“Donald Trump is in office. It's not just another Republican candidate - Donald Trump. And people were so disaffected with the liberal message that they were willing to vote for him.” PeopleWillingTrumpRepublicanOfficeMessagesVoteCandidates Author:Steve Inskeep
“The Republican - conservative Republican answer has always been when we lose it's because we're not ideological enough. If they lose midterm elections, that's why. If Obama defeats McCain and then Mitt Romney, it's because those two Republican candidates were not ideological enough.” IfsTwoEnoughLosesAnswersRepublicanElectionDefeatConservativeCandidatesRomneyIdeologicalMccainMidtermsMidterm Elections Author:Sam Tanenhaus
“Former Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina also criticized Donald Trump during the campaign, but now she was arguing that the new president deserves a chance to prove himself, and that, perhaps, you know, having a march just the day after his inauguration is kind of disrespectful.” KnowsKindPresidentChanceTrumpRepublicanProveDeserveArguingCampaignsFormerPresidentialCandidatesMarchPresidential CandidateDisrespectfulInauguration Author:Michel Martin
“If Democrats vote against everyone sight unseen, then Republicans will vote for everyone sight unseen. However, if Democrats demonstrate that they’re considering each candidate on the merits, they have at least a fighting chance of defeating one or two of Trump’s nominees.” IfsTwoFightingChanceTrumpRepublicanVoteSightDemocratMeritCandidatesConsideringUnseen Author:Kevin Drum
“Donald Trump is an independent presidential candidate who ran on the Republican label. He really did. He took it over. He transformed it into his image, in his likeness.” TrumpRepublicanIndependentLabelsPresidentialRanCandidatesTransformedPresidential Candidate Author:Mark Shields
“You can be guaranteed a story on the presidential campaign is gonna lampoon the Republican candidate in every one of those news agencies.” StoriesRepublicanNewsCampaignsPresidentialAgencyCandidatesPresidential Campaign Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Donald Trump I knew as a young reporter in New York was nothing if not media friendly. And for most of the past Republican primary, he was the most accessible major candidate. No one else was close.” IfsPastYoungMediaNew YorkTrumpRepublicanMajorsPrimariesCandidatesFriendlyReporters Author:Jonathan Karl
“Kevin McCarthy, who is the House majority leader, was pretty open. He went out and recruited candidates. And the Republicans in the House have paid a price for it ever since, because they cannot pass anything comprehensive or real because of the Freedom Caucus, which is the child, the product, the progeny of the Tea Party.” ChildrenRealHousePartyLeaderProductsRepublicanPaidMajorityTeaCandidatesComprehensiveTea PartyKevinCaucusProgenyMajority Leader Author:Mark Shields
“That old Bobby Kennedy 1968 form of liberalism where you could be holding hands with the Appalachian family on one day and then be in Harlem the next day and nobody thinks it's weird, that is something that isn't as strong. It was strong in 2008. It hasn't been as strong since then. That's just a reality that we have to deal with that it's not just that the Republicans ran a terrible candidate who had bad ideas, it's also that the circle of love and affirmation that we have as progressives can sometimes just not be big enough.” ThinkingIdeasSometimesEnoughHandsBigsRealityFormNextStrongDealsTerribleRepublicanOne DayCirclesRanCandidatesLiberalismAffirmationNext DayBad IdeasHolding HandsHarlemBobby Kennedy Author:Van Jones
“The Republican Primaries were quite interesting. The establishment had its candidate, [Mitt] Romney, a kind of a Wall Street lawyer and investor, and they wanted him in. But the base didn't want him.” WantKindWantedInterestingStreetsWallRepublicanLawyerPrimariesCandidatesInvestorsEstablishmentRomneyWant Him Author:Noam Chomsky
“Every time a candidate came up from the base, that is with popular support, the Republican establishment went into high gear to destroy them with massive propaganda attack ads and so on. It was one after another, each one crazier than the last.” LastsSupportRepublicanPropagandaCandidatesMassiveAdsEstablishmentGears Author:Noam Chomsky