Voter Base Quotes

I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.

Republicans are scared of the NRA. They're scared of the Tea Party.

The Republican party is changing. It's becoming more populist.

My view is that Trump will not change the Republican Party, America's right-of-center party. If he brings in new followers, that's great, and well worth the effort, but he will not change the Republican Party.

Voters who live off taxpayers are the Democrats' ace in the hole. The Democrats created big programs and never let the recipients forget it. This gives them an initial advantage of tens of millions of votes in any presidential election.

I think the GOP, the Grand Old Party, the Republicans, they will regroup.

His [Donald Trump]support is crossing wide swaths of the party. It's not just the evangelicals. It's the moderates, as well.

The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.

I have unbelievable support among Republicans.

I shudder to think what Republican presidential contenders will say in a 2016 primary to win over voters who think Eric Cantor isn't conservative enough.

Trump's more outre economic ideas, like repealing trade bills and implementing a massive surcharge on imports, would seem like non-starters in a Republican-led House and Senate, except when you consider a second point as a kind of syllogism: Republicans fear their angry, white electorate. Their angry, white electorate chose Donald Trump.

You can't get votes that way. So [the Republicans] have been compelled to mobilize a base of voters and gone to elements of the country that have always been there but were kind of marginal to the political system, for example, religious extremists.

The Republicans have kind of painted themselves into a kind of a real demographic corner, if you will.

The more people in need, the better the Democrat Party is, in their minds, 'cause that's their source of power.

I won, we won, because we grew the base of voters who share our values - not because we tried to talk Republicans into embracing us just long enough to cast a ballot.

He has a style that is not my style. And that is fine. That's Donald Trump. And guess what? That's exactly who the base of the Republican Party supported and said that's who we want to carry the banner.

Donald Trump has nobody helping him other than the people that voted for him.

It's a very distinct difference between Romney and Obama and myself.

The Democrats need poor, dependent people if they're gonna stay in business. And if we don't have enough poverty at home, we'll import it. That's what our open-borders policy is: It's about importing poverty and importing the number of potential registered voters for the Democrat party.

All political parties, if they are to be successful, have to be broad churches.

Obliging elected Democrats willingly pander to the radical lefties who elevated them to their throne.

The establishment is divorcing itself from its base - from voters who are choosing a candidate who says he stands for things that are anathema to the establishment.

People’s Party.

Not getting rid of [Donald] Trump because there's a slew of Republican voters that don't want to get rid of Trump.

Any party that writes off 25, 30, 35 percent of the American people is not going to be a winner.