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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

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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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