The boss joined guest host Jon Karl on ABC’s This Week to discuss the 2016 election. The Powerhouse Roundtable discussed both frontrunner Donald Trump and insurgent underdog Bernie Sanders after each spoke on the program.
Here’s a brief excerpt:
The reason Donald Trump, at the very end of your interview, raised out of nowhere this thing, “I can beat Hillary Clinton,” is because I think it’s beginning to hurt him among Republican primary voters. On February 1st, the day of Iowa, Trump trailed Clinton in a bunch of polls, if you averaged them, by about 3 points. Now he trails by 11 points. What’s happened in those two months to Hillary Clinton’s campaign and Donald Trump’s campaign? The voters — voters who matter, that is, except Trump’s base of 38 percent or so of the Republican electorate, the voters you need to win a general election, are not being won over by Donald Trump, they’re being alienated and turned off by Donald Trump. He’s probably hurting the other Republicans a little bit now. But even in the average right now, Ted Cruz loses to Hillary Clinton by 3 or 4 points. That’s at least a competitive race. John Kasich does best against Hillary Clinton. So the gap between Trump and the — and the normal Republican running against Clinton is very great. And nominating Donald Trump elects Hillary Clinton. I really believe that.
Later on, the panel discussed the potential for an independent conservative candidate should Clinton and Trump be nominated.
I won’t vote for Hillary Clinton and I won’t vote for Donald Trump. I think we can deny Donald Trump the Republican nomination. If we fail to, we deserve to have a better choice than Clinton or Trump. Really, it’s a terrible choice for the country. There are plenty of decent people who could run as independent Republicans and I think they could do pretty well … Look, these guys [panelists] want Donald Trump to be the face of the Republican party … I don’t want Donald Trump to be the face of the Republican party.
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