here, when president trump was running in 2016 he agreed for the most part not on everything but for the most part with his other candidates running for the republican nomination. no. he started his campaign calling mexicans rapists and drug dealers. no one else did. for the most part. and the policy issues, just hold on and give me one second. where he defined himself and differentiated himself and eventually won it on tone, right? he appealed to a republican party that was angry. my old boss jeb bush unfortunately didn t appeal because he wasn t an angry candidate. so, look. i think what this is in many ways maybe because jeb was telling the truth often? again, i think it was mostly tone. a lot of respects. so i think this reminds me in many ways of 2010. with immigration, we were actually winning the illegal immigration issue on many parts and i think again we can continue that in 2020 if they continue to talk about decriminalizing the border. however, in the last few week
of the earlier legislation it didn t appeal to anyone or have enough broad support. it is more important to get this with such a big role in the economy and in people s lives done correctly and pay larger dividends for all of congress in the long term. shannon: you know the president talked about withholding subsidy money to force democrats to come to the table. do you think he gets a single democrat vote in this thing? so much criticism of president obama without him passing it without one gop. this is history repeating itself. i feel we had this conversation four years ago i was on the opposite side of mollie saying it s time for the republicans to work with the president and now republicans are saying it s time for democrats to work with the president. chuck schumer doesn t plan on working with this president and feels he doesn t have to because republicans chose to work with barack obama.
siding with trump, many of whom are doing so reluctantly and another group who have been waiting all year for some alternative they can live with, because they couldn t go and vote for hillary clinton. you add on top of that his own personal morality, the reaction to the tape, the way he treats women, the way he just lashes out at people. reporter: this has made mcmullin appealing to many members of the church of latter day saints in utah. on top of that, there are more than 515,000 active registered voters unaffiliated with any party in the state. that may also bode well for the independent candidate. but for some, a mcmullin victory is ultimately a clinton victory. lds member maureen anderson voted for trump. you weren t swayed to perhaps vote for mcmullin? no. reporter: why not? what was it about him that didn t appeal to you? i just think that right now, it s a two-party system and voting for a third party candidate is not the way the
live, because they couldn t go and vote for hillary clinton. you add on top of that his own personal morality, the reaction to the tape, the way he treats women, the way he just lashes out at people. reporter: this has made mcmullin appealing to many members of the church of ladder day saints in utah. on top of that, there are more than 515,000 active registered voters unaffiliated with any party in the state. that may also bode well for the independent candidate. but for some, a mcmullin victory is ultimately a clinton victory. lds member maureen anderson voted for trump. you weren t swayed to perhaps vote for evan mcmullin? no. why not? what was it about him that didn t appeal to you? i just think that right now it s a two-party system and voting for a third party candidate is not the way the system works. and just because he s lds isn t a reason why i would pick someone to vote for. i think you need to vote your
day saints in utah. on top of that, there are more than 515,000 active registered voters unaffiliated with any party in the state. that may also bode well for the independent candidate. but for some, a mcmullin victory is ultimately a clinton victory. lds member maureen anderson voted for trump. you weren t swayed to perhaps vote for evan mcmullin? no. why not? what was it about him that didn t appeal to you? i just think that right now it s a two-party system and voting for a third party candidate is not the way the system works. and just because he s lds isn t a reason why i would pick someone to vote for. i think you need to vote your conscience. vote for what you feel is best for us as a country. reporter: stephanie elam, cnn, salt lake city, utah. and john king is back with some numbers. what is the electoral significance of utah? normally, anderson, not much. it s just six and we ve put them in the republican column. but let s just take a look, pop this out, tak