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Me i her studios beginning with william. He represents in both union and lincoln counties in south dakotas 16th district and he hand pickedy the governor. Hesere in studio. Senator, thanks for being with us this morning. Lets talk about the process, its your first, uh, time to headff to the state capitol, to join other lawmakers for a legislative session appointed to take the seat of dan learman who stepped down following last years ssion. Are the bags packed, so to speak . They are. I have been kind of preparing the difference in being appointed is that i have mor time to actually prepare for issues that are ing to be discussed instead of campaigning. So ive utilized that time to things. Opportunity to get up to speed a little bit, hear how thin may or may not work, issues he was perhaps bird dogging before heeft. Right, i had conversations with senator lederman and other senators have been willing to help on different issues that are going to be coming across the desk during legislat ....
Too far to your base. that s the opposite of what we re seeing here with ted cruz and bernie sanders but with ted cruz. bob has a theory on the race that i think is interesting. i would love if we could meld the two, which is inspire our base and some of the those suburban key areas. for ted cruz to be much more viable, he s going to have to do two things. a broader appeal beyond just the base and win over some disaffected democrats and independents. also, he s going to have to appeal to a larger demographic base. and one of the reasons that mitt romney had a problem in 2012 was that we got crushed amongst latinos and asia-americans. when you have an immigration program or even an economic argument that doesn t appeal to latino voters, we, unfortunately, will fall below that 40% threshold if we re ....
What if no one runs outright? nobody has enough delegates to claim the prize right then. then you get into a floor fight, erin, and in that floor fight it s up for grabs and someone could cruz could absolutely wheel and deal their way into a win. thank you very much, tom foreman. let s go straight now to our political commentator, the former romney campaign and adviser, kevin madden and president and ceo, bob vand vander platts. he s a ted cruz supporter. some of this may involve a likely scenario on the campaign floor but it absolutely could happen, he could get there fair and square well before that. does that concern you when you look at the general election? well, i think it is difficult when you have somebody like ted cruz who has largely defined some of his positions on issues by what he s against instead of what he is for. if you look at some of the ....
Traditional states that are going to be battlegrounds in the general election, places like florida and ohio, arapahoe in jefferson, county, which is critical to winning a place like colorado, it could prove more problematic for him as a general election candidate. bob, what do you say to that? i know you love him but don t you want to win the white house? we definitely want to win the white house and that s why we re endorsing ted cruz. where i would disagree is that this is going to be a base election and hillary clinton has a huge problem with her base and bernie sanders. ted cruz is going toin spir his base. if it was up to independents, mitt romney would be the candidate. he s not. the more people see ted cruz, the more they like him. he ll inspire the base. i believe he wins. do you agree with that, kevin, that because all we heard about for the past five years, it s about the center, it s about the center, don t go ....
Those? well, i think, first of all, what kevin is saying about bob and kevin coming together with regard to a general election strategy, this is a country on edge right now. they are very fearful about their security. yes. both foreign policywise and domesticallywise. you need a real bold leader who you can trust today. i think in a general election people are going to rally around a ted cruz versus a hillary clinton with the benghazi and e-mail scandal. i think ted cruz wins. i really do. i think that s a good point. if ted cruz were going to continue to draw hard contrast with hillary clinton in a general election, on the issues like that, there are certainly going to bring together more republicans and, as well, some disaffected democrats and a larger degree of independents. does that get you there over the line, if you get all of the republicans? is that enough any more? i think it is. ....