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Throughout 2016. donald trump stuff. that word i never saw because i dont think the cameras would focus on it. apparently our producers showed to me. it was prevalent. and trump never complained about it and said you shouldnt use that word. do you want to go back to you, liz. >> i just want to add to that, ted nugent used that word against hillary clinton and was welcome the into the oval office. >> did. >> stop clutching your pearls. >> lets get back to the issue here. >> that was a class state...

The republican party is not lost on them. its despiriting, its depressing to many of them. and for republicans went through this cycle in 2010, 2012. whether it was, you know, congressman aiken, he had the legitimate rape comment, kristine odonnell, the witch from delaware. there was six or seven u.s. senate seats that republicans would have won had they nominated candidates who werent completely crazy. they were rejected in the general election. we may see that cycle repeating itself here in 20...

States senate, the amount of crazy that has been let loose in the republican party is not lost on them. its dispiriting, its depressing to many of them. and for republicans went through this cycle in 2010, 2012. whether it was, you know, congressman aiken, he had the legitimate rape comment, kristine odonnell, the witch from delaware. there was six or seven u.s. senate seats that republicans would have won had they simply nominated candidates who werent completely crazy. and they were rejected i...

Donald trump is on the wrong side of the polls. with each passing day more early votes are cast. data on early voting is thus far favoring the democrats. according to "the washington post" in seven states where returned ballot data was available by party, democrats made up a larger percentage of what had come back by the 20-day mark than in 2012. thats the apples to apples comparison. trump would need something to radically shake up the race or to the polls to be wrong, which is a possibility. t...

Legitimate rape comment, the last polling before the election gave claire mccaskill a lead, mccaskill ended up winning by a whopping 17%. joining me political analyst for fivethirtyeighth. youve written about this. >> we have. >> about candidates that have some kind of disastrous character issue explode late in a race underperforming in the polls. >> david duke, remember when he ran for governor, there was all this conversation. people dont want to say that theyd vote for david duke because obvi...

Republican nomination for that senate race. "we came up with the idea for a dog whistle ad, a message that was pitched in a certain way that would only be heard by a group of people. i told my group they needed to put akins uber-conservative bona fides in an ad and then using reverse psychology we would tell voters not to vote from him and we needed to run the h-e double hockey sticks out of that ad. as it turns out we spent more money for todd akin in the last two weeks of the primary than he s...

And it worked. not only did todd akin win the republican nomination, he of course went on to make his infamous legitimate rape comment. just the sort of thing claire mccaskill was sort of banking on him to say on the campaign trail. and she went on to win that election by more than 15 points. and that was in a state that went for mitt romney by almost ten points on the same night. since her election missouri has had some trying times including a lot of national attention. last summer when the po...

Criticizing him, that helps him. that feeds him. >> its all the guys who are up there, theyre the problem. their views toward women. thats the issue. hillary clinton particularly cited marco rubio and the rape comment. what do you make of that? >> i think shes going after -- from the democratic standpoint, theyre going to highlight abortion and rubios position. they may be a little concerned about rubio because he did so well at the debate and he could be the nominee down the road. she doesnt ha...

So what you do does not have to be big and dramatic. you dont have to run for office. >> you know laura, is this message going to resonate with men as well as women? >> i think it will. you know hillary is really capitalizing on a moment right now. 2008, it doesnt feel like that long ago, but it really was a different world in terms of the media landscape. so much has happened since then. the so-called republican war on women, for instance. the attacks on abortion access on birth control, todd a...

And the other question, youre very upset at republican elites that you believe were trying to drive you out of the race. they were very public about their attempts to try to get you to quit. they believed what you said was wrong. i know you want to be mad at the media and be mad at the president, but its republicans that threw you under the bus. >> thats true. and the book "firing back" has got several different themes. the first one, because thats where you started, the legitimate rape comment,...