Having surged to the top of the polls nationally and in the key early-voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire, Donald Trump is now the clear front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination. Set against the backdrop of a conventional wisdom that held such a thing impossible, how did it happen? Why did it happen? How sustainable is Trump’s rise? And what, if anything, might take the wind out of his sails?
To take a stab at answering those questions, we asked our partners at Purple Strategies to help us convene a focus group of Trump supporters at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. CONT.
John Heilemann, Bloomberg Politics