Trump Did Everything Wrong. So Why Did It Work?
Donald Trump supporters attend a campaign rally at Crotona Park in the South Bronx on May 23, 2024. (Photo by Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images)
After Mitt Romney got walloped in 2012, the party’s brain trust warned the GOP it was losing the minority vote. Trump solved that problem by ignoring their advice.
If you had said on January 7, 2021, that in the summer of 2024 Donald Trump would not only be the Republican nominee but was also poised to win in a landslide in November, you would have been laughed out of the room.
The guy who never accepted the results of the 2020 election, even after exhausting his legal challenges in the courts? The guy who gave ram…
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