for more now on trump let s bring in ben ferguson and former reagan white house political director jeffrey lord. trump s rivals including carly fiorina, jeb bush, mike huckabee, spoke out about truchtruc trump s comments about megyn kelly. as a party we are better to risk losing without donald trump than trying to win with him. enough already with mr. trump. is this going to benefit any of the candidates? i mean, i imagine them actually and truly genuinely believe what they re saying in these statements. ben, i ll come to you first. is there some benefit here to coming out strongly against trump? for some of the candidates, yes, especially if you re low in the polls. coming out against donald trump in this point i really don t think hurts you especially if
union-busting merit pay bill for teachers. so can charlie crist reinvent himself as a centrist democrat ask get back into the governor s mansion? polls indicate that, yes, he would beat rick scott but some democrats say no, and here s part of an ad currently running on youtube from his democratic opponents supporting his primary challenger, nan rich. i work to be the people s governor every day. you, the people, were in charge. hi, this is charlie crist calling to set the record straight. i m pro life, i oppose amnesty for illegal immigrants, i support traditional marriage, paid for by charlie crist, republican for governor. the people, always have, always will. okay, but here s the thing. republican politics, so toxic right now, has shown the danger of purity tests. if crist can win, would democrats be starter to embrace the convert rather than risk losing? that s essentially what happened in 2010 when enough democrats stuck with the purer candidate,
i m teasing my brother there. did you find yourself successful as a guy who s known to be for gun control in areas of the state that are very tough on that? did you change any minds? did you manage to win minds over on this issue? that s where we are right now. when i ran for re-election, i carried counties and mercer county that are nra counties because i d done other stuff. not because i convinced them about guns. and one last thing. and martin o malley has done this consistently as governor. it s about time our elected officials risk their future. if you have to risk losing, risk it on protecting children. risk it on doing something incredibly meaningful to end this carnage. if you re not going to risk for something like that, then why are you in office? let me bring it back to that question. we had a senator joseph clark, a
i m teasing my brother there. did you find yourself successful as a guy who s known to be for gun control in areas of the state that are very tough on that? did you change any minds? did you manage to win minds over on this issue? that s where we are right now. when i ran for re-election, i carried counties and mercer county that are nra counties because i d done other stuff. not because i convinced them about guns. and one last thing. and martin o malley has done this consistently as governor. it s about time our elected officials risk their future. if you have to risk losing, risk it on protecting children. risk it on doing something incredibly meaningful to end this carnage. if you re not going to risk for something like that, then why are you in office? let me bring it back to that question. we had a senator joseph clark, a classic reformer. this is what killed him, gun control. it s for real.
on this issue? that s where we are right now. when i ran for re-election, i carried counties and mercer county that are nra counties because i d done other stuff. not because i convinced them about guns. and one last thing. and martin o malley has done this consistently as governor. it s about time our elected officials risk their future. if you have to risk losing, risk it on protecting children. risk it on doing something incredibly meaningful to end this carnage. if you re not going to risk for something like that, then why are you in office? let me bring it back to that question. we had a senator joseph clark, a classic reformer. this is what killed him, gun control. it s for real. it can ruin a career. but our ability to grow as a people is also for real. our ability to evolve, our ability to look at the fact that our gun laws and the ability for