Conall and Emerson discuss the 2016 Republican primary and the forces and rifts within America that allowed outsider Donald Trump to seize the Republican nomination for president. We explore his history around things like race and racism, including his promotion of the birther conspiracy theory about Obama's citizenship and his aggressive stance against the Central Park Five. We also explore the rise of movements like Black Lives Matter and how that fed a cultural rift which Trump capitalized on. Special easter egg at the very end that we're sure you'll love ;)
This is the first part of a three part series on the 2016 presidential election. Next week: we discuss the Democratic primary.
Correction: While many GOP primaries at the presidential level are winner-take-all, the NH primary for the GOP is not winner-take-all, as Conall implied. Still, the winner-take-all primaries in other states like Florida allowed Trump to ascend to the nomination despite getting only about 45% of the vote in the GOP primary.
