00:00 Let's now move to the veep stakes here. Donald Trump floated some potential names last week to a reporter.
00:06 He mentioned people like his HUD Secretary Ben Carson, Representatives J.D. Vance and Elise Stefanik, as well as Senator Marco Rubio.
00:14 Other names that have been floated are North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, as well as Senator Tim Scott.
00:20 Who do voters want to be his running mate, according to your poll?
00:26 Well, I think Donald Trump has been masterful in this so far. I mean, he is the apprentice king,
00:32 so he knows how to build some mystery and excitement over who's going to be vice president.
00:37 And I think he's doing a good job at that. I think our polling in general shows that if you did Tim Scott or Marco Rubio,
00:46 those probably would be smart choices. Nikki Haley, of course, would be a great choice,
00:52 but she's probably not in the running in either direction.
00:56 There's maybe too much friction there for that to be a credible president, vice presidential choice.
01:03 But I think a choice that he makes that really appeals more to voters in the center will help them.
01:09 And I think if he picks someone too far to the right, that will probably hurt him.
01:13 And I think he knows that. Could the right vice presidential candidate maybe persuade an independent,
01:20 perhaps even a Democrat or an average Trumper to vote for Trump, maybe hold their nose and vote for him,
01:26 knowing that their running mate is more mainstream?
01:30 We always look at these VP choices and how much time goes into them.
01:34 And then with a few exceptions, like I think Sarah Palin was probably a negative choice for McCain.
01:41 Most of the time, they don't make a lot of difference at the end of the day, but they they signal something about the campaign.
01:48 They're a message. Right. When Bill Clinton chose Al Gore, it was a new generation to government.
01:53 So what is he going to who is he going to choose and what message will it send?
01:58 Clearly, I believe the more either candidate reaches out to voters in the middle,
02:03 the more likely they are to succeed with their message.
02:07 Mark, anything in this Harvard Caps Harris poll that we didn't touch on that really stuck out to you that you want to dive into?
02:14 Well, one thing I'd say is that the student protests were received quite negatively by the voters.
02:22 They were very much against them. 70, 80 percent, you know, opposing the protests.
02:29 I think they reflected quite negatively on and on academia and put a spotlight in a negative way on what could be going on at the universities.
02:40 And I think it's going to increase the call for public reform of the universities, how they're approaching things,
02:48 what they're teaching and how they are treating, you know, academic freedom within the right bounds.
02:55 I think all of those things are going to get reexamined. I think the voters really reacted negatively to what happened on the campuses.
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