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Goes through focus group ideas for a conservative populism, and he says will he go that way or will he, instead, just regurgitate the type of economic policy that marco rubio and ted cruz and republicans for 30 years have been pushing? this is a great column because it makes you think. it actually is attached to reality, instead of saying we are going to get donald trump impeached because of what he did in mumbai in 2001 and connect it to what happened two weekends ago, and this is going to impa...

What they were doing on i.d., where was the federal government and the civil rights department? >> i think the federal government was missing in action on wisconsin, and a lot of groups like one wisconsin and the aclu had to pick up the slack but i was there on election day and i saw the impact. trump won wisconsin by 27,000 votes. 300,000 registered voters, according to a federal court, did not have strict forms of government-issued i.d. which is 11 times trumps margin of victory. turnout was d...

Didnt put it out there. we didnt fight for it hard enough, and what the republicans ended up doing is they had a modern day southern strategy. thats what this was, and it -- it absolutely worked in north carolina, just to go back for a quick second. i know some folks who had their early voting polling site was in their community, a black community, and it was closed. they had to go to a white community in order to vote, and thats what was happening here. they got rid of sunday because they knew ...

Years. let me listen to keith ellison real quick. listen to keith ellison because he sounds a lot of what you just said, chris, and he what is speak on "this week" with george stephanopoulos this morning. >> trump picked on peoples fears and their anxieties and he gave them somebody to blame and some folks just really turned out for him for that. at the same time our message of strengthening the middle class, working people, we just didnt penetrate well enough and we didnt have the kind of turno...

Groups and hispanics in the group and women in the groups, people who voted for obama. clintons message never resonated. they were offended by donald trumps rhetoric. they found it disgusting, but his emphasis on the economy, on this kind of populism, angry populism appealed to them because they were so desperate, and i think democrats to be really brutally frank, we have fooled ourselves over the last eight years talking to people who live around this country, its not just rural -- the rustbelt...

Candidate you supported. >> reporter: some are calling for direct action from the president elect who this week pledged to be a leader for all americans. >> i would like to see him come forward in the next 24 to 48 hours without a doubt and put people at ease. >> reporter: and the fbi also tracks statistics for incidents like these, interestingly, alex, their latest statistics are due out on monday. back to you. >> all right. we will look for those. thank you for that. what the pollsters and t...

Can keep florida under control. >> kind of sounds like threiadig a needle. chris, you have conducted focus groups. have you noticed a shift at all, and if so, in what direction and why? >> the shift was, at least with the debates ones, it was towards clinton. there was always a sizable bloc, and looking at where the race has ended, we always had a sizable block of voters who were undecide undenobody could figure out why they were undecided. thats really hard for democrats like myself to understa...

I would bomb the [ bleep ] out of them. i love war in a certain way. >> elysse, i think about people like you and steve wishing you could be in the room working on ads against donald trump, because they just serve up the, donald trump serves up that material. >> it is a gift that keeps giving when it comes to ads. but back to this temperament issue that were talking about and how clinton and president obama are trying to stress this on the campaign trail this week, out of all the focus groups th...

Out of all the focus groups that ive sat in during this campaign season, temperament was the absolute, number one issue that undecided voters mentioned when it came to pulling the trigger for donald trump. theyre simply worried not only what he would do domestically been internationally, its okay if hes a wrecking ball domestically, but internationally, they are really concerned. so this is definitely her closing argument. >> so steve mcmahon, never mind the supreme court in the last four days...

Internationally, they are really concerned. so this is definitely her closing argument. >> so steve mcmahon, never mind the supreme court in the last four days of the campaign, would you suggest they ignore issues, just go straight at donald trump the character? >> absolutely. shes got a 40 or 45-point edge on this trait which voters think is very important to a president, and ive sat in focus groups too and saw the same thing. voters are very worried about donald trump. they sort of like that...