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 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 start seeing tom cottons or
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
he s got 49.9%, 48.4%, that s more than .5% so it s not going to be an automatic recount. not an automatic recount at all. they seem to be subjecting the secretary of state was about to offer them a lifeline, some path to recount and jake just pressed him there with the exact right questions and the secretary of state was quite candid saying i don t see this happening, given our state history, success of running elections in the past, i don t see this happening. the question is, let s respect the process. what could happen? how many military ballots are outstanding? enough to swing 20,000 votes? that s most unlikely. how many of these would be disqualified? have to be qualified for the job. you have to be qualified to be a senator from the state of alabama. need to live in alabama, meet the eligibility age for the senate. some of these could be thrown out if people wrote in a protest candidate, wrote in wolf blitzer, wrote in john king, we don t live in alabama. we can t be that cand
stkp president trump arriving. we will bring that to you live when he speaks. we just heard from colonel lee busby, retired marine n a last ditch effort to win alabama s senate seat. he s up against roy moore who s been accused of sexual misconduct. joining me now, chris stirewalt. what did you think? i think he would make a good choice. he said he s not here to hurt roy moore. he said, i m here for law and order, infrastructure. he said the things that alabamans would want to hear from any candidate. he opted not to make himself a protest candidate. i think that was a good idea. dana: i mention there s only been two successful write in candidacies in the last 60
sciutto, watching the president speaking, you know, in greece, right, and then having a reporter in the audience ask the greek prime minister, who said donald trump was evil at one point, how he feels about the american president-elect now. well, i ll tell you, it s interesting, because tsipras, you could argue, is one of the first populists elected in this wave of populist also leaders in european countries. he was the protest candidate for european plans for the greece economy. i don t think the message from him about the election was really that delicate. it was delivered in delicate terms. he said the following, talking about the die vicive rhetoric that helped lead to the election of trump. he said, we know what happens when europeans start dividing themselves up. the 20th sent rcentury was a bloodbath. he says we in america have had experiences like this too.