not a single republican voted with us. not a single republican. republicans voted to deport dreamers. republicans blocked an increase in the minimum wage. republicans blocked equal pay for women. republicans blocked efforts to do something about student loan debt. now republicans are blocking a nominee to the supreme court before that person's even been nominated. this is just a short list of what they have blocked. from this rhetoric to their actions, the republicans have set the trump standard. the republican party has long used islam to fearmonger. now donald trump is doing the same thing. the republican party has spent years railing against latinos and immigrants, trying to incite fear. congressman steve king called undocumented immigrants drug dealers. he described their bodies in a very negative, ugly way. now donald trump is saying the same thing. donald trump is the ultimate fulfillment of the republican party's legacy of obstruction and resentment. but to be frank, it's not only trump. senator cruz, senator rubio and ben carson are saying

when we asked republican voters, "do you feel betrayed by the republican party?" more than 50% of republican voters in these four states said yes, and that, of course, would signal outsiders are very much what the electorate on the republican side are looking for. >> reporter: nine out of 10 voters, in fact, today, on the republican side told us they were disappointed, even angry with the federal government. elaine, you're going to be leaving us now to join us with coverage on cbsn. what do you have ahead there. >> reporter: we will have more political analysis with our rock star panel, but the story of commandir scott kelly, who has been in space for 340 days is coming back to earth and we expect live pictures. >> reporter: later on cbsn. scott. >> pelley: anthony, thank you, elaine, thank you. now we will go back to bob schieffer with our two political contributors, peggy noonan of the "wall street journal" and jamelle bouie of "slate" magazine. bob. scott, i'm just trying to process what i just heard in the last few minutes. let's think about this. marco rubio

democrats get something and republicans get something. i was well-liked by republicans. i protected them. there is no one to work with anymore. they are afraid. , a democratll do and republican will introduce a bill. known will go near. the issue press release at home. >> one last question. >> thank you. i'm with think progress. i want to know, how concerned are you that democratic turnout in the presidential primary has been lower than republican turnout? you talk about doubling down on ideas. how does that turn into votes? >> is something we cannot ignore. pundits and political scientists believe that the massive turnouts have been as a result of the rivalry within the republican party. democrats have had this thing going with hillary and bernie for a long time. it was more of a lovefest. they would not be critical. last month, they had a little bit of negative stuff. not as much interest in the democrats is in the republicans. i think that donald trump has brought people who never voted before. i think that should be a concern for the american people. >> thank you for

the republican party? does him getting the nomination risk the death of the republican party as you keep hearing? or is that overkill? is that hyperbole? right? would the nomination of donald trump more likely just mean that the republican party would change now? it would become trumpier now? right? the way the republican party didn't die after barry goldwater, it just did get a little more right wing. this isn't an idle question. we do actually have some data already that can help us answer the question of what is going to become of the republican party with donald trump as its standard bearer because right now he is the party's de facto standard bearer. while we have all spent the last few weeks agog at this change at the top, morphing of the republican party into a what feels like a post-policy strong-man personality cult where political events are like pageants of product placement and on-brand hucksterism. while we've been agog at that and that has been mesmerizing, a few other things have been happen

democrats and republicans. let's look who's won so far on the r rublican side, donald trump has won five states -- alabama, georgia, tennessee, virginia and massachusetts. on the democratic side, hillary clinton has won six states so far -- alabamam georora, arkansas, tennessee, virginia and texas. state of vermont and the state of oklahoma. also on the republican side, ted cruz has won the state of i want to go to byron pitts who's covering that campaign. byron. >> reporter: hey, george, cruz is addressingg his supporters now. he said we're the only campaign that can, has and will defeat donald trump and he asked, quote, i ask prayerfully the other candidates to consider join joining our campaign. the argument he's making he's the one republican who has beaten donald trump and the party can nowow unite behind him. a gentleman, the tallest man in the room, dressed in an an uncle sam costume and he said that this is our night. that we have shown that ted cruz is the alternative to donald trump. he also made a jo

second -- >> so you're saying republican attack ads against the republican nominee? >> distancing ads. second, the republican party will have to rethink the business of having open primaries and caucuses. 7 of the 19 events so far have been closed, trump has lost five of them. so the question is, is this a hostile takeover of the republican party and the republicans have to think whether they have to go forward year after year vulnerable to this. >> all right. panel, we have to take a break here. when we come back, a new twist in the hillary clinton e-mail scandal. what could it mean for her nomination? the panel about the fbi investigation of clinton's e-mails? just go to facebook or twitter @foxnewssunday. (donkey sound) (elephant sound) there's a big difference between making noise, (tapping sound) and making sense. (elephant sound) (donkey sound) when it comes to social security, we need more than lip service. our next president needs a real plan to keep social security strong. (elephant noise) hey candidates. enough talk. >>> we have taken on the entire politica

neither do republicans. john kasich unloaded on trump in social media posts today saying, quote, a true leader urges peaceful debate over violence. leadership requires responsibility. paul ryan criticized trump's rhetoric today during a press conference on capitol hill. >> you agree with donald trump's statement there would be riots? >> if he -- if someone with a clear lead and delegates -- >> nobody should say such things in my opinion to even address or hint to violence is unacceptable. >> this is a delegate dance for ryan as he navigates the cross currents. ryan said he'd be neutral at this summer's convention. kind of has to be. he's the chairman of the convention. but that's the tip of the iceberg. it's a similar dilemma of only bad options for the party with the supreme court. cracks in the gop's . he's won praise from republicans in the past. according to our recent poll, majority of the country says they disapprove the republican decision not to consider the nominee. which is why it's no surprise tha

he seems unbeatable, by the republicans at least. >> the republican electorate is very different from the independents and democrats from the country. you see that in the general electorate polling. it's not like he's doing very well against hillary or anyone else. so a lot of people are already turned off by donald trump. lots of women who voted for mitt romney are already turned off by donald trump. so i think one of the reasons why other republicans want to have -- to stop trump because he's such a weak general election candidate. >> i've been turned off by donald trump from day one but this is what i have learned in the last nine months. do not underestimate donald trump, do not overestimate hillary clinton. >> i totally agree never to underestimate him. absolutely, don't underestimate him. but republicans have not been able to take him on. i think hillary will be different. >> van, in florida, media trackers say campaigns and super pacs spent at least $16.5 million on anti-trump advertising. he won by 19, shellacking the home state senator, marco rubio. you are worried as a democ

no republican should say that. that makes no sense for someone to say if they were drafted by their country they'd say no. what i can tell you is i'm not running for president. i'm not going to run for president. i'm going to support one of these four people to be our nominee. i'm supporting three of them right now. and that means that we're going to get one of those people as our nominee. >> you realize that by saying what you just said that people are going to say he opened the >> you know how absurd that is? we have four very strong people who are running for president. they will be our nominee. chris, there's 100% certainty in my view. >> finally, despite saying that they all thought he was unqualified to be president, all three on the stage on thursday night said if thumb rump is the nominee, they'll support him. you say you won't. one, is it a mistake to say they'll support him even if he's the nominee, and what are your plans if he's the nominee? would you support a third party candidate? >> i think the guys

today every republican is a reagan republican. if we're going to stop donald trump, we can't have a divided field. if it remains a divided field, then donald's path to the nomination remains much more likely and i think that would be catastrophic. at this point for republicans there's a clear choice. if you want a candidate who agrees with hillary clinton on foreign policy, on fiscal and economic policy and on social policy, that's donald trump, but he has been a washington deal maker for 40 years. he's supported liberal democrats for 40 years and i don't think republicans want to hand the election to hillary clinton and the democrats. >> reporter: last question donald trump is your ultimate rival here as you see it, but you've lost to him among evangelicals in several states, the very conservatives, the exact people that you are trying to bring together. so put aside the rest of the field, how do you beat donald trump when he has performed as well as he has performed tonight? >> we beat him the same way we did in iowa, texas and

i think probably the most useful number is there are eight republicans who are sitting republicans now who did vote for him and i think not even the vote, rachel, but the rhetoric around him subsequently has been so interesting because no less a person than orrin hatch said very recently, you know, if obama wanted to be reasonable, he'd give us a moderate candidate like merrick garland. and so they talk about him as though he is a centrist person that they can confirm very recently talking about him that way, and then suddenly he's named and they're like, obama's just fake reasonable. so, you know, it's -- this is not just the vote, itself, but the language around him which has been so supportive. he's such a beloved figure across the board. so many former solicitors general have come out and said, you know, this is your guy across the aisle and, yet, it doesn't matter what the vote was, it doesn't matter what they said about him, now that he's the pick, he is, you know, a pot smoking hippy liberal. >> the president's strategy here, the way you're laying that out seems very clear, righ

for example, all on the republican side only republicans can do that. that benefits the tried and true conservatives. >> we have two competing data points. one is that every contest today that the republicans are voting in is a closed contest. you are right, when it is just closed to republicans and ipds are not >> more voters into this process. so you're seeing large turnout but these are closed contests. i'm not sure you could take either one of those pieces away depending on which campaign you are. but again, when we're you know, kansas, this is a state that i'm not sure donald trump was ever going to be dominant in. so i don't think what we're seeing there so far is a huge surprise. but i do think what we are seeing and it's important to note something to watch throughout the night, ted cruz has been the only candidate not named trump that has been posting some victories on these nights that we've been having these, consistently. >> right. that's exactly right. certainly i know that the cruz campaign argues that that proves that the energy in the co

republicans, it's ronald reagan state for the republicans used to be strong there. because of the way the republicans have alienated latino and latin american voters it is is a solidly democrat state. if national want to go down this other row they should take a look at us first because if they do that they're going to end up in the same fix we republicans in california are in. so that is where i do think the party needs to look beyond where it is. one lesson from trump is that white working-class voters are really angry and kind of tired of the republican establishment that has not delivered very much for them. so i see a two prod reform strategy embodied in the defeating campaigns of santorum. the party has to pay much more attention to its white working-class base and donald trump is showing them that. the huntsman lesson is that they do need some moderation on some of these social issues and immigration or they're gonna lose on that side. yes huntsman and santorum are really brought together but independently in different ways highlighted to core problems up thr

ever since barry goldwater, republicans promised to create a small government which no republican president could do whether you are talking about next and, reagan, or either president bush. they promise to roll back the cultural changes in the 1960s but most of the country did not want to rollback those cultural changes in their efforts failed. more recently a lot of republicans including no trump has said that they would try to change the ethnic makeup of the country back to where it used to be that is a call for deporting 11 million people. that is one way in which the rise of trump is explained by this history, the other is the republican party has relied for many years on the votes of white working-class voters. as conservative writers writers eyesight in the book like among others have written the republican party has gotten working-class votes and done absolutely nothing materially for white working-class voters. i think when you look at the trump vote it is very heavily about to people in the low middle class, working class who are just angry and tired of -- one of my favorite quota

he's also the story right now on the republican side. from a news value perspective, there's no question about that. and so everyone's competing with each other and if the daily beast gets kicked out of the thing, that's one less thing to deal with. how the republican establishment tried to deal with him until they came up to find this needed a collective solution, it was too late. >> exactly. i think, you know, the thing is it's not just the power dynamic has shifted with donald trump. i also think it doesn't matter how we cover him, it's not as if the networks or print journalists are saying, oh, donald trump is so great and this coverage is terrific for him. the coverage has been critical since he announced his campaign nine months ago. the difference here is his supporters just don't care. nothing is getting through to them. nothing is making them change their mind about him. so it's not that he's his own media outlet that is undeniably true. every candidate in their own way is with their own twitter account and social media in gener

i don't think the republican leaders even understand what the base of the republican party looks like. they don't understand the resentment. across both parties, particularly in the republican party, there's a real anxiety, particularly among white americans in this country, and they have anxieties and fears and are looking at a dramatic demographic shift, the diminishing economic options and viability and they are all saying, this is just one of the times we get to see it in the presidential election. you get to see it and experience it as a movement and people get to talk about it together. but people are feeling a real sense of pain and disappointment. and that's not shared by minorities in polls and what have you. much more optimistic. optimistic about the future, about the economy. this is white people in america are having an argument with themselves over this. and donald trump has tapped into a large part of that. and mitt romney is not going to be able to make them pull away from it. >> margaret? >> i love charles sort of telling you what the face of the republican party is do

they're the republican establishment. they're going to sit there and watch donald trump become the nominee. they're going to fight it. the republican party has to live with the convention of allowing and helping to create donald trump. >> stewart, with paul ryan as the most important non-candidate going to that convention, he's already taken a number of stances against donald trump, against things donald trump has said. he came out as soon as donald trump said ban muslims from the country. paul ryan was against that. he was against donald trump's hes tans about rejecting white extremist. with paul ryan in that position, with this party where it is, do you see it the way i do that there is no good choice, there is no choice that everybody can just cheer about when they leave cleveland? >> listen, i've been using the guns of august analogy, the book about the sort of world war i. i'll be happy if we can avoid killing each other. my goal here is straightforward. i don't want donald trump to be the nominee of the republican p

the republican party has told us they cannot win with just republican votes. that is why they support am middle east and why they support the democrat on many issues to get his magazines or other minorities. guess who is doing it? donald trump is deeing it. donald trump is put together a coalition whether he knows it or not or whether he intended, he put together a coalition that is exactly what the republican party say it needs to win. though trying to get trump out of race. they not in charge of it. they are not in control. it is the most amazing thing to watch this happen. governor romney comes along and tries to talk people out of trump and it will not work. can you not talk his supporters out of supporting him. the only go that can do that is trump himself. >> we will talk about that. there is a lost commentary and some coming from conservatives who say the republican party is if danger of tearing itself apart. we have soon splits, many times before over political philosophy but this is not what is happening this time. this is the establishment, the elite

a real deal republican, if you will. comfortable supporting john kasich, marco rubio or ted cruzuz any one of those three candidates against donald trump? >> absolutely. any one ofthose three is a real republican. they've demonstrated over time values. there's some difference on policy or on tactics to implement poly, but i'd be very proud having any one of them at the top of the ticket. donald trump on the other hand is someone who represents and my view is not at all the real deal. this is a guy who pretends to be one thing and is something else entirely. >> you know, i want to go to something you said about donald trump's business background in your speech last thursday. let me play a clip. >> his bankruptcies have crushed small businesses. and the men and women who work for them. he inherited his business. he didn't create it. and whatever happened to trump airlines? how about trump university? and then there's trump magazine. and trump vodka. and trump steaks. and trump mortga. a business genius he is not. >> howeve

and bush won the republicans. if we look at trump, he's doing about as well among a republican identifiers and independents in these republican primaries and contests so he has attracted and mobilized a vote that's already there and that's been in the republican party a long time and that is really the challenge for republicans who want to reorient their position. the last thing i will say is that in the short term, republicans can still win. i'm not predicting that this year with donald trump. but in the 1960's when the african-american vote was growing, because of the voting rights act and mobilization in the south, republicans, the party of lincoln, decided to go another way and alienated the limited black support they had hoping to get white southern votes and in the short and medium term that actually worked for them. so even if the segment of the electorate is growing, there's more than one way to slice a pie and there's more than one way to get to 50%. if they could get more white working class votes and th

he is saying republicans are holding the line. however, there are republicans, nine of them, actually, senators who are on the record saying they plan to or are open to meeting with supreme court nomineemaker garland. meeting with you about no hearing and no up and down vote. judge? >> it is an unusual posture that the republicans are taking. and of course joe biden is furious when they call it the by den rule. my view is the president himselfs to not want judge garland confirmed. and that thisx0 is a political instrument by which the president can torment the republicans in the senate in the hope that whoever succeeds him as president has a democratic senate. i say that because judge garland, whom i know, is the most conservative nominee to the supreme court by a,ú÷3Ñ democratic president since fdr nominated his attorney general in 1941. this is not obama's thinking. this is not obama's legacy. >> let's just play this out. let's say the republicans lose the presidential election to hillary clinton. in a lame duck session do th

the republican party started its nominating process with some 17th candidates. the parties held 15 primaries and caucus he and one candidate has won ten of them. the bill field gave wide choice of tendencies and thraifers and thflavors andthe guy who's won r weeks has never run for office and has what one might generously call an eclectic standpoint. republicans say they wouldn't be happy for donald trump to be the nominee but after waiting for weeks for donald trump to collapse of his own weight, the road from novelty act to favorite is paved with a lot of misescalation. here we are -- miscalculation, now the nontrump activists office holders and donors are saying, what do we do now? presidential candidate and new jersey governor chris christie got out of the race and threw his support behind the front runner. >> the single most important thing for republican party is to nominate the candidate that has the best to hundred against hillary clinton, i can guarantee you the one person hillary clinton and bill clinton don't want to see on the stage in november is do

the kentucky republican caucus got a higher turnout than the kentucky republican primary. >> yeah, i would disagree there's no correlation between primary turnout and wins in the fall. in the last 11 elections. >> enthusiasm doesn't hurt. they did set records in '08. >> this has been a great week for the democratic party. what we saw today is a lot of republicans have all these trump cocktails and it's 2:00 in the morning and ted cruz is starting to look good. and so they're thinking, oh, >> do you think it's trump goggles? not beer goggles but trump goggles. >> they're thinking, oh, ted cruz, but this guy, ted cruz is almost as electable as donald trump to me. he's basically in the santorum bucket there and he's still not really breaking out of that. he's the most conservative member of the united states senate. so democrats i feel you got to be thinking pretty well of yourselves. >> it is amazing what happened today on the show. mitt romney went closer and closer to saying he was almost enthusiastic -- not enthusiastic about cruz, but he was closer. and lindsey graham by the end by

tonight republican party resistance. new reporting from inside sources, fresh reaction from team trump, a look at who among his opponents can stop him and that number is shrinking with the likely departure of dr. ben carson who all but suspended his campaign. also where this leaves hillary clinton and bernie sanders who are dividing up delegates but not split up their party. democrats are falling in line. republicans are falling apart. at least some are. as dana bash reports, some are trying even harder to take down trump. >> trump is facing massive lawsuits for fraud. >> reporter: this anti-trump ad is now flooding air waves in upcoming contest states. michigan, illinois and florida. >> the truth about trump university, donald trump made millions while hard-working americans got scammed. >> reporter: a million dollar superpac ad buy the result of a super tuesday conference call with some 50 gop donors who were begged to help stop trump as trump was racking up hundreds of delegates. >> look, i'm a unifier. >> reporter: i

senate republicans pledged to obstruct doesn't even make sense to the republicans' own base. the senior senator of iowa's blind adherence to the dictates of leadership doesn't stop there. the chairman of the judiciary committee was too intimidated to even meet with president obama without the republican leader's consent. he refused to go to the white house without the republican leader by his side. when all finally did meet with president obama on tuesday, the republican leader, the democratic leader, chairman of the judiciary committee and the ranking member of the judiciary committee. at that meeting, the chairman wouldn't commit to meeting the nominee even then. holding hearings, he wouldn't do that. he wouldn't give the nominee a vote, as we told the president. this is not what senator grassley advocated before his party assumed the majority. in january, 2015, the senator from iowa came to the senate floor and said, and i quote -- "we must get back to what we call in the senate regular order i would say do things the way madison intended." close quote. so everything the c

let's look at republicans first. a third of republicans told us the economy was their top issue. government spending came in second at 28%. among those who made the economy their top issue, look at huh they broke. donald trump got most of these voters. 36%. marco rubio, 25%. the economy playing for donald trump. >> the economy the top issue among democratic voters. there you see, 38% saying the most important. 27%. now, of those democratic voters who said that the economy and jobs are most important. 62% of those voters went to hillary clinton. 36% went to bernie sanders. particularly interesting because of course senator sanders made income inequality and economy signature issues. >> as donald trump pointed out, the median income of americans has declined since the last presidential election. >> elaine, anthony, thank you very much. we will go to bob schieffer who is with our two cbs news political contributors, peggy noonan, and jamaal buoy. >> if i was writing a press release for the mainstream traditional republicans, the washington republican establishment, i would start it

i've talked among republicans. we feel this is the election where hillary clinton is weak, we can get whatever we want. i think they're overreaching going with trump -- >> highest negatives of the democratic nominee except that donald trump will have much higher, so it's going to be like this race to see who hits the bottom last. >> there's a serious points here about electability falls to the bottom of the list of people's concerns, shared values is another one. shaking things up, telling it like it is, these are the qualities that are dominating the choice of republicans. so they're not making a choice based on -- marco rubio dominates that category about electability and he is not soaring in this race. >> too many republicans are staying -- >> one at a time. >> too many republicans being sold on the mitt romney is electability, john mccain is electable, none of them were electable. >> bill? >> there is a problem with that which is if you put somebody up there who is not electable you're going to lose everything.

what about those republicans who are getting there. >> there are some republicans getting to yes but lot of republicans getting to, omg with donald trump. i think we need to sort of pause and appreciate the pigs flying moment that we're in right now. to have lindsey graham endorsing ted cruz -- have republican establishment which ted cruz has spent his entire time in now, trying to coalesce around ted cruz is remarkable. the trump outreach to the establishment is interesting but what we see with trump is there is kind of one part outreach then two steps of riots. just behavior and comments that are not acceptable to the republican establishment. one quick thing i find the third party piece, i know you guys wrote about it. very far fetched. make it very difficult. >> one point there it is very difficult to get somebody on balance lot to run as independent which is where what they're looking at doing is piggybacking. the modern parties, libertarians, already have access. and doing that makes a little bit easier. it's still certainly long ball of the hail mary, if you do it with part --

the republican primary in 2012 lumbered on. a lot of people considered it quite clown like or circus like. ultimately in 2012, mitt romney emerged as the party's nominee at the end of that long, very funny primary process. when mitt romney got trounced, the republican party decided their own primary process is part of what set mitt romney up to lose in november. they made some changes to their primary process. the first thing they changed was the republican party debate schedule for 2016. they decided next time around there's not going to be another primary with 20 freaking debates. they decided they would only candidates to participate in events that were sanctioned by the party. the other thing they changed was the nominating process itself. the party believed that mitt romney was basically the inevitable nominee. he had to slog on for too many months with these hopeless candidates dragging him down and throwing punches even though they had no real chance to win. because that's the way republicans viewed what happened in 2012

huge opportunity for republicans. so now we're turning to a guy who has 27% of the people don't trust him. he's one of the few people in america that is trusted less than hillary clinton. >> you mean 27% trust. >> only 27% trust donald trump compared to 37% for hillary clinton. he's trusted less than hillary clinton. which is hard to do. >> i do try to figure out -- i'm turnout is going to look like if the two candidates are the two most unpopular against swing voters. i'll leave it there. we appreciate you both. >>> one man who is still in the race against trump is ohio governor john kasich, whose win in his home state on tuesday did keep his hopes alive and the hopes of the anti-trump movement alive in trying to get a contested convention. john kasich joined me yesterday in salt lake city. why are you in utah? if you didn't campaign in utah and ted cruz won 50% of the vote, you deny donald trump any delegates which actually helps your path to getting to cleveland in a contested convention. >> hey, chuck. chuck. look

message from the american people to senate republicans is simple. do your job. >> will the president's nominee get a hearing let alone a vote? on the campaign trail, hillary clinton and donald trump sweep. closer tomoving securing the democratic party nomination and winning this election in november! [cheering] >> we're going to go forward. and we're gonna win. more importantly, we're going to win for the country. >> marco rubio is swept out of the race. after losing his home state. john kasich plot their way to a contested convention. to gainht we continue delegates and continue our march to 1237. >> we are gonna go all the way to cleveland and secure the republican nomination! side, bernieocrat sanders declares he is not quitting. think we've got a path toward victory! can bring out large turnouts, we're gonna win this thing. week, pete the williams, justice correspondent for nbc news. chief white house correspondent for the new york times. national tumulty, political correspondent for the washington post. >> award-winning reporting and analysis,

just look at republican hispanics. there's not tons of hispanics in the republican party. he already has 60% negatives with republican hispanics. it's going to be very tough for any nominee to do better than romney, against hillary clinton. he's going to do worse. >> we ran the numbers using the exit polls from 2012 in ohio and wisconsin, just on the white vote. and assuming all things were equal, and here's wisconsin first, trump would have to increase the romney share by 5 percentage points, go from 51% of the white vote, which by the way, romney got and still lost the state. 56% of the white vote is what trump would need to flip it. in ohio, to flip ohio, he would have to move the romney white vote number from 57% to 61%. this assumes that the non-white this seems like an impossibility. >> i'm not sure it is an impossibility. i think it's a very difficult task. but he is an asymmetrical candidate. he is so unconventional, we've never seen anything like it. when you began the program today, you said looking back from 2007 the rise of the movement that led us to this. but

he said a trump nomination will destroy the republican party. it will split the republican party. he will fight to the end. this is epic. >> what do you think? >> real open question, if trump coes and march 15, takes primaries, and he is the nominee, presumptive one. republicans like marco rubio they said these things they have to make a choice are they going to fall behind him or reject him. if they reject him, then they have to say to themselves, they're forfeiting the white house now. the more important thing here is to prevent a trump takeover of the republican party and prevent a destruction of conservative >> you know, i heard today from republican leaders, senior people in washington, who say they're now hoping for an open convention. how long has it been since you have heard leaders of either party say, what we really want is an open convention. they want to sew it before they get to it. >> yes, party leaders exist so that they can continue themselves and have a certain amount of predictability, stability built into the system. they don't want an open convention. they all

republican. it has diluted the chance of selecting republican conservatives. we in the getting john mccain and mitt romney and now, trump. trump reminds me of aaron burr, a rogue. i will take your comments. thank you. guest: this is an overlooked part of the primary process. some states hold open contests, meaning independents or even democrats can vote in a republican primary. so far, trump has done a lot better in open contests versus the closed contests because he's relied a lot on bernie, new people in the process and people who have not traditionally been republicans have come out to support him. he's doing just as well with republicans as he is among independents. cruz has done well in some contests because of the pure ideological republicans. will be covering donald trump today, a rally in arizona, live coverage coming up from phoenix, this afternoon at 2:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span and c-span radio. the wall street journal today has the question, can the wisdom of the crowds predict the next president? it's anyone's guess who will be the next presid

the republican is splintering. donald trump has succeeded by getting actual voters to come vote for him. >> they come from any where. >> irrelevant to the process as long as he keeps attracting voters. >> we'll get them, i can't resist, i want to form a new party, used to be the ones who voted republican. i mean, i thought the whole idea of politics was to enlarge the group. i don't want those new people. >> the new thing i heard today was for me at least the idea you're going to have a write in campaign. you are already missed the dead lie lines to have a third person on the ticket. it's easy to write mitt romney or paul ryan. that's the idea if trump was the nomination, you can't vote for him, you have write in campaign. still, the core problem is, hillary clinton would be president. so you have those people sort of like they can't vote for trump, but they have no plan to elect someone to be a republican president. >> the nomination goes to trump and they hate the nominee, or they could break up the whole thing a

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and anti-republican. donald trump has played on that. the other factor out there as we have seen not just in this election but we saw some of it in 2012, there is a growing division within the country about the direction that the country is going, the changes that the country is undergoing. we are undergoing significant transformation, culturally and demographically. and there is a back latch against it. there is a part of the public that feels nervous about that. they feel that some of the things that are happening in the country are taking away that made america great. and so, when donald trump talks about building a wall, it plays to that idea that something has to be done to preserve what is best in america among the people who are fearful about some of those changes. so all of that has been out there. and donald trump has tapped into it. host: you wrote about mitt romney. did his speech in utah have any impact? guest: i'm not sure if john kasich wins in ohio it's because of mitt romney. if kasich win