Don beat contenders in the Republican primary b/c he was far more willing to be openly, grotesquely racist than his opponents, which, in many cases, is a pretty steep hill to climb.
14% of the people who supported Trump admitted to being a member of or sympathetic to the KKK.
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14% of the people who supported Trump admitted to being a member of or sympathetic to the KKK.
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That's a pretty horrific number. That 14% of any group anywhere would make such an admission is, actually shocking.
I would expect those numbers were actually conservative given that many simply refused to say it out loud to anyone.
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I would expect those numbers were actually conservative given that many simply refused to say it out loud to anyone.
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It shows how little you know of American politics that you would think there was any real correlation between how a candidate performs electorally in their own party's primary and how they perform in the general election.
It stands to reason, in fact, that the candidate from each party beat all their opponents.
That's called winning.
And Trump's primary opponents suffered from the some of the same types of attacks from Trump that Clinton experienced. He was relentlessly attacking Jeb Bush.
That's called winning.
And Trump's primary opponents suffered from the some of the same types of attacks from Trump that Clinton experienced. He was relentlessly attacking Jeb Bush.
Russia began it's misinformation campaigns at least as early as 2014, perhaps earlier. These campaigns spread tons of positive data about Trump and tons of negative ones about his potential competition.
Clinton wasn't the first candidate to fall prey to Russian malfeasance.
Clinton wasn't the first candidate to fall prey to Russian malfeasance.
