This study group will focus on the creation of today's Republican Party by concentrating on three presidential elections — 2008, 2012, and 2016. The short version of the story is this: The GOP went in with John McCain and came out with Donald Trump. If you want to know how we got to today's Trump-dominated politics, what happened between 2008 and 2016 tells much of the story. The first session will be an introduction and overview of those three elections, from the point of view of a reporter — Byron York — who covered all three closely.

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OFF-THE-RECORD: In keeping with our long tradition at the IOP to ensure honest and candid discussions of politics, all IOP study groups are off-the-record.

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