who felt unheard by washington and the washington establishment for so long are taking over their party. it s what some of donald trump s enthusiasm comes from, ben carson s, very traditional iowa candidate, conservative, upset with washington, d.c. and the way that s working. i think the difference, and we just saw it a little bit in that last segment, is that carson doesn t have the same policiepo proposals laid out that mike huckabee did, that a rick santorum did when they took off in iowa. it will be interesting over the next couple of months, does he match up that social conservative rhetoric, that populist outrage at washington, d.c. with the type of policies agenda that a blue collar conservative of rick santorum or mike huckabee former governor had that led them to win iowa. do you think ben carson s fluid discussion about what he s going to do about medicare and medicaid, do you think that hurts him? you had that conversation. you had a conversation over amnesty. he tradit
cnn s sunlen serfaty is here with us. and donald trump wrapped up his last rally after 1:00 a.m. he just arrived back here in new york landing at jfk. not the pomp and circumstance with hillary clinton landing though. at his final rally, we saw donald trump get a little reflective calling it quite the long journey indeed. 511 days since he declared his candidacy for president. what we got in the closing message was classic vintage donald trump. he argued against the rigged system. he attacked corrupt washington establishment and of course he went after hillary clinton. it did seem he made an effort to try to strike an optimistic tone at the end. here is part of the closing message in grand rapids, michigan. i m asking you to dream big because with your vote we are just hours away from the change you ve been waiting for your
you ve laid it out pretty clearly. are you happy that the fact that, hey, right now, the candidates that are trading positions at the top, none of them belong to the so-called establishment. it s all different forms of outsiders, whether trump, whether carson, now cruz. well, chuck, i m glad that this central theme of this campaign has been one that i think is the most important, which is that washington is corrupt. washington s not broken. it works very well. it just works for incumbent politicians, their consultants and lobbyists who profit off the status quo. so the theme of the campaign, we need to come to washington, drain the swamp, we re not part of the corrupt washington establishment that s made the republican party soulless for so many years and i think you are going to see a winner. somebody who goes out with an optimistic solution to make life for everybody, and it s going to start with disrupting a broken washington, d.c. that only works for the well connected. ben, in