he ll have to have the greatest by some order of magnitude to reverse the trend line. why do you think he would bring obama s half brother? maybe they re friends. how is that going to broaden his base? play golf together? i don t know. i don t get what the connection is. donald trump has been hitting hillary clinton s debate prep saying i m out here on the campaign trail. she s sleeping. she s sleeping. donald trump is on the trail but day in and day out he s at donald trump pep rallies. how does going to a rally with your core base who loves you no matter what, how does that broaden out who s going to vote for him? these people can t vote twice. let s look at this through a political strategy prism. you have the two most unpopular candidates in the history of polling running for president against each other. what s been true is the person for whom the race is about, the person that the spotlight is shining on, that s the person that is losing and i don t
she should be in jail. on and on and on. but here s the reality of this race fundamentally. you have the two most unpopular candidates in the history of polling running against each other. and whom he ever has the spotlight on them at any time is the person who is losing. so in the first debate, hillary clinton had a strategy to provoke him, to make him respond. he took the bait. every single time. that didn t happen today. she was not able to provoke him. and she was on defense on a number of these issues. through the course of the debate. but at a substantive level as we get ready for the third debate, you take the politics out of it, again, the next president of the united states should be able to speak coherently about what s happening in syria. and to be able to speak knowledgeably about what s happening in aleppo. and whether it was on the question of syria, whether it was his talking about the
right on track with what he s talking about. benghazi, the e-mails. she should be in jail. on and on and on. but here s the reality of this race fundamentally. you have the two most unpopular candidates in the history of polling running against each other. and whom he ever has the spotlight on them at any time is the person who is losing. so in the first debate, hillary clinton had a strategy to provoke him, to make him respond. he took the bait. every single time. that didn t happen today. she was not able to provoke him. and she was on defense on a number of these issues. through the course of the debate. but at a substantive level as we get ready for the third debate, you take the politics out of it, again, the next president of the united states should be able to speak coherently about what s happening in syria. and to be able to speak knowledgeably about what s happening in aleppo.
changing so quickly, the republicans i m talking to are saying, okay, if she wins presidency, we also lose both parts of dock, what does that mean for our party? are we fundamentally a party not moving with the times. republican party after that autopsy report they had was already struggling to figure out what they were going to do with the demographic changes in this country. now if your whole message is off, evangelicals one part and people former trump supporters another part and people maybe sympathetic to other people, i think it s really a problematic thing and republicans are very worried the ones i m talking to. steve, what happens after tonight? if trump does not do the contrition thing, what happens? so when you look at this race, you have the number one and number two most unpopular candidates in history of polling running against each other. the history of the race is what it s about. when the spotlight on trump he s