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Commentary: Why Republicans will never quit Trump

Why do Republicans stick with Donald Trump? It's a question I'm asked again and again by Democrats, "Never Trumpers" and journalists.

The answer is simple: attitude and gratitude.

For years, Republican voters wanted someone - anyone - to come along and do two things: stick it to the Clintons and punch back against the media-Democratic Party alliance that fires on every Republican brave enough to stick a head out of the foxhole.

If you attended any GOP fundraiser or grass-roots event between 2000 and 2016 - and I went to hundreds - you heard this sentiment over and over. And over. And over.

For Republicans, it seemed like those awful Clintons got to play by a different

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