that comment came despite the president within the past week having described both trump both as uniquely unqualified and temperamentally unfit for the presidency, a point white house press secretary josh earnest was pressed on repeatedly today. look, the president s views hasn t changed. he stands by what he said on the campaign trail. he had an opportunity to make he made that argument vigorously. all across country but the american people decided. the election is over. the president didn t get to choose his successor. the american peopl did and they ve chosen president-elect trump and president obama is determin t to preside over transition that gives the incoming president the opportunity to get a running start. while trump went through the normalitualsls today, there were ominous signs throughout the country of a verybnorormal future. trump refusing to let a group of journalists travel withim to cover his meeting with president position trump s staff restoring a page on hi
are struggling. they ve been struggling for a long time. they see these other pces that are doing so incdibly well an the democrats, let s face it, the dememocrats have become more and more the party of those places that are doing very well. so it becomes almost culturay more difficult for them to reach out to these places that are struggling. and finally just one thing, because we re talking about these thin margins. james comey s decision to write that letterine days before the election then a few days, you know, seven days later say actually there s nothing t see here, i think therere s very strong evidence that was pretty decisive. here s the late breaking late deciders breaking for trump. people that broke in the last week, 50%-38%. the internal polling and da we have, rnc data shows the first week of october, two battleground states within three points. last weekend, 13 battleground states within 3 points. i mean, how is you sense of how important that was? absolutely imimp
that had voted for obama in 2008 and d 12 decided to vote for donald trump this year. many of them, white people without college degrees. the 700 counties nationwide that voted for obamama twice, only two-thirds of them stuck with the democrats and hillary clinton according to the washiton n post, about a third flipped to trump this year. by contrast of the 2,200 country counties that never voted for obama, clinton only managed to flip six. this ishat that looks like across the country. those dark orang areas of the two-titime obama counties that went for trump this year. note the clulusters in the northeast, the upper midwest. you don t need to zoom out quite so far to understand what happened on tuesday. you just need to focus on three spifific states that sealed trump s electoral college victory.y. michigan wchch remains too close to call, though trump holds the lead. previously been part of the so-called blue wall, a solid bloc of states that voted for the democrat in every prese
we showed - one level w we ta about the sort of the normal transfer of power, and in some ways there are certain ways that that s important. normal. part of the cic bullwo.. those stories that we re seeing, they re now, you know, people post things on facebook and we as a journalistic enterprise have to make sure that s vetted and true. one case in louisiana of woman making something up, but it t is clear that there are outbreaks of hate crime, hate speech, being directed at people connected to the word trump. right. very specifically. and there are a lot of people in this cntryry that feel like a target. yeah. they feel like targets for good reason. ththis was happening beforehand. d d it happen in emory. i have a colleague in silver spring, maryland, woke up the next morning, a watermelon had been smashed and smemeed on the front of her car. a colleague of yours the morning after the election? a colleague of mine the morning after the election. i m getting text mess
government functions. those are not the people in trump s immediate circle. the people who ran his campaign, i mean, look, we were saying off the air that i was getting e-mails and notes from people in trump s campaign in the final days of the race who are trying to make nice with me and, you know, repair any damaged relationships because they thought that this campaign was over. they thought that after november 8th, we would have to be working together again. now that they find themselves in this situation, where they are now counseling the president-elect to the united states, i mean, i don t i think a lot of them probably are stunned and they re trying to they re trying to feel their way through it right now. key point here, which i think bears repeating, people talk about no one saw this coming and people were caught unaware and the elite liberal bubble, et cetera, that includes the trump campaign. let s just be very clear. thei they re included in that. the rnc s own inter