he was thought to inherit it from kay bailey hutchison. rick perry endorsed david dewhurst and campaigned for him. dewhurst has a ton of money. he'd already been elected four times statewide. he was maybe not a household name but he was very well known in texas. he was absolutely the establishment choice for that senate seat in 2012. he was going to win it. so if you wanted to stop that from happening, if you wanted to prevent that establishment choice from taking that u.s. senate seat, how would you do it? well, two-step process. the first step would be to keep him below 50% in the primary. because this was an open seat and because it was a safe republican seat, every republican and their mother was running for this seat in that primary. there were nine people in the republican primary for that senate seat in 2012. so the first step was actually kind of an easy one mathematically speaking with nine people in the race, that means everybody's splitting the vote at least a little bit. if you want to keep him from getting to a runoff, step on

i never see my friend kay bailey hutch hutchison.ad more integrity, more knowledge than any five senators i've ever met and she has this story dead right. how many times have you said give me a 15% corporate tax rate, fwifr me full experiencing. let's go territorial. america will become the most hospitable -- >> and today in the president's discussion, he did say that he supports simplifying and maybe even lowering the corporate tax rate. obama said that today. >> i don't care. he always gives lip service to it. first of all, he didn't give you a plan. he just said lower. that could be -- he's the guy by the way one of the things they had with respect to bringing money back home, deemed repatriation, he wants 18%, 19 percentage rates. senator hutchison, why is it take this administration instead of rewarding businesses around the world making america hospitable, why do they always want to punish? they have done it for 7 1/2 years. always punlishing instead of rewarding. >> exactly. they beat up on the private sector time and time aga

kay bailey hutchison, you heard her say that was a step in the right direction with trump's views on women and how he will go after hillary clinton. the stop trump wants to keep fig fighting. they want to pick up the fight and make indiana a battleground. do they have enough juice left to make a difference. they're arguing we can't get a candidate over the line when they're not close to the line. >> a circular firing squad, where's my help? and the group saying, where's my candidate? >> that's been one of the things. our own political thing, chuck todd wrote about it, one of the biggest issues with the stop trump movement, all you're doing is promoting negative, you're not giving people one alternative and that's one thing that stalled momentum. >> in many ways, that's politics 101. people want to vote for someone, something they can get behind. the idea you will just sell people on a negative. >> the idea is donald trump is so unique he can be the person you want to vote against. >> those were fervently for him and those against him. this is happening in burlingame, california. if y