coming. so what are the democrats doing wrong? what did they do wrong now? john braybender ought to know. gentlemen, i respect both of you. so i want ask john to open up with the question and the answer 20 the question i keep having, why is there a silent majority for donald trump that didn t get picked up by pollsters? what is the disconnect? well, i think there were two different groups that were a little bit separate from one another. first of all, in states like wisconsin, michigan, and pennsylvania, you had a lot of blue collar democrats, many of them who were union members who were going to vote for donald trump. but believe me, they re not answering the phone and telling people publicly they re voting for donald trump. the second thing is donald trump was made toxic to a lot of college educated moderate women who are not going to publicly go out and say i m voting for donald trump. but in the day donald trump didn t win among them, but he didn t lose by the margins everybody
not rational and intellectual. and because he actually felt what they re feeling, or at least he conveyed what they re feeling in a more kind of empathetic and authentic way. and i happen to think that the policies he pursues are not going to be those that those voters are going to agree with, but we ll see. scale of one to ten, what are the chance trump will be a successful president? steve first. well, if he becomes a deal maker and goes the middle, he has a much better chance of being successful and getting reelected. give me a number. i would say four or five. john brabender, i mean a surprise to a lot of people, a successful president. reagan was a surprise. i think a seven or eight. people are going to find out very quickly, like they did last night, donald trump the president is going to be a lot different than donald trump the candidate. that s a prayer. that is a prayer for all of us. because i did think last night he was right on the mark with everybody worried
core base of supporters who have been with him the whole entire time, makes overtures within the party and perhaps beyond it. the three musketeers of him, newt, beyond that? that s beyond the immediate measure. going forward, remember in the republican primary, people like rubio, people like cruz went after him because they said he wasn t sufficiently conservative, that he represented more democratic values and that a lot of the things he was proposing required a lot from government. so i think in some ways he might be able to build some kind of coalition using a democratic jamil, if he does that, if he goes idealogically, he goes with a tight fisted crowd that won t spend any money, won t do anything. right. then he is stuck being a conservative do nothing. if he does what you say and goes on the hard right let you guys talk. i think he has to go to center and find some people that want to make this country great again. no, i agree he ll do that after he undoes whateve
moms is noncollege educated women overwhelmingly voted for donald trump in these states. and was that the case? and, again, they weren t going to talk to pollsters. what is it about the pollsters? do they see the pollsters as the media, as the establishment, as ivy leaguers? what is it about them that makes them think they can put a lawn sign up, but they re not going to tell somebody who they re voting for on the phone? one of the things we started to go through is start to ask people you may not be voting for donald trump, but do you think your neighbor is more likely to vote for them? we were finding the answer was absolutely. i think my neighbor might be there. the truth of the matter is these people do not trust pollsters. plus, quite frankly, a lot of the media made it toxic to say you were voting for donald trump. i agree with that. steve, give me your thoughts about this. i m still having a hard time getting myself used to standing on this earth right now. this is a diffe
and what he does remains to be seen. that s all we can say right now. okay. let me go back to andrew, and i ll be back to you in a minute. i want to know about the things that people care. a lot of the discussion on both sides, including a brother of mine very concerned about obamacare, wanting to keep it. do you think he is really going to eliminate the only federal program for people on health care for health care to give them a break, some subsidies, an opportunity to get a decent health care plan for their families? is he going to just rip that away and leave was nothing again? yes. why not? that s what he promised to do. that s what he ll do. he has never figured out what he is going throw place it to do. what are the middle class going to do? these bills are unbelievable. the medicine prices are beyond imagination. he doesn t care. until you get to medicare age, you re paying an unbelievable amount of money for medicine. he doesn t care. well, the voters do. he