Haley Barbour: ‘I Intend to Support the Nominee of the Party’

‘You have to trust the voters if you’re going to be in the politics business’

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SCARBOROUGH: “If Donald Trump wins a Republican nomination, does that start a civil war in the Republican party?”
BARBOUR: “Well, I don’t think it necessarily does. There are a lot of people who worry that he can’t win. He’s got very, very high negatives and I’ll note that yesterday or the day before the Columbus dispatch published the Ohio poll and Trump, Cruz, as well as Kasich and Rubio were all ahead of Hillary Clinton in Ohio in a general election matchup.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Wow.”
BARBOUR: “Of course Kasich by a huge margin, he’s the governor there, but Trump by two points, Cruz by three points and Rubio by five points in Ohio, the quintessential swing state. But, look, people are afraid he can’t win and secondly there are a lot of people that worry that he hasn’t talked much about what he’d really do if he got elected president. Those are the two concerns about Trump but I don’t think you’re talking about civil war.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Could you ever personally support him if he won the nomination?”
BARBOUR: “I intend to support the nominee of the party. Not my party to say this is who it’s got to be.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Right.”
BARBOUR: “And you have to trust the voters if you’re going to be in the politics business.”
SCARBOROUGH: “All right. Mika?”
BRZEZINSKI: “There you go, well, that was my question. So you feel comfortable, then, with whoever is nominated?”
SCARBOROUGH: “He didn’t say he felt comfortable.” (Laughter) [crosstalk]
BARBOUR: “I’ve said I’d support the nominee and then whoever we nominate I know this, we can’t stand four more years of the failed policies of the Obama administration. And both Clinton and Sanders, are running to the left of Obama. That our country —“ 
BRZEZINSKI: “And is —“
BARBOUR: “— got to have a change back toward what made America great.”

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