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“Any good demagogue is very courageously telling people exactly what they want to hear.”

2010s, 2017, Interview with Bill Kristol (2017)

“[T]he disease of the Republican Party is we treat base voters like swing voters, when, in fact, is you want to put the base under some pain to attract other people to get to a majority number.”

Mike Murphy (political consultant)

2010s, 2018, Interview with Bill Kristol (2018)

“Trump is going to go under an electron microscope. And everything I know about Donald Trump, and I know a fair bit about him going back to my Jersey days when he was operating in Atlantic City – that’s where I first kind of encountered him – he is one of the least likely people to survive an electron microscope into his life, I believe, and his business life of anybody. So, my instincts are strongly that they are going to find some stuff.”

Mike Murphy (political consultant)

2010s, 2018, Interview with Bill Kristol (2018)

“[H]aving problems is not a license to vote stupid. People need the tractor to plow the damn field, now.”

Mike Murphy (political consultant)

As quoted in "Debriefing Mike Murphy" https://www.weeklystandard.com/matt-labash/debriefing-mike-murphy (18 March 2016), by Matt Labash, The Weekly Standard <br class="br">2010s

“[T]he larger moral cowardice that has overtaken the party… Trump's shtick is that he's the grievance candidate… He's focused on the economically squeezed Caucasian voter… He is speaking to that rage. Mexican rapists, clever Chinese traders, African American people as dogs. That's Trump's DNA.”

Mike Murphy (political consultant)

As quoted in "'I'm not going there': As Trump hurls racial invective, most Republicans stay silent" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/im-not-going-there-as-trump-hurls-racial-invective-most-republicans-stay-silent/2018/08/18/aab7fd8a-a189-11e8-83d2-70203b8d7b44_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.492b99efbac1 (18 August 2018), by Ashley Parker and Robert Costa, The Washington Post <br class="br">2010s, 2018

“People get what they vote for.”

Mike Murphy (political consultant)

2010s, 2017, Interview with Bill Kristol (2017)