Let's turn our attention now to the U S presidential election. Joining me is Mark Halprin. He is the co host of All due Respect, co managing editor of Bloomberg Politics, and he can be followed on Twitter at Mark Halprin and, of course, with all due respect, watch it every week night, five pm Wall Street Time on Bloomberg Television and Bloomberg nine in Washington, d C. Mark, thank you very much
for coming in. Uh, I feel a little bad for you because now you know you're not going to be able to really cover Ted Cruz and John Kasik in the same way that you had to follow them on a regular basis. What's next for the for the Republicans.
We'll get to the Democrats in a second. Well, I mean, look, this is a relatively late, not unprecedentedly so to be down to one candidate, and uh, you're now going to have Donald Trump trying to become both simultaneously someone who can consolidate the Republican Party and broaden his support to win a general election. So watching how Donald Trump, who has been one of the most startling presidential candidates we've ever seen in a variety of ways, navigate this new
phase is going to be a pretty big story to cover. Well, Mark Halprin, you're jumping right into the who is the vice president going to be? Game? You have picked your favorite for Donald to be Donald Trump's favorite. Well, I think Chris Christi is probably the most likely. But the two names that I find most intriguing and strikes fear in the hearts of Democrats are Bob Gates, the former Defense secretary, and UH the former governor of Indiana, Mitch Daniels.
Those are two picks that could fundamentally reshaped the race. Two guys who would be instantly seen as qualified to be president, I believe, and two guys who would send a signal from Donald Trump about as seriously he's taking the prospect of being president speak if you count a little bit more about Robert Gates, former Defense Secretary, and a little bit of his political UH Democrat and Republican service. One of the greatest public servants of the last fifty
years in this country. He served Democrat, Cradic and Republican presidents. Stayed over as Defense secretary UH from the Bush administration to the Clinton, the Obama administration, and I just I think uniformly has seen as a respected voice on national security. He's done't that much of a portfolio in terms of
domestic policy. But again, Donald Trump wanted to send a signal that he was picking someone who would be seen as a qualified to be president, someone who would send a signal about his seriousness on national security, responsibility on national security. Secretary Gates would would be a huge pick. And you know, frankly, Hillary Clinton might consider Bob Gates. He is he is considered that both bipartisan and nonpartisan a figure. Well, how about a woman? How about condolesaress.
She has a lot of international experience. Um, she's in case. She's a woman, right, if you want to get a little more diversity on the ticket, what do you think? I think it's unlikely. She's always shied away from electoral politics. She's got some very liberal positions on social issues, which could be a problem for Trump with the delegates. And my guess is she's probably not a huge Trump supporter. Talk to us about Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton following
his victory in Indiana yesterday. You know, John Hallman will be talking about and I'll be talking about this on with all due respect tonight, this issue of why Hillary Clinton didn't kind of roll along the way Donald Trump did. She's one recent contest, she has momentum. Why do it? Was Indiana a loss for her? And why might she
lose some other upcoming states? Um? This was a state whereas Bernie Independence could vote, where Bernie Sanders did very well with the kind of demographic groups have done well with so far. So this is not change the likelihood of his becoming the nominee. It's still beyond long shot because of the delegate math. It does not change Hillary Clinton's general uh strategy, but it is not ideal for her.
Be better for her to close this out, and it appears now that she'll face electoral contests where she'll have to focus to some extent on holding Bernie Sanders at bay Um. Back to this question a vice president and Donald Trump, Chris CHRISTI, you think a lot of people say is the favorite? What seems the problem? That seems
to me that he's feisty, he's tough. Donald Trump has been very feisty and tough, doesn't Donald Trump needs someone who will be the you know, the into his yang that will balance out Donald Trump and who he is. I mean, there's certainly many cases of people who are picking running mates who have approached it that way. But you only have to go back to when a young Southern moderate or Democratic presidential nominee chose a young Southern
moderate Democrat to be his running mate. When Bill Clinton chose al Gore, it reinforced his strengths in a way. The alchemy there was pretty powerful. A blunt aggressive, uh agent of change might reinforce that message with a blunt aggressive agent of change. All Right, Mark Halpern, thank you so very much. He is the host of With all due respect weeknights at five pm on Bloomberg Television Bloomberg in Washington, d C. It's a must see, a must
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