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Prominent right-wing media personality Ben Shapiro called on the Republican Party to ditch former President Donald Trump to boost its chances of winning elections.

The founder of the Daily Wire news site and the host of the daily podcast “The Ben Shapiro Show” suggested that the GOP should nominate a non-Trump candidate in 2024 to make it harder for Democrats to appeal to independent voters.

“There is a reason Democrats are eager to keep Trump at the center of the conversation: half of independents say Trump is a major factor in their vote, and they’re breaking 4-1 for the Democrats,” Shapiro tweeted.

“Republicans shouldn’t play that game. If they do, they’re cruising for a bruising.”

His comments were made in light of recent public opinion polling that showed Democrats could conceivably keep their Senate majority following the November midterm elections — a prospect once deemed far-fetched.

Polls had previously indicated that Republicans stood a good chance of sweeping both chambers of Congress.

But the recent Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade, has apparently galvanized Democratic and independent voters.

“The Republicans are losing steam in the 2022 election,” Shapiro tweeted.

“There are some reasons for this, the Democratic upswing in the wake of Dobbs being the most obvious factor. But there’s something else going on here that represents a deeper problem for the Republican Party.”

Shapiro tweeted that Republicans were wrong to think that a “Magical Person” like Trump can alone defeat the Democrats, who have continued to make the former president the main topic of conversation.

“This means that when Trump is attacked, Republicans immediately return to making him the centerpiece of the conversation — and this harms them electorally, as every poll is now showing,” according to Shapiro.

Shapiro tweeted that while he agrees the FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in southern Florida earlier this month “looks like a political hit,” the GOP must also acknowledge that “the more Republicans talk about Trump, the worse they do electorally.”

A Fox News poll published last week showed that Republicans were favored to win the majority in the House — but by a smaller margin than previously forecast.

Trump, meanwhile, appears to be in severe legal jeopardy after federal investigators said they retrieved several boxes filled with classified documents that were taken from the White House to the former president’s Palm Beach residence early last year.

Famed criminal defense attorney Alan Dershowitz told The Post over the weekend that prosecutors have enough evidence to indict Trump for national security crimes, though he doesn’t believe the Justice Department should pursue such a prosecution.

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