should planned parenthood receive federal tax funder funding? absolutely not. it s not about whether you re pro choice or pro life. absolutely they should not fund planned parenthood. planned parenthood has a horrific disregard for basic human life. and i think they should be defunded. we had to be here to vote to defund planned parenthood and i hope very much that we see republican leadership actually lead the fight to get it done and we stop funding planned parenthood. that was the easiest question for the candidates forum in new hampshire tonight. joining us now is annie lienski, a the reporter for the boston globe. annie, that formforum was very
hampshire if i thought i wanted to win new hampshire in the fall. annie? i think that s a great point, but it gets to a different dynamic that s going on this year. it doesn t seem like it really is about new hampshire and iowa. of the debate situation has made this into a national race for republicans. so they need to be doing well in the national polls. and they need to be playing to their base. and quite frankly, whoever wins new hampshire really might not be the person who, new hampshire s not playing the same role that it used to play. and you heard the debate moderator mention over and over again, the thankfulness that some people had shown town the debate and that people were there and sort of welcoming to new hampshire, but i think it s very clear that the race is just entirely different than it has been in previous years. and therefore kind of hard to make that comparison. it just amazed me, george pataki giving that answer. he was a pro-choice govern of
to planned parenthood. you see the revive on the social conservative issues. and most interesting is that donald trump, he says he is pro life, but he used to be pro choice, and he s not becoming a cultural warrior in the way many of his counterparts are. this struck me that lindsey graham believes that hillary can clinton should bear the burden of every credibility moment or every credibility stress that bill clinton has ever gone through. here s the thing that i think would be interesting, it would be great to hear what she has to say about it. new hampshire is a state that voted for bill clinton twice for president of the united states. new hampshire is a state that s pro choice. and i understand that these guys are catering to the far right of the republican party, but these guys need new hampshire. it s a really important swing state in the fall. and i d love to know what annie thinks about those kinds can of answers. i don t think i d make those kinds of answers in new
ambassador and the donor had to publicly deny that they were talking about any of this stuff. yeah. i mean, i think it s, i think they re friends and people are making too much of it or people are still open to an alternative. and i think annie did really hit on something. it is a joyless campaign right now. it s sort of a slog. and i think that people do want to see somebody run who s got some kind of spirit, you know. and i think that there is, even in the donor class, a hunger for, is there someone else. they assume it s going to be hillary, but they say, you know, is there someone else. my problem is, i think only hillary clinton can turn on that first global generation. they want change. bernie sanders is turning out these big crowds of exactly who you re talking about. he is, but i actually think he s somewhat limited in that he has to run against the first woman president. one of the reasons i supported