by Tobias Burst, Pola Lehmann, Sven Regel, Bernhard WeĂels and Lisa Zehnter
The upcoming US presidential election is special in many respects. One of the predominant features is Donald Trump, who dominates the political discourse from the side of the Republicans. In August this year he published his agenda for the next term â which is truly his agenda, because the Republican Party refrained from offering a new election platform. Does Trump represent the partyâs positions or has the party rallied behind Trump? In this article we (Tobias Burst, Pola Lehmann, Sven Regel, Bernhard WeĂels and Lisa Zehnter from the Manifesto Project at WZB Berlin) look at the extent to which Trump’s agenda differs from the 2016 Republican manifesto, how many of the issues are already well known from Trumpâs Twitter feed, and what voter groups and preferences he is trying to address.
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