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-Now, as we close up this interview,
we like to play a game of lightning round
with our guests, and we'd like to start with you
by asking the first thing that comes to your mind
as far as what people don't know, thus far,
about the following candidates.
Donald Trump.
MCKAY COPPINS: Donald Trump he-- when
after I wrote a profile about him,
I got a note from an opposition researcher who
said that he had been recruited for a project
to dig into my personal life and finish me.
-Oh.
Wow.
Ominous.
Marco Rubio.
MCKAY COPPINS: Marco Rubio once in high school
performed on stage in a talent show
in a sort of Chippendale's performance, shirtless,
because he was kind of a ham in high school.
-Wow.
A little more information than I expected.
Mitt Romney.
MCKAY COPPINS: Mitt Romney.
A big fan of Game of Thrones, although he
doesn't like the nudity in it.
I've learned that from Paul Ryan.
-To nudity.
Now explanations.
MCKAY COPPINS: Every one of these
is going to be nudity related.
Just so you're prepared.
-Ben Carson.
MCKAY COPPINS: Ben Carson.
He's actually a big hip-hop fan.
Those who saw his performance, or his kickoff speech,
for his campaign, actually had a choir singing,
doing a choir rendition of "Lose Yourself" by Eminem.
There you go.
-Chris Christie, coming back in the polls.
MCKAY COPPINS: Christie is coming back in the polls.
He is a-- he's been trying to lose weight
to prepare for this, and actually
has had a lot of success.
He looks much, much thinner.
But his weakness is ice cream, and he says
that he can't get past that.
-Rand Paul.
MCKAY COPPINS: Rand Paul.
I detail in the book about how he
tried to-- he was trying to court
the kind of religious conservatives.
One of the things he did was he had
a advisor write an 80-page memo about how
to seem more evangelical.
He is not evangelical himself, but kind of how
to speak their language, how to court certain people.
-How to relate to them.
MCKAY COPPINS: Yeah.
-Carly Fiorina.
MCKAY COPPINS: Carly Fiorina.
She was obviously a CEO of a Fortune 500 company,
and I found an old anecdote about how she wanted to kind
of bust the boys' club up.
And in one kind of important sales meeting,
where she felt like a lot of the men
were not taking her seriously, she
stuffed socks down her pants and made a crude joke
about having a large-- being well endowed.
-Wow.
MCKAY COPPINS: But I will say, she won them over.
They took her seriously after that.
-That won them over, I'm sure.
They were probably shocked.
Ted Cruz.
MCKAY COPPINS: Ted Cruz.
When he was in Princeton, as a freshman,
a champion debater, very successful student,
every morning, he had a routine to pump himself up.
He would listen to Queen's "We are the Champions"
and sing along at full voice before leaving his dorm room.
His roommate told me that it was quite a spectacle
to watch every morning.
-We now know some of their favorite music now,
thanks to you.
MCKAY COPPINS: Yes.
-Ben Carson and Ted Cruz.
Well, McKay, thank you so much for joining us.
MCKAY COPPINS: Thank you.
Congratulations on the book again.