(Republicans considered Trump to be a joke until be won the 2016 primary. Then republicans all fell in line behind him. Now they are going back to thinking of him as a joke again.)

Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, a Republican, backtracked on his previous support of former President Donald Trump on Sunday.

"I'll never vote for him, but I won't have to. Because I think America's tired and there's some absolutely forceful, qualified, morally defensible and upright people, and that's what I want. That's what I want in my party and that's what I want to see," Bowers told Jonathan Karl on ABC's "This Week."

Bowers, once a supporter of Trump, previously told The Associated Press he'd vote for Trump again if he was Biden's rival, "simply because what he did the first time, before COVID, was so good for the country." ...