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True. Ever since the advent of the Tea Party and more recently the rise of right fringe and conspiracy extremists who do not share much common ground with anybody outside their conspiracy bubble, Republicans are one party only in name. The leadership has a harder time keeping the party together against the centrifugal forces than the Democrats. The current budget fight is another example.
– Peter - Reinstate Monica
Commented May 31, 2023 at 8:21
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Also Trump was a huge ideological break from previous GOP candidates. He basically made a coup against the GOP leadership by embracing right-branded overt populism instead of any sort of coherent conservatism, constitutionalism, or classical liberalism a la American founding.
– lazarusL
Commented May 31, 2023 at 20:46
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@MichaelRichardson; OK, I read up on the 1992 election and it seems Bush 41 won the nomination handily with 73% of the vote. That's pretty much a cake walk. But he did still have to show up for a Republican debate, which is more than Al Gore had to do.
– Wes Sayeed
Commented May 31, 2023 at 21:56
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@nanoman; You are correct. Gore’s nomination was unanimous at the DNC, but none of Bradley’s delegates were allowed to vote for him because he didn’t win any primaries. There was one debate between them and I missed that. I’ve updated my answer to reflect it.
– Wes Sayeed
Commented Jun 1, 2023 at 9:41
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This is the correct answer. A large part of the reason Trump even got nominated in 2016 was precisely because there was so much division among the more mainstream Republican candidates. Several of Trump's early "wins" in the primaries were with significant minorities of the actual votes cast, just the others were split up between several other candidates (but especially Rubio, Kasich, and Cruz.) Trump won the 2016 primary with the lowest percentage of the primary votes of a GOP nominee in nearly half a century.
– reirab
Commented Jun 1, 2023 at 21:55

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