he s going to hurt democrats chances against trump. an interesting thing we found in our polls is that shults is most appealing to groups that have supported trump, men, white americans. those who approve of the job trump is doing as president. they re most likely to support shultz if he runs in 2020. who do you think should be more worried if he runs? republicans or democrats? well, you know, i think it s very early to answer that question. that s interesting polling, it depends where shultz, what lane he choses to run. does he run in the center right space. is he smack dab in the middle or is he center left? i mean, it matters, and who he pulls votes from, i think will depend on his policy positions. right now, they appear pretty centrist, maybe a little bit center left, which is why i think the democrats have responded the way they have,
a place for him in this field? i really doubt. early on you had the legacy republican party desperately wanted jeb bush to run. up through september, october, up until pretty much thanksgiving, it really looked like bush was not going to run. that s when you started seeing this ground swell for chris christie build up. it was looking for a center right, but not right-right candidate. the day it started looking like jeb bush was going to run, that was the end to me, that was like the end for chris christie. the bridge stuff, unless he s indicted it s beside the point. all the air has been out of his sails for a couple months now. to me, if there s a competitor for jeb bush in that sort of center right space, it s more likely to be marco rubio than chris christie. let s listen to hillary clinton today at a round table.
viable political party. they ll be a remnant party. if they want to go more in the christie direction which is conservative, they ll continue to be competitive in elections. it s the choice of republicans all across the country. but if they nominate somebody who is so out of step with the american public, that they get wiped out in the 2016, then you could have another kind of barry goldwater situation from 1964. robert, what did you think of chris christie s intervention there? as we know, you covered the you right flank in iowa. what did you think of christie s intervention? i ve spoken to sources in his inner circle. they actually are trying to be strategic right now. they see this massive fight building on the far right of the party. and as 2016 nears, they think they can up an the center right space. he s starting to make his opening sal vol in that