poll that seems to come out. but there are also those interesting tidbits in this quinnipiac poll today, asking people whether they would be proud or embarrassed of donald trump as their president. and 50% of the people saying that he would be embarrassed. do you anticipate that having an impact at all? well, the hillary number is pretty high, too. 37% or so say they d been embarrassed. i don t even know about those words. i think that s not good polling. i don t know what that exactly accomplishes. ask people who they want to be president and move on. i don t know what embarrassed means. that s a chance for somebody on the other side to take a whack at somebody they don t like politically. it s just another chance to humiliate the other candidate. if you re a liberal, progressive, a moderate, you can slap trump with that one. if you re a conservative, you can slap hillary. i m not impressed with that kind of poll question, but i know we have it and we use it. i just don t know w
up being a two-man race. between donald trump and me. and i think that presents a good choice to the american people. joining me now, ken vogel from politico and aaron mcpike. aaron, ladies first. is it too soon to say that or could we be looking at a two-man race. we ve been hearing for from a number of political strategists, it could be a two-man race, between marco rubio and ted cruz. but as ted cruz and trump have pointed out, it could be between trump and cruz. i was out with cruz over the weekend and his crowds are huge. they re not the size of donald trump s yet, but the kind of support that he s getting, every sentence gets cheers, it gets applause, it gets laughter. his audiences hang on his every word. and you can see that at the events. he s doing really well. he s been building up support, a
around where my relatives live, around south jersey, philadelphia, the suburbs with tb middle inner suburbs and we get middle, middle people, regular people, i think they re looking for a change from what they ve been given. i think there s going to be a counterestablishment vote here. but again, it s going to be chopped up with people in this case, the east coast people, where the reagan democrats are really from, the big cities around the big cities, i would say trump will have a better shot at them. christie will get a piece of it, a small slice, but i think trump will get them. we re not going to know that answer until we have a general election, honestly, erica, because if trump makes it to the general election, that s when it will come into play, where those people do move over and vote for him, those democrats. but the primary season is pretty much run by progressives and, you know, moderate progressives, very progressive, people in the hard left. i m not sure they re going to
as wave mentioned, today is senator ted cruz s birthday. and there s a lot of talk about the latest 2016 polling and whether or not it s a nice little birthday gift for him. those new numbers from quinnipiac show donald trump maintaining his lead, with 28% of the vote, as you can see there. but look at who is in second. ted cruz, just four points behind trump. no other candidate in that polling tops 12%. and there s an interesting bit of information about the people who are backing these top two republicans. 36% of those who support cruz say their mind is made up, he s their guy. but, look, there is some room for others to change. about two-thirds. those numbers are flipped when we look at donald trump. two-thirds of them, almost, say their mind is made up. trump is their man. 36% say they re not totally sold. cruz talked about the competition between the two today. i did think it was interesting that donald trump said a couple of days ago that he thinks this race will come down to h
pretty big infrastructure throughout the country. since he launched his campaign in march, and at this point, he s he s just really identifying with these voters, and they seem to love him. identifying with them. they seem to love him, which is sort of what we re hearing about trump, two, but on two very different levels. ken, what is it about these cruz supporters at these rallies. where is he connecting with them versus where trump is connecting with his supporters. he s actually leading trump among evangelical voters, folks who identify as part of the republican party. so that s encouraging for him. additionally encouraging for him in this poll is the fact that he leads hillary clinton in a head-to-head matchup, where both hillary clinton and bernie sanders lead donald trump in head-to-head matchups. that has to give him and his supporters some confidence that as some of these folks who have not yet made up their minds start to focus a little bit