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The Politics Guys

Ask The Politics Guys: Trump, Turnout, and the General Election

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.4783 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2016

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Our Ask The Politics Guys question for this week comes from Jeff, in New York: With Trump’s record turnout state after state, could the case be made that if he’s the nominee of the Republican Party they may lose moderate or “liberal” Republicans (if they still exist) but gain a huge segment of the population … Continue reading "Ask The Politics Guys: Trump, Turnout, and the General Election"Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening, wherever you are. And welcome to the politics guys with your host, Jay Carson and Michael Baranowski.

0:17.3

Welcome to the politics guys. I'm Michael Barronowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.

0:23.5

My co-host this week, as always, is Cleveland Area Attorney and sometime Republican strategist, Jay Carson.

0:29.7

Here's our Ask to Politics Guys question for this week, Jay.

0:33.3

Okay.

0:34.2

It's from Jeff from New York.

0:37.3

Okay. Here's Jeff's from New York. Okay.

0:37.9

Okay.

0:38.3

Here's Jeff's question.

0:40.3

With Trump's record turnout, state after state, could the case be made that if he's the nominee of the Republican Party, they may lose moderate or liberal Republicans, if they still exist, but gain a huge segment of the population that until this point have not been active voters.

0:58.3

Well, I'd say, yes, that's very much a possibility.

1:02.9

Okay.

1:04.4

First of all, I would say, but I don't think it's even so much about losing moderate or liberal Republicans.

1:09.1

I think there probably aren't many liberal Republicans.

1:11.3

I'm thinking maybe like Olympia Snow or that type person.

1:17.2

But they are sort of a few and far between.

1:21.2

And if you want to say moderate Republicans are sort of represented by John Kasich,

1:25.8

which again, to many Ohioans would come as sort of a

1:28.7

surprise and that he's sort of the most conservative governor we've had in forever.

1:32.4

Moderately compared to Ted Cruz, basically.

1:35.3

Yeah, compared to Ted Cruz.

1:36.5

But I think the problem is that not only would you lose those moderate and liberal Republicans

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