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Desire for change, but joe biden retains that sort of establishment support. >> i will say this. i remember john edwards thinking south carolina was going to be good to him, then a guy named barack obama showed up. great panel. much appreciated. >> up next, were speaking frankly about a new open job. enb (clapping) every day, visionaries are creating the future. ( ♪ ) so, every day, we put our latest technology and vast expertise to work.

Pollsters only get surprised by the strength of insurgencies. its never a surprise that the establishment candidate, no matter what year were talking about, turns out to be stronger than we thought. thats never the thing they miss. >> well, prognostication is often based on poll numbers and stuff, but also you look for endorsements, you look for money, you look for the professionalism of the campaign, you look for ads. if youre prognosticating in an old school fashion, you add up all this stuff ...

Bus. >> lets remember trump also went on the alex jones show when he was running for president. they have decided that theyre going to go where the audience is, and everyone just look the other way and pretend like we dont really know the audience here might be conspiracy theorists and might be racists and full-on crazy people because its an audience and we can get those votes. it is the lowest common denominator in american politics. trump did a good job of it. >> there used to be a day where p...

>> its the reality of the republican party. you can see people who are no longer in politics. as you noted, she had major establishment support, paul ryan obviously the speaker of the house while governor scott walker didnt endorse, his family were involved in super pacs. this is the blue wall when it comes to democrats and republicans, there will be a tough race against tammy baldwin. when you talk to people on both sides, the numbers in favor of tammy baldwin but when you have the money and yo...

They are willing to talk about border wall money but when it comes to actual immigration policies and picking people up and pushing them out of the country, it gets more tenuous for democrats. >> its also an issue polls miss. if you are in favor of visas, expansion to immigration policies, they dont support it with the same intensity as donald trumps base field about immigration, how they feel about illegal immigrants. the level of intensity and passion is so different. we saw it. the gang of ei...

You have the remember that in the 25 districts, 23 in which hillary clinton actually won the popular vote, these are going to be close, difficult races for the gop. they cannot win without establishment support. so ed rollins, who is a fellow contributor, was quoted today in the washington post saying hes going to weigh in on the side of money and organization but especially organization. youve got to get your troops out. now, it worked very well for president trump in the general, but can the o...

Yesterday and carnival barkers of today into something that will change american lives for the better, we must elect someone who has been tested. >> so the d.c. insiders, marco rubio and ted cruz. politicians of yesterday, i think jeb bush in his world. and carnival barkers, i assume he is talking about donald trump. that leaves in chris christies world, chris christie. >> exactly. maybe john kasich fits the bill. >> maybe it was a campaign effort for john kasich. >> chris christie is making a p...

Commodity. he is really trying to consolidate the establishment support. especially attract people who might think jeb bush doesnt have it this year and marco rubio might be a bit too plastic or something like that. so youre seeing him and rubio going at each other at this point. yeah, the first term senator thing, especially, is an effective attack on rubio, cruz, rand paul. portraying them as the gop version of president obama. >> eric, thank you for joining us. a special programming note. and...

But david, we know that first it seemed his campaign was all new hampshire, new hampshire, new hampshire, and now apparently theyre splitting time between iowa, new hampshire and i wonder do you think he thinks he has a shot there? >> no, i think what youre going to see -- sorry, kathy. >> sorry, david. i didnt mean to cut in on you either. i think he thinks he has a shot in iowa. he has some establishment support from terry branstedts people, the main stream republican governor of iowa and you ...

Voters will head to the polls on february 9th. trump has more than double the support of his second rival. chris christie, jeb bush and kasich are going all in on new hampshire. in one of them or rubio can consolidate enough establishment support, they have a chance to take trump down. the problem is they are splitting the establishment vote which is why each is trying to cast himself as the one and only true trump alternative. >> what would you like to say to him should he walk into the room ri...