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The Republican Party, right now, is a conservative populist party.

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Mara Liasson
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: June 13
Journalist
New York City
New York
Populist
Conservative
Republican
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After months and months at the top of the polls, there is a real possibility that Donald Trump could be the nominee.
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Yes, the presidential race is very close, and some public polls show it getting closer as we go into the final hours, but in one sense it's actually been stable for months.
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Donald Trump is a candidate who divided his own party more deeply than any presidential candidate has before.
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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.
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African-American voters are not nearly as enthusiastic about [Hillary] Clinton as they were about [Barack] Obama.
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In 2012, African-Americans were 13 percent of the electorate, and 93 percent of them voted for [Barack] Obama.
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A big win for [Hillary] Clinton would allow her to claim that the country rejected Trumpism, while a narrow win leaves her limping into office with the highest unfavorable ratings for any new president.
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There was another Cleveland rally [of Hillary Clinton] - this one with LeBron James.
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Ted Cruz is a small-government conservative.
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[Hillary] Clinton has also struggled with key groups of voters.
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Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.
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As one person said to me , Republicans know [Donald] Trump is a stain on their party.
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The GOP establishment, in particular, is facing a pick-your-poison kind of decision. Many establishment Republicans dislike [Ted] Cruz personally. He has no Senate endorsements.
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If Donald Trump wins, it will be a seismic event.
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Donald Trump's staffing up a pretty traditional, very conservative Republican government, not a populist outsider government, at least not yet.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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No one is predicting that the Democrats will get the 30 pickups they need to take back the House majority.
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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?
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