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Some of the state polling was wrong. but we shouldn't propagate this notion that polling was wrong. >> i've been saying that since the election. glad you said that. look at national numbers and popular vote, polling pretty close. >> and just acknowledge too that donald trump is the most transparent candidate in the sense if he doesn't like it, terrible poll. if it's good, he like it's. glorious point about good numbers out of the polls. cnn poll matches ever other poll we've seen come out. four or five and there's a number that totally surprised me out of that. nearly 9 out of 10 republicans h...

That's when he normalized his campaign, and that's actually, ironically, his debacle with the mexican judge which may have staged a chance appears to go that is another name we should bring appeared during the firestorm, and there were several of them actually. one of the guy said that this is my job to support the nominee and did so vociferously and religiously was reince priebus. he sat with him the whole time. now reince priebus is going to be the chief of staff. >> meanwhile i'm at the media looked on and didn't quite get it. >> no, i think, like i said, the clinton campaign, they were ove...

The things that grover norquist i think said was so great about donald trump. and that did not come up. >> at all. >> in the general election in any meaningful way. >> what did you learn? >> i'll agree with almost everything you said right there. we learned that big polling is not -- actually, we learned that state polling is bad and it looks like we're going to have less state polling because the field report in california is shutting down. the national polls it turns out were not -- >> pretty close. >> were actually with hillary clinton's almost 3 million were pretty close. but campaigns -- ...

In terms of speaking of running against trump, politics matter. you need to make an argument about politics when you're running for political office. and i don't think that that happened enough with the clinton campaign. >> you're saying because of someone's personality. >> it was so much about the personality and it was so targeted. you know, we're finding out that one of the worst things about donald trump is that he has a hand that he can sign bills with. and, you know, which was one of the things that grover norquist i think said was so great about donald trump. and that did not come up. >...

Close. this election, again, was forecasted to be really close. people weren't used to that. i think a lot of people who had been following polls, who didn't have a lot of experience in the area had a sort of naive view because the last few elections, the polls happened to be pretty close with the national election but let me give you a quote. my colleagues wrote this in "the new york times" on october 6th. this november, we would not at all be surprised to see mrs. clinton or mr. trump beat the state by state polling averages by about 2 percentage points. we just don't know which one would do...