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Have been getting tons and tons of phone calls and texts of people congratulating what our coverage instead of just getting people criticizing our coverage of donald trump. >> wait. you havent changed your number? >> i changed my number, but i kept many of the calls that i got. >> oh, okay. >> and hundreds of texts. so it was quite an interesting experience. >> donald trump basically made you change your cellphone number. thats a pain. >> he did. but he has my number. is he afraid of talking to ...

Shes not going to win the nomination. >> if she were a man, would people be as excited about her? >> i think shes a qualified candidate who happens to be a woman. you can say that about ben carson. he got a lot of attention because hes black. rubio got a lot of attention because hes hispanic. we in the gop we look at the qualified candidate. listen, poverty knows no gender. poverty knows no color. i think anybody on the gop side would be better than hillary. >> well, i agree with you there. >> w...

Dumb for this reason. this is a town thats basically heavily hispanic, run by hispanic politicians. there is no -- >> legals. >> until now, right. gives new meaning to the word sanctuary city, i guess. but there is no grievance group or no -- maybe there is a new affirmative action group that one of our liberal cast members can tell us about, illegal immigrants can now get affirmative action. they can start their own anymy noert-owned firms, do something else. this is a new classification maybe....

Significantly weaker than when president johnson made it the law of the land in 1965. the vra is section five which requires states and localities with specific well-documented histories of voter discrimination to have any change that theyre proposing to their voting rules precleared by the federal government. basically these areas have to ask permission before they can make changes. for decades section five covered most of the former jim crow south. two years ago the supreme court deemed the vo...

Five out of the last six elections. they go to 282 electoral votes. republicans cannot lose the hispanic vote by under 40%. if these candidates, marco rubio, jeb bush, john kasich, do not stand up to donald trump. if we have the latino version of the booing of the gay soldier tonight, this will be a disaster for the republican party. this general election can be well over by 10:00 tonight. >> you have two hispanic candidates, cuban americans, ted cruz and marco rubio and jeb bushs wife is from m...

Because you and i always talk about the african-american and the hispanic unemployment numbers. african-american unemployment is 9.1% under the july jobs report. hispanic at 6.8%. it is slower. it always is slower to bring those communities numbers down. >> yeah. there is no question that we have a problem in our country. and its one the president has spoken quite a lot about in the con sex of my brothers keeper. so it is actually a little lower than it was before the recession but thats no comf...

Devoted it, it came back. there was very little discussion of what to do with the 11 million undocumented people who are already here. jeb bush touched on it very briefly and there was almost no discussion of that. the discussion was largely centered on border security, more immigration enforcement and building a wall. >> but where does it the party go if they dont provide that cogent policy message to go after the hispanic voting bloc they so desperately need to gain the white house? >> 75% of ...

Immigration, who talked about economic growth, small business, hispanic who is an attractive candidate beyond hysterectomy pan -- his hispanic base. jeb bush, i frankly, think he did okay. he made the most compelling positive arguments with the hispanic vote on education, which is very important, and immigration. he was the only one that was for earning a legal status in a sensible position on immigration. so i think long run general election, bush helps himself. >> all right. but if we look at ...

19 minutes past the hour. time for your thursday edition of "scrambled politics." two new election models have bad news for the gop. first up moodies t group that has a perfect record dating back to 1980 says democrats will win by two electoral votes in 2016. its based on economic trends. they reserve the right to alter it as we move forward. >> if hispanic voters turn out in 2015 that could be the kiss of did death. they analyze population trends. the tool shows demographic margin of victory un...

Im not part of this argument. >> a short while later after some backlash the tv personality post add apology on facebook saying "i always take responsibility for my actions. in this particular case i will take responsibility for my poor choice of words, but i will not apologize for being a racist as i am not. i wholeheartedly [ mute ] up today. by the way, i clean up my own [ mute ] toilet." k.g. -- >> i clean toilets, too. and fix them. >> does she realize she just indicted herself? she just ca...