Mara Liasson Quotes About Parties

Quotes about: Parties

• The Republican Party, right now, is a conservative populist party.

  Mara Liasson

  Party, Conservative, Republican

  "As Iowa Race Nears, Anti-Establishment Leaders Hold Strong". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. January 24, 2016.

• The lesson is that voters in both parties are in a very anti-establishment, populist mood. Hillary Clinton is the establishment candidate.

  Mara Liasson

  Party, Lessons, Voters

  "As Iowa Race Nears, Anti-Establishment Leaders Hold Strong". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. January 24, 2016.

• Well, it's possible that the new infusion of ad money against Donald Trump kept his margins in Kentucky and Louisiana down a bit. But we're also seeing something that we've never seen in 100 years, which is we are seeing the crackup of a major American political party.

  Mara Liasson

  Party, Kentucky, Years

  "Rounding Up The Week In Politics". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, wkms.org. March 6, 2016.

• Many people feel he did cross a line in a way he hadn't even done before and also that Republicans had to speak out because they believe Trump poses a danger to the party.

  Mara Liasson

  Party, Believe, Speaks Out

  "Despite Backlash Over Muslim Comments, Supporters Stand By Trump". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. December 10, 2015.

• Donald Trump is a candidate who divided his own party more deeply than any presidential candidate has before.

  Mara Liasson

  Party, Presidential, Trump

  Source: www.npr.org

• As one person said to me , Republicans know [Donald] Trump is a stain on their party.

  Mara Liasson

  Party, Republican, Trump

  Source: www.npr.org

• If [Hillary] Clinton wins, history will also be made: She would be the first female U.S. president, of course, but also the only candidate in the modern era, other than George H.W. Bush, who managed to follow a two-term president of her own party.

  Mara Liasson

  Party, Winning, Two

  Source: www.npr.org

• Republicans think that [Ted] Cruz would be like Barry Goldwater. He'd lose in a landslide and pull the party down with him. They'd lose Senate and House seats.

  Mara Liasson

  Party, Thinking, House

• The winner's margin of victory also matters. If it's a squeaker, that will make the lessons learned for both parties much murkier.

  Mara Liasson

  Party, Lesson Learned, Victory

  Source: www.npr.org

• As one conservative intellectual said to me - he said if the choice is between [Joseph] Stalin and [Adolf] Hitler, I'd pick Stalin, meaning Ted Cruz because he's more predictable. So there's real civil war inside the Republican Party.

  Mara Liasson

  Real, War, Party

• As those states and others in the South and West become more diverse and educated, they will become harder for the Republican Party - in its current form - to win.

  Mara Liasson

  Party, Winning, West

  Source: www.npr.org

• Jeb Bush was supposed to be the establishment candidate, but he didn't catch on. And the extraordinary thing about this Republican primary is that the establishment, moderate wing of the party has sidelined itself. They're not coalescing around one candidate as they have in the past.

  Mara Liasson

  Party, Past, Wings

  "As Iowa Race Nears, Anti-Establishment Leaders Hold Strong". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. January 24, 2016.

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