The political fate of a 'nobody' Republican will reveal a lot about the ex-president's future too.
Rusty Bowers is running to become a Republican candidate in the Arizona State Senate election - but has faced the wrath of Donald Trump
Don Nicoll, who has known Mr Bowers for years, raised his hand.
Last Monday, the Arizona Republican Party formally censured Mr Bowers, saying that he was "unfit to serve" the party and no longer a Republican "in good standing". And at a rally last Friday in the northern Arizona town of Prescott Valley, not far from the ranch where Mr Bowers grew up, Mr Trump singled him out by name.
In the past months, as the party's voters have headed to the polls to choose who will compete against the Democrats in November's congressional and governor elections, candidates faithful to Mr Trump have faced off against those that want to chart a course more independent of the former president. Today's Arizona electorate is divided roughly into thirds - one part Democrats, one part Republicans and one part independents who do not identify with a political party or participate in the primaries that choose its nominees.
"There are those who want to make this election about the past," he told the crowd. "You can send a deafening message that can be heard all across America that the Republican Party is the party of the future." Taylor Byerly recently moved to Arizona from San Francisco, where she said she never felt comfortable wearing her Maga hat. In Arizona, she fits right in - and brought her seven-month-old daughter to the rally. She said she'll vote for whomever Mr Trump endorses.
"The swampy, consultant-loving, money-grubbing GOP establishment wants to install their choices. Do not allow it."Rusty Bowers is a 'Rino' coward... and disgraced himself, and he disgraced the state of Arizona.When told of Mr Trump's comments during the Arizona rally, Mr Bowers said he's puzzled that the president would go out of his way to attack him personally.
He said he feels alienated from his party, but that there are "hundreds of thousands" of Arizonans who feel the same way and have left the Republican party to be politically independent or unaffiliated.
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