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, a more practiced politician, bombastic politicians who know a lot more about policy than donald trump does. So there is precedent for that feeling, but im not getting anything from the campaign about them feeling like governor pence did too good of a job last night. But what i do know is that ty want to get donald trump better prepared for this next debate coming up on sunday. I was talking to a
going on in that world. a great line today, if pence was a designated survivor o the republican primary, a man held away from the carnage trump has inflicted in the republican party, its conventions, orthodox es and pieties. i don t think this country will be the same. i don t think either party will be the same after this election. it s an up-end the rules election. we saw last night an element of the republican party which has been descending, not ascending, even before donald trump that s interesting. took this by that you mean social social conservatism. if you think what has roiled this election year, it has been populism, economic issues, the class divisions within parties, it has been economic insecurity and not the social issues which so animated the republican party. so we can talk all we want about preparation and this and that. last night we did see an extremist give really extremist positions a reassuring face. but the big issues facing i think this countr
took this by that you mean social social conservatism. if you think what has roiled this election year, it has been populism, economic issues, the class divisions within parties, it has been economic insecurity and not the social issues which so animated the republican party. so we can talk all we want about preparation and this and that. last night we did see an extremist give really extremist positions a reassuring face. but the big issues facing i think this country and both 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