Politics

A Brokered Convention Meant to Block Donald Trump Could Result in the Opposite

REDO OF ’52?

The closest precedent in the GOP happened in 1952, with Taft in the Cruz-Rubio role and Ike in the Trump position. You know who won.

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It’s a scene out of black-and-white newsreels, yellowing clippings in the morgue of a newspaper, static-filled recordings from old radio broadcasts: A presidential candidate comes to a national

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