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And women. they understand the conversation is now about hillary clinton. she spent the whole campaign trying to make it about donald trump. what they wont get in the free media, theyre trying to do with their paid media. >> paul, for your superpac, is that what youre trying to do now, redirect it to character issue on donald trump? >> well, to frame up the choice. this is what we did from the beginning. our first ad was about donald trumps comments about women and so this is, perhaps, our last ...

Trying to make it about donald trump. what they wont get in the free media, theyre trying to do with their paid media. >> paul, for your superpac, is that what youre trying to do now, redirect it to character issue on donald trump? >> well, to frame up the choice. this is what we did from the beginning. our first ad was about donald trumps comments about women and so this is, perhaps, our last one. i have to say people -- we got carol king to give us the rights to her song, "natural woman." you ...

Called the character issue. they came and said, we want -- we care about the content of the character of the person were voting for. now, the pragmatic argument that jerry falwell jr. made on this program meant that it didnt matter so much anymore, that now they -- and thats interesting. >> right, thats what he was saying, i want a ceo, not a pastor. >> fascinating to nose who cath who care about politics, young evangelicals are saying, no, were not going to walk along this road with you, we sti...

Gave claire mccaskill a lead, mccaskill ended up winning by a whopping 17%. joining me political analyst for fivethirtyeighth. youve written about this. >> we have. >> about candidates that have some kind of disastrous character issue explode late in a race underperforming in the polls. >> david duke, remember when he ran for governor, there was all this conversation. people dont want to say that theyd vote for david duke because obviously david duke held some views. what happened on election da...

Legitimate rape comment, the last polling before the election gave claire mccaskill a lead, mccaskill ended up winning by a whopping 17%. joining me political analyst for fivethirtyeighth. youve written about this. >> we have. >> about candidates that have some kind of disastrous character issue explode late in a race underperforming in the polls. >> david duke, remember when he ran for governor, there was all this conversation. people dont want to say that theyd vote for david duke because obvi...

>> its very unfortunate that were at a point in this campaign. and on a personal level that this has to come out and it speaks to character, it speaks to judgment but people in this country know what happened on 9/11. they saw those towers come down and they watched the rebuilding and for him not to have participated in that arena speaks to, i think, a real character issue, but others did and ill tell you something, the press, the "daily news" and others foiaed for this information and it was im...

This is nothing to him. and he still was happy to take public credit for doing it but doesnt deliver. >> its very unfortunate that were at a point in this campaign. and on a personal level that this has to come out and it speaks to character, it speaks to judgment but people in this country know what happened on 9/11. they saw those towers come down and they watched the rebuilding and for him not to have participated in that arena speaks to, i think, a real character issue, but others did and il...

Jeffers said this, if donald trump was running for senior pastor at a megachurch, hes not winning that, hallie. and i understand character matters and thats why evangelical are having consternation but heres the thing many evangelicals are saying i understand theres a problem in regards to this specifically and maybe a bit overall on the character issue. the issue for them do we want to see 5-4 supreme court decision, possibly 6-3 supreme court decisions going forward for the next 50 years that ...

Immigration issue to being a character issue. >> ben in. >> if youre saying that ted cruz has a character issue, i beg of you, show proof of that. when he was running for the senate as the outsider in texas, if you look at what he said on immigration and border security and what he said about how we have to be humane and tough on the border and we cant give up amnesty automatically, that is what he said in his own words. so there is no flip-flop from that. the same thing he said about the gang o...

Hes got ton where he is because hes a real conservative, unlike i would argue donald trump and hes a straight talker who wins all of the purity tests. this is a problem for him when he cant answer your questions in a straightforward way. >> whats interesting about the rubio strategy is its broader than just immigration. theyre trying to get after this idea that hes casting himself as a truth-teller and trying to show voters that actually what hes doing is saying whatever is politically popular t...