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>> he knows a lot of donors in california as well. what did you make of the speech that he gave there? hes putting a lot of faith that gun policy is going to be a platform thats going to resonate with a lot of people in this country. he pushed back and said he doesnt want to talk about politics. this is beyond politics. of course theres some politics he has to deal with if he wants to deal with that issues. >> is this an election where inspiring is what beats donald trump? with regard to the who...

From minnesota, walter mondale, got crushed. how can she expect to win so many parts of the midwest that went to donald trump? >> hillary clinton came within 70,000 votes of winning the election. she flipped 70,000 votes in wisconsin, minnesota and pennsylvania, she would be president. its razor thin. and klobuchar going at that electability issue in her speech today. smart consultants in the democratic party believe the upper midwest should be the focus for the democrats come general election t...

Bros who are leaking for a home, they simply to be how progressive you are, radical you r how much you punch back, i havent heard a lot of discussion among that group about electability as much as do i from donor class, mid middle of of the road members worried about electability issue. >> what youre grabbing onto is the idea that electability this time is totally not defined. from the bernie wing, we heard time and time again that bernie would have won and hillary did not. so i think the argume...

Here, going straight at this as being electability issue for ted cruz, trying to raise questions about his background, get voters to worry about whether or not cruz is the strongest candidate to go up against hillary clinton. ted cruz, so far, not taking the bait. hes avoided trying to go back to donald trump on this issue. but has said this is a settled matter, theres swap theories out there but this is not something that should be a big issue in the race. >> we heard him to say to jack tapper ...

Issues, some electability issues as it relates, and now you have john mccain, in a sense, aligned with donald trump. >> reporter: donald trump could not have planned it any better. this is good news for him to have john mccain jump on the bandwag bandwagon. in fact, just a couple hours ago, he tweeted that john mccain is no friend of ted cruz. so now hes able to bring up the birth issue, have it cover the press. people are talking about it. and now he can blame it on john mccain, say that i neve...

Things about contraception he had to play down the rest of the campaign. >> and turned off a lot of republican women. >> yeah. very conservative pro-life republican women and i guarantee you there are a lot of conservative pro-life women right now that are scratching their heads saying, wait a second, not even an exception for life of the mother? >> scott walkers answer to that question put him in a different place. >> bush supporters think this will be a huge electability issue. >> the world wi...

Opposed to new ideas. hillary clinton 51% saying shed represent a return to the past but that is a bigger problem for jeb bush again as to the electability issue. then theres this if you look at republicans, you look at republican voters and you say, could you see yourself supporting this candidate or could you not see yourself supporting this candidate, so this is measuring sort of basic acceptability of all of these candidates to republican voters. what jumps out at you here? look who does the...

Jeb bush. very tough for jeb bush to look at republicans and say, hey, im the most electable when hes running below his brother, george w., in that question. how about this, look back to a 1999 -- what i mean, when george w. bush was running for president himself, at this same point of the 2000 cycle, this same question in this same poll, he came in at 55 positive, 14 negative. his brother today, 23% positive. when george w. bush was running and telling republicans to get on board with me becaus...

Nominate a blue state republicans, republicans from the northeast, they lose. now, there is evidence that says that isnt always so. but thats what they think. so, the electability issue which you might think would be a strong point may in some respects not be as he seeks the approval of conservative republicans who are important in primaries and particularly the early primaries. >> i think its going to be different in 16 though. i think its going to be a different ballgame. >> yeah. thats true. ...

Nominate a blue state republicans, republicans from the northeast, they lose. now, there is evidence that says that isnt always so. but thats what they think. so, the electability issue which you might think would be a strong point may in some respects not be as he seeks the approval of conservative republicans who are important in primaries and particularly the early primaries. >> i think its going to be different in 16 though. i think its going to be a different ballgame. >> yeah. thats true. ...