Politicking Language

Republican presidential candidates (L-R) Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Donald Trump and Jeb Bush participate in the first prime-time presidential debate hosted by FOX News and Facebook

Ben Zimmer, language columnist for The Wall Street Journal, chair of the New Words Committee of the American Dialect Society and the executive editor of Vocabulary.com, discusses the words and phrases that pop up frequently in politics -- including several that are leaving their mark on the 2016 presidential campaign, including "authenticity," "socialism" and "quagmire."