i’m often asked by the media and others: how did it come about that donald trump, the most unpopular presidential candidate in the modern history of our country, won the election? and my answer is—and my answer is that trump didn’t win the election; the democratic party lost the election. let us—let us be very, very clear: the current model—the current model and the current strategy of the democratic party is an absolute failure. this is not—this is not my opinion. this is the facts. you know, we focus a lot on the presidential election, but we also have to understand that democrats have lost the u.s. house, the u.s. senate. republicans now control almost two-thirds of the governors’ chairs throughout the country. and over the last nine years, democrats have lost almost 1,000 legislative seats in states all across this country. today—today, in almost half of the states in america, democratic party has almost no political presence at all. now, if that’s not a failure, if that’s not a failed model, i don’t know what a failed model is.