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How Trump conquered the Republican Party

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Newt Gingrich campaigning for Trump in 2016. Getty Images.In 2015, I made the biggest mistake of my career by being too dismissive of Donald Trump’s chance of winning the Republican nomination. But I had my reasons, even if they weren’t great ones. The “lesson” of 2012 had been that populist or insurgent candidates — Herman Cain, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, you name it — could surge for a time in the polls, but wouldn’t survive sustained scrut…

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natesilver.net broke the news on Saturday, June 20, 2026.
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