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To trump. the problem was that ron desantis turned out to be a lousy candidate. he wasnt a good politician. he didnt have the requisite political talent. and i think nikki haley, the reason she has been sort of emerged as a better alternative is that she is politically talented. her biggest problem, shes actually got what i would call three major problems. one, if you listen to the focus groups, the way they talk about or is they say, i dont hater. and so, the kind of like her okay, but they don...

Year, the republicans arent ever, ever going to want to do anything about fixing the problem. they love this chaos narrative, they love talking about the border but they dont want to do anything about it. there is been legislation, after legislation talking about making how a asylum system can be better, lets do the things that most common sense folks want done. but they just live in this world of chaos, and they wanted to be that way so they can go back to the base holders in states and say, de...

The republican side. but that is the play. theres a narrative shift of eras voters in the early primary states to swing to her, because she would be disrupting one of the things that trump really has going for him, which is the inevitability new. people who are polling so far ahead that people expect him to be the nominee, and so the theory would be that she cracks that inevitability narrative and theres a big move towards her. >> so youre telling me theres a chance, and it small. so, one of the...

A cult. a lot of people get that thats the code. make america back to a place where certain groups of people enjoy more power than they did. for these voters, particularly those who are polled by journalists or focus groups in iowa head of the caucus says, they say they want the trump economy back. they want to use these figures and say to them, what would you like back? higher on employment? right more jobs created per month? the low were -- like what exactly do you want back? how do you have t...

People you are wrong and how you feel. you have to find some way to tell the reality that our economy is the envy of the world, but also to show that you feel peoples pain. i do think that democracy and womens reproductive rights, and social security and medicare, are going to be big issues for democrats. they have to focus on the things that will resonate with people, and voters, and remember, were talking about two groups of voters here. the democratic parties base, and the 250,000 or so in th...

A lot of people would say he is not weak on immigration. what these candidates are not doing, they are not going after him about his character. the way that chris christie is for that very reason. they are concerned about alienating his base. you talked to a lot of voters. a lot of republicans may like what he did in office, but dont like him as a person. >> thats what i think is so interesting about the strategy nikki haley deployed. if i polled republicans and they said do you trust donald tru...

Well you would be depressed if you are down by 50 points. so i think, i dont think that there is a world in which these voters are going to late in the game, take another look at ron desantis, or nikki haley in a big way. its really a conversation about who comes in second in iowa. >> if you think about the last three or four republican primaries, there was a race. at this point in the game, there was still erased. people are still moving close to the top, or for a week people would leave, and i...

Which i found, surprising they find january six comes up constantly in and research, focus groups, the voters talking about that there are images in the minds of the voters that they are talking to from january 6th and that it continues to be regurgitated back in feedback that they are getting voters. so marking the anniversary, im sure everyone remembers when the first anniversary back in 2022 and spoke from the capital with a widely praised speech that was, they think it is the right thing to ...

So-called full grassley, which is when a presidential candidate visits each of i was 99 counties, not to be outdone, vivek rahm swami completed a full grassley for the second time. how is this all working for them? sarah longwell has been hosting regular focus groups with iowa republican voters and here she is describing how the latest group reacted when asked about nikki haley declining to say that slavery was the cause of the civil war. >> so, we asked about nikki haley slavery comments. only ...

Challenge there for democrats in the election coming up. but for republican candidates running against trump, is there any way to break through any of the stuff that you are talking about? the numbers indicate there isnt, but in the focus groups, are you hearing any opportunity for anybody who is not donald trump to make inroads with these voters? >> right now the one thing i hear is there is some nikki curiosity. but the way people talk about her, several people said the same phrase, i dont hat...