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In ideological purity and more interested in who can beat the guy in there? thats exponentially more important with donald trump. you cant overstatement how much democrats despise donald trump, what he stands for, who he is and what he has done. if you look at the initial skirmishing -- were not starting earlier than anyone else started. this is right on time. there are candidates already in. a whole line of them getting ready to go in. in the initial skirmishing, my biggest fear is that somehow...

Of america thinks in terms of the democratic votership. youll remember, that barack obama, when he faced hillary clinton that first time around, there were many people who did not expect him to have any kind of a chance at winning. and he pulled out the victory there. and that catapulted him to the nomination. and one of the things that iowans view very important is that they want to elect someone out of their caucus who they believe can ultimately win. you see those numbers. it tracks very clos...

There are very few skeptics. i have a son in the navy. very few skeptics at the pentagon. they see whats happening. they see the threat. we need to keep our eyes wide open and not have a conservative litmus test or a purity test but go off data and do whatever we can to help our neighbors and everything we do has to be focussed on resilience. there is going to be an organized retreat away from parts of the coastline, and we need to be prepared for that future. we need to keep our eyes wide open....

Result in south carolina where congressman mark sanford w-- wh we remember the scandal of hiking the appalachian trail and he came back and won theeat in congress but lost to a primary challenger who said he was not supportive of the president who atcked him for being a critic of president trump and sanford lost as a result. the president also tweeted -- in the final hf the race and said he endorsed sanfords opponent and he was unhelpful to the agenda. so were the results of republicans who go o...

Part of the republican base, it is about loyalty to donald trump. thats the test of whether or not -- thats the purity test, not where you are on immigration or where you are on fiscal issues, its where you are on donald trump and if youve ever said anything negative about him. >> there are some head scratching outcomes, though. corey stuart. in terms of an ideology there, a lot of surprises i think for people especially outside of virginia. >> right. not that surprising if you looked last year ...

Down here, lets let the elections play out and see what happens and see where the investigation plays out as well. >> i might know a little something about democratic primary voters, maybe something going back from 2008. the democratic primary voters arent republican primary voters, right? there is not this purity test that democrats constantly punish democrat candidates for. if that were true a lot of our incumbents would be in trouble. you dont see democrats being challenged in primaries and t...

From one liberal to another: can we stop the ideological purity test and admit that there are more ways than one of solving a problem? can we please stop being such jerks? that former clinton staff member is the founder of flip side and joins us live. >> hi. good morning. thank you for having me. steve: you are calling your friends jerks. what are they doing? >> i really am. i wont say all but most of my liberal friends are very well-intentioned. but their comments are so arrogant and elitist an...

Trump is not them and he is trump. someone unaccustomed to the purity test all politicians can fake which is why the public doesnt care and they know what he is. he may be a mafia boss but he is our mafia boss. [laughter] they are applauding for the mafia. they are applauding for the mafia. while the media spews crap how does america feel about it? all of this is about behavior prior to election designed to unseat a president based on a emotional injury that occurred on november 8, 2016. what un...

Trump. someone unaccustomed to the purity test all politicians can fake which is why the public doesnt care and they know what he is. he may be a mafia boss but he is our mafia boss. [laughter] they are applauding for the mafia. they are applauding for the mafia. while the media spews crap how does america feel about it? all of this is about behavior prior to election designed to unseat a president based on a emotional injury that occurred on november 8, 2016. what unites anti- troopers is ptsd,...

Trump is not them and he is trump. someone unaccustomed to the purity test all politicians can fake which is why the public doesnt care and they know what he is. he may be a mafia boss but he is our mafia boss. [laughter] they are applauding for the mafia. they are applauding for the mafia. while the media spews crap how does america feel about it? all of this is about behavior prior to election designed to unseat a president based on a emotional injury that occurred on november 8, 2016. what un...