From Ronald Reagan to Franklin D. Roosevelt to Barack Obama,, winning presidential candidates have run on optimistic messages. Trump, however, used a more negative rallying cry saying the U.S. is a “nation in decline.” Doris Kearns Goodwin, the historian and presidential biographer, joined Boston Public Radio to discuss why this messaging won Trump the popular and electoral votes.

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