Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Steve Kornacki
Both running for the second consecutive cycle, too. Buchanan was never really a real threat to win, however.https://twitter.com/SteveKornacki/status/1229563589641560064 …
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Steve Kornacki @SteveKornacki
I can think of two modern cases of "factional" candidates who emerged as serious threats to win nominations after the primaries began and who were then stopped when the party united behind an alternative: Jesse Jackson in the '88 Dem race and Pat Buchanan in the '96 GOP race.
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