A political migration has begun within the Republican Party, wrote former U.S. senator and representative Jeff Flake in a Washington Post column that published Thursday.

The political climate that “once rewarded absolute loyalty to the president” is shifting, wrote Flake, the chair of World Trade Center Utah who served as U.S. ambassador to Turkey from 2022 to 2024. The significant Democratic wins in Tuesday’s off-year elections “will only add momentum to that,” he added.

Flake, a BYU alumnus, said this migration “won’t be a stampede,” but instead will unfold “vote by vote, district by district.”

“Some will move out of conviction, others out of political necessity. Motives will vary, but the movement is happening,” he wrote.

“And in the end, after enough of the herd has made the jour

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