Quote

Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.

Mara Liasson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mara Liasson
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: June 13
Journalist
New York City
New York
Black
Reputation
Review
Around
Obama
Ideological
School
Image
Harvard
Firsts
Built
Racial
First
Public
Bridge
Even
Law
Reviews
Ability
Division
President
Bridges
Divisions

More quotes by Mara Liasson

Image
In 2012, African-Americans were 13 percent of the electorate, and 93 percent of them voted for [Barack] Obama.
Mara Liasson
Image
If the Congress is going to spend its whole time hauling up regulators and bureaucrats and looking like they're focusing on tiny, trivial things, instead of jobs and the economy, it could be a problem for them.
Mara Liasson
Image
If [Hillary] Clinton can't boost African-American turnout, even with all that help, the question becomes whether she can make up for it with historic levels of support from Hispanics and suburban women.
Mara Liasson
Image
If Donald Trump wins, it will be a seismic event.
Mara Liasson
Image
The lesson is that voters in both parties are in a very anti-establishment, populist mood. Hillary Clinton is the establishment candidate.
Mara Liasson
Image
Ted Cruz is a small-government conservative.
Mara Liasson
Image
If [Donald] Trump wins narrowly, Democrats can blame the loss on FBI director James Comey, who inserted himself late in the campaign in an unprecedented way.
Mara Liasson
Image
What if he says [Donald Trump] plans to run again in 2020?
Mara Liasson
Image
Mitt Romney got 59 percent of the white vote in 2012, considered by many to be a high-water mark with this demographic group. Can [Donald] Trump win a higher share of white voters than Romney and get more of them to turn out?
Mara Liasson
Image
If [Donald] Trump loses narrowly, it will make it much harder for the GOP to unify. Under that scenario, the Trumpists are likely to argue that the election was lost because the Republican establishment failed to rally around the choice their own voters made.
Mara Liasson
Image
If [Hillary] Clinton wins, history will also be made: She would be the first female U.S. president, of course, but also the only candidate in the modern era, other than George H.W. Bush, who managed to follow a two-term president of her own party.
Mara Liasson
Image
The establishment is divorcing itself from its base - from voters who are choosing a candidate who says he stands for things that are anathema to the establishment.
Mara Liasson
Image
I think that's why we see this mixed reaction - Republican congressional leaders like Paul Ryan speaking out very firmly, but Republican candidates not as much, with the exception of the candidates in the single digits like Jeb Bush or Lindsey Graham, who said how to make America great again tell - Donald Trump to go to hell.
Mara Liasson
Image
In 2012, Hispanics were 10 percent of the electorate, underperforming their share of the voting-age population. Mitt Romney got 21 percent of their vote, and [Donald] Trump has been polling much lower than that.
Mara Liasson
Image
There was another Cleveland rally [of Hillary Clinton] - this one with LeBron James.
Mara Liasson
Image
As one person said to me , Republicans know [Donald] Trump is a stain on their party.
Mara Liasson
Image
For a long time, many Republicans thought if they just took two aspirin and laid down, [Donald] Trump would go away.
Mara Liasson
Image
Hillary Clinton is also not a very exciting, inspiring candidate to a lot of the left-leaning Democratic base, especially in Iowa.
Mara Liasson
Image
African-American voters are not nearly as enthusiastic about [Hillary] Clinton as they were about [Barack] Obama.
Mara Liasson
Image
As those states and others in the South and West become more diverse and educated, they will become harder for the Republican Party - in its current form - to win.
Mara Liasson