word this is rigged. that message doesn t play any more. the new york times is not a real paper. they want to hear him talk policy. stop saying the system is rigged. they call them dark polls, they re phony polls put out by phony media. all of us are affected by this stuff, they try to suppress the vote. this way people don t go out and vote. we re winning this race, i really believe we re winning. i just i don t even know what to say, this is a man who started his rally, after rally, after rally, during the primaries when he was winning, talking about the polls, and even at one point maybe multiple times, he was self-aware enough to say, i actually only talk about the polls when they re good, when they re not, i think they re bad poles. that s what that s about. what s most important here is,
these guests because they want to throw like what s the point of that? because when it comes right down to it, don t you want each candidate to present their vision of america to the american people? don t you want your vision to sound better than theirs? so why do you have to bring people into the audience to shake the other candidate up? i think this began with the introduction of mark cuban into this situation. they were going to bring him in to somehow try and freak donald trump out which decidedly didn t work. we are going tit for tat again. i can only say as somebody who loves american history, none is this is new. none of this is new. we had 200 some odd years doesn t make it a good thing. no, but we are fighting against the tide here. this began immediately with john adams and thomas jefferson and continues to this day. i think you have to allow for human behavior here. here i think is the problem with this particular presidential cycle. yes, this is nothing new
ahead by seven points i think was just devastating for him. it showed only one-third of voters trust his temperament, only one-third of voters trust his judgment over hillary clinton. these are really damaging metrics if you are trying to run for president and make the case that you are fit for the presidency. so that s i think the case that donald trump is going to need to make, but he hasn t been making it. over the past week or two, instead he s been focusing on conspiracy theories, basically laying the groundwork for why he might lose this election. that message doesn t really bode well if you are trying to win. another guest that mr. trump has invited is president obama s half-brother who is no fan of president obama, by the way, but president obama s not running. yeah. this doesn t make any sense to me. these brand new surprise guests like we re on some morning talk show or whatever. look, this is a presidential debate. you are not swinging hey, batter, batter, not trying to
argue that leveling the playing field and winner take all economy, it s interesting that message doesn t seem to have created the political moment for democrats that you would think it would. there s polling that came out during the election that showed more people than ever see a widening gap between rich and poor. more people than ever see a class conflict between rich and poor. but somehow that doesn t translate into political momentum. i think it has to do with the fact that americans refuse to stop identifying themselves as middle class. americans, same percentage of americans identified as middle class today as they did 20 years ago. i think they have trouble latching onto this message we need to grow the middle class. even though what s happening is that middle class is staying stagnant as rich become richer and richer. jamel, what do you make of that politically when you see what the president said in his speech this week, a start of a series of speeches and you hear what he
andy croll. lauren, a very aggressive sarah palin. let s take a listen to this as she went after president obama. refusing to pass a budget is government refusing to declare what it intends to do with the people s money. barack obama promised the most transparent administration ever. barack obama you know, pretty inflammatory rhetoric there. do people there realize that that kind of message doesn t really resonate beyond that room? i don t think so. i have spent the last two days at cpac and people are really excited. they want to get informed about the republican party, and they want it to remain their party, the grand old party it s always been. i don t think they recognize that that rhetoric is a little bit more inflammatory than what you would hear in meetings when republicans are kind of talking about how to win elections and how to reach out to those