Trump’s Republican Vision Is America First, Most and Darkest
A textual analysis of recent Republican presidential nomination speeches shows just how far Trump has shifted his party’s pitch to voters.
Pointing the GOP in a different direction.
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Even before Hillary Clinton conceded defeat in 2016, the aphorism “It’s Trump’s party now” had been endlessly recycled by those delighted and dismayed by The Donald “body-snatching” the GOP and transforming its vision of America.
To quantify just how far Trump’s rhetoric has moved his party’s nationalistic needle, Bloomberg Opinion asked Keatext – a Montreal-based AI text analytics company – to assess the nomination acceptance speeches1 of every Republican presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan.