behind that with donald trump and ted cruz. i asked on social media, could you see a ticket with them both? they seem to not be taking shots at each other as much. what is the strategy behind that? look, this thing first of all, presidential and vice presidential tickets, whether they like each other is completely irrelevant. there s only one goal. get 270 electoral votes. ted cruz comes from texas. trump, if he s the nominee and we haven t had a vote cast yet. we re a little ahead of ourselves. he s going to be looking like every other nominee, how do i get to 270? okay. it always comes down for republicans, florida and ohio. they have to win both. who is going to help them win both? cruz probably isn t going to help them win both. it s going to be kasich, rubio, someone else. not that we are not that far off from february 1st in the iowa caucus. so can you map out a strategy
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going to win. bush isn t going to win. i won t go through the list of names, but i could go through all of them and they re not going to win. they re upset. they re respectable politicians. they ve been talking, talking, talking all their lives and they re not going to win. they run for office and they lose. i ve never run for office before. when i announced in june, everybody said, well, he s going to have a good time, he s going to be a lot of fun. i guess nobody thought this would happen, where we have the kind of lead that you people just reported with all of your polls. before we get back to, you know, muslim immigration, let s talk a little more about that. the popular, i guess, the conventional wisdom is that if the field was thinner, if it thinned out a little bit i don t think it would matter. maybe rubio, ted cruz i don t think it would matter. you don t think people could catch up with you and beat you? i don t think so. the world could fall down, but i don t
talk about how everyone is loathe to attack trump. might that change now? this is changing. you are seeing a lot of candidates start to critique trump, say he s not experienced enough. not ready on foreign policy. but because trump is such a counter attacker he relishing the attack. campaigns like bush and rubio are reluctant to get into a fire fight with trump. so let s say mitt romney is brought into the picture. he s not exactly an attack dog. he s a reasonable guy. what he says i mean, what might that mean? to be clear, romney isn t moving towards iran. so i think what the romney chatter is reflective of is this angst within the republican establishment. but if romney got in he would not with an attack dog. he would be in a sense the last best hope for many of the republican establishment who don t think rubio has it, are
concerned that bush isn t going to be able to survive the race. so that is why the discussion is heating up about romney. i know you have to catch a plane and i know you are talking from the airport. so aisle let you go. so john, why aren t the other candidates resonating with republican primary voters? well we ve got a surreal situation in their own making. whether do you expect happens if you systematically purge the center? what do you think happens if you systematically compose a litmus test and pander to the extremes. you get a base of electorate compounded by caucuses and primaries that is susceptible to people with no experience because they have been trained to hate washington and hate government. so this is really about reaping whether you sew. play to the base the and purge