do you know his interest in africaner culture and language? what s that about? chris, i know absolutely nothing about that. all i really know is what we ve been, you know, hearing about that he was a romney guy. he obviously has curried favor with the president. he understands what the formula is. you praise the president, you are as sycophantic as possible. but i guess my take on this it could have been a lot worse. considering who the president sometimes bring ins it, it could have been a lot worse. lindsey graham seemingly looking to goad the president into a more aggressive response to iran. tweeted the measured response by president trump regarding the shooting down of an american drone was clearly seen by the iranian regime as a sign of weakness. the problems with iran, it only gets worse over time. so it is imperative we take decisive action. earlier today president trump was asked about graham s criticism of him. let s take a look.
that s all i need to know about rex tillerson. but truly his business interests around the world are very get it done kind of guy. exactly the type of individual that will serve this president, and no procrastination. he ll be putting america first. i m very pleased with rex tillerson. as you know, i was never a romney guy. so yes, i m smiling. okay. do you think feel that he will be able to hold vladimir putin s feet to the fire or have an adversarial relationship with him if necessary? oh, there s no question. anyone that s been the ceo of a company such as exxonmobil nose what it is to negotiate. you study the strengths, the weaknesses, of someone you re negotiating with, whether it s a customer, or a vendor. you strategize on how you re going to ultimately end up succeeding in what you re attempting to do. and in this case, putting america s interests first.
bought and paid for by special interests, that is going to put americans first, then you say i m going to give donald trump the opportunity to do that. if donald trump loses this election, what is he saying tonight? i think you have to see what the outcome is. if he loses? sure. look, if it s a decisive loss decisive, nobody can question it, he loses hypothetically what does he do? i don t think that s going to be the case. what he would say and what i would counsel him to say is this has been an historic movement and you can never give up. he has brought people together that have been outside of the political process for a long time. let me say this, when barack obama was first elected, i was a romney guy. you want to support the president of the united states and you want hope and if donald trump doesn t win tonight, i m going to be devastated, disappointed. i put a lot of time and effort into that campaign. let me say this, the country always comes back, regroups and d
not just rhetoric, not just tv ads. but the fact that these two candidates are deeply untrusted and disliked. so it is a battle about who rejects them more. and i think what you are seeing in the clinton side is you re seeing some of these college-educated and suburban voters that a romney would have gotten come over to her side. maybe there s a little more crossover in this polarized nation for her than there was in the past. but on the trump side, you see that drop off in white blue-collar voters that comes to his side. so we re seeing this odd mixing but a polarization at the same time. jackie, what are you looking at on this last day? just to jump off what mary katherine said there, some of the republicans that are voting for her don t like her. they re not thrilled by her. they re probably voting cross ballot. they re voting i ve got friends in florida voting for hillary clinton and marco rubio. those cross-ballot votes, to the extent they are both sides, i feel like it s mo
they re thinking. for hillary clinton, she s already at 268 on our map, very close to that magic number. she ended her night in pennsylvania. why? that s a firewall for her. if she can shut trump down there, she doesn t need some of these other swing states we re talking about. that s a key part of that blue wall and prevents him from building that momentum in the midwest. it s important. she s also spending time in north carolina. you ve got that surge of latino voting. highest percentage increase of latino voters in north carolina. back in philadelphia, it s minority votes. it s also college-educated whites, which we ll talk more about in a moment. for donald trump, look where he ended in michigan. why? he thinks working-class white voters and a surge of those voters could surprise people and give him a path to victory and might say something about his ability to dominate this region overall. he may need that as insurance if he can t pick up all these other swing states as well as ho