AHC: Pat Buchanan Wins 1996 GOP Nomination

Your challenge, should you accept it, is with a PoD after the 1992 US election, make Pat Buchanan the 1996 GOP nominee. Bonus points if he wins the election or significantly changes the ideology of the GOP. He seems an interesting figure, a predecessor to Trump in many respects. How could he win the nomination? What if he was the nominee? Go ahead!
 
Bob Dole dies somehow, leaving the primaries mostly between Buchanan and Forbes. Buchanan then wins a hard fought nomination.

As for beating Bill Clinton? Maybe Perot doesn't take part in the election (dies, is running mate, just doesn't run, w/e) which would cut down on vote splitting. Maybe there's also a terror attack or a string of terror attacks? There would have to be a serious outrage for Buchanan to do too well. He's more than just a little fringe and he doesn't have the charisma and bombastic nature that Trump has, putting him at a major disadvantage comparatively.
 
The absence of Dole is not enough to get Buchanan the nomination in 1996. Remember that in OTL Buchanan's only primary victory--New Hampshire--was with 27 percent of the vote (less than he got in 1992) to Dole's 26 percent and Alexander's 22 percent. Very likely Alexander would have won the primary in Dole's absence, and become the new Establishment candidate. Anyway, in 1996, America was too prosperous for a Trump-like nationalism to succeed--and even if it could, Buchanan would not be an effective messenger of it, lacking Trump's celebrity appeal (and the Perot/Trump mystique of the "successful businessman who can fix everything.")
 
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