Old Newscast: How Donald Trump Won The Republican Nomination 2016 (Part 2)
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🗓️ 2 January 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Today, we look at how Donald Trump won the Republican nomination to be President in 2016 (Part 2).
Adam is joined by chief presenter in Washington Caitriona Perry, and Anthony Zurcher from Americast.
In part 2 they discuss the unique approach Donald Trump took to the debates? Why the likes of Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio failed to shine? And, why the late attempt by a Republican grandee to stop Trump failed?
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| 0:00.0 | If American politics is leaving you with a lot of questions, you're not alone. |
| 0:06.2 | On AmeriCast, we chat through what's really going on. |
| 0:09.3 | Make sense of what's happening in the US, with new podcast episodes arriving throughout the week. |
| 0:14.6 | America's, listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:18.1 | Hello, and this is the second episode of Old Newscastcast discussing how Donald Trump became the Republican nominee to run in the 2016 presidential election. |
| 0:27.8 | In episode one, alongside Katrina Perry, our chief presenter in Washington, and Anthony Zirker from Ameriast, we told the story from Trump announcing he was going to run up to the first Republican debates. |
| 0:39.3 | Now, at this point, Donald Trump has generated a whole load of press and a whole lot of headlines, |
| 0:44.5 | but all eyes were on how he would perform in the pressure cooker of a live national television debate. |
| 0:51.7 | Would his style attract or put off Republican voters across the country? |
| 0:56.7 | How would Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and others attempt to wrestle the spotlight away from |
| 1:03.2 | Trump and onto themselves? That's our starting point for part two of this episode of old |
| 1:09.2 | newscast. Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:12.5 | We have to build a wall, folks. |
| 1:14.5 | I will restore law and order to our country. |
| 1:18.6 | No one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than the Donald. |
| 1:23.2 | We want to win and we will win. |
| 1:25.9 | Please clap. |
| 2:01.5 | Hello, it's Adam in the newscast, or I should say old newscast studio. And joining us from Washington, D.C. is Katrina Perry. Hello. Good to be here again. And Anthony Zirker. Hello, Anthony. Thanks for bringing us back for round two. Yes, I'm glad you could come back. I mean, there's a lot to talk about and a lot to think about. And I can imagine this stuff is floating around in your brains all the time. Because as we were discussing at the end of the previous episode, so much of the Donald Trump script that we all experience every day now, he started writing or was writing at that point in summer 2015, Katrina? |
| 2:06.2 | Yeah, I mean, a lot of the slogans that we hear from him, |
| 2:10.6 | not just to make America great again, but, you know, build the wall, |
| 2:15.3 | not wanting immigrants, lock her up, which was the other very famous one about Hillary Clinton, of course. |
| 2:16.5 | Like so much of this began in that summer and went all the way through the campaign |
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