much more pro trump than pro republican party. i think in a lot of ways this is a party of trump in a way i did not see before bush. we ve been studying this. we ask this question a lot to try to figure out. you are right the trump wing of the party is growing. here s what it was the last time we did it. do they support the president? 57%. are they more of a trump supporter than republican? 57% of republicans call themselves that. but that s 40 % of the party call themselves a republican before. here s my final point to that. then you take him on the same way that barack obama took on hillary, by expanding the electorate. the conventional democratic electorate, we lost to hillary clinton. we expand the electorate. what s a republican who can expand the republican elector e electorate. if you re looking at a conservative idealism, jeff flake or ben sass or a john kasich independent kind of protest candidate, that s one thing. if 2019 goes badly is where you
under investigation, if they process the information, perhaps it stops. more importantly, before this news, the race had sed seth ttl. the pollsters have been in a panic pause they think they re in a plane with turbulence. some of the data doesn t make sense. not because they ve taken sides but because they re confused by the data? they re numbers people. there are gold standard people in both parties who do this. they re like, what s happening? the volatility of the lelector e electorate. the unorthodoxy. the beiaggage clinton has. look at the new nbc/ wall street journal poll, the numbers make sense. the demographic groups are lining up in a way that the pollsters are saying, data finally settled and makes sense. at the point it is at right now, she has a bigger national lead than president obama had over mitt romney four year ago.