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Trump. it is two-fold. one is donor. a lot of the donor class is terrified of donald trump and goes racing to jeb bush as the safe harbor. if you are a more lets say creditable conservative al alternative to jeb bush, your message is not getting out. we are talking about donald trump. and being unable to separate yourself from the pack and go head-to-head with jeb bush the bush people have been thrilled everyone is talking about trump while hes raising money and sailing along with establishment ...

Hillary rodham clinton lg hillarying healthing be? >> i dont think she has much to worry about. he doesnt have the establishment support. he doesnt have very broad based support, so the polls show from -- comes from one of the whitest states in the country. >> 1% of vermont. >> there is a more anti-hillary sentiment here than pro-bernie sanders sent meant here. loo if he represents -- bernie sanders represents the liberal base which is the beating heart of the party now on the bottom era, james,...

Announcement. one of his rivals senator ted cruz made the rounds in new hampshire over the weekend. appears the e-mail controversy about hillary clinton is not going away any time soon. with me now to talk 2016 politics. thank you for being with me. benjy, start with senator rubio, he pulled fourth in a cbs news poll among republican candidates. we talk about cruz as a second tier candidate. where is rubio? >> rubio is definitely edging into the first tier. and i will tell you exactly why. he ha...

Aware of these problems. and when you talk to walker insiders you say, what are you doing behind the scenes? theyre reaching out to conservative news outlets who are very weary of walkers position on immigration because theyre trying to balance. they want the establishment support. they dont want to lose the hard right. immigration is a key issue. >> if you know that, and the governors spokeswoman says he did not say citizenship, that he is not for that, but if you know that, again, these are no...

Carolina he could go 0 for 3. >> this is the thing that i continue to wonder about and write about, this idea front-runner in the race. hes the front-runner by one measure, fund raising and maybe two, establishment support, though thats kind of code for fund raising too. you cant buy votes. if you could, ross perot might be president with all of the money he spent or rich people who spent money would be elected to things. just having a lot of money to communicate to voters isnt enough. common co...

He will get in the race and theyre both from florida and have a similar donor base and appeal. what we are seeing is a 2016 cycle that will be different from 2012 when they started late and without romney in the field, no one had establishment support. this year you have a lot of candidates. you have jeb and christie and you have the governors from jintal and walker and they all have a chamber of commerce republican appeal. that is going to be a lot more crowded than last time. >> interesting re...

There having been governor. thats definitely an issue for him. i think youll also see some pressure on people like chris christie for establishment support, especially among the donor class. people who are looking for a safe place to bet their money in 2016. >> msnbcs casey hunt, thank you. >> lets get to the latest on a horrific attack on the military-run school in pakistan. the countrys military says more than 140 people in total were killed. about 132 of them children. seven attackers wearing...

I think christie is in trouble. jeb is much more likely to run than people thought and will have formidable establishment support. two sitting governors, scott walker of wisconsin, mike pens of indiana. pentz i think underrated served in the house, favorite of conservatives, knows about foreign policy as well. two sitting republican senators, ted cruz and rand paul. >> thats five. >> you think cruz will jump in. >> yeah. >> real messages and real support. i think theyre underrated a little bit. ...

Backed stringer. >> basically the stringer model is playing it safe, playing it traditional. in a campaign which is what it seemed to me that christine quinn campaign was. why didnt that work for her? >> well the difference is stringer had this sort of support across the board. christine quinn was kind of operating in this almost conservative wing of the new york city democratic party, allied with bloomberg. she had some establishment support coming from bloomberg but not across throughout the c...

Is playing it safe, playing it traditional. in a campaign which is what it seemed to me that christine quinn campaign was. why didnt that work for her? >> well the difference is stringer had this sort of support across the board. christine quinn was kind of operating in this almost conservative wing of the new york city democratic party, allied with bloomberg. she had some establishment support coming from bloomberg but not across throughout the city elected establishment. >> so in the run-off -...