Subject: 2016 GOP HIT on HRC
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Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 06:48:33 -0700

Donald Trump on New Day
4/27/16 6:40 AM

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Transcript of hits:

Last night talking about Hillary Clinton, whom you call crooked Hillary, you said the only thing she has is the woman card. Even Chris Christie's wife standing behind you made a face when you said that. Do you think that's a winning formula to say, "The woman card" is all that Hillary Clinton has?
DT: Yes. It's part of -- it is certainly part. She is a woman. She's playing the woman card left and right. She didn't play it last time with Obama but she's playing it much harder this time, and she will be called on it. Absolutely.
>> How do you call someone on being a woman?
DT:  You just tell them they're playing the woman's card.
>> What does that mean?
DT:  Frankly, if she didn't she would be doing poorly.
>> How do you know that?
DT:  I know it. If she was a man and she was the way she is she would get virtually no votes.
>> I know I hear what you're saying. Trying to figure your basis for it. Most of the measurements of a perspective matchup, not only is Clinton beating you with women, beating you with white women. Is this a good message for them to hear? All she's got is a woman's --
DT:  When I came out I was competing against 17 very capable people. Right? You've heard it. I'm sure you heard it last night ad nauseam. I was competing against 17 very, very capable people. And a woman. And what happened was, one by one they disappeared, and everyone said, what's going on?
Look what's happening. A governor, a senator, a governor, a senator, but one by one they disappeared. And they thought trump was going to be there for a couple of weeks. He was going to have some fun. Then he was going to go to Mont Y Carlo and have a good time. It worked out I knocked everyone off. For the most part, I knocked them off. They weren't knocked off. I knocked them off. They were taken out. I think you would admit that. Same thing happened with Hillary.
>> We know each other very well, Mr. Trump. That's why I am not completely surprised by your success to this point. Do you believe, then, what got you here will take you all the way to the white house?
DT:  I think so. Now, I may tone it down or I may tone it up. I can't tell what you I'm going to do. I don't know. Depends, you know, I use the word flexibility. You have to be flexible. You listened last night. You do. You have to be flexible. Somebody says, will you go this way or that way? I don't know. I will see when I see how the other people punch back, but Hillary's got a lot of flaws, got a lot of problems, and she does have the woman card, that's a big thing, but a lot of women, as you know, don't like Hillary, despite the card, and we'll see what happens. You're going to cover it better than anybody, and CNN's doing a very good job.

Full Transcript:

Donald Trump, sweeping all five states last night, taking another giant step towards securing the Republican nomination for president. Joining us on the phone right now to make the case for why this race is over, Donald Trump himself. Mr. Trump, can you hear us? Good morning and congratulations, if so.
>> Thank you very much. Good morning.
>> So what's the headline? What did last night mean?
>> One headline is a good headline. I won five states. I conclusively, everybody's saying that. Not me. I'm just copying all you guys. We won tremendous victories and larger than even anticipated. I guess we, we also signed a lot in the -- the one in Pennsylvania is a little difficult to figure. We won 17. We had a great, you know, a great victory there in Pennsylvania. But we also signed a lot of delegates. They're actually signed. We had the whole signing card thing going, and we picked up many of those delegates, most of those delegates, half waiting around until the convention, and others are to come. So I think I heard numbers like 50-something, and we have some that are getting ready to sign. So we had a team a very good team out there. So we won it conclusively, won most of the delegates and many are already signed which I don't think you have down on your charts yet. Do you?
>> Well, it's hard for us to predict what people are going to do in advance, but we do know that last night, let's say in Pennsylvania, you had a good showing among those elected delegates there as well, expressing a preference for you going into the convention. That's a good sign. On the other side of it, it's a good sign where you're campaign is concerned. On the other side of it, Ted Cruz was in Indiana last night. He says you can't do it. You can't get to 1,237, you can't beat Hillary Clinton and you can't bring this party together, at least half of your party still does not want you to be the nominee.
Your response?
>> Women, lying Ted has been saying this for a long time. He said we couldn't win the five states last week. He said he would win at least two of the states. You know, lying Ted is lying Ted. He's one of a kind. He can lie better than any human being I've ever seen, but ultimately he's not successful. I've actually never seen anything quite like it. We had a great victory and far more than we thought. Far more than your network estimated, and now we're up to close to 1,000, and we have a long way to go. I mean, we're going to do great in California. We have a big lead in California. I think we're going to do really good in Indiana, where I'm going today. And Indiana looks really strong, and, you know, I think we get there very easily, according to all of the people that -- that run all of those brilliant charts. You are among them. Actually, your chart is excellent.
>> Of course it is.
>> Your chart works beautifully, as operated by John king usually. But we seem to get there. We seem to get over the number, and as you know, if we were short 50, there's so many roving delegates around that are going to be looking for a home, you get them pretty easily, I mean.
>> Well, let's talk about Indiana, because now that is the big state on everybody's map. That will be the big stand for this so-called alliance between Kasich and Cruz. What do you make of their efforts to join against you? Do you have the energy to take them on? You sound pretty beat this morning, were UT when you get to Indiana, you'll be taking on the both of them in a united effort?
>> Yeah. No, I'm not beat. I did get up a little bit early to do your show. I want to -- you asked me to do it and I'm doing it.
>> Thank you.
>> But I was up late last night, I will say that. We're all celebrate -- you know, we celebrate and then we go back to work, but we're doing your show, and that's an honor. So I go to Indiana. I have Bobby knight tonight that's going to endorse trump.
Bobby knight is the most revered coach in the history, I guess, of Indiana. He's great. A great guy. A great coach. People love him.
>> How about Mike pence? Have you reached out for the governor's endorsement yet?
>> Yes. The governor's a great guy. I met with him. He may not endorse. I don't think he'll endorse anybody, actually, and he may endorse us. I don't know. He's a great guy. He's become -- you know, he's done a very, very good job as governor and he's a great guy. I don't know if we'll get his endorsement. I don't know.
>> Do you think he's going to endorse Cruz? You don't think he'll come out and endorse if it's not you?
>> No, I don't think so.
>> So the big speech you're going to give on foreign policy. Can you give us an indication what the headline will be?
>> Just a speech on foreign policy. Some of my ideas on foreign policy, have to do with some of the economics of foreign policy because we're getting killed on economics. I'm an economic person. One of my strengths, maybe a big strength. I've called a lot of correct economic policy, I don't get credit for it, but a lot of things happening in the world I've called it, called it very good and happening now, and so I'm giving a speech on economic policy, and it was a few guys that got together. They say you're doing great with the race, but it wouldn't be a bad -- I did a show on aipac, primarily Israel and now economic policy.
>> Always good to mix in --
>> I think so.
>> Do you agree with president Obama about sending 250 or even more troops into Syria to help the effort there? The special operators he announced he's sending in? Do you agree with that move?
>> Well, I could agree with it, but I don't agree with telling it to the world. I would send them in quietly. Right now they have a target on their back. So I would agree with it much more. I don't know what purpose they're incident for, but I would agree with it. I can live with it, but I don't like doing is sending them in so -- I mean, with such fanfare.
Let them go in, go in quietly. Be unpredictable, but I just -- from my standpoint, I find it very, very hard every time we do something we announce it for publicity reasons, and I think that's very negative. That's a bad thing.
>> Let's talk about tone a little bit. Is it true that Paul manafort, who you brought on here to help deal with the convention and deal with some of the darker arts of this election process, that he said you need to change your tone? You need to start thinking about how to bring people together in the party? And that apparently you've rejected that advice so far?
>> No, I don't think so. Paul is a big fan of mine. He has made incredible statements about the way I speak saying that it was maybe the best he's ever seen anybody speak. He made some great statements about -- he went to a couple of rallies yesterday, and the day before. We had a rally in Pennsylvania for 25,000 people. He said he's never seen anything like it, and he did cover Reagan, Ford, bush. He said he's never seen anything like these rallies, and he said, I get it. And, you know, I'm not going to be changing. I'm presidential anyway. I mean, I can change to presidential, but I'm presidential anyway, I guess.
>> What does it mean when you say change to president jl what do you think presidential is that you're not right now?
>> I mean a lower key version of myself and being sure not to use language that would be offensive, but I don't do that anyway. I feel that I shouldn't be doing that. I was doing that for a period of time for emphasis, but I feel that I shouldn't be doing that. I'm not -- you know, I'm not doing that. And -- I used to, you know, make speeches when I was non-political, I used some foul language and it would make things very exciting and people would go crazy, but when you're running for office it's a little bit different, as your brother knows. Right?
>> I think trying not to curse is probably the least of reaching that bar, but let's look at why that --
>> No. It might be the most of reaching that bar.
>> I hope not. I hope we're going to do better than that especially getting into the general, but when you look at why, you're doing very well in the primaries by anybody's math. However, you're only getting 25%, 26% of your party showing up. You have about half the party that hasn't come into the tent with you yet. You're going into a general election, if you get the nomination, where you're going to have to sway a lot of people who don't like the harshness. So that's why people are saying, can you show another side of yourself? Can you bring people together? Last night talking about Hillary Clinton, whom you call crooked Hillary, you said the only thing she has is the woman card. Even Chris Christie's wife standing behind you made a face when you said that. Do you think that's a winning formula to say, "The woman card" is all that Hillary Clinton has?
>> Yes. It's part of -- it is certainly part. She is a woman. She's playing the woman card left and right. She didn't play it last time with Obama but she's playing it much harder this time, and she will be called on it. Absolutely.
>> How do you call someone on being a woman?
>> You just tell them they're playing the woman's card.
>> What does that mean?
>> Frankly, if she didn't she would be doing poorly.
>> How do you know that?
>> I know it. If she was a man and she was the way she is she would get virtually no votes.
>> I know I hear what you're saying. Trying to figure your basis for it. Most of the measurements of a perspective matchup, not only is Clinton beating you with women, beating you with white women. Is this a good message for them to hear? All she's got is a woman's --
>> When I came out I was competing against 17 very capable people. Right? You've heard it. I'm sure you heard it last night ad nauseam. I was competing against 17 very, very capable people. And a woman. And what happened was, one by one they disappeared, and everyone said, what's going on?
Look what's happening. A governor, a senator, a governor, a senator, but one by one they disappeared. And they thought trump was going to be there for a couple of weeks. He was going to have some fun. Then he was going to go to Mont Y Carlo and have a good time. It worked out I knocked everyone off. For the most part, I knocked them off. They weren't knocked off. I knocked them off. They were taken out. I think you would admit that. Same thing happened with Hillary.
>> We know each other very well, Mr. Trump. That's why I am not completely surprised by your success to this point. Do you believe, then, what got you here will take you all the way to the white house?
>> I think so. Now, I may tone it down or I may tone it up. I can't tell what you I'm going to do. I don't know. Depends, you know, I use the word flexibility. You have to be flexible. You listened last night. You do. You have to be flexible. Somebody says, will you go this way or that way? I don't know. I will see when I see how the other people punch back, but Hillary's got a lot of flaws, got a lot of problems, and she does have the woman card, that's a big thing, but a lot of women, as you know, don't like Hillary, despite the card, and we'll see what happens. You're going to cover it better than anybody, and CNN's doing a very good job.
>> Well, that's a -- we take great pride in that estimation.
>> Errol is very biased against me, which is too bad.
>> Earl Lewis says that is not true and he is very happy that you got up so early this morning.
>> Errol is totally biased. There are others over there some day I'm going to watch him say something good about trump and I'll be so happy. He's very biased.

Lauren Hendricks