Transcripts for CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper 20140103 21:25

CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper January 3, 2014 21:25:00

something senator lindsay graham said after the 2012 election which is that the country wasn't making enough angry white people to sustain the party in the form it took in president obama's first term. that means, you know, their policies needed to be reshaped and their public communications couldn't, you know, continue the same way they had in the four previous years. implicit in what he said was that the party depended to a great extent on people who think and believe things that phil robertson believes in, so it has to represent their views in certain ways, their policy views, their political views, how they think about the country culturally, and unfortunately, for them, lots of things phil robertson said and believe and people like him say and believe don't fly in much of the country. so they have this tension where they need to represent the views of people like phil robertson without letting people like phil robertson sort of be a mouthpiece for their party. i believe that that problem is going to manifest itself over the next year, over the next two or three years as the party tries to reshape itself.

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