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Everybody missed, 65 plus, they went plus 16 in 2014 for republicans, plus 2 this year. why? because they have been around, and you talk to these republican voting 65 plus senior citizens, who are saying, you know, i normally vote republican but i'm embarrassed at what is going on in this country. >> yeah, they adon -- don't wano be associated with it. >> you and i have been talking about years and years of the increasing diversity of the electorate. minority voters tend to be younger. the reason it's harder to turn them out is they're young. millennials are the largest cohort in the american ...

People thought you've gone too far, we need to get back to fiscal conservativism. what is steve bannonism? what is roy moorism? what is trumpism? what are the particles of that? well, it's being a troll, right, it's being someone who's out there trying to deliberately outrage the sensibilities of the liberal media. pop lisism always fails, left or right, because it depends on kind of riling up the base against the perceived other. republicans have not sorted that out. and as you mentioned, poll numbers are disastrous. the generic republican versus democrat on the congressional ballot right now...

There for democratics to come back and threaten the house. agenda on taxes and regulation and everything else. >> you look at the numbers. the republicans are minus 16 in the latest test. that is historical gap. this weekend james clapper goes on tv and talks about democratic institutions are under attack. internally. on tv talking about democratic institutions under attack internally. that filters through to the american public and may be why that plus 16 for democrats becomes a plus 20 if the house republicans don't wake up soon. >> that would fundamentally change the politics of this countr...

Polls, but he still has considerable strength. again, if you look at the real clear politics average of the polls in iowa, carson has a nine-point lead in iowa, which votes first, in just 96 days, so that's good for carson, but iowa's history is that it picks somebody, but then new hampshire and south carolina tend to actually pick the republican nomin nominee. in those states, trump is plus 16 in new hampshire right now, on average, plus 13 in south carolina on average. the question is, as he drops a little bit in the national polls, as he drops in iowa, will there be an effect in new hampshi...

Room for the opponents to define them and frame the narrative and that's the challenge for these candidates not well-known. now they are at the starting blocks. they will get out there and start defining themselves before their opponents define them. >> blessing and a curse, chris christie he has no problem with name recognition but he's polling, david, in the single digits. why? >> brooke this is one of the most astonishing swings i've ever seen a politician take. yes, he's at 7% in the horse race but that's okay. he hasn't really been fully out there in the mix and we're at the starting gate...