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For GOP Insiders, which outsider is worse.

Hello again, I'm Orinalny, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

A daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

The Republican establishment in Washington is now holding its nose and warming up to the real estate mogul Donald Trump.

The distinctly half-hearted endorsement is based on hatred for Senator Ted Cruz

and his frequent attacks on the leadership of his own political party.

Conservative intellectuals are caught between a hard-right crusader who doesn't want to do business

and a dealmaker who probably will.

A battle rages for the heart

of the party with the voters yet to be heard from. Today's talking point, gangster warlords in

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Trump is posing a threat to the establishment of the Republican Party.

So is the campaign of right-wing Texas Senator Ted Cruz, which of the outsiders do the insiders hate most, or do the insiders still matter? Today's talking point, the collapse of military

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