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Bitecofer recaps the paths that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump took to win their party’s nomination. For Clinton, an unexpected primary challenge forced the campaign to compete for a nomination that was once inevitable. Coming from nowhere, Bernie Sanders’ campaign tapped into the anti-establishment and populist sentiment of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party transforming his candidacy from a symbolic exercise into a powerful social movement. Meanwhile, despite being outspent and out-organized, Donald Trump won the Republican Party’s nomination by giving voice to rising right-wing populism and nationalism in the Republican base.
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Wayne, Stephen J. The Road to the White House 2016. 10th ed. Boston, MA: Cengage Learning, 2016.
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Bitecofer, R. (2018). The 2016 Presidential Nominations. In: The Unprecedented 2016 Presidential Election . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61976-7_3
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