That should be fun. Again, thanks for watching us tonight. I am bill oreilly. Please always remember that the spin stops here. Were definitely looking out for you. Breaking tonight, then there was one. If there was any doubt 24 hours ago that donald trump is the Presumptive Republican nominee for president , all doubt vanished about four hours ago. As the last man standing in mr. Trumps way, highway hoif Governor John Kasich, officially bowed out of the republican race. Welcome to the kelly file, everyone. Im megyn kelly. Governor kasichs move clears the way for the Trump Campaign to focus all of its efforts on Hillary Clinton, the likely democratic nominee who remains locked in a battle for the nomination with bernie sanders. If the latest polls are correct, mr. Trump will need all the help he can get. Not only is he trailing mrs. Clinton, but reports suggest he is playing catchup
in organizing his general election campaign. In moments, we will speak about Election Strategy with Paul Manafort, one of Donald Trumps top political jat t strategists. But we begin tonight with our chief Political Correspondent carl cameron reporting tonight from washington. Carl . Thanks, megyn. Trump is not only the presumptive nominee hes now uncontested. Instead of focusing on the last nine contests he can get to work on winning the general election in november. The latest National Poll by cnn nrc taken before last night shows trump trailing clinton by double digits. Trump knows the Clinton Campaign is already organizing to attack him in key swing states so trump aides have let it be known theyre getting calls from veteran gop operatives around the country who say they are ready to get on the socalled trump train. Trumps tapped ben carson to vet potentialitentiality projects a expected to announce his choice shortly before the july convention in cleveland. Hes been arguing for more than
a year that unlike his rivals who he called bought and paid for that trump has not been influenced by special interests but now hes planning to start fundraising for the general election which could tarnish his image a bit. Trump aides acknowledge that their big data social Media Campaign and a few other departments are not really yet up to president ial Campaign Standards but now that trumps rivals are toast instead of spending the next two months prepare forge a contested convention, they can use the time getting ready for the National Campaign and ready to rock against clinton. Carl, thank you. For all the talk of a contested republican convention, at least one man accurately predicted that would not be the case. Just days after ted cruzs final primary victory in early april, Paul Manafort said donald trump would secure this nomination prior to the convention. Listen. This process will be be over
with probably over the 1237 number. At that point in time when it is apparent, everything is going to come together. You think trump gets to 1237 . Absolutely. Before the convention. Absolutely. In fact, mr. Trump did all of that and more. Joining us now, the man you just heard from Paul Manafort, Trump Campaign strategist and campaign manager. Great to see you. Great to see you. What did you see that the rest of america did not. Well, donald trump was running a Historic Campaign when i joined the campaign. He had put the First Modern Campaign together in dealing with social media, dealing with earned media and speaking directly to the american people. He didnt have any of the traditional organizational elements that were keeping his campaign afoot. So in the beginning when he was winning primaries he was accomplishing his objective by really having his message resonate with the american people. As the process got closer to the middle and the end, the campaign
needed to focus more on not just winning but winning with specific delegate totals in the states. Thats when he reached out and asked me to join him, and what i had when i started was a tremendous candidate, probably the best communicator since ronald reagan, as far as having a vision, having a message and being able to communicate over the media, over the noise of the campaign, and so it just needed to make sure the Campaign Structures were serving his needs to make sure he was not just communicating with people, not just winning but winning what i call smart or focusing on delegat delegates. The path was clear. He had overachieved by the time the primaries were halfway over and his numbers were much higher than i think most of his opponents thought they would be as far as delegates were concerned. And as the other campaigns started to fail and drop off, it was his message that was resonating. In fact, we were able to make sure it was heard in all the right places at the right times, the Campaign Came together and you saw him not just winning but winning with 50 , 55 , then 60 . His margins started to go up. Now, when you spoke to some Party Leaders down in hollywood, florida, they were meeting at one of their regular meetings you said, look, the part hes been playing, those are your d words, in the primary process is going to change as he goes forward and faces more of a general election contest. Did you believe that sort of the bombast of the first nine, ten months wouldnt be suitable for the next challenge he faces . No. The question was focusing on the kind of environments that he would be giving speeches in, and part what was reported out was only focusing on the rallies that he was doing, what i was talking about was he was going to start moving into other arenas, other formats. But what do you think about that . In terms of tone, hes been asked about this, too, what kind of donald trump do you think were going to be seeing, in other words . Same guy we saw all along or a different thing . Theres no reason for donald trump to change a thing. Hes justs won a historic race against 16 opponent opponents. Hes now the highest vote getter in republican history as far as the primary process is concerned. He beat the field handily. You know why critics would say he had to consider it because he was running with Republican Voters before. Now he has to get more than republicans to vote for him. But those critics also said he would never get to 30 or 40 , would never be the nominee. They dont understand the trump phenomenon. He don they dont understand his connection to the people is not being conventional but a candidate whos honest and forthright and talking about the real problems and making clear they understand hes going to bring Real Solutions not just washington talk. Is it true you told him to step away from the twitter . I would never tell him to do that. You didnt say anything about the tweeting or retweeting . There was no reason for him to step away from the twitter. He was doing fine. Again, there was nothing even he has admitted there were a couple of mistakes on the twitter. He can admit that. Im not going to. Youre a loyal soldier. No. I mean, he understood what was going on. There was no reason to change that. Well, its not a question of his honesty and his but some of the things. What needed to be changed is the structure needed to become more conventional. Thats what wasnt there when i joined the campaign. Thats what we brought to the campaign. What happens now . We cited the general election poll. You know that in 99 of the polls shes beating him right now. Were seven months out. Shes beating him. New york times ran an article today saying donald trump is faring worse than romney among white voters in all battleground states even in states that romney won like colorado wisconsin. Big disadvantage in florida, virginia, even North Carolina and arizona which mitt romney won. They say hes not matching up to romney when it comes to the white vote. How do you turn that around . Polls today arent relevant. In 1980, reagan was down to 25
points to jimmy carter at this point in time. Weve just come through a bruising republican primary. You know, theres plenty of time for donald trump to fix those issues. Plus, there are polls out today that show him down two and up two. The polls are all over the place, and theyre not theyre not really. Theres one poll a rasmussen poll that shows him up two. Theres a battleground poll that showed him down three. Theyre all over the place. The important thing is polls arent relevant today given that were starting the process of unifying the partiment were going to have a positive convention. Were not going to be dealing with the kinds of problems that the democrats are going to be dealing with at their convention. And donald trump will have the time to put together the general campaign structure, work with the rnc. Any thoughts on vp nomination . Hes just started those deliberations. He did not want to get involved in thinking about those things. Do you believe what people say, that it has to be somebody like susanna martinez, a woman,
a latina . He says he wants someone with washington experience and someone to help him with the problems in Foreign Policy and defense policy. Thats more important in my judgment. Thats what he thinks which is even more important. I have to go. I have to ask you, he has promised a better convention than the republicans had four years ago. They dont go zainl craft very well. Its fru that obamas convention was so much better than romneys. Sorry, mitt. It was. What are we going to get a new band . Donald trump understands television. I think youll find our convention will be gripping and youll want to watch every minute of it. And i certainly will be there. Paul, great to see you. Thank you. Thanks so much. Youll want to watch every minute of you. You can do that here on fox. What is the frump Campaign Going to do about some of the angry republicans now literally quitting the Republican Party . Herman cain is here next with some answers on that. Plus, Hillary Clinton today talked about what shes planning if trump goes after her husband. Dana perino is here with some
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republican. Im a journalist, and i have conservative viewpoints. And the Republican Party is not an end in and of itself to me. Its a means to an end. And thats to advance conservative principles that i agree with. Nd iand ive outlined for mont and months how i did not think that donald trump did that, in fact, quite the opposite. The Republican Party has chosen to embrace donald trump. Thats their prerogative. But this is where i get off the boat. The person who heads up the pac thats opposing trump, katy packer, came out and said, theres a sense by some, like katie, that if this is who my party is, i dont really identify with it anymore. Thats where youre coming from . Absolutely. I just dont think that trump meets the basic fitness level to be president. I dont appreciate his rhetoric. I think that hes exploited and
inflamed bigotry and thats not the type of conservative message i abide by, which is about limited government, returning power to the states, and focusing on the constitution. Now, you know, phil, that everybody not everybody but those who are supporting trump will say, get on board, phil. Do you really want Hillary Clinton . You know, you should be never hillary instead of never trump. Look, i am also never hillary. To be clear, id never cast a vote for hilary clilary clinton. But the Republican Party is not my family, okay . It only has value to me in the sense that traditionally its been more likely than the Democratic Party to advance ideac that i believe in. Thats clearly no longer the case. I mean, just today donald trump talked about raising the minimum wage. So clearly hes supported socialized medicine and all the things that weve documented for months and months. And the Republican Party has
decided that none of those things are disqualifying nor any of his various long litany of statements, none of that is disqualifying for them. It is disqualifying for me. Ben, something happened last night on twitter and online where different republicans, like mark souther, who was a strategist of john mccains, he came out and said, im with her. And there was a hash tag going around among republicans im with her, ben howe contributing editor red state, im with her, goodbye gop. These are people saying they will vote for hillary, especially given her stance on National Security issues, thats how Steve Schmidt put it. On issues of National Security there are many republicans who will endorse Hillary Clinton. Do you believe that . I think that theres certainly a number of republicans who are going to shift over and support Hillary Clint clinton, but i dont really think that that number is going to be all that significant in the big scheme of things. I understand theres been a disturbance in the force. Youve heard a lot of voices cry out on twitter and elsewhere
about whats gone on in the Republican Party and people i respect like phil who cant support trump for ideological reasons are going to be a portion of the electorate. But what youre seeing on the cnn poll you referenced earlier in the program, youre already seeing 84 to 83 of republicans and republican leaners saying theyre going to support trump. Youre already seeing a kind of unification around him among most of the party members. I think youre going to continue to see that. There was a lot of animosity against mitt romney, he ended up winning 93 of the republicans. The problem for donald trump, even if he won 100 of the republicans in that poll, he would still lose to Hillary Clinton. He needs to expand his base in states like pennsylvania and ohio and michigan, especially among the women who have been turned off by a lot of his comments over the past several months. He needs to make up the distance with them more than he does with the xoefrn actives who have ideological objections to his candidacy. What do you make of what Paul Manafort was saying, ben . Anybody who is telling you that
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