Goldwater’s Contested Convention | The '60s
Whistlestop: Presidential History and Trivia
Slate Podcasts
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2016
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Slate's podcast about campaign history, John Dickerson explains how, despite the efforts of many establishment Republicans, Sen. Barry Goldwater clinched the GOP nomination for president in 1964.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Whistlestop a podcast of campaign curiosities. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm John Dickerson of Face the Nation. You've heard of the never Trump movement haven't you? Republicans are trying to |
| 0:21.5 | mount a planned and coordinated effort |
| 0:23.4 | to undermine Donald Trump's candidacy as it rolls along winning primary after |
| 0:28.5 | primary. There aren't many templates for that strategy. 1964 is one, though when moderate Republicans banned together and fought to stop Barry |
| 0:36.6 | Goldwater, it didn't work out very well and it seems like that's exactly what the |
| 0:41.8 | never-Trump conservatives are doing. |
| 0:44.0 | Though they are different in one fundamental way, the stop Goldwater effort was a total failure. |
| 0:49.0 | Those trying to stop Donald Trump are falling even short of that. |
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