primary voters. down the, aisle across the spectrum, they are going to be all in for trump if he gets the nominee. >> absolutely no illusions about that. matthew, what is your feeling about this? given that room, even. >> i'm so happy you played the focus group after that scene in town hall. eight people in that room. only one of them raised their hands said they were ready to vote for donald trump. right now, i think there is a notion in new hampshire of come, one come all. you have named tim scott, ron desantis, mike pence, these are candidates that have not even yet announced. they've gotta get in the race, they've got the start running. i think there is also, in the republican circles, a notion of everyone's welcome to run. when it comes time to voting, when i look at -- iowa gets cold, new hampshire gets gold, if you are not viable, it's not in your interest to stay in this race. we saw that happen in 2016. there's a snakebite effect. people understand that.
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there doing it every day because they want to protect what we know is this great country, america. >> laura: sheriff, to hear some of the democrats, especially aoc plus three, the four women who have gotten a lot of attention lately, they had a lot of the democratic 2020 conjunct on my candidates, they believed in criminalizing border crossing is more humane and more of a compassionate american response. your reaction? >> that's ludicrous. that's ludicrous. why don't they ask the angel families who have lost family members or all those people across this country who have been victims of crimes from people who entered this country illegally. i've challenged congressmen and women and senators to come down, come to the border, come to my county, i will show you around. i will show you so you can decide for yourself. none of them come. a few republican congressmen have come. zero of the democrats of come. so the left wants to keep talking about it, but they're not willing to do anything about it. i'm glad they have enough time
we're talking to a slice of the elect rat we're doing them a very big disservice. traditionally that's been the sflask mode in the last few years -- >> you're not suggesting not reaching out to those groups? >> no, i'm all for i had. i'm a huge advocate for voting rights, immigration reform, for the lgbtq community. i was at the gay pride rally in washington, d.c. with my wife and my 3-year-old son a week or two ago. i'm for these issues right down the line, i'm a progressive. but if you don't have a strong economy and you don't have a message that's about opportunity for working class people, about putting people to work now, today, not training them for some job that may come on the f-come but how we create an economy that's going to worth for these people. how do you get investments like