Poll that shows support for cruise at 42 percent among likely gop voters, trump is 10 points behind at 32 percent. John casey third with 19 percent and with women, cruises lead nearly double. Jon for the democrats Bernie Sanders looks to strengthen his hand. He leads Hillary Clinton by five points in wisconsin and is strong among younger voters. Lets talk about what it all means without political panel. Matthew continuity, editor in chief of the Washington Free beacon and share a center, Political Editor for the boston globe. Welcome to both of you and happy friday. Lets start with you. What do these numbers mean for donald trump when it comes to the female vote . They dont mean good things for donald trump in short for the female vote although in the Republican Party men do tend to outnumber women by a lot. When youre talking about a 10 point gap in the polls, thats big and it is because hes not doing well with female voters. Hes not doing well with female voters across the board, not
Rhode island. Can you tell were having a prompter issue . Donald trump is picking up more delegates tonight. Hes up to 927. Thats 310 away from the 1237 needed to win the nomination outright. Joining me now, two guys who know what theyre doing, Chris Stirewalt and howard kurtz. Good to see you both. Hi megyn. You must feel good because you cant do worse than bret and i just did. I feel like kasich. Low bar. Let me start with this. Bloomberg politics reporter just tweeted out, if donald trump were anyone else wed be calling him the trumtive nominee. If ted cruz or anyone else the gop would have rallied around him. Chris, is that true . Theres a lot of truth to that. In the case of trump, he would have been the presumptive nominee a while ago after michigan. Thats when romney locked it up winning michigan illinois. Wins big states, its over. People fall in behind him. In the case of cruz i think thats 100 true. At every moment, all of these republicans who said, we must stop donald trump
Defend our freedom and to be faithful to the constitution. I think you misunderstood one paragraph. Ted cruz said you can vote your conscience for any one who will uphold the constitution. There is only one candidate who will uphold the constitution. To paraphrase ted cruz, if you want to protect the constitution of the United States the only possible candidate this fall is the trump pence republican ticket. I accept your nomination to run and serve as Vice President of the United States of america. Donald trump gets it. Hes his own man. Distinctly american. Hes a man known for a large personality, a colorful style and lots of charisma. I guess he was just looking for some balance on the tocchicket. We can choose a leader who will fight every day to make America Great again. Its change verses status quo, and my fellow republicans, when donald trump becomes president of the United States of america, the change will be huge. You have nominated a man for president who never quits, who nev
Toleave. I cant watch him still without thinking of his bad lip reading take. Last night, ted cruz said, as were watching ted cruz, mika, ted cruz said that, you know, people shouldnt stay home in november. Right. Ted cruz should have stayed home last night. He should have stayed home. Because if his intent was to hurt donald trump, all he did was help. He helped. Make him look like a sympathetic figure. Not easy to do. And ted cruz just it was an embarrassing moment for him. He hurt himself. I think most everybody in the hall thought that he hurt his political prospects for the future. A mess. Its july 21st. Were at day three, live again from cleveland. The site of the Republican National convention. Tonights day four, along with joe, me, and willie, we have managing editors of Bloomberg Politics and cohosts of with all due respect. Got them both . Hard to do, and the legendary columnist and msnbc contributor mike barnicle. There were boos for cruz. This was supposed to be the rollout
Pences night, there is another conservative republican who might get a lot of attention. Chief Political Correspondent carl cameron is down on the Convention Floor right now. Good evening, carl. Reporter its day three of four here at the rnc, and today, it was donald trump himself who brought the aerial grandeur. First, a flyby in his jet. Then an arrival by chop we are the cleveland skyline in the background. An extra lap before touching down to a greeting party of family and friends, led by running mate mike pence. Were going win ohio, were going to make America Great again. Were excited to hear you address the nation tomorrow night. Its been exciting to hear from your family. More to come tonight. And im convinced what begins in cleveland will end in the White House Reporter trump officially became the nominee last night. Now the relatively unknown pence gets his turn at the convention podium. Texas senator ted cruz took part in an event today ahead of his speech tonight. But his re