Supine Republicans don’t just dance to Trump’s tune – they amplify his racism

South Carolina senator Tim Scott said Donald Trump could not beat Joe Biden in the presidential election.

Kristi Noem , the governor of South Dakota , and Elise Stefanik , a congresswoman from New York , are both seen as potential picks for vice-president.

Trump remains the master puppeteer of the Republican party .

In the Senate and in the House , Republicans are forced to do his bidding.

Stefanik was once seen as a sober Republican thinker, a moderate who was one of the most bipartisan members of the House .

Trump praised Noem along with Scott in a Fox News interview, when asked about who he might choose as his running mate.

Trump is unlikely to tone down his incendiary rhetoric on immigrants and foreigners invective that Riley says “threatens the very fabric of American democracy”.