“Why should anybody who doesn't like Donald Trump think, oh, well, I should think he is legitimate now?” Quote by John S. Dickerson
“Donald Trump is a mainstream conservative who wants to profoundly take on the left. The left is infuriated that anybody would challenge the legitimacy of their moral superiority. And so the left goes hysterical.” ChallengesMoralConservativeSuperiorityHysterical Author:John S. Dickerson
“Donald Trump has to be Donald Trump. And the country will organize itself around who he is.” CountryOrganize Author:Newt Gingrich
“And in the wake of Trump's elections, there have been reports across the country of intimidation, harassment and violence against those very groups. So if Trump is serious about unifying the country, if this is a thing he wants to do, then I think he needs to immediately speak against these acts of intimidation, harassment and violence that are happening to some degree in the name of the campaign that he ran.” ThinkingCountrySpeakViolenceSeriousElectionRanHarassmentIntimidation Author:Newt Gingrich
“We are spending so much time in studios, and in chairs listening to somebody at a lectern, and if we really understood what Americans were concerned about and what resentments were building, we would not have been as shocked by Donald Trump's success.” BuildingListeningConcernedResentment Author:Frank Bruni
“Let's face it: It's difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.” EnoughFacesDifficultWorry Author:Alan King
“I remember going to a Trump rally in South Carolina, and it was really important and it was really interesting to talk to the people who'd shown up there because they were not caricatures, and so often Trump voters, Trump supporters were being portrayed in the media, probably I'm guilty of it as well, as caricatures. Each of these people, and I talked to maybe a dozen of them, had a very particular reason why he or she was supporting Donald Trump , but these were not casual, inexplicable decisions.” PeopleImportantReasonRememberDecisionInterestingGuiltySupporterReally Interesting Author:Frank Bruni
“We need to talk to voters in large enough numbers and we need to have conversations that are probing and sustained enough that we understand where they're coming from because nothing is nonsensical. You know, in a democracy, in an election, in an electorate there's a reason why things are happening and it's incumbent upon us to delve deep enough to get at those reasons.” ReasonEnoughDemocracyElectionNonsensical Author:Frank Bruni
“I think what we journalists too often do is we assume the status quo is unchangeable. I think all sorts of issues of political reform, electoral reform need more discussion than they get.” ThinkingPoliticalAssumingJournalistDiscussionStatus QuoUnchangeable Author:Frank Bruni
“The way the electoral college works, the way the states have kind of sorted themselves out in such a way that most states, the conclusion is foregone and there's no reason for the candidate to be there and for that reason, for that same, because of those same dynamics there's no reason for the journalist to be there combing the opinions of voters there because we know that California's gonna vote Democratic.” KindReasonOpinionCollegeVoteDemocraticConclusionJournalist Author:Frank Bruni
“If every four years in a presidential election, if you're a New Yorker or a Californian, and you realize that you are so much less important, that nobody is actually kind of targeting your needs because they're laser-focused on what will play in Florida and on what will play in Virginia.” KindImportantRealizingElectionPresidentialPresidential Election Author:Frank Bruni