Larry Schweikert

And they refused to believe that he was going to be the nominee.

I said, no, easily he's going to be the nominee.

And I believed at that time, most Republicans could have beaten Hillary Clinton

But I came to change my mind and I came to understand that politics had changed a great deal from Ronald Reagan's day to Donald Trump's day.

You know, I make a point to my students,

that Abraham Lincoln with his high screechy voice and his long-winded speeches would never have made it on radio because his voice wouldn't have been a voice for radio.

But Franklin Roosevelt had a perfect voice for radio, but he never would have made it in the age of television in the 60s or 70s because there was still a bias against handicapped people.

So Ronald Reagan was perfect for television in the 70s and 80s because he was so photogenic.

He memorized the lines easily, didn't have to use a teleprompter really.

But I don't think Reagan would make it today because our politics have become much harder edged, you know.

elbow swinging, if you will.

It's the difference between, I don't know, the Boston Celtics of Bill Russell and the Detroit Pistons of Bill Lambert.

It's just a totally different

political world that Trump was particularly attuned to navigating because he didn't mince words, he didn't speak Washingtonese, he's told you exactly what he thinks, which I think has become an amazing strategic strength of his over time.

Well, the obvious change was NAFTA and the hollowing out of American industry.

Nobody like Mitt Romney could possibly run on reindustrializing America.

Their heart wasn't in it.

They didn't believe it could happen.

Obama said all those jobs are never coming back again.

What's he going to do, wave a magic wand?