Before revision:  It remains elusive how  public discourse is driven by the intricate interplay between identity politics and dueling campaign efforts .
After revision:  It remains elusive how public discourse is driven by the intricate interplay between identity politics and dueling campaign efforts , and social media platforms. We examine this complex socio-political process by integrating observed retweet networks from the 2016 political networks with an agent-based model of political opinion formation and network structure.