Shootout

Landslide

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4.8 • 762 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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With the primaries over, the nomination hangs in the hands of a few remaining "unbound" delegates. Ford and Reagan scramble to win them over, as the battle to lead the Republican Party — and to decide its direction — comes down to a national convention known as the Shoot-Out in Kansas City. There, a series of gambits, promises, and betrayals culminates with a nominee, a conservative platform, and the modern GOP.

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0:38.8	The president of the United States and the former governor of California are scrounging
0:44.1	desperately for one delegate here and one delegate there.
0:48.0	Politics can get embarrassing.
0:50.6	If you're a candidate dedicated to victory, sometimes the question is how much humiliation will you take?
0:56.2	Reagan's shuttling back and forth between meeting rooms and a Fargo motel.
1:00.3	How far will you stray from your values?
1:02.4	Ford campaign officials claim they have not been making any deals with uncommitted delegates.
1:07.0	How low will you go?
1:11.4	It was summer, and the primaries had ended after six grueling months.
1:16.8	Neither Ronald Reagan nor Gerald Ford had won.
1:19.9	They were both just short of the nomination.
1:22.6	So now they were scraping for what was left.
1:25.6	About 150 delegates would enter the Republican National Convention
1:29.5	unbound. Under the party's convoluted rules, they could vote for whoever they wanted.
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