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Get under his skin that his own running mate is not defending him. Im curious the kind of mood in trump world right now. You know, i have not heard that theyre upset by governor pences performance in any way or that theyre worried that he might have upstaged donald trump. There was a lot of pushback to that reporting from the campaign. But what i can tell you was that before they were deciding on who was going to be Donald Trumps running mate, there was some concern about choosing somebody who would upstage donald trump, somebody like Newt Gingrich or Chris Christie who is more of a politician...

>> i'm not, and donald trump actually made a significantly smart bet, actually, in suggesting that the autopsy was flawed in that demographic shift. we're not necessarily shifting away from quote/unquote white america, because the hispanic population doesn't always identify as hispanic, when you get two or three generations down, they start identifying as white. tom edsel in "the new york times" has a great column on this today. republicans are going to try to tram this party of diversity as a party of identity. diversity is inclusive, identity is far more polarizing. further, this florida rac...

Immigration, on populism and frankly on rage politics as the peer trumpista. you can't go back to that old model anymore. >> i remember in 2004 when the whole idea was the first evangelical president george w. bush, building america by tom edsel, there's a new rising evangelical base that would support this republican majority. my reminder last night was, look, donald trump, if he's elected president, there are going to be thousands of mike pence acolytes, people with those politics on social issues who will be in the government. >> yeah, but i'm also thinking we talk a lot about young people,...

Parties, disruptive globalization, populist nagsablism and the end of party work. how they do it will be central to their future. >> i think that trump has shown that faith voters are not the faith voters we thought they were. >> right. >> you know, that faith, religiosity, social issues as they are normally constructed are not necessarily any more the main drivers of politics in that part of that party. they have the same appetite on immigration, on populism and frankly on rage politics as the peer trumpista. you can't go back to that old model anymore. >> i remember in 2004 when the whole id...

Take. both i think are in your wheelhou wheelhouse. the first from tom edsel. republican party has begun to move to the left and social and culture issues as well as on immigration despite the warnings of mass defections of white evangelical and born gone christians the shifts will not be as costly as some people both inside and outside the party claims. the fact is that on pretty much every noncultural issue, government spending and taxes and regulatory state and national defense the christian right holds orthodox republican views to the mainstream republicans. its members are unlikely to bol...