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Candidacy, and that is something that reporters missed, that editors missed and people were so horrified by the concept of trump and stormed off the set that they missed the story, they missed the needs of the american people that have not been met by washington for decades. >> and let me go to elyse here really quickly, and from the focus groups you show, and this is why the media, instead of throwing tomatoes at their tv sets right now actually listened to what we are saying, because the loser...

Media in this election, and thats something that focus groups, yes, the anger is there against the government and officials and rigged system, and the media being biassed right and left, and 8 out of 10 people think theres no hope with what the media puts in front of you. >> thats why people hate chris -- >> oh, theres the fix. >> i have to say it and i will just say it, over the past couple of weeks, media coverage has been deplorable. it has been one-sided and it has been biassed, and it has b...

Supporters, until you went through xenophobic, and racist, and the most offensive one to me they are all stupid, and thats ridiculous, and i think theres a difference between a message is resonating, coverage a group that supports him is not condescending, and then to willies point, how do we not cover when nine women come forward against one of the two people who is the nominee? >> thats a false -- >> of course you should cover those stories, but even if you take that coverage out of it, and mi...

Line. and elyse is involved until a project fascinating and its called ashcroft in america, and they are doing focus groups all over the country which are profoundly insightful, and its a global phenomenon, and this will play out with the french presidential elections with the third of the four globally elections, and the german elections that will take place next september and the increasely divide, and the divide between a formerly solid wall that separates right from left and now theres a hol...

There. can you explain what seems so foreign to all of us, how most americans just arent -- at least the swing voters, just arent idealogical. >> ill try. if you look at politic in america, joe, over the last 30 years, were conditioned to thinking about it as a contest down the middle of the field between right and left, between the 45 yard lines. thats where american politics takes place. now, increasingly the divide in the ectorate is a horizontal line. and its between the elites who run insti...

Churned through. the giant political machines, the focus groups, poll tested lines. michelle obama tackled a difficult topic yesterday and made it work extraordinarily well because you could tell it was coming from her heart and that there was nothing calculated about it. this wasnt to help hillary clinton. this wasnt to help her husbands legacy. this wasnt to promote herself. this was about her daughters, and this was about my daughter. it was about your daughter. it was about daughters and mot...

Women, right, who thought that hillary clinton won. it was women in some of the focus groups who still dont think that dismissive answer about those very troubling revelations on that tape with donald trump saying that his power gives him access to kiss women and to grope them, that is going to be i think continuously damaging to the trump campaign. its not going to help him on his efforts to win voters in the swing states, in the suburban areas, college educated white women we keep talking abou...

Hes getting killed in the philly suburbs right now by a 36% moargin. there you see these people who are appalled by this behavior. they dont see it as secular. they see it as raunchy. i think we all do. and so, you know, right now were going to see this republican party come apart from the right and the left of the party or center of the party has moved against him. i think youre going to see a shrinking of his electoral base over the weekend, any polling, focus groups, any interviews by the rep...

The democratic base. its effective with the democratic base. i dont know how effective it is with the electorate. >> i dont think in a general election that were going to be talking about bills infidelity. i think were going to be talking about isis. i think were going to be talking about an economy that still doesnt look like its in recovery. were going to be talking about a lot of other things. >> i can guarantee you there are a lot of message folks and focus groups in ohio, florida, north car...

His polling of focus groups and we certainly do. these are the criteria that the voters are ultimately going to apply to the candidates. voters have a reasonable expectation that the candidates have thought about policy at least as deeply as they have. and they are asking, particular itly in the wake of paris and california but even before that for republican primary voters in places like south carolina,ñ weç÷[túrh lot of military households very focused. >> i want to go to mike. donald trum...