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Bloomberg's Halperin on Trump's Appeal: People Like Fun (Audio) · Bloomberg Intelligence

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  Speaker 1: Lucifer in the flesh. That's a former House speaker. John
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  Speaker 1: Bayner called Ted Cruise today after excuse me yesterday after
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  Speaker 1: a talk at Stanford University, he said, I've never worked
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  Speaker 1: with more miserable s O B in my life. Well,
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  Speaker 1: here to wag in on this and so much more
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  Speaker 1: is Mark Halprint. He's the host of with all due
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  Speaker 1: respect for Bloomberg Politics weeknights at five pm on Bloomberg
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  Speaker 1: TV and also in Bloomberg in Washington. Okay, Mark, again,
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  Speaker 1: your guy who's hurt and seeing a lot on the
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  Speaker 1: campaign trail. Are you surprised when John Bayner said that
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  Speaker 1: about Ted Cruise. Well, John Bayner is somebody who likes
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  Speaker 1: colorful language and no longer burdened by the responsibilities and
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  Speaker 1: the constraints of the speakership. I think speaks his mind
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  Speaker 1: in such cases. And it's a manifestation of the strong feelings,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of negative feelings that Ted Cruise arouses amongst
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  Speaker 1: people in Washington and people who've been around Washington. There's
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  Speaker 1: a joke in Washington now that goes a little like this,
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  Speaker 1: why did Ted cruises colleagues in the Tenants Senate takes
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  Speaker 1: such an instant dislike to him. The answer in order
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  Speaker 1: to save time. There's he has just rubbed people the
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  Speaker 1: wrong way. I've known him a long time, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I like him, fine, I'm paid to like everybody fine
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  Speaker 1: because I'm objective journalist. But I do like him fine.
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  Speaker 1: But he has really rubbed people the wrong way. And
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  Speaker 1: John Bayner in this case is doing what he often
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  Speaker 1: did his speaker and since he left the speakership does
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  Speaker 1: with increasing frequency, which is kind of giving voice to
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  Speaker 1: a sentiment that's out there. And it is significant not
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  Speaker 1: just because it's kind of funny. It's significant because John
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  Speaker 1: Bayner is also giving voice not just how people feel
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  Speaker 1: about take Cruz, but to the emerging reality in the
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  Speaker 1: establishment of the Republican Party that they need to just
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  Speaker 1: accept Donald Trump as their nominee and not try to
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  Speaker 1: grow the Stop Trump movement, but rather tell the stop
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  Speaker 1: Trump movement this is happening. Let's make the best of it.
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  Speaker 1: Mark Halprin, Uh, Bobby Knight. You don't necessarily think of
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame basketball coaches as being endorsments of candidates,
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  Speaker 1: but this is a strange season. Tell us about this
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  Speaker 1: and other types of endorsements are going to be routine
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  Speaker 1: as we get set for the big presidential race. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump has relations all over the world and all
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  Speaker 1: over the United States with people in what you could
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  Speaker 1: broadly characterize as the entertainment business, and sports is part
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  Speaker 1: of entertainment. UH and coach Knight is shares Trump's kind
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  Speaker 1: of much sismo fueled brand of leadership. John hom and
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  Speaker 1: I on with all the respect to Night, are going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about this, you know Trump yesterday, this controversy
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  Speaker 1: from two nights ago, a night of the New York
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  Speaker 1: primary of the Northeastern primaries, insulting Hillary Clinton by saying
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  Speaker 1: she was wouldn't be doing this well if she were
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  Speaker 1: a man. Uh doubles down on that, which some thought
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  Speaker 1: was a risky move in terms of trying to win
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  Speaker 1: over women and now wrapping himself in the arms of
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  Speaker 1: Bobby Knight and having these kind of testosterone fueled alleys
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  Speaker 1: were in Indiana, in Indiana and now look is an
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  Speaker 1: Indiana play because Bobby Night, although he's not universally popular
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  Speaker 1: there is one of the biggest figures in the history
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  Speaker 1: of Indiana modern Indiana because of his stordship of the
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  Speaker 1: men's basketball team at the main campus of the university.
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  Speaker 1: But this is a sign that we're going to see,
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  Speaker 1: as you suggested, a lot of endorsements for Trump from
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  Speaker 1: various kinds of celebrities, entertainers, sports figures. Democrats in the
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  Speaker 1: past have had more luck winning high profile endorsements from
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  Speaker 1: people from entertainment. I think Trump plans to compete in
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  Speaker 1: that space with people like Bobby Night. He's he's he's
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  Speaker 1: had Tom Brady in his corner, He's had other professional
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  Speaker 1: athletes in his corner, and these you know, it's it's, it's,
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  Speaker 1: it's We must remember too, a lot of women are
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  Speaker 1: into sports. And if you're in the Midwest and you're
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  Speaker 1: from Indiana and you're Hoosier, there's a lot of females
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  Speaker 1: who are Hoosiers as well. Right, So this is not
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  Speaker 1: necessarily a bad strategy. But the numbers mostly show that
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  Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton has by far and away so much more
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  Speaker 1: support from women. I mean, sounds and Donald Trumps support
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  Speaker 1: among women, and the polls anyway is shaky today. Trump's
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  Speaker 1: gonna have to change that, but he thinks he can.
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  Speaker 1: Look the Democratic Party historically has done better with women.
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  Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton has done very well with women, although younger
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  Speaker 1: women have been a problem for her against Bernie Sanders,
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  Speaker 1: you're you're right. Obviously, there are a lot of women's
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  Speaker 1: sports fans and in Indiana and a lot of women
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  Speaker 1: are like Indiana basket men's basketball. But there's also no death.
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  Speaker 1: The style of a Trump Bobby Knight rally we've seen
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  Speaker 1: a couple of them now, is different than a Hillary
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  Speaker 1: Clinton rally. A Knight used a mild profanity to talk
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  Speaker 1: about Trump at a term of affection, some a bitch,
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  Speaker 1: as we say in Indiana, and you wouldn't hear that
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  Speaker 1: at Hillary Clinton rally. But that's what the reason they
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  Speaker 1: mock her on Saturday Night Live because she's not real well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean I think she is. I mean that's the character. Look. Look,
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  Speaker 1: one of the interesting things about this Bobby Knight thing
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  Speaker 1: and and the back and forth of her gender in
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of days, who's one every general election
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  Speaker 1: we've had in this country in the television era, the
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  Speaker 1: candidate who was seen as more likable. It's just a fact.
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  Speaker 1: Also the taller candidate. Uh Now, objectively, Trump is taller
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  Speaker 1: than Clinton. Nothing she can do about that. Both of
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  Speaker 1: them in private are exceedingly likable, but I would say
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  Speaker 1: their public images Trump's very likable. Hillary Clinton herself, when asked,
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  Speaker 1: why did you go to Donald Trump's wedding so that
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  Speaker 1: he's fun to be around? Thought it would be fun.
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  Speaker 1: It is fun to be around Donald Trump. There are
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  Speaker 1: people in this country who detest Donald Trump. But part
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  Speaker 1: of celebrity endorsements is this notion of fun. John Kerry
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  Speaker 1: was probably at his most appealing as the presidential candidate
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  Speaker 1: when he was hanging around with Bruce Springsteen. And so
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  Speaker 1: I think Hillary Clinton, you know, she's made an effort
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  Speaker 1: this right, She's been endorsed by Lena Dunham. Some people
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  Speaker 1: think of her as fun by other celebrities. Um, but Trump,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Trump does fun. Trump does fun well. And
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  Speaker 1: that's let's face it. You may you may look down
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  Speaker 1: on it, you may bemoan it, but that's part of
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  Speaker 1: running for president. It's part of winning. Thank you very much,
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  Speaker 1: Mark Halpern. Having you with us helps us understand who
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  Speaker 1: might win and of course, who might lose. He is
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  Speaker 1: the host of With All due respect, weeknights, five pm
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  Speaker 1: Wall Street Time on Bloomberg Television and on Bloomberg in Washington,
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