fact that he has not been able to, i think he wants to, but he s not been able to reach beyond his core support, which bubbles at 35 to 40. how about in the inaugural address, for those who didn t vote for me? yeah, but i don t think it really was the inaugural address that was a problem. his numbers weren t so bad then. it s the constant daily barrage of his crazy. i mean, of his tweets, his claims, his attacks, even on his own allies. he s a kind of destabilizing, daily, cultural presence, and i think that inhibits him and keeps him from growing in terms of his popularity. he seems not to be inviting people in. i think he d like to be inviting people in, but he gets in the way of the success of that endeavor. we re going to take a quick break, both of our guests have agreed to stick around.
what do you say to those republicans who say that you are spending way too much time talking about divisive cultural issues, that they don t want to get into a culture war, and if you re a nominee, this would doom you with women voters and in fact with independent voters. you know they re coming from high places in washington. the gallup poll said we re leading among women, and we re doing well. people care about families, people care about what s happening to our society. but i do get these questions, as john king tried to do, on contraception and other things that are sort of outrageous types of questions. and then the next question from the reporter is, why are you talking so much about social issues? so they ask, and then they say you re talking about social issues all the time. i understand the game and we re just going to stay on message about what we re going to do to make this country more prosperous, build up a strong foundation for our country which clearly is,
in fact with independent voters. you know they re coming from high places in washington. the gallup poll said we re leading in washington, we care about families, what is happening tooy society. i do get the questions, as john king tried to do on contraception and other things that are outrageous questions, and then the neck question is why are you talking so much about social issues? they ask and then they say, you re talking about social issues all the time. look, i understand the game. and we re just going to go out and continue to stay on message about what we re going to do to make this country more prosperous, build up a strong foundation of our country, which clearly is, as i talked about before, we have to do something to help strengthen the american family, and i m going to continue to talk about those things. thanks very much. good to see you. you got the microphone here. back to you, anderson. john king is on the stage with ron paul. john? anderson, to resp
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