Trumps endorsement the at time. You can see how sheepish he looked. Never comfortable. He never was comfortable. Thank you all. Well be back tomorrow with more mtp daily. All. Well be back tomorrow with more mtp daily, but with all due respect will start right now. Im mark halperin. Im john helemann. With all due respect to mitt romney, you can criticize donald trump for a lot of things, but the hat, its really not that bad. Happy motor city, rock city, motown madness day, sports fans, we are here at the fabulous fillmore, downtown detroit, just a block away from the fox theater, where theyll take the debate stage later tonight. Preview that impending broul in just a moment. First the other brouhaha of the day. A comprehensively scathing rebuke of donald trump this morning in salt lake city. The unprecedented attempt of the Republicans Party last nominee to kill the candidacy of the most likely nominee, seen at times like a political equivalent of a celebrity roast. Willard romney tore not donalds, his policy proposals, to the extent trump has them. His temperament, in short, he stated that he was unworthy of being the president of the united states. Take a look. Here is what i know. Donald trump is a phony. A fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. He is playing the means for suckers. He gets a free ride to the white house and all we get is a lousy hat. Almost immediately, trump supporter, sarah palin went on social media and urged the donald not to take the bait. But later, at a rally in
portland, maine, trump dismissed romney as quote, irrelevant. And then he fired back, in true trump fashion. Mitt is a failed candidate. He failed. He failed horribly. The third debate he failed badly. That was a race i have to say, folks, that should have been won. That was a race that absolutely should have been won. And i dont know what happened to him. He disappeared. I am not a fan of barack obama, and that was a race that i backed mitt romney. I backed him. You can see how loyal he is. He was begging for my endorsement. I could have said, mitt, drop to yo your knees, he would have dropped to his knees. It wasnt just trump, loudest voices also took after mitt for being a profoundly flawed messenger. I always liked mitt romney. Why he is doing this, i cannot
for the life of me give you any explanation. Im more shocked and disappointed than anything else. This is so hurtful. At the end of the day, if trump becomes the nominee. It appears to me that the establishment in washington, both parties, still believe that whatever is happening out here that is causing people to support donald trump in large numbers, that its something temporary. That it is a fever. That it is a tantrum. That its a child that has gone astray and a lecture will straighten them out. The way it will be heard is why are you trying to destroy your own base over and over again. He is a smart man, but this showed bad character. It was embarrassing, humiliating, he has no credibility to speak on this. I mean, its almost like a coach who lost the super bowl 420. Now coming out and telling the winning coach what plays to call. Eeish. Also with an interview, ben carson criticized the speech. Romney did get some support. John mccain said he could not agree with mitt more and urged voters to think long and hard about who they want to be our next commander in chief. So john, did mitt romney executes what he was trying to do and is it going to have an impact. If he wanted it layout a thorough, comprehensive, well reasoned, again, thorough, wide ranging, rigorous, get it all in one place, laundry list in the best sense of the word attack on trump, he certainly executed that. No one i believe has done in this entire race previously. Laid it all on the table. Every possible argument against trump. Will it have an affect on the race. I doubt it. I doubt it mainly because of the fact that the republican establishment, which romney and mccain is in such dispute with
the electorate, maybe it will have a rallying side but not much. Seeing Shawn Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, thats not what trump had in mind. If there is a way to stop him from getting the majority of delegates, thats what were talking about, that romneys intellectual case, using his prestige, can get the pieces in place to stop him. Trump got a lot of questions about the tax returns at his last round of interviews and did not answer. What is your effective tax rate. Did you give money to charity. I think romney goaded him by saying, you know, basically doing what harry reid did to romney. Throwing out all these things. Lets see if the press picks up on it. The only way hell be slowed is if the press picks up on some of the things romney laid out. You can say these are all failures of romneys. It came too late. It really came too late. He could have endorsed somebody, gotten in the race himself, gotten in the ring more. There is a lot of things how this is too short, too little too late. But i say that, i think that probably its going to turn not to be impossible to stop trump. Now, saying that, if it turns out that donors give, that kasich beats him in ohio, rubio beats him in florida and somehow able to keep him from getting to 1237, if that happens, not likely, but if it happens, this speech will have been an important thing. If youre writing the history, this would be something youre going to put in there. Romney has a big following, not because he was the last nominee, but he has a big following. Especially after he left. He left himself vulnerable by
not explaining in the speech why he accepted trumps endorsement. He said today trump was a failed business leader. In fact, he took trumps endorsement, he said he was a great business leader. I dont think he is a failed business leader. He may exaggerate, but he is not a failure. He is a billionaire. He has a mixed record. I think what romney is right about, trumps boastful claims, those have not gone effectively challenged, only starting to hear about Trump University and crazy that its taken this long for anybody to raise them. The other thing ill say is the antitrump Movement Needs to think about voters. What mitt romney talk about from the point of view from voters as opposed to elites. When we come back, well talk more about trump. Well also have our detroit debatepre puerto rico debate preview. Well tell you about all of the
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candidates and moderators to gang up on trump tonight. Do you think hell be the same as the maralago press conference or the rex. The latter and not the former. Donald trump has on occasion, tried to exhibit more president ial or at least demeanor. I think in the face of at least two guys, cruz and rubio, and maybe a third guy, john kasich, who are going to be basically, now that they realize, the only game in town is not try to produce a message of their own. Their message is to take trump down. I dont know that he will be able to take it for two hours without going into punch mode. Hell try but maybe not succeed. Prediction and you know i never make predictions, but im going to. I predict one of the three
candidates or one of the moderators will ask trump a question he is totally unprepared for. Either a substantive or personal, never come up before and that will be the moment of the night. Thats my prediction. This is what is different about this debate. So clear and focused, what everyone is trying to do, it means everyones preparations have been different. Every other debate and weve said this sometimes to their detriment, the candidates have been trying to take each other out rather than focusing on trump. All three of these guys have spent done nothing this week but how do i get under his skin, how do i contrast, and that kind of preparation might lead to the question youre talking about, because theyre single mindly focused on that. Im curious how john kasich performs, this is what america is sick of. The question is are you relevant if youre not part of what will be an assault on donald trump. He said that although he
didnt attack romney, he did say i dont he didnt attack romney. He said he didnt attack romney at a press conference, but he said i dont think the way to take down donald trump is by attack him. I dont think hell go to that place. Those were the candidates that we just talked about who are trying to take down trump. A bunch of other people, outsiders who have the same goal. Signed an open letter, calling donald trump unfit for the oval office. Calls trumps trade position, quote, a recipe for economic disaster, and it calls trumps, quote, hateful antimuslim rhetoric under cuts the seriousness combats he is trying to reframe his candidacy, national community. Listen to the people that trump says i said he respects on Foreign Policy when he was asked about it. Who do you respect on foreign
policy . I think richard hoss, i like him a lot. He, i mean, i have a few people that i really like and respect. I think mccain is a fantastic guy. I respect a lot of the people. Not only on your shows, but many people that im dealing with that dont go on television and wont do television. And that are great thinkers. But ultimately, its my thought more than anybody elses. When i see the policy of some of these people in our government, the policy, well be in the middle east for another 15 years, and if we dont end up losing by that time. Because our country is disintegrating. We are spending trillions of dollars in the middle east and infrastructure of our country is disintegrating. We should have never gotten into iraq. It is just continuing and continuing. We have to beat isis, take them
out. The chopping off heads, we cant allow it to happen. But i have great people, and ill let you know at the appropriate time very soon. So there is trump, trying to talk about the Foreign Policy people he likes and the ones attacking him. There is also a bunch of people in the super pac world in the donor class, tim miller on our show last night was vague about how much money his super pac has raised, which is kind of odd, given some of the people doing the fundraising door donating the dollars could write multi, multi, multimillion dollar checks pretty easily. My question is how are the attempts of the elites going. My cab in from the detroit airport, he was obsessed with the scholars denouncing trump. I think the elites, Foreign Policy, financial elites who want to stop trump, they can be part of it, but the lack of focus on voters is i think kind of insane, youre going to stop
him with a candidate, and most of these people are not engaged with any of the other candidates, theyre engaged with stopping trump. Youre going to stop him with voters. This is all, again, as you said, if trump is stopped, short of a majority, people can look back in the Foreign Policy scholars can be part of a victory lap. I dont think it will have an impact. The fundraising, i dont understand it. The clock is ticking. Florida is less than two weeks away, and youve got billionair billionair billionaires. Weeks ago, however long ago it was. My cab driver mentioned that as well. Im sure he did. The intellectuals have no impact on this. If they had any effect they would have months ago, they dont. To your point, a guy like paul singer. Tin cup, write a 40 million
check, put some ads on the air. Its crazy. They could make a difference if they do open their checkbooks, but they havent done it yet that we know of. Shifting to the democratic race, Hillary Clinton took a day off the the campaign trail, her rival, Bernie Sanders was in neb bless nebraska canned kansas. He said it does not match her record. Secretary clintons views and mine are very different. She has supported nafta. I oppose nafta. She supported permanent normal trade relations with china. I vigorously oppose it. I opposed vietnam. She supported the columbia freetrade agreement, i oppose that. And she supported the korean freetrade agreement. I oppose that. Meanwhile, the Washington Post dropped a become shell, immunity to the staffer who set up her own email server. The story says the fbi will likely question clinton and her close close closest aids in the coming weeks. Do voe voters any recourse, do they have to tough it out and Hillary Clinton is their nominee. They have recourse. Theyll always have recourse. There is still a lot of, as Bernie Sanders a lot of caucuses to come. It is true that the delegate math is daunting, if not completely impasse able for Bernie Sanders. If something serious happened in Hillary Clintons life, in the probe, scandal, no doubt if the party got cold feet, they could turn to Bernie Sanders. Both in terms of the National Narrative and in terms of these contests that sanders has to win by a big margin, but if voters get scared you have, he could do that. One thing helping her is donald trump. A lot of democratic elites and voters think if trump is a nominee, even a weak clinton, even under indictment could beat donald trump. The other thing is, weird psychology. A long while, democrats hammering over this, then they were obsessed with Bernie Sanders, and now theyre sorts of relieved. So i think the bar now is at a much different place. She would have to be basically indicted. I think she can survive being interviewed by the fbi. She could survive. Whereas before, it would have been catastrophe. Our life is that democrats like republican are hand ringers and they will until she wins or loses on election day in november. Coming up, the state of the republican race, here in the less than totally pure state of michigan. Talk to the state gop chair, rona Ronald Mcdaniel when we come back. Tart to finish. Love your laxative. Miralax. Hey liquid wart remover . Could take weeks to treat. Embarrassing wart . Dr. Scholls freeze away wipes em out fast with as few as one treatment. Freeze away dr. Scholls. The 1 selling freeze brand. I use whats already inside me to reach my goals. So i liked when my doctor told me i may reach my blood sugar and a1c goals by activating whats within me. With onceweekly trulicity. Trulicity is not insulin. It helps activate my body to do what its supposed to do release its own insulin. Trulicity responds when my blood sugar rises. I take it once a week, and it works 24 7. It comes in an easytouse pen and i may even lose a little weight. Trulicity is a onceweekly injectable prescription medicine
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