"The battle for the future of the Republican Party played out in elite rooms in Florida and Utah, with remarkable moves supporting and opposing the former president"

The ongoing battle over the future of the Republican Party erupted into open view Friday as former vice president Mike Pence said it would have been “un-American” for him to overturn the election at Donald Trump’s insistence and the party’s grass-roots members overwhelmingly voted to censure two Republicans for investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.