tuesday, it s hard to see how the establishment gets itself back in the game. with lindsey graham losing or getting out of the race here, there is no longer a single republican candidate for president who supports comprehensive immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship. that s going to be deadly for them in the general election. i want to get this in, too. we were talking about this earlier. donald trump and hillary clinton getting into this dust of hillary saying he helps isis recruitment. jeb bush today weighed in on that and he sided with donald trump. you have the quote upon your screen. he says there is no evidence talk about chutzpah, there is no evidence of that at all. i can t believe she said that without any evidence. the whole point of the jeb bush campaign after that last debate was to be good night who stands up to donald trump. now he s defending trump. poor jeb is stepping on his message there the sad thing is
continue to be part of the process, contribute their wisdom to the process and help heal our country. for the latest i m joined now by msnbc political reporter kasie hunt. so graham, watching the polls here, just getting 1% in his home state. not too much higher than he was getting in many other polls. supporters will not make a difference if we just look at that number. but could his endorsement make the difference here? he did so well for mccain in earlier cycles here. sure, richard. well, senator graham, of course, has said that the reason his numbers in south carolina were so low is because voters there wanted to see him get traction elsewhere. that wasn t happening. he thought he could potentially look to new hampshire as a place where he could win, but between not being able to get onto that main debate stage and not catching on, he hasn t been able to get where he wanted to be, and of course this was the last day where he could assure that
but it s a problem for the republican party. that they are not coalescing behind one candidate for the establishment lane. there s a scenario in which you can see them not even making a third place an establishment candidate not even getting third, maybe just taking fourth place. yeah, on that point, talk about the union leader, the state s biggest newspaper. this is not a typical endorsement, like on the one day and that s it. the union leader is driving this home for chris christie or trying to. does that muck things up potentially for the establishment? rubio, maybe he s at 10, 15%, or bush if he s there, trying to grow their support, with the biggest paper in the state pushing christie. does that complicate things? it does. especially for marco rubio, who right now, has the most potential to grow in new hampshire. even though he hasn t been here as much as other candidates have
maybe would offend the tea party and to say, i am out here to prove the republican brand is something different than you think it might be. steve? it s a great point. hard to remember, but all the talk was could the graham-mccain wing stop rand paul? thank you for that. we played the tape. it was funny to watch that. but lindsey graham, more than anybody else, has tried to make the case against donald trump, his his style, against his policy, against the idea of nominating donald trump. what does it say about the republican party that he got zero traction doing that? i think it s hard to argue with team stupid using rational arguments. but donald trump has not the majority of republicans support him. he s the second or third choice for the majority of republicans. i got to tell you, we re seeing him push near 40% and
show trump called on clinton to apologize. when asked if clinton would apologize, her spokesman said, quote, hell no. just last hour, a clinton spokesman backed up clinton s claims that trump is being used to help recruit terrorists. there is footage all across the middle east airing of the comments that he made and the proposal he laid out to bar muslims generally from entering the united states. but pollit fact said there s no evidence that isis is using videos of donald trump as a recruiting tool. trump is set to hold a rally in grand rapids today. katy, the democratic base doesn t like donald trump. the republican base doesn t like hillary clinton. each candidate serving their own interest by going after each other. reporter: a cynic would be right. i think it s interesting what you said earlier, this sounds like a general election race, rather than a primary race.