By Steve Contorno, Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — James Blair has six months to defend Republican power in Congress — but first he needed to send a message to his party. Blair, the White House deputy chief of staff, spent weeks plotting to crush a group of Republican lawmakers in Indiana who defied the president’s The post Why Trump put his ‘bad cop’ in charge of rescuing the GOP in the midterms appeared first on KRDO.

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