President ial primary, whether or not the Republican Party was going to have a hard time accepting donald trump as their partys new leader and as their partys president ial nominee. There has been a lot of opinion expressed, a lot of speculation about it. On this show we tried to stay focused on the data rather than just the opinion on this matter. I think most of the data suggests that the Republican Party is not having that hard a time accepting donald trump as their nominee. After all mr. Trump received more votes in the republican primary this year than any republican president ial candidate has ever received before. Weve also been reporting that for all of the beltway ink thats spilled over this idea that republican elected officials and Party Leaders are having a hard time with mr. Trump there isnt that much evidence of anybody saying no to him. We reported last night we could find so few republican members of congress who were explicitly opposed to donald trump we thought as of
Good evening, im chuck todd in washington. Welcome to mtp daily. First of all, a few programming notes, Hillary Clinton is running late with chris hayes. The minute she does call in, i am we are going to show you chris hayes interview with Hillary Clinton. But everything is running a little bit late. Just want to get you updated on that. Lets talk about this wild day as usual in american president ial politics. What we saw earlier today from donald trump could best be described as press conference porn. Trumps Morning Press Conference was splashed all over the airwaves all day long and he ripped the press who cover him, furious at the scrutiny over millions of dollars that he believes he was always going to give to the veterans charity. The press fired back. It was a spectacle. But lets be real. This dog fight with the press is not the most important story of the day, of the week, of the mon month. Its just happening today with his face on it. The more important story took place over t