lovely story. is president trump s 2020 campaign taking a page out of former president obama s playbook? our next guest says yes and says the democrats could be hopelessly behind before the general election begins. joining me is former national press secretary for president obama s 2012 re-election campaign, ben la bolt. you wrote the column which sent shock waves throughout the democratic establishment because of this sentence what worries me is i have implemented many aspects of the strategy that the trump campaign has been executing. this is the way obama did it. what do you mean? i have been taking a look at how the primary process is playing out. we have 23 candidates competing on the democratic side of the aisle. we have a number of great candidates who could all beat president trump. but that has left donald trump with a free year as democrats have focused on winning the primary and meeting targets like qualifying for the dnc debates.
barth, thank you very much for being with us this morning. we are monitoring the progress of people still in the hospital. sammy, we hope you get into your home soon. thank you. thomas, thank you very much for all the information. you re welcome. thank you. bye-bye. it s scary. we have a bunch of cranes outside the building here. a lot of construction going on. so many cities have cranes dotting the skyline. you have to have been trained well to know what you are doing. all right. the trump re-election campaign looks just like the obama re-election campaign in 2012. it s not me saying that. it s the press secretary for the obama campaign. your cold sore? only abreva can get rid of it in. .as little as 2 1/2 days when used at the first sign. abreva starts to work immediately to block the virus and protect healthy cells. abreva acts on it. so you can too.
next tuesday, it may all come down to a state like north carolina which hadn t been in play for democrats before so motivating those voters to protect things like the 20 million who were ensured because of obamacare or wall street reform, that s on the line on tuesday night. he won north carolina 2008 but narrowly lost it in 2012, as you, i m sure, sadly, remember. i do. but more importantly from your perspective, he won the election. exactly. that s what matters on tuesday as well. ben la bolt, thank you for bringing back memories from years past. after the break, we ll look back at a very historic moment in presidential campaign history. you ll want to see this. we ll be right back. what i love most
problem, but recent polling and polling for the last year or two has shown that about 2/3 of republicans do not want their president or person they pick for president to compromise and work and divide government and cut deals. while about 2/3 of democrats say yeah, they would like to see their guy or gal put together a coalition and compromise. so there s a real imball lapse here that works against anyone coming in and trying to get things done. ben, i would expect that we re going to see a lot of the president on the 2016 trail, not just because he thought the 2014 strategy of candidates distancing himself was a bad one, but so much of his legacy mings on having a democrat in the white house. i think you re right. we seen the strongest private sector job creation of all time. we ve seen millions of americans have health insurance for the first time. he s going to be out there making sure that those pieces of his legacy are intact, and you see the republicans who are
of establishment, but for heaven sakes, this is not mr. smith goes to washington. but stewart, he s convinced people somehow maybe it s through unpredictable rhetoric that he is a populist, right? listen, what happens in these polls and ben knows this when you re for someone, you re for them all the way. you re not going to be for dr. carson and say well, he would be bad on the nuclear codes. it doesn t make sense. when you re for your candidate, you re for your candidate to be president. these things chaenk. i don t think the party is going to nominate someone who has not been in office before. i could be wrong, but i don t think i m going to be wrong on this one, though. whether these poll numbers translate to votes, we re looking tonight in kentucky where matt bevin, who is an insurgent candidate, who was trounced by the establishment candidate is now the governor of kentucky.