that is too far for donald trump s donors. i called over 100 of them. i spoke to five of them. they love him. they don t care what he says. some of them said frankly what he says doesn t matter to them because for them it s just about the fact that donald trump looks like someone who s not going to let them get screwed over by the system because he hasn t let himself be screwed over by the system. so they think he s just going to do things to benefit them. he s going to make huge fabulous deals that will protect them as americans. and they really believe him. they take him at his word for it. but again, ted cruz in terms of the politics of this i think is absolutely right. if he were to come out and condemn donald trump for any of his policies no matter how outrageous they are, how unconstitutional, how un-american, i don t think it would help him in terms of getting donald trump s supporters were he to ever leave this race. so in this test of conservative loyalty between cruz and tr
that she will be the contender against him in the general election. biden, he hasn t said a negative word about biden so far. but you never know with donald trump. katy tur, thanks so much. for more reaction, i want to bring in kasie hunt. you ve been following social media, there s a lot coming in from lots of different camps. kate, a lot of graciousness on display for vice president joe biden, underscoring just how well liked he is in all corners of washington. we did hear from bernie sanders who has plenty of personal reasons to be happy with the vice president s decision. he had this to say today in new york. i don t think we have that cued up, kasie, but you want to paraphrase for us? yes. well, bernie sanders basically said thank you for joe biden s service in the race or as vice president, for a lifetime
so you see the motorcycles are about to take off. that means we hope that the pope is coming. it is important to note that our carol, let us know as he comes by. there he is. papa francisco. the crowd goes crazy. the crew has all abandoned positions. we did leave to go see the pope. we are not making that up. there is francis. he s coming there now. the people are lining the streets there. the motorcade is all cued up. we will see how long a trip he takes. and the closer he gets the louder it gets. let s listen in. there he is. oh, my goodness. [ cheers and applause] .
list and editor of the daily beast. and john, what do you make of the biggest lead of donald trump? this has not been a summer fancy. it appears not to be. first of all, you re talking multiples of what other people in the field are. multiples of what governors of major states are doing. but what is striking to me is the combination of the trump 32% and the ben carson number. that s a majority of republicans who support candidates with szeo percent for government leading right now. that speaks to the anger of the protest vote consuming the gop and is a real warning sign. let me show you this. when asked why people are voting for donald trump, what they like most about them, i don t know if we have this cued up, but 21% like he s a business man. 71% say his positions on the issues. but wait for it, 5% say because
lovely. so it turns out that ted cruz was smart to have gone early. he broke into an open field. he did it by surprise. if you recall it was, well it s a sunday, ted cruz well what s coming up and blamo ted cruz had his event at an event scheduled to take place at liberty university. he got in there, did it had a big crowd and caught the national press largely by surprise. rand paul telegraphed his moves weeks and weeks and weeks in advance. everybody knew he was coming so they were ready for him. was that a disadvantage then? how is that a disadvantage? substantial disadvantage because all of the 38,000 negative stories about rand paul that were going to be cued up, is he like his dad, is he mean does he not like lady reporters this, that and the other thing, all of those stories were cued up so that by the time he hit the door they were pouring down on his head and the press could follow him around for a couple days. ted cruz got to come out, say hi and run off to iowa. what