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party. can you believe this? still. because the voting turnout is massive. and you know who they are, right? the people coming in, where are they from? they're democrats. they're independents. and we have, i guess, ultimately millions of people coming in. they have never -- you know what a great thing that is for our democracy when you think about it? >> so donald trump claims he's brought millions to the republican party. i can't speak to the number, but i'm sure there are many joining the gop because of him. in fact, i've decided to be one of them, just not for the reasons that he would want. back in the '80s, i was proud to be a card carrying member. it was family tradition, as i'll explain later in the program. i proudly served in the bush 41 administration. but in 2010 i left the gop, and for the last six years i've been registered as an independent. but living in a closed primary state, i just can't stand the thought of sitting out. the pennsylvania primary on april 26th.

registration data from across the country suggests there are many engaged in similar strategic voting, including mitt romney who announced he's voting in utah for ted cruz after supporting john kasich in ohio. apparently mitt is unwilling to be among the good men that do nothing. me, too. but is it too late to stop donald trump? his candidacy has completely ambushed, baffled and paralyzed the establishment. the reality show "the circus" hosts put together a roundtable of establishment types to discuss trump, and it's gotten a lot of attention. here's an excerpt. >> everyone around this table that i know, we've been in every presidential campaign since degrees. and in trump's problem, he -- you don't know what his compass is. before it's over, it will be

hugely problematic. >> why don't you republicans do something about this guy? we can't call a meeting and decide trump is out. >> and we hate that. >> deny dictatorship. who's for it? >> everybody is buying into this he's inevitable and he can't be stopped. i believe he can be stopped. >> trump is doing well for one reason, he understands the climate and the culture of america today better than anybody at this table. republicans are hire arcual, respectful of authority. we fall in line. and trump is interrupted that cycle. >> donald trump, nobody thought of him as any kind of political leader until six months ago. >> he's not articulate. he's not poised. he's not informed. all he has going for him is a lot of votes. why hasn't any of that hit home? here we are. here we are. >> so here we are now. joining me three people you saw in the circle. mark mckinnon, he's advised george w. bush, john mccain.

ron kaufman ess a white house adviser to george herbert walker bush and was an adviser to mitt romney. and a poster, worked on campaigns for 53 congressman and for the anti trump super pac, our principals. mr. mckinnon, isn't your fault, meaning the establishment fault, because you ceded control of the partly to men with microphones and happy to take the benefit of what they were delivering. and now you've got this. >> we do. we found the six members of the establishment left in washington. they were very generous by joining us for dinner and being very candid about their assessment of the situation. the most interesting thing about that meeting is, we had six people and there were six different opinions. >> to my point, you reap what you sow. >> well, i would agree with that. i'm a guy that's been saying for years we may have to burn down the republican house to rebuild it. we could talk for an hour about that. but what's clear is the establishment doesn't have a clear idea about what to do and

that's advantage trump. >> ron kaufman, wouldn't you be having a similar kind of dinner if ted cruz were in the lead and not donald trump? >> well, maybe, michael and thanks for having me on the show. listen, i think we're not anywhere near the dramatic place people like to say we're in. the process is kind of working well in many respects. donald trump and the rest of the candidates collectively, one reason or the other, have brought more people into the polling place republicans than ever before in history. donald trump may very well end up getting more votes than any single republican candidate in history. for me, i think it's real important that the process play out and it be fair and square and no matter who wins, the candidates all say, it was fair. >> so you're satisfied with this outcome, if donald trump should be the nominee of the republican party, ron kaufman who played a critical role for papa bush is fine with that end result?

>> listen, clearly, he's not my first pick as a candidate. but what i want to do is one thing, win the white house. no matter who the nominee is in my opinion, there are two words that will unite republican party. those two words are supreme court. i know one thing, we know who mrs. clinton will appoint to the court because she's been pulled so far to the left by bernie sanders. we don't know who donald trump will pick but i guarantee you it will be better than who she picks. in the end that will matter to republican voters. >> ed, you said from "the circus," you said that trump can be stopped. give me that path. >> well, first of all, i want to go back to a little bit of what is being said here. first of all, i was the only one in the room that was a pure campaign person as opposed to part of the washington establishment from being a lobbyist or working at that level. and i did approach it differently. i look at donald trump from a perspective of what the voters are out there saying.

and what i see the voters out there saying even in the republican party is you have a third of the republicans that really do like trump. they like his shtick. they feel like he's going to fight for them. but there is an equal number of republicans turned off to donald trump because of his approach, because of his brashness and his crudeness that he has out there on the campaign trail, the way he's insulted his way to his position. and i think the party is in deep trouble. as much talk as there is about his supporters will riot in the streets kind of alluding to what would happen if he didn't get the nomination. there is an equal number we're looking at that are considering either voting for hillary clinton or staying at home. and on the supreme court argument ron put out there, there is a real concern. you look at he's the only candidate even today that is losing to hillary clinton and if, in fact, there are a lot of republicans that stay at home as opposed to come out and vote not

because they are against him because of his position on issues but because of the character of the man, then we're also in trouble in terms of the senate. we may be sitting there with a democrat president and a democrat senate, which is going to put us in a much deeper position on the supreme court. >> ed makes the point there are a number of republicans, i think he was being kind, i think it's more like two-thirds who are unsettled with the trump prospe prospect. what about kasich? >> well, kasich, you know, all along has been saying he had to win ohio and had the simplest strategy. he had to survive new hampshire and win ohio. the problem is where does he go from here? your next guest -- >> yeah. >> he wins by losing. the real path for kasich to get to a contested nominee, he knows that, he's admitted that. he can't get the delegates. he has to get to a contested convention. the best way may be to lose winner take all states. >> ron kaufman, john kasich, is there a path for him?

>> there's a path for him for an open convention, absolutely. i think it's going to happen. i think governor romney actually is making his point very strongly by backing kasich in ohio and backing cruz in utah because if cruz gets the 49%, 50%, he gets all the delegates and trump gets none. that's playing by the rules. i think it's a good thing to do. i agree with other folks that this will probably be an open convention. and once that happens, lord knows what the outcome will be. >> ed, do you worry that the handling of the nomination of judge garland is going to reinforce this image of the gop as being a party of no and will impact negatively the presidential race for the gop? >> what we're seeing right now is it's about the intensity of the base on both sides. and if anything it will be an equalizer on the democrats raising of their intensity. but i want to come back to the

convention. the numbers i am looking at is that trump would have to win 100% of delegates to put this thing away by april 10th. with a third of those delegates being proportional. this is going to go at a minimum all the way to california. and one of the things if you study the history of california, i'm talking about john kasich is the history of california and republican primaries is if it's a conservative versus a moderate, the conservative always wins. if it's two conservatives versus a moderate, the moderate wins. so i don't know that writing off john kasich on not winning any states because he's being perceived right now as being the moderate, he could very well win california. but more importantly, if this goes to the convention, once it gets past that first vote, the real decision of those delegate that's are there is who is most electable in the fall. and right now those numbers are worse for donald trump than any of the other two candidates in the race.

>> mark, the dilemma for the republican party is that they need that trump constituency or hillary or bernie election in the fall. so how do you both keep them in the tent and perhaps handle the situation where he doesn't get to 1237? >> well, that's the real challenge. if you look at the republican prospects just conventionally and you look at what mitt romney did last cycle and where the demographics are in this country, we've got to do something different in order to win and part of what donald trump is doing is something different. he is bringing in new voters. the question is what voters are we losing at the same time, and how can we bring all those voters back together, add to the equation and not subtract? >> ron kaufman, if donald trump is the nominee and he wins, he owns. this party becomes one in his image. what if trump is the nominee and is defeated badly by hillary or by bernie? my thought is that there will be a big dispute as to what the lesson was. what would the lesson be?

>> well, the same lesson we learned in '64. it's a cyclical party like all parties, just like the democrats did with mcgovern. i think we'll be fine and i don't think it's going to happen. i think we'll win in november and hold the senate in november and we're a majority party and i think we'll continue to be the majority party. >> i mean, i always hear about if it's ted cruz, you know, we get to run the experiment. what happens when you run a pure conservative, is that what we need? a la ronald reagan, a la "w"? or do you need more bridge building? would cruz resolve in that respect? >> his candidacy is based on the notion there are a lot of voters out there who haven't had a pure conservative candidate. he says let's try it. we haven't done it in a long time. let's put out a true conservative and see if it brings in new voters who have been staying home. >> gentleman, i have to move. a one-word answer if you don't mind. ron kaufman, will donald trump be the republican nominee? >> unclear.

>> well, that's one word. that's okay. ed goaes? >> questionable. >> questionable. >> in the air, we got to keep it going for good tv. >> three guys unsure. >> for you and for me it's good tv. >> certainly. mark mckinnon, ron kaufman, ed goaes, thank you, gentlemen. appreciate it. while the power brokers try to broker a convention, there are two candidate whose can actually win this thing and mitt romney who people were trying to draft just announced he'll vote for ted cruz in tuesday's utah caucuses and he encouraged others to do the same. that has to be good news for my next guest who recently joined ted cruz's national finance team and thinks taking the nomination away from anybody is a bad idea. neal bush, sibling of jeb. neal, thank you for being here. what do you make of my previous guests not rallying to embrace your guy, ted cruz? what do you read into that?

>> well, i think it's very early in the process and i have great respect for all three of your guests. ron kaufman has been an old friend and political mentor of mine personally. i think they're wrong, though, in the following way. ed threw out the statistic which i think is flawed that donald trump would have to get 100% of the delegates going forward in order to lock it up. he only needs 55% of the delegates going forward to lock up the nomination. ted cruz needs 79%. kasich is mathematically eliminated from this. and michael, if you look at the process going forward, there are 22 contests that remain, 14 of which are closed contests, which means only republicans can vote. donald trump does poorly in closed contests. and in most of these, they're winner take all consequences and so we need to rally the party in a one on one contest, donald trump cannot win. it's just clear.

the evidence is there as the pack is narrowed, cruz's numbers have gone up. trump has a very solid core, you know, base of support from an ardent following. no one is going to peel any of those voters away. but there are more people that have come out to vote for other candidates and against trump. so to his credit, he is bringing more people to the polls, but i'm not so sure all these people are going to stay in the republican party when he loses. and he will lose in an open transparent process if not before the convention, at the convention. . >> neil, is yours a full throated endorsement of ted cruz? or are you engaged in strategic voting? >> i'm engaged in strategy participatory politics. i've made it clear ted cruz wasn't my first choice. i admire and was heartbroken at my brother jeb's lack of success. he had a track record and the temperament that proves he could be a great leader.

ted cruz wasn't my second or third choice. i don't particularly like his style. he went to washington to be disruptive. he clearly did that, and he's lost a lot of friends in washington. he'll rebuild friendships when he becomes president. so mine is a strategic move to try to bring our party together. i think it would be a disaster to put up the most flawed candidate as the head of our ticket. donald trump has proven -- yes, go ahead, please. >> i was going to say, i'm glad to hear you differentiate why you're for ted cruz. because here's something that's troubled me or made me question. i want to run a montage brief of some of the things that cruz has said and then tell you what i was thinking as he said these things. roll the tape. >> the washington establishment is refusing to listen to the american people. >> your fellow republicans said you led them over a cliff. >> do you feel like you owe your party an apology. >> senate republicans should have supported house republicans.

>> shutting down the government or defaulting is the wrong thing to do. >> comparing it to those who are the appeasers. >> a once proud republican party has been driven off the cliff under cruz control. >> ted cruz is a fraud and no longer will have any influence in the republican party. >> do you like green eggs and ham? >> i do not like them, sam i am. >> neil, i think your dad, 41, is the gold standard, a class act. when people say establishment, i think in a good way of george herbert walker bush as he ran in '80 a president we won't have to train. cruz seems totally at odds with that vision of the gop. that's why i'm questioning how you could be be supportive of him. >> well, i would put it differently. i'll say if you look at my dad as the gold standard, in my mind he was the gold standard because he put service above self and he was all in for helping the american people and reaching out and working with the other side to make things

happen in a positive protective way domestically and in foreign policy. donald trump is self before service and would be the worst standard bearer our party could even put up. i would put cruz more in the reagan camp. reagan came in with a compass clear and set. he was conservative to the core. yet when ronald reagan got to washington, he threatened to be the outside looking in. he worked with the congress and we have a historic opportunity, michael. we'll bring you back into the republican party. you pronounced you became independent. we're going to have a historic opportunity for president cruz if not smoothly coming off my tongue, president cruz to work with speaker ryan and senate majority leader mcconnell, even though those guys are probably finding ted a little bit of a bitter pill to swallow. they're going to work together to reform washington. >> quick final question. >> okay. >> i want to know, is jeb cool

with what you're doing? >> i mean, he's not uncool with it. let me put it that way. i'm my own independent guy. i don't speak for my brother jeb, george, i clearly don't speak for my mom. i can't wait for you to talk to her about all of this. but i put my country first above party, and i'm not going to take the hail trump kind of deal and step up there. i'm not going to do the politically correct thing and say, yeah, i'm going to support him. i'm not going to support donald trump. i'm going to support ted cruz, the only guy in the race we need to unify around him. he's got a clear path to winning this contest before you get to the convention so he can use the convention for the positive message. by the way, i'm on the finance committee, give money to ted cruz. look him up online. >> neil, when poppy comes back, then i'm back for good. thank you, appreciate you being here. >> you're a good man. thank you, michael. >> what do you think? tweet me your thoughts and i'll read some later in the program. still to come, president

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so who is winning this bitter stand off between supreme court seat held by antonin scalia? this week the president nominated a centrist merrick garland of the d.c. court of appeals and pointed praise about garland from orrin hatch. so is president obama sticking it to the gop forcing them to either consider him or look foolish? or did the gop win by forcing the president to pick the kind of candidate a 63-year-old white guy who might not be very liberal? my next guest is an expert on this for several reasons. jeffrey rosen's upcoming book tells the story of the judge

whose confirmation battle a century ago was the longest and most contentious in supreme court history. he's also the president of the national constitution center. jeffrey, thank you for being here. so in brandeis' case, it was 125 days. by my calculation, when justice scalia passed, president obama had 341 days on the clock. is this unprecedented? >> it is unprecedented. brandeis' was the longest wait that any nominee has had before, nominated on january 28, 1916, confirmed on june 1st when this riveting book comes out. and no nominee has waited a longer period. no one suggested that he shouldn't have hearings, the vote in the end wasn't close, but it was a democratic senate and president and that makes all the difference. >> of course republicans this week are invoking the quote unquote biden rule. i did see that glen gave three

pinocchios to the claim there is a senate responsibility to take up a nomination. do they have a valid argument? the republicans on the senate judiciary committee? >> the constitution does not speak clearly about this. in the end, it is all politics. there is no question politics has been at the center of this. in 1800, john adams is staying up all night to nominate judges and in the last days of his administration he appoints his justice john marshall who is confirmed by a federalist senate. i think we can't say that the constitution requires one thing or another but this is the longest wait any nominee has had. >> politically speaking, did the president get outmaneuvered? he's just put out the name of a 63-year-old white guy who is a centrist. but for the gop line in the sand, would he not perhaps of taken someone of color, someone more liberal and someone younger who would have gone on the supreme court akin to scalia going on at his young age? >> he may have taken someone younger. but garland is ideal judge's

judge, model of bipartisan. he is so respected by both sides. john roberts said when garland disagrees with you, you're in a tough spot. and there's no question. the bottom line is merrick garland will be with the liberals on any of the big cases where scalia was on the other side. so to say he's a centrist, that doesn't say he'lling a strong voice for liberty. it's just someone who is absolutely respect as the model of a judge's judge. >> what do you make of some republicans saying well, maybe in a lame-duck session, maybe if we're awaiting the swearing in of president hillary clinton or president donald trump, then maybe we'll move on this nomination. >> it would make a lot of sense for them because the odds are that anyone that hillary clinton appointments would be more liberal. you know it's also possible that if the democrats take the senate, there might be three weeks between the time the new senate starts and inauguration day when that democratic senate could push through anyone they want. this is the window for merrick

garland that after the election, after a democrat wins republicans will recognize and absolutely the best nominee they could get. they've been asking for him for years and therefore maybe he'll be confirmed then. >> you ought to get that publisher on the horn and say you know that brandeis book, it will be hot if you hurry up and get it to the stands. >> from your lips. i'll tell them. just ahead, donald trump lost the big primary in ohio but i'll talk to one of the best in the political prediction business who says he really won by losing. the saliva coming off and you got this turning. that's why i need this kind of resolution and computing power. being able to use a pen like this. on the screen directly with the image. it just gives me a different relationship to it. and i can't do that on my mac. this is brilliant for me. ♪

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john kasich is still in the race because he won his home state of ohio and many assumed that was bad news for donald trump.

not so fast. listen to this clip from tuesday night. >> a princeton neuroscientist named sam wong who has a pretty good record of crunching numbers puts forth the theory that john kasich winning ohio is actually good news for donald trump. and the thought process is that that crowded field is one where trump excels and the longer it's delayed that there's a one-on-one contest between cruz and trump, the better it is for donald trump. so file that away. >> i actually think -- >> that is -- >> dr. wong happens to be an -- >> no, david axelrod, dr. sam wong is not ted cruz. he is, however, not just a princeton newer neuroscientist but one of the best in the prediction business and 90% sure trump will win. he's made quite a name for himself predicting the exact 2008 presidential results and he joins me now. do you think it was good for donald trump that he lost ohio

to kasich? >> absolutely. i do think it was good in a divided field. trump has the advantage in a one on one race trump has a problem because he one on one surveys and falls well behind cruz. >> don't make my eyes glaze over and remember, i'm a knucklehead but explain the graphs and what they mean, dr. wong. put those up, if you would. here we go. what does that mean? >> this is the conventional political thinking if kasich wins ohio he stays in the race and below, that's a three-way race and that's all the possible outcomes that i've calculated using polls and the red vertical line is where trump needs to get. you can see he gets super close and needs to pick up a few dozen delegates in most scenarios. >> bottom line for that slide is it benefits donald trump to have three people in the race -- >> that's right. >> -- not two. go to the next slide. what does this represent? >> this is the crazy fox

scenario where kasich realizes all he's doing is helping trump. if he drops out of the winner take all races, he creates a head-to-head between trump and cruz. that hist owe gram has shifted. now that trump is far away from 1237 delegates, in that scenario, it goes to an open convention and improves kasich's chances. >> what you're saying, dr. wong, is now he should utilize game theory, john kasich, and he should not campaign in every state that remains. explain. >> if he has self-restraint and he listens to what mitt romney suggested a week or two ago, what he should do is pull out of the winner take all states, only campaign in the proportional representation states, utah is one of them, and take delegates where he can but also minimize donald trump's delegates. >> so he would have to say in some states, look, folks, don't vote for me. vote for ted cruz. >> rubio did that for kasich and he would have to do the same. >> in similar fashion to mitt romney and we've been talking

about this constantly throughout the program today, this notion of strategic voting, the same way mitt romney went into ohio and campaigned with john kasich and now casting his ballot in utah for ted cruz. you're saying if kasich would do similarly, he could prevent donald trump from getting to 1237? >> yes. if he had enough self-restraint, he could apply the game theory and do that, follow that narrow path. >> if he pursues game theory, i love that description, he runs the risk he pushes ted cruz over the hump? >> it's unlikely cruz will get all the way to 50%. there is no denying somebody will get the delegates. cruz could get 40%, 45% of the delegates that creates a situation kasich might not like but certainly he'd like it better than trump getting 50%. >> when all is said and done, dr. sam wong who bested even nate silver, you think donald trump has a 90% shot of winning the republican nomination? >> it's hard to say for sure

because of human factors and the convention but feels like about 90%. >> okay. what would be the odds if kasich were to pursue the strategies you've just set forth? >> oh -- >> less than 90. >> 50/50. >> 50/50. >> yeah. >> say this clearly, if john kasich does that which you've advocated based on your number crunching, you say what? >> i think it will be a tossup. we have no idea who would be the nominee at that point. >> because it would definitely go to cleveland and the determination would be made at the convention. >> goes to cleveland. >> i wonder if they are all going to come to your conclusion when it's over and too late and look back and say dr. wong, he was right at princeton. >> i've been writing about this, and history is everyone is falling into line about one step too late. so the field should have narrowed by now, and it didn't really. there is a problem. people are slow sometimes to realize their own self-interest. >> dr. sam wong, thank you for being here. up next, donald trump is headed to meet with a major

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monday night donald trump is scheduled to speak at a major pro-israel conference by the public affairs committee. the welcome will be mixed at best. many jewish leaders are planning to protest. accusing trump of encouraging hate red. others want him to repudiate his promise to be neutral in israeli palestinian negotiations and his perhaps well-intentioned stereotyping at another recent jewish forum. >> look, we're negotiators.

perhaps more than in any room i've ever spoke in. >> joining me now, jeremy, president of jay street, a liberal jewish advocacy group and sid, a former palm beach county florida republican chairman, trump will be the keynote speaker tomorrow night and he's a trump supporter. jeremy, you have said that donald trump is unfit. why? >> well, this is a man who has created a toxic brew playing to people's worst fears, stereotyping people based on ethnic background and religion. he is speaking in a way that is counter to the very values on which this country was founded and certainly the values of the jewish people, and it is the way in which he has gone about this campaign that should disqualify him to be president of the

united states. we need somebody that will bring this country together, not drive it apart. that's the theme is coming together. he's the exact opposite of the very theme of the conference he's speaking at. >> sid, respond to that, if you would. >> i think that the accountability issue is important one. nobody should ever ask j street to speak about jews. they are an anti-semitic organization which for your voters must be shocking. there is no other religion that has people from their religion out to destroy israel. that's what j street is. they are a one-person organization, george soros born george schwartz who proudly -- >> who is this person? >> -- sent hundreds of thousands of jews to their death and took their money.

nor for the nazis. >> michael, please. >> sid, sid, hang on, sid. >> who is a funder or -- >> we're way afield. we're way afield. we're talking about donald trump. george soros isn't running. >> we're exactly on point. >> do you -- i have to ask you -- >> hold on. hold on. >> on point. >> sid, i want to ask you a question. >> donald trump to get walked out on by j street is a matter of great pride. we as jews want to be walked out on by j street. >> jeremy, i want jeremy -- sid, you said it. let him respond. jeremy, the floor is yours. you can respond or i'll respond, go ahead. >> yeah, no, look, i'm not here to talk about j street. i'm here to talk about donald trump. the issue with donald trump is he's going to have trouble getting support from anybody beyond, let's say, sid and a few people like him perhaps in palm beach. he is representative -- >> palm beach county's primary

last week -- >> jewish community stands against. >> in palm beach counties -- >> as a minority in other people's lands. we have suffered oppression. we understand what it's like to be stereotyped and singled out and -- >> in palm beach county -- >> gentleman, i want to show you both, i want to show you both a quick snippet. it's donald trump saying something and ted cruz responding. roll it. >> let me be sort of a neutral guy. i have friends of mine that are tremendous businesspeople and really great negotiators and say it's not doable. you understand there are people who have gone down in flames trying to make that deal. i don't want to say whose fault is it. i don't think it helps. >> well, let me be very clear, as president, i will not be neutral. america will stand unapologetically with the nation of israel. >> sid, who has the right answer as between those two candidates

on that issue, neutrality? >> oh, both of them. all republicans are good for israel. all democrats are not. j street, hillary, barack obama, al sharpton, they are all pro-iran. they are openly pro-iran. al sharpton is the david duke of the jewish community and j street, hillary clinton, barack obama stand with al sharpton with his anti-semitism. >> jeremy, jeremy -- >> not -- >> jeremy -- hang on, sir. jeremy, it occurs neutrality is something j street advocates. i don't want to speak for you but in this respect, does donald trump have the right idea? >> next time i hope you can find someone that can talk with us about the issues. the best way the united states can be a friend to the state of israel is to help it to achieve a two-state resolution to its conflict with the palestinian people. that's the core premise of j street is that the future of

israel as a democracy and true to its jewish values will depend on its ability to separate from the palestinian people, something that the prime minister of israel gives at least lip service to, every former prime minister, all of the leaders of the other parties support a two-state solution and in seeking to help to get to that outcome, a president of the united states would be acting in the truest sense of friendship to the state of israel. so that is what we want to see. >> that was the irony that i wanted to highlight. i know jeremy you've written as sons and daughters of those who suffered under regimes, you are alert to demagogues and yet i listen to what donald trump said on that issue and said to myself, that sounds very j street-ish. gentleman, thank you. jeremy, sid, i appreciate you're both being here. coming up in just a moment, why i left the gop and why i am headed back again at least for the primary. and some of your tweets like this one from diamond and sick.

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outset that drawn by donald trump, i intend to change my voter registration to republican. and this is a very personal decision for me. not that i'm still bruised. and i served in the bush 41 administration when i was 29 years old. today i doubt either reagan or bush could capture this party's nomination. i didn't leave the republican party. it left me. the 1980 gop platform had welcoming stances that today's republicans would demonize on

everything from abortion to voter participation to immigration. i became an independent in 2010, ditching party labels, that suited me. but i'd never missed an election in three decades and i knew it would be painful to sit out primaries because of pennsylvania's archaic closed system. this season i can't tolerate being an election bystander. today under my own roof, besides me, there are two rs, two ds, and a 15-year-old who says in three years he, too, will be an independent, not a republican or a democrat. it was actually our eldest son, who's now 20, who introduced me to strategic voting. he register as an r even though his sentiments lean d, and he did it deliberately, arguing that the rs need more help with their selection process. his goal, he told me at the time, was to limit outliers, and that was two years ago, before the gop race devolved into a battle over the height of a wall, the banning of an entire

religion, and the size of the candidate's -- hands. there's a lot of strategic voting this cycle. in my home state, nearly 50,000 democrats have become republicans this year presumably to vote in the presidential primary. some have told me on my radio program that they joined the gop to vote for donald trump. others to vote against donald trump. and now me too. they say you can't go home again. but i'm just planning a short visit. and now for a tweet or two. as i like to say, you can follow me on twitter if you can spell smerconish. here's some of what came in during the course of this broadcast. a roundtable of over-60 wealthy, white establishment men meeting to overthrow the will of gop voters. what could possibly go wrong? hey, i can only say that i am neither wealthy nor over 60 so i assume you're referring to the other guys.

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top of the hour. i'm poppy harlow. it is 7:00 p.m. on the east coast, 4:00 p.m. pacific. glad you're with us. up first donald trump rallying a crowd of supporters right now in tucson, arizona, ahead of the state's winner-take-all primary on tuesday. security for the event today tight after an afternoon of anti-trump protests and not one but two states. earlier today, protesters blocked the road near trump's event. demonstrators in new york marched through the streets from columbus circle down to trump tower on 5th avenue. a few of them pepper sprayed and arrested after throwing