, protecting consumers, and conserving natural resources.^[106] After splitting with his successor, William Howard Taft, in the aftermath of the Pinchot–Ballinger controversy,^[107] Roosevelt sought to block Taft's re-election, first by challenging him for the 1912 Republican presidential nomination, and then when that failed, by entering the 1912 presidential contest as a third party candidate, running on the Progressive ticket. He succeeded in depriving Taft of a second term, but came in second behind Democrat Woodrow Wilson.

After Roosevelt's 1912 defeat, the progressive wing of the party went into decline. Progressive Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives held a "last stand" protest in December 1923, at the start of the 68th Congress, when they refused to support the Republican Conference nominee for Speaker of the House, Frederick H. Gillett, voting instead for two other candidates. After eight ballots spanning two days, they agreed to support Gillett in exchange for a seat on the House Rules Committee and pledges that subsequent rules changes would be considered. On the ninth ballot, Gillett received 215 votes, a majority of the 414 votes cast, to win the election.^[108]

In addition to Theodore Roosevelt, leading early progressive Republicans included Robert M. La Follette, Charles Evans Hughes, Hiram Johnson, William Borah, George W. Norris, William Allen White, Victor Murdock, Clyde M. Reed and Fiorello La Guardia.^[109]

Radical Republicans

The Radical Republicans were a major factor of the party from its inception in 1854 until the end of the Reconstruction Era in 1877. The Radicals strongly opposed slavery, were hard-line abolitionists, and later advocated equal rights for the freedmen and women. They were often at odds with the moderate and conservative factions of the party. During the American Civil War, Radical Republicans pressed for abolition as a major war aim and they opposed the moderate Reconstruction plans of Abraham Lincoln as too lenient on the Confederates. After the war's end and Lincoln's assassination, the Radicals clashed with Andrew Johnson over Reconstruction policy.^[110]

After winning major victories in the 1866 congressional elections, the Radicals took over Reconstruction, pushing through new legislation protecting the civil rights of African Americans. John C. Frémont of Michigan, the party's first nominee for president in 1856, was a Radical Republican. Upset with Lincoln's politics, the faction split from the Republican Party to form the short-lived Radical Democracy Party in 1864 and again nominated Frémont for president. They supported Ulysses S. Grant for president in 1868 and 1872. As Southern Democrats retook control in the South and enthusiasm for continued Reconstruction declined in the North, their influence within the GOP waned.^[111]

Reagan coalition

According to historian George H. Nash, the Reagan coalition in the Republican Party, which centered around Ronald Reagan and his administration throughout all of the 1980s (continuing in the late 1980s with the George H. W. Bush administration), originally consisted of five factions: the libertarians, the traditionalists, the anti-communists, the neoconservatives, and the religious right (which consisted of Protestants, Catholics, and some Jewish Republicans).^[15]^[112]

Rockefeller Republicans

Moderate or liberal Republicans in the 20th century, particularly those from the Northeast and West Coast, were referred to as "The Eastern Establishment" or "Rockefeller Republicans", after Nelson Rockefeller.^[113]^[114]^[115] Prominent liberal Republicans from the mid-1930s through the 1970s included: Alf Landon, Wendell Willkie, Earl Warren, Thomas Dewey, Prescott Bush, James B. Pearson, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., George W. Romney, Theodore McKeldin, William Scranton, Charles Mathias, Lowell Weicker, Nancy Kassebaum, Jacob Javits, and President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

With their power decreasing in the final decades of the 20th century, many Rockefeller-style Republicans were replaced by conservative and moderate Democrats, such as those from the Blue Dog or New Democrat coalitions. Writer and academic Michael Lind contended that by the mid-1990s, the liberalism of Democratic President Bill Clinton and the Third Way movement were in many ways to the right of Eisenhower, Rockefeller, and John Lindsay, the Republican mayor of New York City in the late 1960s.^[116]

Stalwarts

The Stalwarts were a traditionalist faction that existed from the 1860s through the 1880s. They represented "traditional" Republicans who favored machine politics and opposed the civil service reforms of Rutherford B. Hayes and the more progressive Half-Breeds.^[117] They declined following the elections of Hayes and James A. Garfield. After Garfield's assassination by Charles J. Guiteau, his Stalwart Vice President Chester A. Arthur assumed the presidency. However, rather than pursuing Stalwart goals he took up the reformist cause, which curbed the faction's influence.^[105]

Tea Party movement

The Tea Party movement was an American fiscally conservative political movement within the Republican Party that began in 2009 following the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States.^[118]^[119] Members of the movement have called for lower taxes, and for a reduction of the national debt of the United States and federal budget deficit through decreased government spending.^[120]^[121] The movement supports small-government principles^[122]^[123] and opposes government-sponsored universal healthcare.^[124] It has been described as a popular constitutional movement.^[125]

On matters of foreign policy, the movement largely supports avoiding being drawn into unnecessary conflicts and opposes "liberal internationalism".^[126] Its name refers to the Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773, a watershed event in the launch of the American Revolution.^[127] By 2016, Politico said that the modern Tea Party movement was "pretty much dead now"; however, the article noted that it seemed to die in part because some of its ideas had been "co-opted" by the mainstream Republican Party.^[128]

Politicians associated with the Tea Party include former Representatives Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann and Allen West,^[129]^[130] Senators Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and Tim Scott,^[131]^[132]^[133] former Senator Jim DeMint,^[132] former acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney,^[134] and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee and former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.^[130] Although there has never been any one clear founder or leader of the movement, Palin scored highest in a 2010 Washington Post poll asking Tea Party organizers "which national figure best represents your groups?".^[135] Ron Paul was described in a 2011 Atlantic article as its "intellectual godfather".^[136] Both Paul and Palin, although ideologically different in many ways, had a major influence on the emergence of the movement due to their separate 2008 presidential primary and vice presidential general election runs respectively.^[137]^[126]

Several political organizations were created in response to the movement's growing popularity in the late 2000s and into the early 2010s, including the Tea Party Patriots, Tea Party Express and Tea Party Caucus.

Factions in 2023

According to the analysis of an August 2023 Times/Siena poll by Nate Cohn, the Chief Political Analyst of New York Times there are six main Republican factions:^[138]

The Moderate Establishment (14%). Highly educated, affluent, socially moderate or even liberal and often outright Never Trump.

The Traditional Conservatives (26%). Old-fashioned economic and social conservatives who oppose abortion and prefer corporate tax cuts to new tariffs. They don’t love Mr. Trump, but they do support him.

The Right Wing (26%). They watch Fox News and Newsmax. They’re “very conservative.” They’re disproportionately evangelical. They believe America is on the brink of catastrophe. And they love Mr. Trump more than any other group.

The Blue Collar Populists (12%). They’re mostly Northern, socially moderate, economic populists who hold deeply conservative views on race and immigration. Not only do they back Mr. Trump, but he himself probably counted as one a decade ago.

The Libertarian Conservatives (14%). These disproportionately Western and Midwestern conservatives value small government. They’re relatively socially moderate and isolationist, and they’re on the lower end of Trump support compared with other groups.

The Newcomers (8%). They don’t look like Republicans. They’re young, diverse and moderate. But these disaffected voters like Democrats and the “woke” left even less.

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 Rachel Kleinfeld, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, describes it as an authoritarian, antidemocratic movement that has successfully weaponized cultural issues, and that cultivates a narrative placing white people, Christians, and men at the top of a status hierarchy as its response to the so-called "[[Great Replacement in the United States|Great Replacement]]" theory, a claim that minorities, immigrants, and women, enabled by Democrats, Jews, and elites, are displacing white people, Christians, and men from their rightful positions in American society.<ref name="Kleinfeld2022">{{cite web |last1=Kleinfeld |first1=Rachel |title=Five Strategies to Support U.S. Democracy |url=https://carnegieendowment.org/2022/09/15/five-strategies-to-support-u.s.-democracy-pub-87918 |website=Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220915223727/https://carnegieendowment.org/2022/09/15/five-strategies-to-support-u.s.-democracy-pub-87918 |archive-date=15 September 2022 |date=September 15, 2022}}</ref>
-In 2022, a faction emerged of Trump loyalists within the [[Freedom Caucus]] known as the '[[MAGA]] Squad', including [[Paul Gosar]], [[Marjorie Greene]], [[Matt Gaetz]], [[Madison Cawthorn]], [[Louie Gohmert]], [[Mo Brooks]], [[Andy Biggs]], [[Scott Perry (politician)|Scott Perry]] and [[Lauren Boebert]]. While "not a formal caucus", it was described as more radical than the mainstream Freedom Caucus,<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://time.com/6186037/matt-gaetz-marjorie-taylor-greene-maga-house-republicans/ |title=How the 'MAGA Squad' Is Building Power to Control the Next Congress |date=June 14, 2022 |magazine=Time |first=Molly |last=Ball |access-date=November 15, 2022 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/greene-boebert-gosar-gaetz/2021/11/20/c77dc78a-47dd-11ec-973c-be864f938c72_story.html |title=A MAGA squad of Trump loyalists sees its influence grow amid demands for political purity among Republicans |date=November 21, 2021 |newspaper=The Washington Post |first1=Jacqueline |last1=Alemany |first2=Marianna |last2=Sotomayor |first3=Josh |last3=Dawsey |access-date=November 15, 2022 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-loyalist-boeberts-reelection-bid-recount-93075542 |title=Trump loyalist Boebert's reelection bid could go to recount |date=November 11, 2022 |work=ABC News |first=Jesse |last=Bedayn |agency=The Associated Press / [[Report for America]] |access-date=November 15, 2022 }}</ref> and supportive of primary challenges against incumbent Republicans during the [[2022 United States House of Representatives elections]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-maga-squad/2021/12/26/654f49ea-5448-11ec-8769-2f4ecdf7a2ad_story.html |title=House MAGA squad seeks to expand by boosting challengers to fellow Republicans |date=December 26, 2021 |newspaper=The Washington Post |first=Colby |last=Itkowitz |access-date=November 15, 2022 }}</ref>
+In 2022, a faction emerged of Trump loyalists within the [[Freedom Caucus]] known as the '[[MAGA]] Squad', including [[Paul Gosar]], [[Marjorie Greene]], [[Matt Gaetz]], [[Madison Cawthorn]], [[Louie Gohmert]], [[Mary Miller (politician)|Mary Miller]], [[Mo Brooks]], [[Andy Biggs]], [[Scott Perry (politician)|Scott Perry]] and [[Lauren Boebert]]. While "not a formal caucus", it was described as more radical than the mainstream Freedom Caucus,<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://time.com/6186037/matt-gaetz-marjorie-taylor-greene-maga-house-republicans/ |title=How the 'MAGA Squad' Is Building Power to Control the Next Congress |date=June 14, 2022 |magazine=Time |first=Molly |last=Ball |access-date=November 15, 2022 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/greene-boebert-gosar-gaetz/2021/11/20/c77dc78a-47dd-11ec-973c-be864f938c72_story.html |title=A MAGA squad of Trump loyalists sees its influence grow amid demands for political purity among Republicans |date=November 21, 2021 |newspaper=The Washington Post |first1=Jacqueline |last1=Alemany |first2=Marianna |last2=Sotomayor |first3=Josh |last3=Dawsey |access-date=November 15, 2022 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-loyalist-boeberts-reelection-bid-recount-93075542 |title=Trump loyalist Boebert's reelection bid could go to recount |date=November 11, 2022 |work=ABC News |first=Jesse |last=Bedayn |agency=The Associated Press / [[Report for America]] |access-date=November 15, 2022 }}</ref> and supportive of primary challenges against incumbent Republicans during the [[2022 United States House of Representatives elections]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-maga-squad/2021/12/26/654f49ea-5448-11ec-8769-2f4ecdf7a2ad_story.html |title=House MAGA squad seeks to expand by boosting challengers to fellow Republicans |date=December 26, 2021 |newspaper=The Washington Post |first=Colby |last=Itkowitz |access-date=November 15, 2022 }}</ref><ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/28/us/politics/mary-miller-rodney-davis-il.html</ref>
 In a speech he gave on November 2, 2022, at Washington’s Union Station near the U.S. Capitol, President Biden asserted that "the pro-Trump faction" of the Republican Party is trying to undermine the U.S. electoral system and suppress voting rights.<ref name="HeldermanAbutaleb2022">{{cite news |last1=Helderman |first1=Rosalind S. |last2=Abutaleb |first2=Yasmeen |title=Biden warns GOP could set nation on 'path to chaos' as democratic system faces strain |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/02/biden-warning-democracy-midterms-election-gop/ |access-date=5 November 2022 |newspaper=Washington Post |date=November 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221103003303/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/02/biden-warning-democracy-midterms-election-gop/ |archive-date=3 November 2022}}</ref> Elaine Karmaarck, founding director of the Center for Effective Public Management, writes that although Trump is clearly a major player in the Republican Party, he remains a factional leader, while Florida Governor [[Ron DeSantis]] and other contenders are maneuvering to take over the Trump faction.<ref name="Kamarck">{{cite web |last1=Kamarck |first1=Elaine |title=Just how 'Trumpy' is the Republican Party? Lessons from Republican primaries so far |url=https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2022/05/19/just-how-trumpy-is-the-republican-party-lessons-from-republican-primaries-so-far/ |website=Brookings |access-date=5 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519160009/https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2022/05/19/just-how-trumpy-is-the-republican-party-lessons-from-republican-primaries-so-far/ |archive-date=19 May 2022 |date=19 May 2022}}</ref>