As Republicans and Democrats prepare for their national nominating conventions next month, it’s clear that this has become one of the strangest — and most entertaining — presidential campaigns since at least 1912. That was the year Theodore Roosevelt ran as a third-party candidate and survived an assassination attempt to push the incumbent president, Republican William Howard Taft, into third place. Democrat Woodrow Wilson ended up as the winner.
Tom Crawford: Some politicians in Georgia have outraised Trump
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