> Relatively small numbers of Republicans vote in the primaries, and they tend to be the angrier, more extreme wing. Donald Trump was nominated in 2016 despite a majority of Republican primary voters actually voting for other candidates.

That strategy doesn't work as well if you get ranked choice voting or anything other than first-past-the-post.

https://reason.com/2022/04/28/florida-tennessee-ban-ranked-c...

...oh