As Donald Trump prepares to address the crowds at the Conservative Political Action Conference this weekend, Jonathan Freedland speaks to Evan McMullin, who is leading the charge to create an alternative option to the current Republican party for conservatives
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At the start of February, details of a private Zoom meeting between dozens of former top Republican officials, who had become disillusioned with what the party had turned into under Donald Trump, leaked to the press.
This week, Jonathan speaks to the man who ran that Zoom call, Evan McMullin. He is the executive director of Stand Up Republic, and chose to run against Donald Trump in 2016 out of sheer disgust for his type of politics.
The pair discuss the direction the Republican party should take, and what disaffected conservatives should do if the GOP refuses to change
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