it seems like his entire strategy is, earned media. is he just rewriting the rules of campaigning? he is certainly playing by different rules. as a celebrity candidate, we re about to cover a donald trump press conference. when was the last scott walker or marco rubio press conference we covered live? there is a difference between being the voice of a faction and being a full scale competitor for the presidency. he is at 18% in both these polls. you can do that. it is a lot tougher eventually to get to 38% or 45%, which is what you need to do to actually win when the race narrows. the other thing to keep in mine. when you look at how quickly john kasich and carly fiorina moved up, at some point we are still measuring clouds. they can be blown away very quickly. it is pretty shallow at this point and subject to events that have not yet occurred yet. particularly the buying of
not one of the remaining nine candidates joined megyn kelly in taking the shot at trump. not one. yet we have been told there were orders from republican donors to take trump out. so leslie what s the conservative belief? that that it was the fault of the moderators? the candidates? what is at odds with the mainstream republican party leaders and what they believe? it s a difficult situation when you have a celebrity candidate like this who is bombastic, who likes to engage the fight. i think the candidates did the right thing in focusing on their issues, their strengths, their introduction otherwise their airtime would have been devoted on fighting the counterattacks and rebuking a lot of what donald trump that s what they would have been known for. they re bet, for example, like marco rubio or ted cruz to really talk about their co-jebtgent ideas, get into the weeds on
trump. they want a celebrity candidate. i caught up with trump s campaign, the candidate, he s loving this debate sitting up in the 757 plane reading article after article and relishing the moment. we only have one moment here. do women my top producer here things women don t like his style. they think it s brash and too much, whatever you want to call it, dismiss sieve. what do you think about women. regular white guys, white guys are rooting for him. he s he s sort of anti intellectual and women are taking the race seriously and think people will have problems because he s not telling us what he ll do for the country other than i want everybody to be rich and i want to be better than everyone else. i wouldn t if i were him, either. [ laughter ] one of scott walker s
mccain have pushed more traditional republican candidates to fight back. as he has come forward as we ve gotten to see the real donald trump i ve got some real problems with that. i think that what he is saying and what he is doing is not necessarily moving the cause of conservatism forward. our number one goal is to win the white house back. reporter: this very public rift amongst fellow gop-ers is worrying party officials. the name calling has to stop. we ve got to remember what ronald reagan taught us his 11th command, thou shall not speak ill of another republican. reporter: even though some have called for the celebrity candidate to drop out of the race that new poll shows 52% of republicans want trump to stay in. i m jeremy roth reporting. and you ve got to wonder what he s going to be like on the debate stage when they let him loose. i can t wait. trump has said he s yet to turn his attention to hillary clinton but when he does he says he will beat her easily. he a
maybe she s playing the license plate game who knows? who knows, but there is yes, definitely a stark contrast to the last time around but there s also i think, something interesting about almost radio silence until you get to the next stop. yeah, it couldn t be more different from last time. in 2007 she announced the campaign also by video in january and a week later went to iowa and it was this big huge sort of celebrity fest in terms of her and her people and her secret service operation and all these camera crews, reporters, thousands and thousands of people in the room. that is not what she s doing this time not yet anyway. she s going to do these intimate events, as joy mentioned, in smaller settings. hard to see how she s going to pull this off, given she is the celebrity candidate. one of the most popular politicians in the world. and most famous. so how they are going to pull this off, i have no idea but this is the plan she knows what she did wrong last time she s see