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Episode: The GOP rancher trying to save Idaho from the far right
Description: Jennifer Ellis is the face of the movement that handed Donald Trump his biggest defeat of the year. She leads Take Back Idaho, a political action committee founded last year to beat back the growing tide of extremist candidates in Idaho.Ellis’s main target on Tuesday was Janice McGeachin, the state’s far-right lieutenant governor, whom Trump backed in her gubernatorial primary challenge to incumbent Gov. Brad Little.Trump’s candidate lost by almost 21 points.For this week’s episode of Playbook Deep Dive, we sat down with Jennifer Ellis at her cattle ra...