Larry Schweikert

And I thought this guy gets it.

Now, if he has any other policies that are along with that one, he's going to be a force.

And by the end of 2015, I was telling everybody who had listened he was going to win the Republican nomination.

I won some famous bets that people welched on.

But nevertheless, I predicted that.

And then, you know, in 2016, I started to follow the voter registration patterns in about seven or eight key swing states.

And they were all pointing toward a narrow Trump victory.

And so I said in my book, how Trump won, which came out after the election, but it was written before the election, that Trump was going to win.

And I said it was between 300 and 320 electoral votes.

And the final was 304.

Yeah.

The thing is – and I've written a biography of Reagan.

Reagan, I don't think, foresaw what was going to happen with the open borders, eventually with NAFTA, with that kind of stuff.

I think he really believed in the 1980s that free – total free trade, regardless of what our trade opponents were doing to us –

that it would still carry the day.

It's the old Milton Friedman argument that free trade will win no matter what.

Well, that may be true if you can sustain yourself over a few hundred years.

But as was becoming clear by the end of the Reagan administration, there was a hollowing out of American business going overseas.

And again, Trump in mid-2015 started to talk about that in ways nobody else was.

And I said, well, yeah, I'm a free trader, but we don't have free trade with China and with much of Europe because even though they may or may not have tariffs, some did, some didn't, nevertheless, they were restricting trade on their shelves.