it s no lose. i find it strange that every single time donald trump attacks hillary clinton it s with the stupidest, least effective means possible. he attacked her for going to the bathroom. now he s trying to remind democrats of her more popular husband. it is true that he attacked her in those ways that you mentioned but that is true of basically all his attacks. grant bossy, thank you very much. thanks, chris. joining me betsy woodruff of the daily beast. i ve read two or three articles that put together an interesting game theory problem for the republican field which is dave wiegle called it the three stoojs problem after a simpson s episode where basically you have kasich and christie and jeb bush and to a certain extent marco rubio all trying to get through the door at the same time and that could split the vote enough that trump wins in new hampshire. i think the campaign changes
trump because it will help hillary clinton which struck me as a bit odd. i consume a lot of conservative media, i read a lot of conservative websites, magazines, the national review, daily caller and free beacon and listen to rush limbaugh. they re covering trump all the time. i don t know how much you consume yourself. it seems implausible that rush limbaugh or others are covering trump because they want to get hillary clinton elected. he s good for ratings but donald trump is a stocking horse for the clinton campaign. you really believe that? you think this is a thing, a setup? you think this is a conspiracy to put donald trump in the field to mess with the republican primary to get hillary clinton elected? conspiracy would imply a little more planning. i think donald trump has the ego to think that he should be president, but i think he got into this thinking that he didn t like some of the other republican candidates and that if it was him or hillary, well,
sanders theory that the folks that are being drawn to trump, particularly what we used to call the white working class are people that are gettable by a candidate like bernie sanders? i think there s no reason that couldn t be true. we re witnessing a civil war in the republican party. trump is currently bashing the republican party in virginia for saying people have to declare themselves republicans and take a loyalty vote in order to vote in the primary because he knows he s attracting people who are independents and who are just as bernie sanders describes, people who are really anxious, really upset. he s got a core group of white supremacist support. that group is probably not going to bernie sanders. as we know, he s actually got explicit support from white supremacist groups and he plays with racism and xenophobia which is toxic. there s a broader populist message that both sanders and trump are pushing that resonates with an awful lot of people which is you ve been sold a bi
homies. the first point made by sanders prompted a direct response. trump tweeted, bernie sanders who blew his campaign said that i feel wages in america are too high. lie. actually, it wasn t a lie. bernie sanders was entirely accurate. taxes too high. wages too high. we re not going to be able to compete against the world. we re becoming noncompetitive. i would love to say make it $50 an hour, i think it s great. it s a tough position politically. but you know what, we have to become competitive with the world. our taxes are too high. our wages are too high. everything is too high. on this issue trump has chosen not to dig in but to reverse course. of all people, it was bernie sanders who initial natd that. joining me, the editor of the progressive magazine. this is a theory i ve seen articulated in different contexts before. what do you think about bernie
love him. i spent a few hours today going back and reading 1992, particularly 1992 patrick buchanan coverage, particularly in new hampshire, a state he won. that was the same new hampshire voters in many ways and everything about patrick buchanan you could sub in trump and it reads the same, the people he s attracting, the way the establishment doesn t know what to do with him. we have seen this before. there s no guarantee that new hampshire with its wise voters chooses the person that isn t the anti-immigrant extremist. totally. the conventional wisdom that new hampshire is going to pick the establishment choice, those things are true until they re not. history is not a statistically significant sample size. we know that people who liked pat buchanan in 92 and 96 like donald trump right now. laura ingram s site ran an article a few months ago about how great pat buchanan was and how he needs to be resuscitated.