How ‘Never Trump’ failed

Published May 5, 2016 4:01am ET



Donald Trump faced unprecedented organized intraparty opposition to his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.

Where Mitt Romney had to deal mainly with disaffected social conservatives supporting Rick Santorum and the libertarian armies mobilized by Ron Paul, Trump was opposed by top party leaders like Romney himself.

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