Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mara Liasson
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: June 13
Journalist
New York City
New York
Made
Republican
Voters
Make
Choice
Establishment
Narrowly
Trump
Failed
Unify
Loses
Arguing
Gop
Choices
Likely
Rally
Lost
Donald
Scenario
Around
Election
Scenarios
Much
Harder
Argue

More quotes by Mara Liasson

Image
If Donald Trump wins, it will be a seismic event.
Mara Liasson
Image
African-American voters are not nearly as enthusiastic about [Hillary] Clinton as they were about [Barack] Obama.
Mara Liasson
Image
[Hillary] Clinton has also struggled with key groups of voters.
Mara Liasson
Image
The base has chosen or is choosing a candidate that the establishment says is absolutely unacceptable. And what that means is this marriage of an elite, big business-backed establishment and a blue-collar, downwardly mobile base has really come to a divorce.
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 [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
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
Image
No one is predicting that the Democrats will get the 30 pickups they need to take back the House majority.
Mara Liasson
Image
The Republican Party, right now, is a conservative populist party.
Mara Liasson
Image
Donald Trump's staffing up a pretty traditional, very conservative Republican government, not a populist outsider government, at least not yet.
Mara Liasson
Image
[Donald] Trump has said he will accept the results of the election - if he wins. And he has said the only way he can lose the election is if it's stolen from him. Weeks before any votes were cast, he was predicting widespread voter fraud. So if he loses, what does he do?
Mara Liasson
Image
After months and months at the top of the polls, there is a real possibility that Donald Trump could be the nominee.
Mara Liasson
Image
[Donald Trump ] would make history in so many ways because he is a candidate who eschewed the traditional arts of political campaigns, including field organization, traditional advertising, debate preparation and policy knowledge.
Mara Liasson
Image
[Donald] Trump's path to victory depends on getting historic levels of support from white voters, and particularly large numbers of white, non-college-educated voters.
Mara Liasson
Image
The [Hillary] Clinton campaign's recent travel schedule shows how seriously it takes this problem. She and her surrogates have held rallies in cities like Philadelphia, Detroit and Cleveland, trying to boost turnout among African-Americans.
Mara Liasson
Image
People like Ted Cruz, who has tried to position himself as the best second choice for [Donald] Trump supporters, wouldn't condemn him.
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
Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.
Mara Liasson
Image
White voters were 72 percent of the electorate in 2012, and their share of the population has shrunk a couple points since then. [Donald] Trump has had trouble winning certain segments of the white vote, such as suburban women and college-educated voters.
Mara Liasson