Scenes. Sustain advertising against donald trump for the first time in the last two weeks, has to play a role in this. I dont know if it will. It hasnt so far. Thank you for joining us. Chuck is going to be back tuesday night with special primary night coverage. With all due respect starts right now. Im mark hall per in. And im john. Im a little disappointed youve only done it twice, but at least you inhaled. Hello, and welcome to monday. Brave and exciting new week in this thing of ours, the u. S. President ial race. Especially the redhot republican contest. Late breaking news affecting the race overall. Former new york city michael bloomberg, the man who owns this company, has decided not to launch a bid for the white house this year. Well have more on that decision in just a moment. But tomorrow, voters in michigan, idaho, mississippi and
hawaii will all head to their polls. This week also begins the final countdown to the big march 15th contests, when amongst others, florida and ohio vote. The cw has it that if donald trump cleans up on that day, little can be done to stop him there the nomination. Which may be why the allies and supporters have opened the floodgates. Former students say Trump University was a scam. Trump supports em i nent domain abuse. Sleazy bankruptcy laws to avoid paying workers. Dodged the draft in vietnam through multiple deferments. Hired illegal immigrants. Trump refuses to denounce the kkk. He has a record. And its very liberal. I am prochoice in every wrs. Universal health care im going to take care of everybody. The governments going to pay for it. Unreliable. Trafficking convictions, prior mafia ties. This isnt a drug cartel, these were Donald Trumps business associates. That is a lot of negativity. On saturday trump split four contests with cruz. Meanwhile, News Agencies continue to up their scrutiny of the frontrunner. Today alone, mr. Trumps campaign faced stories about his Trump University court documents, about foreign officials concerned with Trumps Campaign rhetoric, and from our colleague Jesse Drucker who wrote about chinese Investors Court to finance a Trump Building in new jersey. Well talk to the author of that story later in the program. But john, now the ultimate question, anyone trying to become president , is donald trump losing control of his public image . Hes in danger of that, mark, i think right now, in a way that has not been true at any other time so far in his run for president. Its not just that theres a lot
of negative tv hitting him with a lot of money behind him and more to come, and not just because the press has amped up its scrutiny, but hes starting to look like hes not a winner. A winner is the key to Donald Trumps public image. His performance on saturday in those contests made it clear hes vulnerable. Thats not the look donald trump wants to project. One of the other campaigns is talking about branding trump a loser. Youll see over the next few days the fruits of their labor. Youre having the Virtuous Cycle from their point of view. Giving Opposition Research to news organizations who will write stories and those stories will show up in ads. I think mr. Trump has to perform well. Hes still in the drivers seat to be the nominee, but hes going to have perform well particularly on thursday. Hes now facing in florida an onslaught of ads. Hes facing a bigger onslaught with more confident opposition than hes faced to date in this race. More than we even expected 72 hours ago. I have to say the accommodation of those races on saturday, his decision to pull out of cpac, the continuing reverberations of his debate performance last week, none of it has been good for him. Hes not totally lost control of his public image yet. But his opponents say hes a con man and hes crude. And theres a certain power to both of those. Trumps going to have to figure out how to regain control. In the final sprint to march 15th, a lot of the attention now shifted to florida, where marco rubios basically making a last stand in his home state. A new poll out today that shows the florida senator trailing donald trump by just eight points. A narrower margin than before. Cruz is in third place with 17 . Instead of allowing a twoman fight between little marco and big donald, cruz wants a piece of the action himself. He and his allies are attempting to do something. What is ted cruz up to in the Sunshine State . I think ted cruz was under the impression Marco Rubio Might not be able to win that race. And that cruz, his people have been quite straightforward. They said theyre only going to play in states where they think they have a chance to win. I cant imagine that if the polls are tightening in the way that they are or if rubio is trailing only within the margin of error, i cant imagine why the Cruz Campaign would go into florida. But if they think that rubios doomed, it makes a lot of sense maybe for them to get into that content. The question is, how weak is rubio. If the monmouth poll is accurate, i think rubio still has a chance to win that state. Theres two things in it for ted cruz to go in there. One, maybe he can somehow find a way to win a threeway contest there. John kasich is not going to be a factor for the win. All that matters in florida is winning the statewide popular vote. No other way to get delegates. The other possibility is to knock rubio out. While there are those in the party like mitt romney who think more the merrier at this point, cruzs strategy is getting the winner down to just him or trump. The way to do that is to knock rubio out in florida. While i think he should want rubio to win florida, because hes got to keep trump from getting wins in florida and ohio, the super pac believes this is a smart plan. They do think they can win the state, apparently. Yeah, i guess. Again, i agree with you. I think they are overestimating their ability to end up with to win the overall delegate, a battle here down the line, given the weakness of cruzs position, in a lot of the states where he would be going oneonone with trump down the line. If trump wins florida and trump wins ohio, im not sure theres a chance cruz has, in looking at the map and calendar for him to ultimately knock trump out. After trump lost three or four contests over the weekend, the gop race isnt over. John kasichs name, though, was
not mentioned anywhere in that piece. And amid all the talk of rubio potentially dropping out, we keep hearing our media colleagues jump straight to a trumpcruz twoman contest. John just sort of did it just now. While the Ohio Governor did not do very well in any of the elections over the weekend, and he still has zero wins, he did get a celebrity endorsement over the weekend, around schwarzenegger announced his support, and hes playing big in michigan. Theres a new monmouth poll in michigan that shows kasich in third place, 21 . Ahead of rubio within the margin of error of the silver medal. Other data suggests he may be in second place now. So, john, why does the media continue to ignore, or discount kasichs chances of making it to the finals . I think a lot of it, mark, has to do with the poll numbers we see. Lets not let the kasich campaign, which i have taken seriously, as i know you have all throughout, even though some of our colleagues havent,
coming out of new hampshire, john weaver talked about coming to michigan and winning here. And right now, john kasichs still a long way from being competitive at the actual level, potentially winning the wolverine states. If thats the case, if these polls are accurate and kasich ends up in third place, the press is right to discount his possibilities because this is a pretty important state for him where im sitting right now. I think if kasich does well in michigan and wins ohio and rubio loses florida, in a threeway race, go state by state, california, kasich, cruz, trump, new jersey, cruztrump. The establishment, its not just the press. Ive been stunned at how little the establishment has talked about kasich. People said all along we should nominate a governor. He does have a chance particularly if he surprises in michigan and wins in ohio. As we said earlier, michael bloomberg, the owner of our company and our boss, has decided not to run for president this year. He made the announcement just
moments ago in a Bloomberg View column. The clock ticking for filing deadlines to get on the ballot nationally. Bloomberg set aside his ambitions writing, quote, when i look at the data, its clear to me if i enter the race i could not win. I believe i could win some diverse states, but not enough to win the presidency. John, in the end, is that why the mayor decided to go with no go . I will say this, not enough brown nosing way, mark, we said all along that what we saw at his deliberations in 2008 and 2012, the only way he would get into this race is if he saw a path to victory. Not any other reason. Once Hillary Clinton became as strong as she is, likely the democratic nominee, i was certain he would not run. Not on the basis of inside information, but just studying past history. And i dont think he wanted donald trump to be president of the United States. Him running now would likely hand the presidency to donald trump if trump is the nominee. If you assume rubio and kasich are not going to be the nominee, which is most likely either trump or cruz, the mayor could have gone into a threeway tie with trump or cruz. The more likely thing was that you would give the white house over to either cruz or trump, which is not something he wants. He doesnt agree with Hillary Clinton on everything, but he knows that if he got in, hed be running a risk. He would have to go all out, spend a lot of money and might probably, just from an empirical fact, the most likely outcome would be helping the republicans win the white house, and he didnt want that. Especially those two republicans. When we come back, the fallout from last nights democratic debate in wolverine state, after these words from our sponsors. Dentures look clean, in reality theyre not. If a denture were to be put under a microscope, we can see all the bacteria that still exists on the denture,
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michigan. A sound byte from last nights democratic debate in flint when she claimed that Bernie Sanders voted against the money used to bail out detroits Auto Industry. At the detroit airport today, sanders pushed back calling clintons words, quote, disingenuous. When you vote against a bailout of wall street, and against the crooks on wall street who destroyed this economy, it suggests that im voting against the automobile industry. Its very disingenuous and factually infect. It may be good politics. It happens to be incorrect. Sanders has been outstanding clinton on the airwaves as of late. He is behind in the latest michigan polls. In some polls by double digits. What clinton did to sanders last night was a classic political move, holding him accountable for his vote on one element of a larger bill. But its working. The medias buying it. So, john, even before this latest gambit, sanders was not doing as well as he needed to in michigan. Why is Bernie Sanders not doing better in this rust belt state . Look, i think hes maybe doing better than the polls suggest, and doing better than we think in the sense that if you look at the way the clintons have been playing, mark, Hillary Clinton, chelsea clinton, bill clinton, all in this state over the weekend, making late trips that no one expected them to make. A lot of democrats here in michigan noted that and have said, hey, man, they might be seeing something in their internal pollings than Bernie Sanders. In states hes not spent a lot of time, you know, this may end up being one of those races that like nevada, if the campaign was a week longer, or two weeks longer, sanders could be in a position to win it. But hes just going to run out of time here is my guess. I think she still has the momentum. And he still has not cracked the code on winning nonwhite voters. Yes. In a state where the clintons are better known, where they still have the hold on the nonwhite voting community, its difficult for him to win. He starts with too much of a deficit there. I also think as youve said, he hasnt been able to spend as much time there and get his message out. Last night in the debate, i think he kind of typified where he is. He has some tactical points that are stronger than hers. And yet she comes in with, again, im not saying shes the only one who does this, but she comes in with a preplanned thing on the auto bailout. It works and it dominates the media and hes not scoring a strategic win over her. Just some tactical wins. And thats not enough. I agree. All right. Sanders won three out of four states that held democratic contests over the weekend. But heading into tomorrows primaries, clinton still has collected more than double the number of delegates the vermont senator has so far, according to the latest a. P. Tally, that includes super delegates in the counts. Shes winning amongst pledged delegates as well. Michigan tomorrow, and mississippi. And then five big states that vote next week. If clinton stays on track, and wins those states with decent margins, when can she effectively end this contest even if sanders continues to compete . Like on the republican side, mark, a lot is riding on march 15th. A different kind of stakes. But from Hillary Clintons point of view, if she can win michigan tomorrow, which will be a big test, shell then have a big win at her back going into florida and ohio. Shes favored by everybody to win in florida, not to win it small, win it big. If she wins florida, and iowa, not as a matter of delegates, but also as a symbolic matter, the race will be not over in a jury sense, but over in a clearly emphatically de facto sense. The Democratic Party doesnt do win or take all states. If she wins in the three big states, the math will be
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