Soltis Anderson: Trump’s Message of Winning ‘Clearly Resonating’ with Voters

‘They feel like it’s time to start winning again’

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SCARBOROUGH: “You look  Kristen Soltis Anderson at those numbers and look how far ahead Donald Trump is, ahead of Carson, whether it’s handling terrorism, handling ISIS, handling Putin. The questions of strength. Also, economic questions. Whose best to handle the economy. When it comes down to the actual issues, Republican voters gut instinct is that Donald Trump is better prepared to handle this than other candidates. Not just Ben Carson but other candidates that have run huge states like Florida or New Jersey.”

SOLTIS ANDERSON: “I think a lot of what you’re seeing here with Ben Carson fading in the polls is that his support was built on favorability. People thought he was a nice guy, they liked him. But that’s — that’s something that fades when, all the sudden, you say we need to start winning again as a country. [indecipherable] I would change and then you say the one word to define Donald Trump’s campaign is strength, I think it’s winning. That a lot of Americans feel tired of losing. That they feel like they’ve been losing if foreign policy, they feel like they’ve been losing economically and they feel like it’s time to start winning again. And that’s why you see Donald Trump. He’s always talking about the polls, where he’s winning. This is really, I think, a through line narrative through his campaign. I mean, to the extent that this is a moment where Americans really feel like ‘I’m tired of losing. I don’t want to [indecipherable] to ISIS. If Donald Trump’s the one out there most sort of aggressively talking about the need to win, I mean at a very visceral level, that’s clearly still resonating with a lot of voters.”

SCARBOROUGH: “And I tell you what. For those of us old enough to remember —“

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