Subject: 2016 GOP HIT on HRC
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Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 06:32:19 -0700

Donald Trump on Good Morning America
5/4/16
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>> Meantime, you're looking at Hillary Clinton as your most likely opponent in November. New poll out from CNN shows she's leading you 54% to 41%. You're holding your own with men but she's crushing you with women and minorities. How do you turn that around?
>> Well, Rasmussen just came out with a poll highly respected and I'm leading her by two points, 41% to 39% so you'll have polls all over but Rasmussen and other one came out where we're tied and I haven't started yet. George, there were 17 people that I had to win against and now it's going to be Hillary, so we'll see what happens. I mean, it's going to be I think a very interesting race.
>> She says she'll take aim at your qualifications to be commander in chief. What's your target in her.
>> She has poor judgment and Bernie Sanders said it. I took it right out of his playbook. He said she has poor judgment.
He also said she's not qualified. That'sing about a lot -- that's going a long way but more importantly she's got poor judgment. If you look at the e-mail scandals and all of the bad decisions she's made with lib Yoo, whether it's Benghazi, whether it's so many other things, you look back at what's happened during the administration.

Transcript:

>> Thanks, Tom. We are joined by Donald Trump. Mr. Trump, thank you for joining us this morning. Congratulations on that victory. You are now the leader of the Republican party. How would you sum up what trump's Republican party stands for and what specific steps are you going to take to unify the party behind you.
>> Well, I think more than anything else we'll have great heart. We'll take care of people and we have to -- we have people that are in desperate need of help but we'll take care of our economy and jobs and not make horrible trade deals like we've been witnessing over the years over many years George. People haven't had wage increase, some people, in 18 years to 20 years effective wage increases and we'll get that all turned around.
>> Let's talk about unifying the party behind you. You had kind words yesterday for Ted Cruz but do you owe his father an apology saying he was with Lee Harvey Oswald before JFK's assassination.
>> What I was referring to was a picture reported and in a magazine and I think they didn't deny it. I don't think anybody denied it. I don't know what it was exactly but it was a major story and a major publication and it was picked up by many other --
>> It was "The national enchoir" and even the expert who cited it wasn't sure it was Mr. Cruz.
>> It gave you O.J. Simpson and gave you many, many things. You can't knock "The national enquirer." It's brought many things to light not all pleasant, the fact it was a cover story on "The national enquirer" picked up by many other people and magazines and periodicals and newspapers and all I did was refer to it.
>> No apology?
>> I'm just referring to an aarticle that appeared. It has nothing to do with me and the father was very active in the campaign and said nasty things about me in the morning and it was reported and it wasn't nice what he said about me and I just referred him to articles that were in various periodicals.

[7:06:53 AM]

>> Let's talk about other steps you might take to unify the party including your choice for vice president. Will your vpal choice definitely be a Republican.
>> Yes, that's true.
>> Will it be an elected official.
>> Most likely and probably a person with political experience because I mean while I've been in the world of politics all my life, the business, I will handle so well will bring our jobs back and bring our economy back but I do want people to -- I would like to have somebody that could truly be good with respect to dealing with the senate, dealing with congress, getting legislation passed. Working toward something where we're not signing executive orders every three days like president Obama does.
>> Sounds like you have a name in mind.
>> Not a name in mind but I do like the thrill sphere. You have the military sphere, you have the political sphere and business. Well, the twist I handle. I think I'm going to be very, very good on the military to be honest with you. I think that will be the hidden strength and I think probably I would like to go with somebody with great political experience.
>> Meantime, you're looking at Hillary Clinton as your most likely opponent in November. New poll out from CNN shows she's leading you 54% to 41%. You're holding your own with men but she's crushing you with women and minorities. How do you turn that around?
>> Well, Rasmussen just came out with a poll highly respected and I'm leading her by two points, 41% to 39% so you'll have polls all over but Rasmussen and other one came out where we're tied and I haven't started yet. George, there were 17 people that I had to win against and now it's going to be Hillary, so we'll see what happens. I mean, it's going to be I think a very interesting race.
>> She says she'll take aim at your qualifications to be commander in chief. What's your target in her.
>> She has poor judgment and Bernie Sanders said it. I took it right out of his playbook. He said she has poor judgment.
He also said she's not qualified. That'sing about a lot -- that's going a long way but more importantly she's got poor judgment. If you look at the e-mail scandals and all of the bad decisions she's made with lib Yoo, whether it's Benghazi, whether it's so many other things, you look back at what's happened during the administration.
>> Finally, quick question about how you'll finance the campaign. You haven't had to spend too much money so far. So what about going forward? Are you going to be raising money with the Republican party or self-financing or public financing.
>> So far I've spent my own money. Ispent I think it's listed as $44 million and taken small contributions. We will probably take small contributions. We'll take the limits, I don't want big contributions now. People can contribute to the party. There will be a unification, no question about it. But I'm really looking at small contribution, not the big ones. I don't want to have anybody have any influence over me, that I can tell you.
>> Will you be writing big checks.

Lauren Hendricks