Donald Trump must jump to new demographic networks to win in 2016
Brian Lay · The Math Behind Donald Trumps Brain, EP 293: Brian Ley, · Jun 16, 2016 · at 13:46
AlphaRank CEO Brian Ley analyzes the mathematical contagion dynamics of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign messaging.
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“And so my prediction would be if we're right about Donald Trump, right? So he's doing generic bucketing right now. If he's as smart as we think he is, or at least as clever in this particular area he's going to have to jump networks, meaning you're not going to be able to win an election with a bunch of truckers, which means he'll probably jump to some new network. Right. And get a new position and then spread there on some totally different thing to appeal to these people.”
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