The Political Rise of Donald J. Trump: How the News Media & Political Class Tried to Stop It & Why They Failed

How did Donald J. Trump, a political novice with a bare-bones organization defeat 14 sitting and former governors and U.S. Senators to win the 2016 nomination of the Republican Party by more votes than any other candidate in history? Why couldn't the relentless personal attacks of the news media, Never Trump activists and their SuperPacs, and 64 thousand negative advertisements defeat Trump's candidacy? This blow by blow account of the 2016 primaries concludes that Trump won because he empowered people, and made them feel part of something larger than themselves and their own self-interest, and restored to them an image of themselves and their country they had lost and yearned to recapture.