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Shares of goldman in a blind trust and you do your new job. and technically you dont really know whats going on. this is different. his name is on all of it. having his -- his kids run it, fine. god bless them, and i hope theyre successful. but it seems like its almost impossible for him to separate his businesses. how do you satisfy the concerns about conflict of interest? >> well, i think part of the reason why mr. trump won is because he is this successful business leader. hes done so well in...

Rest of the state, erie, pittsburgh, scranton, the other media markets around the state. we knew it would resonate. >> any other election day, the margin she did come out of philadelphia and the philly burbs with would have been enough but not on this day because you brought out people who frankly not all that active participants in the past. >> youre correct, michael. secretary clintons numbers out of the philly suburbs were very strong. our numbers were stronger. we had incredible ground game....

>> michael, thanks for having me this morning. the key was running a big totals in the rest of the state. you know, we were -- we knew what was going to happen in the philly suburbs and we worked hard to get mr. trump, president elect trump, out to the rest of the state, pittsburgh, scranton, the other media markets around the state. we knew what message would resonate. >> david, on any other election day the margin she did come out of philadelphia and the philly burbs with would have been enoug...

Were a whole lot of people who may be normally might vote democrat or be open to a democratic nominee who were not open to her. they just werent there. >> i was in scranton over the weekend trying to see what the actually turnout looked like. and i went to hillary clintons headquarters in downtown skrant a scranton and it was empty. and donald trumps and it was packed with people there. and the same thing. it was damped down. committee may have played a role but i think it was a pre existing pro...

As democrats. how do we include everybody? how do we fight for everybody? how do we protect everybody? >>. >> youre talking about the voters of what was in macomb county the reagan democrats. i have seen it in scranton, wilksboro. the white voters who were joe biden democrats but didnt vote for hillary clinton. there was a big african-american vote, 50,000 margin out of philadelphia. it didnt counteract what wasnt produced elsewhere in the state. those two states were the difference. >> you know...

Country, and i think if he shows that his voters will follow his lead. im sure some people had trouble voting for a woman but what really animated the folks back home, it doesnt strike me most of them were worried about electing a woman president. they were worried about someone serving a status quo. >> heres the vice president speaking with joe scarborough today. >> were all asking about donald trump. were talking about a guy who is connecting with those workers in scranton, pen pnsylvania, and...

That republicans have been having for the past eight years. if youre going to win another national election, do you need to focus more on turning out your base, what cornell was talking about, what you were talking about, all those people that werent enthusiastic enough about hillary clinton, but would have voted for her if they would have hypothetically showed up. or is it about to going back to scranton and getting those union members and those white working class people back in the fold of th...

Thats small-town america, bluelar ameriblue collar america. donald trump is winning. we havent called pennsylvania, its relatively close. there are people in the trump would be room who think they can still pull out pennsylvania. number one, were up to 94% in philadelphia. now again we are still have to count and see what comes left that. number could jump quite substantially, but she needed 150,000 even though shes at 420,000 votes right there, thats a pretty healthy lead out of philadelphia, b...

Youre going to come in with -- at 59%. youve got a 2,000-vote cushion so its reasonable to assume if the margins continue that the trump campaign, theyre sitting in their war room saying were going to pull a lot more votes and we dont think her cushion in philadelphia and scranton and alan to allentown are enough. as we focus on what is the emergency in the clinlton campaign, which is michigan and wisconsin, lets keep an eye on pennsylvania as the late votes come in. this is michigan and whats l...

Three-point victory in this largely democratic area and home of joe biden. they work at this bar and restaurant where we are at. nina, blake, and faith. i want to start with nina. nina worked at the polls and what did you see at the polls? >> i saw the biggest voter turn out in the 15 years i have been doing this. from every socioeconomic status in scranton and it was really a mix of emotions going on yesterday. >> would you say that you saw more donald trump supporters in this heavily democrati...