Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
After months and months at the top of the polls, there is a real possibility that Donald Trump could be the nominee.
Mara Liasson
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Mara Liasson
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: June 13
Journalist
New York City
New York
Trump
Real
Nominee
Polls
Donald
Possibility
Months
More quotes by Mara Liasson
Donald Trump's staffing up a pretty traditional, very conservative Republican government, not a populist outsider government, at least not yet.
Mara Liasson
There was another Cleveland rally [of Hillary Clinton] - this one with LeBron James.
Mara Liasson
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
The winner's margin of victory also matters. If it's a squeaker, that will make the lessons learned for both parties much murkier.
Mara Liasson
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
Many people feel he did cross a line in a way he hadn't even done before and also that Republicans had to speak out because they believe Trump poses a danger to the party.
Mara Liasson
In 2012, African-Americans were 13 percent of the electorate, and 93 percent of them voted for [Barack] Obama.
Mara Liasson
Donald Trump is a candidate who divided his own party more deeply than any presidential candidate has before.
Mara Liasson
You have [Donald] Trump and [Ted] Cruz battling it out, and the moderate establishment candidates like Chris Christie or Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, John Kasich - they have formed a circular firing squad.
Mara Liasson
Until he announced his immigration policy last week, Obama had the support of most Hispanic voters - but not the enthusiasm they had shown for him in 2008. That may be changing in part because of the decision not to deport young immigrants whose undocumented parents brought them here as children.
Mara Liasson
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
If Donald Trump wins, it will be a seismic event.
Mara Liasson
Donald Trump has said he wants to keep Medicare and Social Security the way they are. Congressman Price along with most Republicans are on record supporting voucherizing Medicare. So there are going to be some conflicts to resolve there.
Mara Liasson
For a long time, many Republicans thought if they just took two aspirin and laid down, [Donald] Trump would go away.
Mara Liasson
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
What if he says [Donald Trump] plans to run again in 2020?
Mara Liasson
Well, we had a bunch of primaries and caucuses on the Democratic side. Bernie Sanders won the Nebraska and Kansas caucuses. That keeps his campaign alive. But Hillary Clinton won Louisiana, which was the big prize of the night, so she ended up winning more delegates than he did yesterday.
Mara Liasson
This year [2016], however, polls show [Hillary] Clinton winning white college-educated voters by double digits.
Mara Liasson
The Republican Party, right now, is a conservative populist party.
Mara Liasson
The enthusiasm for [Donald] Trump had gone up. The net result was it made people more supportive of him.
Mara Liasson