back with matt lewis, john philips and kelly ann conway.n and party going to do with people like steve base. since leaving the gop, i feel liberated like the breakup chick in gretchen wilson song. >> some people have their feelings hurt and being drama queens on twitter when up late at night. give it time. the more that donald trump goes after hillary clinton, the more he finds a common enemy with these people, and the more it becomes a traditional republican versus democratic race, a lot of these upset republicans right now are going to come back in the tent because there is nowhere for them to go. if you live in atlanta and fly delta because it is the only option. and right now if you're a republican, you may be upset, you may not love donald trump, you may not even like him, but guess what, he's the only option and if you don't go with donald trump in the general, you're going to be looking at president hillary clinton. >> you didn't like the term drama queen. >> i didn't like that at all. i think that's no way to actually coalesce and g

joining us to decode the speech is kelly and conway -- kelly ann conway. explain this to me. an outsider, all those things in the year when it should have mattered a lot. how could he have failed? bottom line, whitehead cruz cannot -- wide characters cannot defeat donald trump? >> if your ted cruz and you have all the kings men against you, it is tough. i guess being in the senate for two and a half short years is too much of an insider for an electorate that truly wants an outsider. when they say outsider, they want somebody not part of the system. if you're in the system it means you have raised money. you've been approached by lobbyists. you cast votes that people don't like. ofis amazing really to think people wanting an outsider but wanting an outsider with no political experience ever. that's a pretty remarkable feat. we are old enough to remember that last summer ben carson also was doing very well in the polls as a political outsider. zero experience in washington. was able to trump carry that narrative forward among constituencies like evangelicals and the non-colleg

he could no longer play the waiting gachlt he asked kelly ann conway to do research and see where he would stand in the 20 fwefl race. and somebody who would be an outsider to the system in washington and also somebody who was not complete he unfamiliar to them. >> he was not ready to throw his hat in the ring. he endorsed mitt romney. who sold himself as someone who could get it done. it was romney who lost. he started connecting with conservative media outlets and gave speeches in places like cpac. >> i am not doing it for fun. i am doing it because we have to take our country back. he met with newt gingrich. >> he asked questions, what does it take physically and balance yourself. what would it cost from january of 2015 through south carolina? i said 70 or 80 million. and he said, a yacht. it would be more interesting than a yacht and i sort of thought he was going. by the time he announced the run, he was ready and if the rest of the candidates were not ready for him, the public was. >> it is a movement and people are following him had. they have a voice again. >> the movement ha

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kelly ann conway and former ted cruz super paccer.n talking about the trump donor score or the announcement of these donors coming in. how did he do it? >> it's impressive. he does it through total charm. he vanquished 16 opponents. these are businessmen who deal in the free market. >> and women. >> businessmen and businesswomen. the fact that it's a joint outing is also important and impressive. it shows the party unity starts at the top. >> you're for trump and you're not. >> i am not. >> you knowledge this is an impressive list. shouldn't you give up. if he can put together a list like this -- >> it's a necessary. donors fall into two categories. most major donors, including those that fund the super pacs are staying out of it. they are open to funding an independent candidate or sit on the sidelines. a lot of that was chronicled over the weekend. the other group are people like that who are signing up and some of them are saying we're on board and we'll do work. others are saying i don't want to be seen as being disloyal. i'm givi

kelly ann conway i read made a statement that supporting donald trump and opposing hillary clinton are two very different things. so they seem to be headed toward, well, they'll get involved. they may not say they like donald trump but they will say they don't like hillary clinton. >> what's a day without a rationalization. >> the good news for your candidate, donald trump is that right now both democrats and republicans at the congressional level say he is not affecting down ballots. >> tom, jeff, nye my friends, thanks for being with us. >> happy mother's day. >> thank you, and to your moms, too. and -- anyway, what does the american conservative union think of donald trump versus the hillary clinton match up. mat schlapp, the chairman is here next. don't go away. >>> paul ryan, house speaker, deepening the gop divide, saying he is not yet ready to support donald trump. sa take a listen. >> to be perfectly candid i'm not ready to do that at this point. i'm not there right now. i hope to and i want to. i think what is required is that we unify this party. i think the bulk of the burde

joining us to decode the speech is kelly ann conway. it is great to see you. explain this to me.ive, outsider, antiestablishment, all of those things should matter. how could he have failed? bottom line, why could he not defeat donald trump? you are ted cruz and you have a with a kings men and horses against you it is tough. , i guess being in the senate for two and a half short years is too much of an insider for an electorate that truly wants an outsider. when they say outsider, they mean somebody that is not part of the system. it means that you have been briefed by lobbyist. you have cast votes that people do not like. peoplemazing to think of wanting an outsider, but wanting an outsider with no political experience whatsoever. .hat is a remarkable feat we are old enough to remember that last summer, ben carson was doing well with zero experience in washington. a well renowned neurosurgeon. i think donald trump was able to carry that narrative forward in places like with evangelicals and non-college-educated voters that is surprising. say you're part of a system that works ag

kelly ann conway i read made a statement that supporting donald trump and opposing hillary clinton are seem to be headed toward well they'll get involved. they may not say they like donald trump but they will say they don't like hillary clinton. >> what's a day without a rationalization. >> the good news for your candidate, donald trump is that right now both democrats and republicans at the congressional level say he is not affecting down ballots. >> tom, jeff nye my friends, thanks for being with us. >> happy mother's day. >> thank you, and to your moms too. and -- anyway what does the american conservative union think of donald trump versus the hillary clinton match up. mat schlapp, the chairman is here next. don't go away. back. be good. text mom. boys have been really good today. send. let's get mark his own cell phone. nice. send. brad could use a new bike. send. [google:] message. you decide. they're your kids. why are you guys texting grandma? it was him. it was him. keep your family connected. app-connect. on the newly redesigned passat. from volkswagen. ugh! heartburn! no one

joining us now with reaction from the polling company, kelly ann conway, she used to work for a pro-cruz superpac, also here tonight, fox news senior correspondent geraldo rivera. fox news contributor, monica crowley. you know, her hands are not clean here and these allegations by kathleen willie, groping, grabbing, fondling, kissing against her will and juanita broderick. this is not consensual sex. dropping his pants in front of paula jones. >> there's a real method to this. he's targeting millennial women. young women who weren't born at the time of the lewinsky -- >> you're aging all of us on the panel. >> or not old enough to remember. they're hearing this all for the first time. remember, the culture has changed. college campuses have changed. this kind of stuff is horrifying to these young women. he's speaking directly to them. if he can peel enough of them away, fwrarankly millennial men well, if he can peel enough of that constituency away from hillary, whatever democrat they run, donald trump will win. >> geraldo, forget about your defense over the year of clinton and lewinsky,

from kelly ann conway who said trump is swift-boating her by throwing shade on what should be a strengthsg to the 2004 attack on john kerry's war record, which deterred attention from george bush's vulnerabvulnerabilities. do you see it here? >> it will backfire. you mentioned that 69% of women today have an unfavorable opinion of donald trump. in fact, there's been polls that show it's up as high as 75% of women. and again e, this going to be decided by women voters. >> could she alienate men? if she keeps up on the track and playing up the fact that she's a female candidate? >> she's talking about a contrast between two visions. she's a fighter for women and family. she does happen to be a woman, that is true. really, this campaign is focused on economic opportunities for women and families in this country. on a whole wide breadth of issues. that's incredibly important. the republican party still hasn't embraced any of the policies that could make a huge difference for women in this country. >> we're going to have to leave it there. thank you very much. i'm sure we'll hear more about th

kelly ann conway president of a pro cruz super pac. jeffrey lord who served as little director for reagan. and angela rai and mark preston. kevin, let me start with you. donald trump presumptive nominee. reince priebus is saying his hash tag on twitter is never clinton. do you buy in? is there anything that gets kevin madden on board? >> urging unity is the job of the chairman. i think achieving unity is going to be very difficult right now. i think there are a lot of raw exposed nerves inside the party. and it's -- definitely going to be an uphill climb. i think many committed principled republicans and conservatives believe that donald trump has to earn their vote. and to this point, because of, you know, his departure on many issues or because of how he conducted himself, that he hasn't. so they are going to -- you know, continue to use elements of this -- of the party just not support him and not show up in november. >> but in your phrasing, the question for you, could he earn your vote? is there anything, obviously to this point h

kelly ann conway, president of a pro cruz super pac. matt lewis and scottie nell hughes. you heard jim acosta saying an unprecedented level of confidence from the trump campaign. but he has been a little more careful in front of some states. if he wins big tomorrow, social security as he thistle, is it over? >> it is. three weeks ago, we were counting any delegates from indiana. >> really? none. >> and tomorrow night we're going to do very, very well. very, very well. >> what do you say to that, kelly ann? three weeks ago counting on none. and now when you look at the polls, the polls may be wrong but you've got ted cruz behind 15 points right now. >> according to one poll. as was the cruz plus 13 poll that seemed like an outlier also. one poll last week, and the nbc poll. a 28-point difference. the truth is probably somewhere in between. but to barry's point, i think the trump campaign does the best job of all in playing the expectations game. we didn't expect to win wisconsin, so we didn't. we expected to not do as well in northeast. did even better than we thought. >>

with me is kelly ann conway, cnn delegate analyst mike shields, also the president of the congressionaleadership fund, a superpac, mike used to be the chief of staff for reince priebus at the rnc and of course we begin with cnn's manu raju with more on how that meeting in the u.s. senate with mr. trump. what happened? >> it was positive. we were talking to senators that briefed the rest of the republican conference and they said it was very good. actually, donald trump was listening most of the time and not talking. and a number of senators laid out what they wanted him to focus on, taxes, judges, controversial things like the ban of muslims not a big focus of the discussion and folks felt positive. a senator told me they actually kind of liked him and it was very good effort by donald trump to tamp things down and i should add that even ted cruz who is at the -- not at the meeting but the lunch and got briefed. they asked him about it afterwards hen 'said, look, i'm sorry. didn't went to come back to the senate and everyone laughed and john mccain said, well, we didn't want you back ei

let's talk about it with matthew dowd and republican pollster and strategist kelly anne conway and let me begin with you, matthew. you have this summit coming up between paul ryan, the senate leadership and donald trump. will this be decisive? important moment in the campaign. here's the situation, george. donald trump has had a hostile takeover of the republican party and the incouple against establishment executives of that company have to decide, one, do they go along with the new ownership or, two, do they walk and i think that's what the meeting is about. is paul ryan going to be part of the new takeover that donald trump has of the republican party. >> good way of putting it. kelly ann, he goes in with the new polls with strength in his pocket. >> he does especially in the swing states which is really what matters. they're meaningless when you look at these. more competitive race and i think that's because donald trump has been consistently underestimated for a year and hillary clinton has overestimated for probably eight years and i think he'll take the case right to her. he's g

kailee mcen nenny and republican former cruz supporter and president and ceo of polling company kelly ann conways talk about how marco rubio and ted cruz, jeb bush, paul ryan, seem to be trying to get their arms around this. let me show you what marco rubio said to jake tapper in terms of whether he would vote and support donald trump. watch this. >> i've signed a pledge that said i'd support the republican nominee and i intend to continue to can do that, but, look, here's a situation we're in. on the one hand, i don't want hillary clinton to be the president of the united states. i don't want her to win this election. on the other hand, as i said, i have well-defined differences with the current, the presumptive nominee of the republican party. >> okay. seems like he's still struggling with what he's going to do, but he feels he signed that pledge. does that go far enough? >> far enough for me. i have immense support for marco rubio for swallowing his pride. harsh attacks between the two of them. for him to say i'm a man of my word, a biding by the pledge. i don't want to see hillary clinton in