susan: dave mcintosh president , of the club for growth. k you for being the "newsmakers" guest. mr. mcintosh: thank you for having me. susan: after our conversation with the president of club for growth, david mcintosh. the anti-trump coming up in the wisconsin primary. for those of you, a lot of my attendance in florida would hope to stop in with mr. trust process forward which was not , successful. what do you think says they will be in wisconsin? mr. hohmann: he kind of made a joke at the club. there are other things going on. wisconsin is a unique political stage in the sense that the milwaukee area has been very -- has some very, very prominent conservative talk radio hosts and they have been in the never , trump movement for a long time. scott walker, i think has a lot , of moral authority among wisconsin conservatives. he came out against donald trump. i think donald trump lose -- is going to lose wisconsin in large part because of his unforced errors. his campaign manager being criminally charged with battery against a female report

our guest is dave mcintosh who has the political advocacy group for growth.ue spotlight series focuses on the supreme court nominating process. on today's washington journal, we will get the latest on the 2016 presidential race with political strategists david winston and hankin. and then holly harris with the u.s. justice network. to change the criminal justice system. an officer from the woodrow wilson center talks about the recent nuclear security summit in washington and what the international community is doing to ensure that nuclear material stays out of the hands of terrorists. ♪ host: good morning welcome to "washington journal". with wisconsin preparing to vote this tuesday we begin with politics and pose this question. is hillary clinton a progressive? bernie sanders says he's the true progressive in this race. what is your take on this? if you support the former secretary of state 202-7 48-8000. if you are supporting another candidate

we talked to dave mcintosh. dave mcintosh: we looked at all the candidates. did a 5-10 page on their economic record. taxes, government spending, regulation, free trade, school choice. had of the candidates sterling records. ted cruz, marco rubio, ron paul were at the top. jeb bush has a very good economic record. we then looked at trump when we realized he was a serious candidate. he has not voted on things but for 20 years he has spoken out on a lot of policy manners. he at one point suggested the largest tax increase ever to pay down the debt. he tried to walk that it even recently he said under the right circumstances he would do it over again. privatenot respect property rights because he is for eminent domain where you a homeowner and turn it over to a developer to redevelop. if you do not have private property rights, that undermines the very free market system we have. we realized he would be a disaster on free market growth. in the past, we have been advertising to tell people about that. now a lot of that is well known. also starting to talk about h

we speak with the club us president, dave mcintosh.shares his thoughts on the republican race and the remaining candidates, including republican front runner donald trump. >> we looked at all of the candidates, the major ones this cycle. pagebout a five to 10 paper on their economic records. where are they on taxes, government spending, taxes, free trade? and many of the candidates had sterling records. rubio, ron paul were at the top but jeb bush has a very good economic record. we then looked at trump when we realized he was a serious candidate. for 20 years he has spoken out on a lot of policy matters. he proposed at one point the largest tax increase ever to pay down the debt. he has tried to walk that back but even recently said, yes, and the right circumstances i would do that all over again. privatenot respect property rights because he is for eminent domain abuse. you take money from a homeowner and turn it over to a developer to be developed. if you do not have private property rights, if people control the land they own and t

there are a lot of people you see like that macintosh -- dave mcintosh said he does not see john kasich successfully can prevent donald trump from winning the nomination before the convention. there are a lot of establishment republicans who say let us get behind ted cruz reluctantly for now, and we can get it to a convention and deny donald trump the nomination and maybe paul ryan would emerge as a potential nominee. susan: we also saw this week that the three major campaigns are hiring big guns in the delegate manipulation area. figuring out the strategy. what does that indicate? how important is that delegate process? >> this has become a delegate race. a lot of questions that still exist about how the delegates will come into play. that inrump realized louisiana. they will be moving forward with the complaint about the distribution of delegates in that state. idea,rror reinforced the the importance of the role delegates play. to ensure they do not get blindsided at the convention. ted cruz has organized really well in terms of making sure his delegates are represented on state commi

. >> on this weakens these makers, are guest is dave mcintosh.e shares thoughts on 2016 presidential race. the club is already endorsing texas senator ted cruz for president. and behind a string of anti-donald trump ads in several primary states. you can watch the interview sunday at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern on seas and. >> the media teaches us that the democrats and republicans are supposed to be at odds with each other. and i think that people need to recognize that we need to be respectful toward each other and we need to understand that senators are respectful toward each other and that will be more conducive to getting the policy done instead of just acrimony and patrol. >> the truth is that these people was on television and on c-span are real people. when we saw president obama, perhaps the thing that most it out to me was that he had bags under his eyes and he was tired, he was a real person doing with real things. so i thought that that was perhaps most interesting. >> sunday night on q&a, high school students from around the cou

there are a lot of people you -- dave that macintosh mcintosh said he does not see john kasich successfully can prevent donald trump from winning the nomination before the convention. there are a lot of establishment us getcans who say let behind ted cruz reluctantly for now, and we can get it to a convention and deny donald trump the nomination happen, maybe pal ryan would emerge as a potential. >> we also saw this week that all the major campaigns that are still in the process of hiring big guns in the delegates manipulation area, really counting their noses and big ring out the strategy. indicate and how important is it, that delegate process? >> right now we are in that area where this has become a delegate race. questionsa lot of that still exist about how the delegates will come into play after the convention and donald trump realize that before the convention takes place in louisiana, we just saw his campaign say that they will move forward with a complaint about the allocation and distribution of delegates in that state. i think that error on their part really reinforced the idea an

ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] >> next, "newsmakers" with dave mcintoshc-span presents showing what today's leaders have set in the past about the process of nominating and confirming justices to the supreme court. susan: tuesday's wisconsin primary has become quite a battleground in our guest is in the mix of it all. they've mcintosh is the president of the group club for growth. they have endorsed the primary for ted cruz and is spending $1 million on ads in the state against donald trump. thank you for being with us this week. mr. mcintosh: my pleasure. susan: the meters over to reporters. ms. morrongiello and mr. hohmann. as we get started, people looking at your twitter feed will see many references to making the wisconsin primary donald trump's waterloo essentially. why are you thinking about it like tha? mr. mcintosh: this could be the primary which projecting forward -- he lost one state but clearly has over momentum. ted cruz beating him in wisconsin shows that when you get down to essentially the two-person race, he does not win. also that cruz