2016 when dwas candidate donald trump, we right here at nbc news and wlgz we had a new poll. historically terrible numbers the worst we d seen for a candidate. the a year ago the headline about donald trump never had a in my nominee of a major party been unpopular only 27% of american huss a positive view. only 38% of his own party, republicans said they were satisfied that their party was nominating this guy for president of the united states. only 27% of people said they had a positive view of the republican parties the democrats numbers higher than that. in 57% of voters said they thought donald trump ace views were outside the main stream. we looked at the numbers and we saw numbers throughout the entire campaign and we said this is a dead candidate walking. more importantly republican elected officials last year looked at these numbers they concluded the same thing remember a couple weeks before
about donald trump never had a in my nominee of a major party been unpopular only 27% of american huss a positive view. only 38% of his own party, republicans said they were satisfied that their party was nominating this guy for president of the united states. only 27% of people said they had a positive view of the republican parties the democrats numbers higher than that. in 57% of voters said they thought donald trump ace views were outside the main stream. we looked at the numbers and we saw numbers throughout the entire campaign and we said this is a dead candidate walking. more importantly republican elected officials last year looked at these numbers they concluded the same thing remember a couple weeks before election day after the access hollywood lhold tame he speaker fortunate mouse paul ryan cut him lose. he told republican members of the congress you don t have to say you support him just save yourself because this is ugly.