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Dowd: Much of Trump’s Policies Are Based on the Fears of His Base Instead of the Facts
WJXX (ABC 25 Jacksonville)
Name: WJXX (ABC 25 Jacksonville)
URL: http://www.firstcoastnews.com/
This Week with George Stephanopoulos
Name: This Week with George Stephanopoulos
URL: http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/
George Stephanopoulos
, Matthew Dowd
Name: George Stephanopoulos
Employment: ABC News
Position: Anchor
Name: Matthew Dowd
Employment: ViaNovo
Position: Co-Founder
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Not online media
RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
FAGEN: More so than the Tea Party.
DOWD: Here’s the bigger. I think a huge problem that existed. And first, they’ve misread the election, in my view, that Donald Trump and (INAUDIBLE), they think that the majority of the country is with them on these things...
STEPHANOPOULOS: Maybe they don’t care. Maybe they care about having...
(CROSSTALK)
STEPHANOPOULOS: — their base solid and that’s enough to get through their policies.
DOWD: Well, here’s the problem —
PALMIERI: Nah.
DOWD: — that — that exists as long as Republicans don’t start eventually peeling away, which will ultimately happen. It’s happened to other Republican presidents when they’ve lost a big part of the support. But my concern is this, is much of these policies are based on the fears of his base instead of the facts eliminates of this. And Ben Franklin said once — and I’m thinking of this executive power — Ben Franklin said if you give up freedom to get security, you deserve neither. And in this case, there is no connect the dots to the seven countries he chose. There’s no real connect the dots in this — in the realm of this. And I have to say, you — everybody can say this isn’t a Muslim ban, it is a Muslim ban. If I campaigned to say I want to keep the Irish out of the country and then when I became president, I said, no, I’m not going to do that, I’m just going to keep people of Ireland out of the country, everybody would know what it is.
FAGEN: More so than the Tea Party.
DOWD: Here’s the bigger. I think a huge problem that existed. And first, they’ve misread the election, in my view, that Donald Trump and (INAUDIBLE), they think that the majority of the country is with them on these things...
STEPHANOPOULOS: Maybe they don’t care. Maybe they care about having...
(CROSSTALK)
STEPHANOPOULOS: — their base solid and that’s enough to get through their policies.
DOWD: Well, here’s the problem —
PALMIERI: Nah.
DOWD: — that — that exists as long as Republicans don’t start eventually peeling away, which will ultimately happen. It’s happened to other Republican presidents when they’ve lost a big part of the support. But my concern is this, is much of these policies are based on the fears of his base instead of the facts eliminates of this. And Ben Franklin said once — and I’m thinking of this executive power — Ben Franklin said if you give up freedom to get security, you deserve neither. And in this case, there is no connect the dots to the seven countries he chose. There’s no real connect the dots in this — in the realm of this. And I have to say, you — everybody can say this isn’t a Muslim ban, it is a Muslim ban. If I campaigned to say I want to keep the Irish out of the country and then when I became president, I said, no, I’m not going to do that, I’m just going to keep people of Ireland out of the country, everybody would know what it is.
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