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Keith ellison, he's a dramatic break from the past and he was president bushient and had some of these things right so i do like the idea. one thing would i love to see is back in 2004 we had had a lengthy public campaign for those folks who wanted to be dnc chair, and i think we should have that same thing here so that the party really has a chance to think about who they want to see in leadership going forward, but i do like -- we can't tinker around the edges here, folks. we have to make big changes so we can win in states across the country, and i think he does represent a big change. >> w...

Arrogant. fellow senators called him a whacko bird and a jack -- fill in the rest of the world. why do so many people who know ted cruz dislike ted cruz? >> there are people who don't like him because he didn't play by the establishment rules and mitch mcconnell laid forth in congress. it's not a liability when congress doesn't like you. the american people hate congress. what is their approval rating, 9%? >> i think you're overstating it. >> to say other senators who are not liked, who are the gop establishment don't like ted cruz, that's a fund-raising point. that's a reason to vote for ted ...

Any sort. he's a remarkable candidate riding at the top of the polls for so long with almost no institutional support at all from either elected officials or establishments like the newspaper. this fight is good for chris christie who is trying to become the establishment pick, battling out against several other establishment republicans in new hampshire. but it's also good for trump because it's another opportunity for him to paint himself as the anti-establishment candidate, the elites are out there to prevent him from getting in there and he's there with the ordinary voters. i think this is...

Now, the establishment hopes even though they're not spending money on ads against him and they don't really have a concerted effort against trump, they believe eventually he'll fizzle out. but he's been going for six months, and so that's quite a bet. >> so here's what i learned when i was in college, when we wanted to elect a homecoming queen. we figured out that you could split the vote of the other sororities if you got together about five groups that put your spirit all behind one. so why not sit down with the other candidates to say look, the fact is he's still not over 50%, if a bunch o...

Been reborn in the mold of donald trump and is a very convincing winner. what was the fringe just a year ago is now very, very electable in the republican party. last year matt bevin, a tea party red hot millionaire with no political experience, got crushed by senator mitch mcconnell in the kentucky senate primary race. they dismissed bevin as an east coast con man with delusions of grandeur. they said he was part of the tea party fringe. they ridiculed his appearance at a pro-cock fighting rally. yes, cock fighting. yesterday that fringe candidate won the kentucky governor's race in a surpris...