my high of time who won. carter, clinton and obama did that and were abled the both. in 2016, hillary clinton wasn t able to do the swing voter thing. so whoever comes out of this primary has to be able to excite their base, which donald trump will do for his base, and talk to the swing voters who narrowly defeated our candidate in 2016. good to have you. thank you for being here. russian hackers set their sights on the democratic national committee again. this time in the last days after last november s mid-term elections. that s according to a democratic official who says hackers tried to trick people into clicking on an e-mail that would have let them into their computer systems. it is what cyber security types call a spear phishing attack. so explain how this went down. what was the gimmick? yes before the two weeks after the mid-term elections in
that s the voter in the democratic primary, right, as a wiseman named barack obama said to me, you have to win the primary before you win the general. especially in a primary this big, you have to focus on democratic voters. you have to have a message that works with swing voters, there s this in my opinion, stupid debate going on in my party about whether you excite the base or you reach out to swing voters. carter, clinton and obama reached out to swing voters and were able to do both of those things. in 2016, hillary wasn t able to do the swing voter thing. they have to be able to excite their base, which donald trump is going to do for his base, and talk to these swing voters. jim messina, good to have your insight thank you so much for being here. my pleasure. it s a new cnn original series, style is a window to where we ve been, the cnn
big bill clinton speech, let s do smaller environments where he shines and can do better. please don t talk about sports or cars, please don t talk about anything. please just now, of course, his opponent has the exact opposite problem. it s all out there. santorum in some ways asked about that yesterday. you re going to say things that, you know, you look and say, well, maybe i should have used a different term. yes, do i get fired up? sometimes i say things that are a little strong, but you know what? people out here as you were talking about, people are upset, they know this country is in trouble and want somebody who is going to go out there and fight against obama. is that santorum s biggest advantage? he is who he is? wow. no, but that s what voters are seeing. certainly we ve been talking about the swing voter thing, but maybe that is why oddly enough he s got his connective tissue. you know, here s the thing, i think at the end of the day, he s so angry.