their midst who understand that immigration and trade are good for america and i don t think these two halves of the party can coexist. what the republican primary taught is there aren t enough of those people because in a country with stagnating wages in a country circumscribed geographically that string of people don t give you voters. they do if you don t have 17 candidates. they didn t get a majority of the gop primary electorate. and he s probably going to do an all-time rotten job in terms of the electorate that s enough to win the republican primary. but that s not at all clear that that s enough to win the presidency. the party, under whatever they call it and however they do it, will have to figure out how to put together a coalition of people who on one hand reject libber at statism, on the other hand reject this sort of clown show that has been going on in the party now for eight or 12 or however long.
to learn something and come back at least with the appearance knowing what he is talking about. let s listen to what carson said about his policy credentials. first thing, i said for multiple months is that if we take the fight to them over there, we re much less likely to have to fight them over here. and i find it a little frustrating. i say things like that. nobody ever pays attention, carson doesn t know anything about foreign affairs bs. yet, everybody picks up on everything i say, including president obama and start using it, themselves. i think it s very, very australian him. so his suggestion is he initially introduced the idea of taking the fight over there, instead of bringing it here. is that sticking with the gop primary electorate? i think because there is such a wide group, a lot of them are saying that, even on both sides,
for instance, a majority of the current g.o.p. primary electorate is male while majority of the 2012 was female. a whopping 92% of current republican primary voters are white compared to just 72% of 2012 general election voters. as for african americans, 1% verses 13%. hispanics 4% verses 10 percent and the percentage of asians 1% verses 3%. it kind of, joining us now from washington, nbc news political director and moderator of meet the press, chuck todd. chuck, what does this tell us? it tells you that when you look at it, it is just two
maybe my editorial bias. i tend to prefer explanations for the vote that don t as a default invoke race and islamophobia and whatnot. and there are reasons why people support donald trump apart from those reasons. he is something different. there are voters who might be conservative on immigration but still kind of like social security and medicare and wouldn t mind a bigger health care system. those people exist. they might not be people who vote republican a lot but they exist. there are also trump voters who jump on the bandwagon, he s a winner, he s huge in the polling. but yeah, there s another element of it too which i think ppp not my favorite pollster but 2/3 of trump supporters believe that obama is a muslim. that s 54% of voters overall in the gop primary electorate. it s pretty high overall. it s a little bit higher among trump supporters. you said ppp is a democratic-leaning firm and i think they do poll sometimes
she pays a price in the horse race. acknowledging and responding to the sexist appearance coverage helps the woman regain some of the ground that she lost. right. in this instance, we ve seen carly fiorina go up in the polls. right. she s now up in the latest poll. do you think that this only helps in terms of getting her heard, seen, and people then get an opportunity to know who carly fiorina is? i actually do. i mean, this is not a good thing to be attacked in this ugly way by donald trump. but she s handled herself so well. and what the research shows as you re pointing out is that when women are attacked in a sexist way if they re attacked based on their appearance, if they respond and they call it out, they can actually see a gain in the polls. i wouldn t be surprised the of see that in carly fiorina s case. and she has handled herself really well here and already was making good impressions with the gop primary electorate. we know the next debate she s going to be on