Jan 31, 2019
Candidates have begun launching their 2020 presidential campaigns,
prompting many to look a look back at Donald Trump’s presidential
victory in 2016. In this episode, Sam Wang interviews Michael
Tesler, co-author of a compelling book about how the 2016 election
was not just a battle for the White House, but for what America
“should be.” Tesler co-authored “Identity Crisis: The 2016
Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America
Hardcover,” with John Sides and Lynn Vavreck. The book was
published in October 2018 by Princeton University Press. Tesler is
associate professor of political science at the University of
California, Irvine, and author of “Obama’s Race,” also published by
the University of Chicago Press. He studies American politics,
ethnicity and politics, and quantitative methods.