Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. It has come to this, the republican establishment is now embracing a man that possibly hates more than any other certainly more than any other member of the party, ted cruz. In an effort to prevent Donald Trumps hostile takeover of the gop. 2012 gop president ial candidate mitt romney who was campaigning in ohio with john kasich just four days ago announcing this afternoon that in the utah nominating caucuses on tuesday he will vote for cruz, quote, the only path that remains to nominate a republican rather than mr. Trump, is to have an open convention. At this stage, the only way we can reach an open convention is for senator cruz to be successful in as many of the remaining nominating elections as possible. Romney added a vote for governor kasich is future contests makes it extremely likely that trumpism would prevail. Campaigning in utah this afternoon, kasich played down romneys announcement. Look, mitts fine. This is his view. He is entitled to it. Frankly, i dont think anybody will have enough delegates to get to the convention. You know, im the only one who can beat Hillary Clinton. I mean, thats what the polls show. So maybe they ought to knock it off and get behind me . I mean, this is its okay. Its fine. Well just move beyond it and were going to keep doing our thing. Trump took to twitter to respond to romneys decision. He professed to welcome the news quote failed president ial candidate mitt romney the man who choked and let us all down is now endorsing a lying ted cruz. This is good for me, exclamation point. Cruz trumpeted romneys move during a visit to the arizona border. Mitt romney observed today f you want to beat donald trump, cruz is the only campaign that can do it. Thats why he is voting for me in utah and governor romney explicitly observed that a vote for john kasich only helps donald trump. Despite the fact that as these headlines make clear most everyone in washington really just cant stand ted cruz. The establishment is holding its nose and coming around. Yesterday, senator Lindsey Graham vowed, quote, help ted any way i can despite having once joked if you killed ted cruz on the senate floor and held the trial in the senate, no one would convict you. Politico reports that marco rubio who just weeks ago referred to cruz as a liar is now close to endorsing his former rival. Hopefully theres time to still, you know, prevent a trump nomination, which i think would fracture the party and be damaging to the conservative movement. Trump currently has 685 delegates, leaving him 552 short of locking up the nomination before the convention. Republicans have reason to believe they can keep him below the magic number of 1237, particularly if they can unify behind a single trump alternative. Thats because Republican Voters have not consolidated blind the frontrunner as the primaries unfolded the way they have in the past. This chart shows the share of the gop primary vote by state romney for 2012. Thats on top. You see its verse trump in this cycle. The romney line tilts up. He gains steam more and more people supporting him as time goes on. The trump line is nearly flat. Even as trump keeps winning, his percentage of the vote is Holding Steady at an average around 35 . Even in the states that just voted in tuesday, huge numbers of republicans say if trump and Hillary Clinton are the nominees, theyll seriously consider third party candidate. 45 in ohio, 43 in illinois and missouri. You dont just see this in the numbers its right there in the twisting and turns youll see if republicans are asked if theyll vote for trump. Youre a republican. Thats right. If donald trump is the republican nominee, are you going to vote for him . Susan, im not going to answer. Dont ask that. Can you support him . Well, look, ive never voted for a democrat for president. I doend intend to start now, but like a lot of people, im watching to see whats going to happen by the time we get to this convention. Im not saying i would vote for Hillary Clinton by any chance, im saying i dont know what i would do if trump became the nominee. Joining me American Enterprise Institute Resident scholar norm ornsteen its worse than it was. Norm, this has been something youve been chronicling and shouts from the rooftops that the Republican Party is veering in a direction thats unsustainable in the history of american politics, your reaction to watching today the party attempt to coalesce behind ted cruz to stave off donald trump. You know, you have to look with bafflement and wonderment at a party that is careened completely off the tracks with a selfinflicted wound, chris. Youre absolutely right about ted cruz. In more than 45 years of watching the senate, ive seen a lot of senators who drive their colleagues do distraction. Never anything like cruz. The idea that cruz would end up as the candidate of the establishment, which itself would fracture the party, shows how much theyre floundering because theyve created a situation and they cant get out of it. There is an argument being proposed by many conservatives that this phenomenon is essentially kpoj nis to the Republican Party, has been thrust upon them and is a product of Media Coverage plus celebrity plus this sort of unique phenomenon of donald trump and the brokenness of the way that we follow politics. Do you think thats true . You have forgotten of course its all the fall of barak obama as well. Thats the other argument, yes. None of it is true. There are a lot of things that brought about a donald trump. And certainly the way the immigration issue has been a flash point for a lot of unease and concerns of working class white voters out there, displaced in the economy and feeling as if theyre losing their place in the society, thats a part of it. But i really do believe that the leadership of the Republican Party, the strategy that its pursued over a 20year period but especially since obama became president , trashing government itself, delegitimizing not just the president but the entire process leads to the two candidates that we have that are the dominant ones now. People who have stepped as far away from politics as we have known it with the Republican Party, within the Republican Party, and as its approach the democrats over the last number of years. And as tom and i wrote in the First Edition of the book and the new one coming out as well, a party thats contempt chews you of science, of facts that relies more heavily now on these outside tribal media that promote a pock liptic is getting what it deserves. You watched this party operate. Can they pull it off . Can they unit and block him from getting the nomination . I dont see how they can make that happen without causing an even deeper fissure or fracture of whats going on. I dont see how donald trump ends up with less than 1,100 delegates. To take the nomination away from somebody in that circumstance, never happened before, is going to lead to, i think, as trump said riots but also division in the party that is going to take a long time to heal. I have to say, chris, you could look at it with some showdownen fraud, but were going to suffer as a consequence. Norm ornsteen, thanks for your time tonight. Joining me now sabrina and tim. Sa bria, you spent a year covering marco rubio. He bowed out this week officially. I think the consolidation around cruz is basically a final stage in this sort of grief process of the Republican Party that not only rubio is gone but rubioism is dead. Absolutely. I think that a lot of the party was waiting to see what would happen in florida. It was marco rubios last stand. And as you mentioned in your opening there, you look at Lindsey Graham of all people who has now come around and supported ted cruz. Well, he had earlier said that choosing between donald trump and ted cruz is the difference being shot and poisoned. So you really know what the contempt is toward ted cruz by his colleagues in the senate. He called Mitch Mcconnell of course a liar on the senate floor. He certainly has no real friends there other than maybe mike lee of utah. At this point they do believe he is the only way they could stop donald trump from outright securing the number of delegates and i think more importantly what they see in ted cruz is less of a damaged less damage being potentially done to the partys brand both in november and in the long term because donald trump, of course, at this point has offended virtually every possible minority, offended women, offended muslims and i think theyre looking how can they salvage the image of the Republican Party. Tim, you and i had a discussion 2013 in the midst of the fight of Immigration Reform bill that rubio was one of the chief architects of and it was notable that he had kind of joined with democrats to pass this bill, pass the senate. You and i talked about the consequences of this. We talked particularly about this thesis that the best path forward for the Republican Party or one path forward might be trying to get missing white voters back into the party. Yep. And that this trajectory of rubio and rubioism thats now officially dead was not going to go anywhere and we speculate a little bit about what we might see. Take a look at this clip. Working class voters who are black and who are hispanic, they have a home in the Democratic Party just because naturally thats the way the parties line up. Working class voters who are white, this they dont have a home in the Democratic Party if theyre not liberals and they look at romney and didnt have a vote there. The way to go after the working class voters, i think, is a free market populism, saying obama nomics like a lot of bush nomics was enriching the well connected. Government is growing and government growth is enriching the well connected. This is interesting. This is a third path out of the wilderness would be a class war pop ewism. Theres a ross perot. Breaking free of the kind of donor class of the gop to get there is going to be very difficult. Okay. So theres a lot there that i think is actually quite on the money there. What stage are we at now in this how does that compare to your analysis back then . I think that what happened is i saw that populism had the nerj in the party. The tea party was largely a pop ewe lus phenomenon. I thought maybe that populism could be channelled into a lib tearism of free market or conservativism. Donald trump said the way to harness this is through his immigration, protectionism, the racism, all of that stuff. So i think i was right that populism was going to be the next waive of the Republican Party and maybe it was Wishful Thinking i thought that populism could be harnessed into free market stuff. I do think it was possible and now maybe that ship has sailed. Thats the question for you. What do you make of this last stand . Here is romney, alex burns noting that romney matters for a narrow and important reason. Cracking 50 of the utah means a big blow to john kasich. Do you approve of this sort of final stand . Do you think its going to work . Well, so going to work, nothing is going to work right now for the Republican Party. I mean, this is being poisoned or being murdered. Do you want to do something thats going to look somewhere from a little bit like a cue to a lot like a cue by keeping trump off the ballot or do you want to have trump on the ballot. Neither of those are good. The fact is that a lot of working class voters who trump brought in will not stick around the Republican Party for a ted cruz or for anybody else. And so thats part of the problem. And then on the other hand, a lot of the conservatives, you know, like the party of cruz and rubio are not going to stick around for a trump. So i think its trying to beat trump is worthy. Im not engaged in the balancing act between is it worse to have trump or is it worse to have a cue of trump . Sabrina, theres a lot of talk to donors offering his support to cruz. Do you anticipate he will also come out and sort of be the next sthu drop in this kind of unified front to mix metaphors . Well, yesterday when he spoke to reporters on capitol hill, he was reluctant to offer an endorsement. He said he was offering his opinion that ted cruz is the on conservative left in the race but certainly he is signaling what he believes about the remainder of the field and i think theres a lot of pressure on him because theres a lot of pressure to coalesce around alternative to donald trump and i think that he might face some criticism if he were reluctant to put his support behind ted cruz it might come off as bitter. But of course they also had a very nasty fight during the extremely. Marco rubio called ted cruz a liar repeatedly. I think it would be again it goes back to the idea that this is where we are now where they have no other choice but to hold their nose and support ted cruz. Everyone has statements now that they cant walk back that romneys statement on facebook today about donald trump are the kind of words that you cant pull back in and say now im supporting them. People have broken that it will be hard to put back together. Thank you both. That was fun. Thank you. Thanks, yis. Coming up, intensity showdown, Bernie Sanders has joe arpaio ambushed hi wise. The last time republicans faced an open convention. Later, there are signs that either trump or cruz atop the gop ticket could be very bad news for republicans in congress. Is that congressional majority threatened . That and more ahead. Is it becoming a better professor by being a more adventurous student . Is it one day giving your daughter the opportunity she deserves . Is it finally witnessing all the artistic wonders of the Natural World . Whatever your definition of success is, helping you pursue it, is ours. Tiaa. Im a Customer Relationship my namanager with pg e. 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I endorsed him. Thats fine. And i stick by him. Uhhuh. And but this is america. We all have a right then i should tell you, im a big sanders supporter. I endorsed him and im sticking by him. So, well agree to disagree on that and maybe some other things. Now, if youre looking for the best negative endorsement you could find in arizona days before the democratic primary, joe arpaio is about as good as it gets and Bernie Sanders didnt hold back, speaking earlier today about his wifes visit to the jail. While she was there to talk to some of the families who are impacted, she was met by the sheriff who kind of ambushed her. As i said, it is easy for bullies like sheriff arpaio to pick on people who have no power. If im elected president , the president of the United States does have the power. Watch out, joe. Sanders has spend much of the week in the west campaigning in arizona, utah and idaho, all mustwin states for him on tuesday if he has a chance of catching up to Hillary Clintons sizable delegate lead. Joining me now tad devine. Tad, you guys made the argument that basically the race is at halftime. That the structure of the primary has been such that states that are more advantageous to Hillary Clinton have come first. How well do you have to do expect to do on tuesday . Well, you know, we have to do very well not just on tuesday but for the rest of the process, chris. We have three important events on tuesday. Bernie has been in all three straits, gone from the canadian to the Mexican Border today campaigning through the west. Well try to win those states next tuesday. Hillary has some advantages in arizona. Lot of early vote, lot of older votes, groups shes done well with. Were closing hard. One of the things we saw in all these states, and last tuesday like missouri and illinois, bernie closes strong. Hillarys leads, i dont think theyre safe right now. Throughout this campaign, you focussed on pledged delegates, not superdelegate. Theres two reasons, Hillary Clinton has hundreds more superdelegates that vowed to support her than you do, but more first principle democratic belief that the votes and the voters, the Democrat Party should subside as opposed to the party elders who represent the superdelegates. Why this exchange between Rachel Maddow and Bernie Sanders was interesting. Take a look. Well, you know, i dont want to speculate about the future and i think there are other factors involved. I think it is probably the case that the candidate who has the most pledged delegates is going to be the candidate. But there are other factors. And the other factors will be the strength of each of us in taking on the republican candidate. What i think is most important to all of the delegates, including the superdelegates, is that we have a candidate who will win and not allow donald trump to end up in the white house. Now, that was the question there was should the person with most pledged delegates get the nomination. Senator sanders refused to just say yes. I mean, that was surprising to me. Well, chris, listen, i think i agree with everything bernie just said. Listen, its very important who wins the most votes who wins the most delegates. Thats a big part of the process. We are going to work hard to win the most pledged delegates between now and the time that voting ends in mid june. But i think Democratic Party as a whole is going to take a hard look at both of our candidates when this process is over. I think theyre going to say, who will be the strongest democrat to represent us in november. Who can stop trump or even cruz. I think that will factor in. So were trying to win the most delegate most pledged delegates. I think we have a real shot to. Clinton people say thats not reasonable or that we cant do it. We believe we can. We have to win a lot of states. We have to win a lot of delegates. If we do by the time we finish, we think we can be there. Okay. On monday, apack, the sort of self build proisrael lobby is having their annual conference in washington, d. C. There are five candidates remaining in the race. Four will be speaking. One that wont be is senator sanders. He released this statement today, i would very much have enjoyed speaking at the aipac conference. Obviously issues impacting israel and the middle east are the utmost important to me. Ill be traveling through west and the Campaign Schedule prevents me from attending. There are people who will interpret any excuse of scheduling in a campaign to basically be b. S. Why shouldnt they in this case . Well, because, you know, listen when i said we have a lot of delegates to make up and we have to win states and delegates to do it, i meant it. A day to fly back to the east coast, a day to fly back to west coast, we would miss a day or two and a half of campaigning. We have big events not just next tuesday in the three states that are up. Washington state, thats a very important contest for us. Bernie will go and travel there. Theres an event in wyoming after wisconsin. Let me stop you there. I want to press you. Theres two camps of people. There are camps of people who aligned with the politics of aipac, particularly on israel. Extremely supportive of the Israeli Government and claims and handling of the occupying territories. There are others who are critical of that, each of whom are interpreting this as essentially a repuke of aipacs politics. Are you telling them not to interpret it that way . Yes, i am. If aipac wants to hold this meeting in salt lake city, i promise well show up for it. Its a logistical issue. Bernie will send his remarks. No, this isnt a signal of anything that were very serious about winning states next week and the weeks thereafter to try to win the nomination. Tad devine, great things. Appreciate it. Thank you, yis. The day before the states vote,ly get a chance to talk with the candidate himself. Bernie sanders will join me on the eve of his next big election challenge right here 8 00 p. M. Eastern on monday. You do not want to miss it. Coming up, the 1976 Republican Convention hadnt been talked about much, this much, since 1976. Why that is ahead. When heartburn hits fight back fast tums smoothies starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue and neutralizes stomach acid at the source tum, tum, tum, tum smoothies only from tums this just got interesting. So why pause to take a pill . And why stop to find a bathroom . 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The last time like that was in 1976; neither president gerald ford or the incumbent president nor Ronald Reagan whose insurgent campaign had amore ma jurorty of delegates headed into the Republican Convention in kansas city. Four days from now the republican delegates will gather in this hall, but as of today, none of the counts of delegates made by news organizations give president ford enough delegates for a first ballot victory. He is close in all the counts, ahead of reagan in all the counts but he hasnt yet locked it up with. Days leading up to the vote, there was an allout battle being waged for delegates. Vermont, 18 for ford. Virginia 13 for ford. James baker, the president s delegate hunter said his new delegate total shows the president has five more votes than are needed for a first ballot nomination. West virginia 20 for ford. 8 for reagan. Gerald ford had the power of the presidency bind him at this point. The help of james baker was able to entice uncommitted delegates. Play for the more conservative wing of the party Ronald Reagan tried to get ford to say who he would name his running mate. An effort that failed. This is where reagan hoped to pick up strength, not lose it. The debate ran nearly two hours. There has been too much secrecy, why shouldnt the delegates of this convention or any convention know beforehand who the Vice President ial candidate will be before they decide on the top of the ticket. The arguments for this last minute amendment smack of desperation and certainly political opportunityism. At the enter is of all this wheeling and dealing was the mississippi delegate which was pursued heavy by both candidates. The pressure to get the mississippi delegation to commit itself today upset the mississippi chairman clark reed who is a ford supporter but wanted to hold off a vote until tomorrow. Why . Whats the value of it . What kind of pressure is on you . Just to try to at one point mississippis delegates supporting reagan took over a cbs news trailer and were being observed by the teenage children of cbs news journalists. So for the last ten or 15 minutes theyve been in there talking. Now, we have a couple of operatives inside. Phil moiers son, they dont know that. And roger muds son. Matthew mud, young moier, what happened in there . They decided whether or not to break unit rules. What did they decide . They tried to take a vote of everyone that was in there and not everyone was there n there. 22 or 23 theres 21 people in there and they said they couldnt vote unless they had the entire delegates. Im training ryan and david for cleveland in the in the end the mississippi delegates went to ford and he became the partys nominee. West virginia 20 votes for gerald ford. That did it. Gerald ford was over the top and he saw it all in his hotel suite with some of the people who worked with him since new hampshire. He said it had been a long, hard struggle. He took the trip he has long promised up committed trip he would make, over to Ronald Reagans house. This picture buzz important to the president. The president hopes it will convince reagan supporters to work for him. Joining me now is president ial historian douglas brinkley. Charlie pierce, righter at large for esquire magazine. Welcome to both of you. Doug, let me start with you. Its remarkable theres so many things happening here that echo today. One of them is essentially the establishment verse the nonestablishment forces. In this case, in the person of the sitting incumbent president of the United States fighting by his by every hook and crook to get nomination of his own party. Absolutely. Great footage, by the way. Look, i later interviewed gerald ford about it in his home in rancho mirage, he was livid. This is decades later at Ronald Reagan because he was the sitting president and as you recall, ford would become best friends with jimmy carter who beat him. Ford didnt mind losing to carter in the sense that democrats versus republican. But republican on republican, the fact that reagan sabotaged him when he was the sitting president , he never forgave reagan. Reagan later tried to patch up by bringing him an indian peace pipe and said giving you a peace pipe. Lets not have bad animosity, but they never could heal that rip because ford felt bruised by what reagan did. Charlie, theres a few lessons here for cleveland. And here is the most important the winner of the nomination is not necessarily the winner of the partys future, which i think is an important thing to remember as we watch this fight play out. The person who gets the nomination doesnt necessarily emerge the victor in terms of trajectory of the Republican Party because clearly the Republican Party was Reagans Party after this. It wasnt fords. Yeah. Coalition for lack of a better word that solidified and won d presidency for Ronald Reagan in 1980 you can see forming at this convention. Jessie helm was a very powerful prominent broker at this convention. The attack on ford was from the right on Foreign Policy, on detente, helsinki accords and from the fall of saigon happened technically on his watch and helms got a lot of foreign really hard line Foreign Policy into the platform. It was the first republican platform that advocating a human life amendment, which showed the way that party was swinging on social issues and reagans strength was all in the south and the west and thats where the Republican Party moved. Theres also the degree to which theres clinton had this line about how democrats fall in love, republicans fall in line and theres this will rogers i believe to an organized party of the democrat, but actually those roles have flipped in the modern time. The Democratic Party is more orderly party than the Republican Party, but you see here if you go back to 64, this kind of sense of permanent revolution and insurgency is actually central to the image of modern conservatism. This isnt knew. Absolutely. The last president to actually win a broken convention, got the brokered convention and won was fdr in 32 he beat al smith out offering john nans gardener the speaker of the house of texas, the vp thing. So gardener thought did a devils deal with fdr thinking we could go over al smith and they did and gardener dutifully sat two terms with fdr and thought, well, then im set up for 1940 and fdr ran an unprecedented third term. Democratic Party Discipline has been there since fdr. The republicans go willy nilly. The fact that the conservatism movement that only 72 with jimmy carter, 76 with carter, maybe a little bit with mcgovern in 72 while you had an insurgency. Charlie, speaking of 64, nominated barely goldwater, thats also to me the best sort of Historical Marker for what we might see in cleveland insofar as you have a takeover essentially the party by a certain wing of it and the other wing rejects it. Here is Nelson Rockefeller on the floor in 64 basically ripping the face off the guy who is going to be the nominee. Take a listen. There is no place in this Republican Party for those who would infiltrate its ranks, distort its aims and convert it into a cloak of apparent respectability for a dangerous extremism. You can hear him being booed and he doesnt name goldwater, everyone understood, charlie, what he was talking about. Well, it was a wild convention. I have talked to people who i mean, if donald trump does, as hes flirted with his whole campaign, turns his crowd on the media, this is the precedent because i understand and certainly doug would know this better than i that David Brinkley told his son not to wear nbc credentials because the antipress feeling in 64 was so wild and so generaled up by the goldwater people. This is a more closely run precedent, i think, than even 76 is. Also happened in 64 with cbs, barely goldwater flew to germany to say he had Foreign Policy chops and Walter Cronkite went on cbs and said he went to a place where the nazis used to go b. Its one of the few times cbs had to d a massive apology to goldwater in 64. Thats how much the press was scared of barely goldwater, the liberal cbs, nbc and theyre frightened about the idea of goldwater, hence that Famous Commercial of the Lyndon Johnson work with the mushroom cloud. The goldwater precedent is useful to think of here in terms of what it meant for the party going forward, which is that goldwaterism did define the next 50 years of the Republican Party absolutely and the huge historic defeat he had at the ballot box in november which is also a possibility who the heck knows if trump is nominated. Douglas brinkley, charlie pierce, thank you, gentlemen. Thanks. How donald trump could do what everyone thought was impossible, put the house of representatives in play for democrats. Is that possible . Well get to it ahead. My belly pain and constipation . Ive heard it all. Eat more fiber. Flax seeds. Yogurt. Get moving. Keep moving. I know try laxatives. Been there, done that. My chronic constipation keeps coming back. I know. Tell me something i dont know. Vo linzess works differently from laxatives. Linzess treats adults with ibs with constipation or chronic constipation. 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I mean, it is possible that the democrats are right that theyre going to sweep down ballot races because people hate trump and that the republicans are right to be worried about that, but its also possible that here in the industrial midwest there are a lot of populous of the type who support trump and the type who really if Hillary Clinton is the nominee are not going to be enthused about her. Its an interesting environment. Its very unstable. You know, in the ron johnson Russ Finegold race, whats fascinating there, ron is a iran ak lite, he has these very right wing politics, tea party. He run against the washington establishment. Russ finegold was a maverick and appealed to a lot of libertarians, parted ways with Clinton Administration on things like spying. He is really a guy who runs a more populist campaign, very big on fair trade, for example. And so i think thats the question. This year, how is the Democratic Party going to kind of run against trump if trump is the nominee and how is that going to look . There are a lot of voters who are not reliable voters who will determine the outcome of that. Part of what weve seen is the nationalization of elections. This is a trend. Finegold lost in 2010 because that race was so a, nationalized by the Republican Party and, b, stherp able to motivate their base. The folks who showed up in 2008 to vote in obama and democratic majorities in both houses some percentage didnt show up in 2010. And Russ Finegold was the victim of that. If you get a mobilization and antitrump mobilization on that scale, you can see benefits from democrats down ticket. Yes, thats true. But then you also have to have people motivated to come out and vote. You sound worried about that in wisconsin. Well, thats what walker did. He motivated the hard right people to come out and vote, really the antichoice people in droves. As you pointed out, were a blue state usually in a president ial year, but it just depends on who is really motivated to come out. And i think, you know what youve seen when trump says i can take states like michigan that have never been republican, he is saying something thats significant. Theres an economic populist message thats really resonating this year. And on the left, Bernie Sanders has been the candidate with that message and has churned up a ton of enthusiasm, won michigan in a surprise way, was stalled after that across the midwest, so is not looking as likely to be able to make it all the way to the nomination, but where does that really leave things . But here is my question you have to understand that thats an important factor this year. I think it is. I was just reading a piece Hillary Clinton has more votes than anyone. That in some ways so much focus has been on trump and Bernie Sanders i think for obvious reasons for trump particularly, but, you know, theres a sizable there are a lot of votes that she has gotten. She has gotten more votes than any other candidate. And the Obama Coalition is an intact thing that one can imagine being preserved in the fall if the right things fall into place. If a voter id doesnt suppress voter turnout, who cant cast a vote, thats huge. Voter suppressant is huge. Good point. Enthusiasm from people who dont always vote. Right. I dont know that the obama enthusiasm is transferable to hillary and the sieg enthusiasm is transferable to hillary. What i do know its an economic populist year and trump has this message as you pointed out so well is an old right wing message as well that combines attacking the wrong people, attacking immigrants and people of color with this economic populist message thats really appealing. Some White Working Class voters dismissed the racist part and others of them resonate to them. I think we would be foolish to say he is never going to win. Thats a mistake the republicans made all along. I totally agree. People should not underestimate to the degree he will be a motivator for large segments of a coalition that may not be enthused otherwise. Ruth, thank you very much. Yeah. Thats all for this evening. Good evening, rachel. Have a great weekend. Thanks. You, too. Happy friday, lots going on. Very busy night tonight in president ial politics. Still at this hour, at this hour senator ted cruz is in arizona getting ready to hold what his campaign is calling an american rally in phoenix, arizona this hour. What makes tonights ted cruz rally more american than his other rallies is unclear, but he will be joined on stage tonight by other people who are also americans, including talk show host glen beck and former Texas Governor rick perry and carly fiorina
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