Speaker 1: Let's turn our attention now to the U S presidential election.
Speaker 1: Joining me is Mark Halprin. He is the co host
Speaker 1: of All due Respect, co managing editor of Bloomberg Politics,
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Speaker 1: nine in Washington, d C. Mark, thank you very much
Speaker 1: for coming in. Uh, I feel a little bad for
Speaker 1: you because now you know you're not going to be
Speaker 1: able to really cover Ted Cruz and John Kasik in
Speaker 1: the same way that you had to follow them on
Speaker 1: a regular basis. What's next for the for the Republicans.
Speaker 1: We'll get to the Democrats in a second. Well, I mean, look,
Speaker 1: this is a relatively late, not unprecedentedly so to be
Speaker 1: down to one candidate, and uh, you're now going to
Speaker 1: have Donald Trump trying to become both simultaneously someone who
Speaker 1: can consolidate the Republican Party and broaden his support to
Speaker 1: win a general election. So watching how Donald Trump, who
Speaker 1: has been one of the most startling presidential candidates we've
Speaker 1: ever seen in a variety of ways, navigate this new
Speaker 1: phase is going to be a pretty big story to cover. Well,
Speaker 1: Mark Halprin, you're jumping right into the who is the
Speaker 1: vice president going to be? Game? You have picked your
Speaker 1: favorite for Donald to be Donald Trump's favorite. Well, I
Speaker 1: think Chris Christi is probably the most likely. But the
Speaker 1: two names that I find most intriguing and strikes fear
Speaker 1: in the hearts of Democrats are Bob Gates, the former
Speaker 1: Defense secretary, and UH the former governor of Indiana, Mitch Daniels.
Speaker 1: Those are two picks that could fundamentally reshaped the race.
Speaker 1: Two guys who would be instantly seen as qualified to
Speaker 1: be president, I believe, and two guys who would send
Speaker 1: a signal from Donald Trump about as seriously he's taking
Speaker 1: the prospect of being president speak if you count a
Speaker 1: little bit more about Robert Gates, former Defense Secretary, and
Speaker 1: a little bit of his political UH Democrat and Republican service.
Speaker 1: One of the greatest public servants of the last fifty
Speaker 1: years in this country. He served Democrat, Cradic and Republican presidents.
Speaker 1: Stayed over as Defense secretary UH from the Bush administration
Speaker 1: to the Clinton, the Obama administration, and I just I
Speaker 1: think uniformly has seen as a respected voice on national security.
Speaker 1: He's done't that much of a portfolio in terms of
Speaker 1: domestic policy. But again, Donald Trump wanted to send a
Speaker 1: signal that he was picking someone who would be seen
Speaker 1: as a qualified to be president, someone who would send
Speaker 1: a signal about his seriousness on national security, responsibility on
Speaker 1: national security. Secretary Gates would would be a huge pick.
Speaker 1: And you know, frankly, Hillary Clinton might consider Bob Gates.
Speaker 1: He is he is considered that both bipartisan and nonpartisan
Speaker 1: a figure. Well, how about a woman? How about condolesaress.
Speaker 1: She has a lot of international experience. Um, she's in case.
Speaker 1: She's a woman, right, if you want to get a
Speaker 1: little more diversity on the ticket, what do you think?
Speaker 1: I think it's unlikely. She's always shied away from electoral politics.
Speaker 1: She's got some very liberal positions on social issues, which
Speaker 1: could be a problem for Trump with the delegates. And
Speaker 1: my guess is she's probably not a huge Trump supporter.
Speaker 1: Talk to us about Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton following
Speaker 1: his victory in Indiana yesterday. You know, John Hallman will
Speaker 1: be talking about and I'll be talking about this on
Speaker 1: with all due respect tonight, this issue of why Hillary
Speaker 1: Clinton didn't kind of roll along the way Donald Trump did.
Speaker 1: She's one recent contest, she has momentum. Why do it?
Speaker 1: Was Indiana a loss for her? And why might she
Speaker 1: lose some other upcoming states? Um? This was a state
Speaker 1: whereas Bernie Independence could vote, where Bernie Sanders did very
Speaker 1: well with the kind of demographic groups have done well
Speaker 1: with so far. So this is not change the likelihood
Speaker 1: of his becoming the nominee. It's still beyond long shot
Speaker 1: because of the delegate math. It does not change Hillary
Speaker 1: Clinton's general uh strategy, but it is not ideal for her.
Speaker 1: Be better for her to close this out, and it
Speaker 1: appears now that she'll face electoral contests where she'll have
Speaker 1: to focus to some extent on holding Bernie Sanders at
Speaker 1: bay Um. Back to this question a vice president and
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, Chris CHRISTI, you think a lot of people
Speaker 1: say is the favorite? What seems the problem? That seems
Speaker 1: to me that he's feisty, he's tough. Donald Trump has
Speaker 1: been very feisty and tough, doesn't Donald Trump needs someone
Speaker 1: who will be the you know, the into his yang
Speaker 1: that will balance out Donald Trump and who he is.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's certainly many cases of people who are
Speaker 1: picking running mates who have approached it that way. But
Speaker 1: you only have to go back to when a young
Speaker 1: Southern moderate or Democratic presidential nominee chose a young Southern
Speaker 1: moderate Democrat to be his running mate. When Bill Clinton
Speaker 1: chose al Gore, it reinforced his strengths in a way.
Speaker 1: The alchemy there was pretty powerful. A blunt aggressive, uh
Speaker 1: agent of change might reinforce that message with a blunt
Speaker 1: aggressive agent of change. All Right, Mark Halpern, thank you
Speaker 1: so very much. He is the host of With all
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