Of the united states. All right. Sayonara. Coming up, hardball with chris matthews. If all else fails, the plan to stop trump, lets play hardball. Good evening, im chris matthews, in washington. Well, the defenders of the gate are sharpening their swords if they cant stop trump once inside, do they retreat and fight him from without. They appear to be in chaos. After a dismal showing in four out of five state, the antitrump forces wonder if there is time to stop him before, during or after the republican convention. A group of conservatives met today to plot one effort. A third nominee against trump. For his part, senator lindsey graham, who recently joked someone could kill ted cruz on the senate floor and get away with it, announced he will now fund raise for trump. Donald trump has kwarnwarned th could be riots, and john kasich blasted that trump warning. Quote, this implicit acceptance of violence is the kind of rhetoric thats pulling people apart. A true leader usuals peaceful debate over violence. Leadership requires responsibility. I have faith the American People want siecivilized debate. Susan page, Washington Bureau chief for usa today, and john, Washington Bureau chief for buzzfeed news. You put the headline together, what is uniquely wild about this moment . This day, when theyre all meeting, what do we do . Coming to terms with the fact
there is a civil war coming in the Republican Party. The only question is do we have it now, before the convention, during, after. The answer is probably yes, all those times. The republican is splintering. Donald trump has succeeded by getting actual voters to come vote for him. They come from any where. Irrelevant to the process as long as he keeps attracting voters. Well get them, i cant resist, i want to form a new party, used to be the ones who voted republican. I mean, i thought the whole idea of politics was to enlarge the group. I dont want those new people. The new thing i heard today was for me at least the idea youre going to have a write in campaign. You are already missed the dead lie lines to have a third person on the ticket. Its easy to write mitt romney or paul ryan. Thats the idea if trump was the
nomination, you cant vote for him, you have write in campaign. Still, the core problem is, Hillary Clinton would be president. So you have those people sort of like they cant vote for trump, but they have no plan to elect someone to be a republican president. The nomination goes to trump and they hate the nominee, or they could break up the whole thing and give it to somebody besides trump at the cost of somebody walking out. Thats right. Especially if they do this thing of a third party run. What would it be called, the pretrump praert. Donald trump conspiracy against them, right, an even bigger fraction. As opposed to proving to people he was an unelectable guy. It would make them say thats why the establishment sucks so bad, and were going to go after him. Isnt it great we can use words like that thanks to trump. He said sucks. So what. Any way, youll love this guys
name. Some in the Republican Party pushing efforts to deny in july. I love this guys name. Curly, he is a member of the rules committee. Nobody named curly should be on the rules committee. They should back the candidate with the most popular support. Here he is. Talk about nondemocracy. Created a perception that the voters will decide the nomination. Political parties choose the nominee, not the general election. Then why bother holding the primaries. Thats a very good question. Can we all plead guilty for the notion when they vote they decide who wins. I actually believe in that notion. I plead guilty. Were just charlie browns. Nancy, we thought it mattered we showed up. It doesnt matter. Think about it, youre holding back, youre so careful. But it is outrageous, i think, that statement. It sounds terrible. Of course, its true. It is technically true. We dont have direct election of nominees. Try to put a candidate forward who failed, who was way behind the guy who actually got the most votes and see what happens to your party. Or else bring in a masked man who hasnt been there before. We got a great idea. Paul ryan. Does he want to step in, that drama and have people coming at him, trumps people already becoming. I dont see how he would possibly want to do that. A group of two dozen conservatives, news about this, with the goal of organizing an effort to stop trump by any means necessary. According to the washington post, robert costa our friend and colleague, per three people familiar with the talks, the mood of the room was muted and down beat. Attendees voiced frustration. And wondered aloud. One of the organizers said in part, we believe the issue of
donald trump is an issue that. We intend to keep our options opened as to other avenues to oppose donald trump. I guess everything here is democracy is it avoid donald trump. Yesterday, he told npr, while he preferred to stop trump by, if always else fails, he will back a third party candidate. Lets listen. I think if donald trump becomes the republican nominee, the republican ceases to be the party that i was an elected representative of. There is going to have be groundwork for a new Political Party in the country that represents people who typically have been Republican Voters in the past. Well, he has a good voice for radio. I was impressed by that. For the content, it was outrageous. It seems theyve taken it upon themselves to deny the guy who gets the most votes. In fact, they seem to talk like goes to the requisite majority, theyre going to find some way
to you askscudle the ship. A lot of these. Tell me who Eric Erickson is. An influential republican. He and everybody else in the room two or three months ago, anybody but hillary. This is now anybody but trump, including hillary. If they do a third party tell me, all three of you, tell me what it is about trump about the brazenness, what it is about the ideology, his philosophy . Is that too long a list . Ronald reagan talks about the Republican Party and donald trump doesnt endorse any one of those, which they would be a foreign policy, being conservative on social issues and discipline fiscal policy. None of those does trump subscribe to the traditional republican formulation. But the grassroots love him. Donald trump does not respect or care what the republican establishment or its leadership,
he doesnt care what Eric Erickson thinks. He doesnt care what Mitch Mcconnell thinks, paul ryan thinks, they know theyll lose power, marco rubio would have followed a lot of their instructions, donald trump, cynical, but it happens to be true. He said there is a bunch of nobodies inside controlling the party. Now theyve all come out from under their rocks. He has tapped the unhappiness among Republican Voters about how their own leaders have behaved. Yes, theyre behaving like that in public. So you know. This guy, carly, he is unbelievable. Donald trump is playing by the rules, winning delegates by the rules they set up. Lets go back to the economic numbers game. How does it look for him to win fair and square. Right now, the republicans need 30 of the nonwhite vote. He is Something Like youre actually ahead of me. I menlant the nomination. I think hell either get the delegates. If you have 1,100 delegates, 1,200, youre so close, can they give it to somebody else. There has to be a gimme. I think if he doesnt get there, hell so close. Hell get the gimme. What is it, one hundred shy. I think he might get over it. Hell walk into the convention with all the delegates. See, i think if kasich stays in for the good people, the moderates, better sort, okay, and he splits the vote with the angry crowd behind cruz, really angry crowd, that they just do the job for trump. Yeah, but cruz is going into a tough territory here. Cruzs states have now voted. Cruz has to win in states that are kind of knot his natural n constituency places. I cant see him in connecticut, even in pennsylvania, with all the riflemen there. Kasich is not a team player either. The logical process, you heard
rubio, nikki haley, a lot of peop praising cruz. You asked about donald trump. Lets watch that. Youre a republican. Thats right. If donald trump is the nominee, the republican nominee, are you going to vote for him . Susan, im not going to answer. Dont ask that. In your book, its clear you dont think islam hates america. You dont think all muslims should be banned from entering the united states. Is there a point where you would feel compelled to come off the sidelines to speak against this is what i want americans to remember. What our real values are. One of the very first things, one of the reasons were a country, is because we believed in freedom of religion. Wow, thats impressive. But i mean, it sounds like shes not going to vote for a guy it seems like she didnt want to answer the question. Weve had episodes of our past
of zen phobia and we need to battle them. The irish, now that its st. Patricks day, we might remind ourselves that we were on the receiving end of that hatred. The bushes are so great, the spouses. Years ago, i was upstairs, i was the only guy in the room interviewing barbara bush. During the interview, i looked her in the eye, i was doing it for my paper. Just looking at you, mrs. Bush, you look prochoice. So waspy. She said i dont care what im look like. Im not talking. I see laura bush is the same way there. Thank you, susan page, thank you. If donald trump is the nominee, will he drive women to the polls the wrong way for him to vote for Hillary Clinton . Between accusations of ground
swell support for the democrats come november. Thats what i think will happen. Plus, the republicans have r fighting control, hang on to seats, those sitting senators could be vulnerable with trump for the top of the ticket, dont you think. The hardball round table is here to tell me something that i dont know. Let me finish tonight with of course. St. Patricks day. This is hardball, the place for politics. World dramatically. It wasnt too long ago it would take two weeks to sequence and analyze a genome. Now, we can do a hundred per day. With the microsoft cloud we dont have to build server rooms. We have instant scale. The microsoft cloud is helping us to rebuild and reinterpret our business. This cloud helps transform business. This is the microsoft cloud. Well, tune in tomorrow night at 7 00 eastern, Governor John Kasich will be my guest. Ill ask him how he makes his case for the nomination over donald trump, and ted cruz and the likelihood of a contested convention, come july in cleveland. 7 00 p. M. Eastern, here on msnbc. Well be right back. Or new dueling lobster tails. Its a party on every plate, and youre invited. So come in while it lasts. This just got interesting. Why pause to take a pill . Or stop to find a bathroom . Cialis for daily use is approved to treat both erectile dysfunction and the urinary symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently, day or night. Tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, or adempas for pulmonary hypertension, as it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. Do not drink alcohol in excess. Side effects may include headache, upset stomach, delayed backache or muscle ache. To avoid longterm injury, get medical help right away for an erection lasting more than four hours. If you have any sudden decrease or loss in hearing or vision, or any symptoms of an allergic reaction, stop taking cialis and get medical help right away. Ask your doctor about cialis and a 200 savings card
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women than Hillary Clintons that. I have more respect than Hillary Clinton, okay. I will take care of this country far better than Hillary Clinton. Welcome back to hardball, that was of course, donald trump back in january, saying that he respects women more than Hillary Clinton does. Well, today there is new evidence of a growing gender gap when it comes to the republican frontrunner. Reuters poll today, unfavorable view of trump. Nbc wall street journal poll earlier this month found in a hypothetical matchup, clinton would win double digit among women. Thats a 27 point spread. New york times reports president obama privately told a group of donors last week that the time is coming for the party to unite behine Hillary Clinton. Well, the president did not express a personal preference, of course, he did. The race is winding down and
theyre looking to the general election. As Hillary Clinton competes to become the first woman president , there is no question, women voters will make a critical difference in november. Especially if the opponent based on the numbers. Joined now by michelle backly, dnc, howard dean. Congresswoman, thank you for joining us. Im looking at the numbers and theyre impressive. It paints the picture that if you look at the numbers sustaining through the rest of the year, trumps unfactorability among women, it really looks like the male vote is going to have to come galloping to the rescue, like 65 would are to vote for trump. Your thinking . Actually im not terribly worried at all. Donald trump of all of the republican candidates was doing very well with africanamerican voters, hispanic voters, female voters, male voters, hillary
clinton is the one that has the major gender gap, and thats with men. Men dont seem to like Hillary Clinton, and i dont blame them. She just came out and said that she was going to put out of business the coal industry. The entire coal industry. And she was going to throw all those coal miners out of work. This is something more that a candidate who is in line with fashist values. Women want to make sure that they have jobs, that their husbands have jobs, and i dont think Hillary Clinton is calming anyones nerves right now. Which one has fashist values. I missed the reference there. Mrs. Clinton. Mrs. Clinton. Because here she is, and she says she is going to put an entire american industry out of business because the Number One Energy source used to supply electricity in this country is coal. What is she going to do to replace coal . We need to have energy and
electricity in this country. People really like it when their gasoline is more around 2 a gallon under. Electricity prices spike . Of course i do we want clean our country, chris, has done more to clean coal than any other country on earth. Were delivering clean coal, a wonderful product where people can have electricity or be like bernie sanders, socialist, and be like venezuela, going to shut down the country for a week, because they dont have any electricity. We are a first world country and we need to have energy resources, and Hillary Clinton is going to deny energy to the American People. You know, i always know where a congressman, where she stands. We just heard it. Hillary is on the wrong side with her against her. This thing about the gender gap, youre a male, as am i, i look at this thing and the way he talks to people on television and these words are pretty much
not just not pc, but cave man sometimes. There is that. These numbers actually make it impossible for donald trump to win, period. Congresswoman back mman, 40 africanamerican voting, we know where hell end up with hispa c hispani hispanics. We dont know who the republican nominee is going to be, because they have the most unbelievable rules, and it is actually possible somebody who is not even on the ballot to end up as the president ial nominee. That will guarantee hillarys victory. An anti, our principal pac, showcased some of the denigrating language trump has used to describe women. Here wbr id wbr12579 is an ex except. b becaimbo. Dog. Fat big. Real quotes. A person flat chested is very hard to be a ten. I looked her right in that fat ugly face of her. Look at that face. Would anyone vote for that. I like kids. I mean i wont do anything to take care of them. Ill supply funds, and shell take care of the funds. It doesnt matter what they write. As long as you have beautiful piece of [ bleeping ]. This is how donald trump talks about our mothers, sister, our daughters. Congresswoman, what do you make of that, thrown back at him . This is going to be exactly what Hillary Clinton puts out as part of her campaign material, were going to be seeing this all the way until november. But i think more importantly, take a look at what happened from donald trump and Hillary Clinton after the election wbrid wbr13199 on
tuesday night. Donald trump gave a very op t optimistic view of what hell do for america. Hillary clinton looked like she was mad that she won on tuesday night. She looked tired. She looked angry. She is upset she has to go through the primary process. She doesnt have a very optimistic view of america. Women especially look at donald trump, they trust this guy. He is a tough guy. This is a guy who succeeds, and he is a guy who i think is going to followthrough with what he says he is going to do. We dont know if hell the nominee. It may be the constitution conservative in this race, ted cruz. He may be the candidate. It will be ted cruz or it will be donald trump. It doesnt matter which one it is for democrats. Theyre going to rip to shreds whichever candidate it is. Ill put our republican candidate up against hillary any
day of the week. Thats where the enthusiasm will be for the republican candidate. Unfortunately youre wrong about that. You understand it wasnt done by the democrats it, was done by republicans, the comments about women. Oh, sure, its the people that want to pull him down. Thats true. But the candidate will either be trump or cruz. Who knows. Its not my specialty. Congresswoman asked where the energy was coming from. Last legislature, which extended the solar tax credits. What most people believe the amount of solar power will increase by five fold in the next five years. Thats where our electricity will come from. It will be great if it works. It will be better than coal. Congresswoman. Solar is great i think we can all agree on solar. Thats a nonpartisan. Thank you both, actually. Donald trump has energized the
party, but