Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

How Trump Could Win the 2024 Republican Nomination

A number of factors would have to line up just right for the former president to secure his party's backing.

November 29, 2022 at 12:30 PM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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