Trump: ‘We’re Going to Have the Largest Turnout in the History of the Country’

‘Most of those people have never voted before because they’re tired of being run and led by stupid people’

GEIST: “So Donald, there are people inside the Republican Party who’re now considering that the very real possibility that you’ll be the nominee. But there are some who have concerns about whether you can win a general election. They watched what happened to Mitt Romney with Latino voters, with African American voters. And the argument is that’s because of some of the things you’ve said about illegal immigration, some of the things you’ve said about and Muslims. That you are going to —”
TRUMP: “All true, all true. Whether you like it or not.”
GEIST: “That you’ll offend some of those voters and for a Republican to win they need those voters desperately, the ones they haven’t had over the last few cycles. So, what do you say to ease the minds of those kinds of Republicans who’re having trouble thinking about voting you because they don’t think you can win the general?”
TRUMP: “OK, First of all, polls have come out over the last week, where I beat Hillary very easily. You see that, I mean, I’m beating her very easily. But forget that. Because I even think that’s not even right. I’m going to win states that they’ve never thought of winning. I mean, I think I have a chance of winning New York state as an example. And a poll came down last week, you saw that, where I just — one of the best locations I have in the whole country is New York state —“
SCARBOROUGH: “New York.”
TRUMP: “— which is almost 50 percent of New York. I mean, can you imagine if we ever won New York. Nobody even thinks about that when they do the polls. Plus we’re going to win West Virginia big, we’re going to win Virginia, we’re going to win places that we’re not normally — that nobody else is going to win. We’re going to win New Jersey, we’re going to win Pennsylvania, we’re going to win Florida, we’re going to win Ohio. We’re going to win places that a lot of people aren’t going to win. And the other thing is, and I guess CNBC did this, we’re going to have the largest turnout in the history of this country — voters turnout in the history of the country. And most of those new people that have never voted before because they’re never — I’m going to vote for Trump. Because they’re tired of being run and led by stupid people.”
GEIST: “Are you confident that the people in Iowa who stand in line who show of 15,000 at a time to these events to support you and to see the Donald Trump show, are you confident that they’ll go out on that Monday night and caucus for you?”
TRUMP: “Well, I am. I mean, look, they show up and I have the biggest crowds by far. Far bigger than Bernie — and he’s second by the way I have to say. But far bigger than Bernie. And it’s hard to believe that someone is going to be waiting for five hours in the snow but they’re not going to go for 20 minutes or 40 minutes to either caucus or vote.”

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