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In 2016, Arizona Republicanscontrolled both Senate seats
anddelivered a victory to Donald J.Trump. By 2020, they had
losteach of those statewide elections,and Mr. Trump was one of
onlytwo Republican presidential can-didates to lose the state in
morethan 50 years.
The losses are not promptingany sort of soul-searching in
thestate Republican Party.
Instead, when the party leader-ship meets this weekend, the
mostpressing items on the agenda willbe censuring three moderate
Re-publicans who remain widely pop-ular in Arizona. The
all-but-cer-tain state party scolding will nothave any practical
impact, but thesymbolism is stark: a slap on the
wrist for Cindy McCain, the wid-ow of the Senator John
McCain;former Senator Jeff Flake andGov. Doug Ducey.
While some Republicans na-
tionwide are beginning to edgeaway from Trumpism, Arizona is
acase of loyalists doubling down,potentially dividing the party
infundamental and irreparableways. The consequences could
beparticularly acute in a state thathad long been a safe
Republicanbet, but that has seen a significantpolitical shift in
recent years, inlarge part because of both the in-
Trump Lost Arizona, but Not His Firm Grip on the State’s
G.O.P.By JENNIFER MEDINA Schism in Party Could
Solidify a Blue Shift
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GUARDING CAPITOL HILL Members of the National Guard at the
Dirksen Senate Office Building inWashington on Tuesday. Security
was tight throughout the city ahead of the inauguration.
Not long after he strides acrossthe White House grounds
onWednesday morning for the lasttime as president, Donald J.Trump
will step into a financialminefield that appears to be un-like
anything he has faced sincehis earlier brushes with collapse.
The tax records that he has longfought to keep hidden, revealed
ina New York Times investigationlast September, detailed his
finan-cial challenges:
Many of his resorts were losingmillions of dollars a year even
be-fore the pandemic struck. Hun-dreds of millions of dollars
inloans, which he personally guar-anteed, must be repaid within
afew years. He has burned throughmuch of his cash and
easy-to-sellassets. And a decade-old I.R.S. au-dit threatens to
cost him morethan $100 million to resolve.
In his earlier dark moments,Mr. Trump was able to
rescuebusinesses he runs with multi-million-dollar infusions from
hisfather or licensing deals borne ofhis television celebrity.
Those life-lines are gone. And his divisivepresidency has eroded
the main-stream marketability of the brandthat is at the heart of
his business.
That trend has accelerated withhis evidence-free campaign
tosubvert the outcome of the presi-dential election, which
culminatedin the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol.In its wake, his
last-ditch lendervowed to cut him off. The P.G.A.canceled an
upcoming champi-onship at a Trump golf course, andNew York City
moved to strip him
Leaving OfficeTo Face FutureOf Fiscal Peril
By RUSS BUETTNERand SUSANNE CRAIG
INAUGURATION EVE Joseph R. Biden Jr., Kamala Harris and their
spouses at a coronavirus memorial at the Reflecting Pool. Page
A15.TODD HEISLER/THE NEW YORK TIMES
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PITTSBURGH — For fouryears, David Betras has been un-able to
escape Donald J. Trump.The president has visited Youngs-town, Ohio,
the seat of Mr. Betras’shome county. So have the presi-dent’s
children. People Mr. Betrashad known for years became inthrall to
Mr. Trump. There was nogetting away on Facebook, on In-stagram, at
the local bar.
“In the last four years, has therebeen a day when Trump
wasn’tsomewhere in your orbit?” saidMr. Betras, the former
chairmanof the Mahoning County Demo-cratic Party. “Every day, I
couldn’t
get him out. He was just every-where. It was like an
omnipres-ence.”
For Mr. Betras and so many oth-ers, this was life in the Trump
era:four years of waking up everymorning to a new revelation,
animpulsive tweet, a mass protest, astrange new celebrity from the
po-litical fringe, an impeachment ortwo, another thing to argue
aboutand lose friends over. There is notelling when the Trump era
will
end, but as a purely technical mat-ter, Mr. Trump will no longer
bethe president on Wednesday af-ternoon. His departure will leavea
country that is divided, impas-sioned, fearful, radicalized —
andworn out.
“It was like, like a car horn,” Mr.Betras said of the perpetual
newscycles of the last four years.“You’re having dinner, you
know,and initially, the car horn doesn’tbother you. But after about
anhour, you’re looking around: ‘Willsomeone shut that car
hornoff?!’”
Political conflicts that once sim-mered stayed on a
permanentrolling boil. A greater share of vot-ers showed up at the
polls in 2020than in over a century, following a
It’s the Dawn of an Era. The Nation Is Exhausted.This article is
by Campbell Rob-
ertson, Elizabeth Dias and MiriamJordan.
Moving Past Four Yearsof the Never-EndingTrump News Cycle
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Senator Mitch McConnell flatlyblamed President Trump on Tues-day
for the violent rampage at theCapitol on Jan. 6, saying that themob
that stormed the buildinghad been “fed lies” and “provokedby the
president” to carry out itsassault.
Mr. McConnell’s remarks, onthe eve of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s
in-auguration, were the clearest sig-nal yet from the most powerful
Re-publican left in Washington thatafter four years of excusing
andenabling Mr. Trump, he has cometo regard the departing
presidentas a force who could drag downthe party if he is not
firmly excisedby its leaders.
Mr. McConnell, who is said toprivately believe that Mr.
Trumpcommitted impeachable offenses,gave no indication of whether
hewould vote to convict Mr. Trumpat his impeachment trial on a
sin-gle charge of “incitement of insur-rection.” But it was a
notable con-demnation from the senator whowill play a leading role
in deter-mining whether enough Republi-cans join Democrats to find
thepresident guilty, allowing them todisqualify him from holding
officein the future.
Senate LeaderSays President‘Provoked’ Mob
By NICHOLAS FANDOS
Mitch McConnell said a riot-ous crowd had been “fed lies.”
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WASHINGTON — President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. will pro-pose
far-reaching legislation onWednesday to give the 11
millionundocumented immigrants livingin the United States a chance
tobecome citizens in as little as eightyears, part of an ambitious
and po-litically perilous attempt to undothe effects of President
Trump’sfour-year assault on immigration.
Under the proposal that Mr. Bi-den will send to Congress on
hisfirst day in office, current recipi-ents of Deferred Action for
Child-hood Arrivals, known as “Dream-ers,” and others in temporary
pro-grams that were set up to shieldsome undocumented
immigrantsfrom deportation would be al-lowed to immediately apply
forpermanent legal residency, ac-cording to transition officials
whowere briefed on Mr. Biden’s plan.
The legislation would also re-store and expand programs
forrefugees and asylum seekers af-ter efforts by Mr. Trump
andStephen Miller, the White Houseaide who was the architect of
thepresident’s immigration agenda,to effectively prevent entry
intothe United States for those seek-ing shelter from poverty,
violenceand war. Mr. Biden’s bill wouldprovide new funding for
foreignaid for Central American coun-
tries, increase opportunities forforeigners to work in the
UnitedStates and enhance security at theborder through new
technologiesinstead of through the border wallMr. Trump tried to
build.
Mr. Biden’s proposal is the lat-est effort in a decades-long
at-tempt to reimagine the nation’simmigration system by presi-dents
from both parties, includingGeorge W. Bush and BarackObama. As the
Biden era opens,advocates for immigrants andanti-immigrant
restrictionistsalike are bracing for the fight.
Immigration was not the onlyissue Mr. Biden sought to empha-size
on the eve of his inaugurationas the nation’s 46th president. In
asomber sundown ceremony at theLincoln Memorial on Tuesday,
Mr.Biden paid tribute to the victims ofthe pandemic that he has
pledgedto aggressively tame.
“To heal we must remember,”Mr. Biden said, standing in front
ofthe Reflecting Pool, which wassurrounded by 400 lights meant
tomark the 400,000 victims of thecoronavirus.
At the heart of Mr. Biden’s im-migration plan is a proposal
togrant temporary legal status forfive years to many of the
estimat-ed 11 million undocumented immi-
BIDEN PLAN GIVES11 MILLION A PATHTO U.S. CITIZENSHIP
Day 1 Effort to Expand Safeguards FacesRepublican Defiance in
Congress
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR
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WASHINGTON — In the daysleading up to the Jan. 6 riot, Thom-as
Edward Caldwell, an apparentleader of the far-right Oath Keep-ers,
had a message for the militiamembers he had organized to mo-bilize
against Congress: “This ket-tle is set to boil.”
Court documents unsealed onTuesday said Mr. Caldwell, a
66-year-old from rural Virginia, ad-vised the others on Dec. 31,
“It be-gins for real Jan 5 and 6 on Wash-ington D.C. when we
mobilize inthe streets. Let them try to certifysome crud on capitol
hill with amillion or more patriots in thestreets.”
Mr. Caldwell and two associatesfrom Ohio — Donovan Crowl, 50,and
Jessica Watkins, 38 — werecharged with conspiracy to com-mit
federal crimes. All three hadadmitted to invading the Capitolto
reporters and were also identifi-able in videos posted on social
me-dia.
The case revealed the first evi-dence of planning among a
knownmilitia group ahead of the day ofchaotic mob violence.
Investiga-tors have said they are increas-ingly focused on
right-wing extre-mist groups to determine whetherany plotted
aspects of the attackon the Capitol in advance, even asmost of the
rioters spontaneouslystormed it.
Mr. Caldwell had advised militiamembers to stay in a
particularComfort Inn in Washington’s sub-urbs, according to
messages citedin court documents, advising thatit offered a good
base to “hunt atnight” — apparently meaninglooking for antifa-style
left-wingprotesters to fight. Ms. Watkinsapparently rented a room
thereunder an assumed name, an F.B.I.agent said.
Mr. Caldwell appeared virtuallyin federal court in Virginia
onTuesday, pledging to fight the
New Evidence Of ConspiracyAmong Rioters
This article is by Charlie Savage,Adam Goldman and Neil
MacFarquhar.
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The pandemic has crippled the nationand cost millions their
livelihoods. Andthat’s just the first issue. PAGE B1
BUSINESS B1-5
Economic Hurdles for Biden
Javicia Leslie discusses playing ahomeless woman who ends up
flittingabout Gotham’s rooftops. PAGE C1
ARTS C1-6
TV’s First Black Batwoman
The ruling strikes down weak rules forcoal-burning power plants
and pavesthe way for the Biden administration toimpose tighter
restrictions. PAGE A24
NATIONAL A10-24
Court Voids Climate RollbackMore than 400,000 people have
per-ished from Covid-19 since the first deathwas reported last
February. PAGE A5
TRACKING AN OUTBREAK A4-6
Harrowing Milestone in U.S.
How a team of 10 Nepalese climbersbecame the first mountaineers
to reachthe summit of K2 in winter. PAGE B6
SPORTSWEDNESDAY B6-8
Because It Was There
Pundits have incessantly likened Presi-dent Trump to
Shakespeare’s charac-ters, Jesse Green writes. PAGE C1
Presuming Too Much, Methinks
Gerrymandering is likely to help thosewho voted to overturn the
election keeptheir seats. Political Memo. PAGE A19
Protected by the Map
This year’s celebration will be a sombermilestone in New
Orleans’s battleagainst the coronavirus. PAGE D1
FOOD D1-6
A Muted Mardi Gras
The organization that oversees the SATsaid it would scrap
subject tests and theoptional essay section. PAGE A6
Pandemic Scrambles the SAT
Conor McGregor will not face criminalcharges over a 2018
episode, but hisaccuser has filed a civil suit. PAGE B8
U.F.C. Star Sued in Rape Case Tunisians are putting their
hard-wonright to criticize the government togood use. They just
wish there weren’tso much to protest. PAGE A7
INTERNATIONAL A7-9
A Decade After a Revolution Thomas L. Friedman PAGE
A27EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27
At Janet L. Yellen’s confirmation hear-ing, Republicans blanched
at the size ofa Biden stimulus proposal. PAGE B4
Treasury’s Big Pandemic Plans
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