she s a political reporter at the daily beast. she s been doing reporting on the republican field, the republican base. can you talk a little bit about the kind of audience that ben carson has cultivated over the last three or four years even before he got into the race to run for president? yeah. well, ben carson s audience is extraordinarily loyal and extraordinarily devoted. one thing that i ve heard from fund-raisers i talked to is that pretty much any e-mail blast that has ben carson s picture on it or is purported to be from him automatically does better than other outreach efforts. conservative, older, christian, republicans love ben carson. his demeanor is really distinct. he comes off as very soft-spoken, very humble, kind of an iron fist in a velvet glove type situation. he says these things that are extraordinarily perplexing but in a way that isn t inflammatory. kind of the anti-trump. yes, but that s what i find so confounding. he is so soft-spoken. he is his disposi
yeah. well, ben carson s audience is extraordinarily loyal and extraordinarily devoted. one thing that i ve heard from fund-raisers i talked to is that pretty much any e-mail blast that has ben carson s picture on it or is purported to be from him automatically does better than other outreach efforts. conservative, older, christian, republicans love ben carson. his demeanor is really distinct. he comes off as very soft-spoken, very humble, kind of an iron fist in a velvet glove type situation. he says these things that are extraordinarily perplexing but in a way that isn t inflammatory. kind of the anti-trump. yes, but that s what i find so confounding. he is so soft-spoken. he is his disposition is so different than what you would expect from a politician, and yet he is saying things, and i think it s in some ways starting to catch up to him, that are really inflammatory. i thought just to editorialize for a moment here, i thought the thing he said about the oregon massacre was
and now he s getting some help from his family, is that right? that s right, and this is really interesting. i asked bush yesterday why it is that trump is leading him in his own state of florida in the new quinnipiac poll, and he said, look, i m beating hillary clinton, trump is losing to her. there you have it. that s not true, trump is leading clinton in that poll in florida as well. he s now pulling out some of the big guns in his family. he s getting some fund-raising help from his brother, george w. bush. he sent an e-mail blast telling them jeb has a tough road ahead but with his strength and their support, he will succeed. later this fall george w. bush and george h.w. bush are going to be holding a fund-raiser, hosting a fund-raiser for jeb bush in houston. that s in october. so he s got some big fund-raising events on the calendar. pamela? athena jones, thank you so much for wrapping it up for us.
republicans. kind of saying i know they re going to do this to me. and we just got an e-mail blast from reince priebus, the head of the republican national committee. and he basically said that she is unwilling to shoot straight. she is refusing to take responsibility for her own actions. so you see the ping pong ball. and how important is that to the republican arsenal in terms of trying to take her down, the trust issue? a good question. obviously any politician would rather be trusted than not. the evidence historically is that trust is not usually the decisive factor in how voters assess the candidates. in 1996 on the day bill clinton was reelected, in the exit poll a majority of americans said they did not consider him honest and trustworthy and yet they voted for him any way. he won by 8 points. other attributes empathy, ideology ultimately matter more.
what are we hearing from federal court? there s been a one-hour delay in this hearing that was just announced. we won t know anything new until 2:30. there has been a big dispute before this appearance about whether or not the daredevil mailman gave anybody a head s up he was coming in for a landing at the capitol. secret service and capitol police say he did not. a reporter from florida who doug hughes tipped off disagrees. he sent an e-mail blast to all media outlets to the secret service, pointing to his website and live stream videos. we were watching it from the starbucks up the road. everybody had access to it. last hour we got word from the top ranking democrat on the house oversight committee who expressed great concern about copycats. that the white house officials