Paul Krugman: Republican Party's Base 'Is By And Large Elderly White People Arguing With Empty Chairs'

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"The Republican Party is where it is because that's where the base is," Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, said Sunday on ABC's "This Week." "And you watched that whole primary process; Republican candidates had to appeal to their base, which is by and large elderly white people arguing with empty chairs."