By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Politics Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Congressman Adam Kinzinger of Illinois is calling on Democrats and independents to form an “uneasy alliance” with Republicans to fight former President Donald Trump’s influence in Republican politics. Kinzinger, one of Trump’s fiercest Republican critics in Congress, has directed his political organization to initiate a novel campaign to convince non-Republicans to support anti-Trump Republican candidates in GOP primary contests across the country later this year. Experts suggest the practice, sometimes known as “party raiding,” will be hard to execute on a broad scale. But Kinzinger warns that failure to shift the GOP’s current embrace of Trump could undermine democracy or even a lead to “failed state.”