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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

Amy Davidson on Political Conventions Gone Wrong

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

Washington, News, Politics, President, Wickenden, Wnyc, Barack, Obama, Lizza

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2016

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

It looks like the Republican Convention won’t be contested, but there hasn’t been a more divisive one in living memory—and the same may be true of the Democratic Convention. Amy Davidson, a staff writer who covers politics for The New Yorker, has a history lesson about what happens when a party starts coming apart in public.

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I'm Dorothy Wickend. On today's Politics and More podcast, New Yorker staff writer Amy Davidson

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looks back at two of our country's most divisive political conventions, the Democratic

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conventions of 1994 and 1980.

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One of the big questions in the presidential campaign is whether or when Paul Ryan will

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make his peace with Donald Trump, which would signal that the Republican establishment is

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accepting what is obviously the will of the voters. There's no candidate still standing who will contest Trump at the

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convention, but if the Republican establishment is still against him, it's going to be an

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amazing thing to see. And some officials are threatening to skip Cleveland altogether.

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Staff writer Amy Davidson has been thinking about two Democratic conventions of years past that shed some

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light on what could happen in Cleveland, and she has a little history lesson for us about the

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