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New hampshire. states with significant nonwhite populations. among white voters, see a top tier, warren, biden, sanders close to each other, at least in california. >> thats interesting when you talk about buttigieg, he struggled with african-american voters when you looked at south carolina. lets stick with these two states. general election, head to head matchup with president trump, what do we see? >> in texas, this is a state that hasnt gone democratic since 1976. before i was born, i can pr...

International embarrassment any way that he says president trump is. he talked about kim jong-un in the love letters that you all just mentioned that president trump loves to talk about them sending back and forth. they talk about vladimir putin. theyre dropping these names of these dictators around the world that president trump has cozied up to as a way for joe biden to show his strength on an international stage and the way that he would be a clear contrast to someone like donald trump if ele...

That. >> there are a lot of considerations and im thinking about it. >> can you give us an example of those considerations? >> no. >> love for the traveling press corps. buttigieg has his own purity test for warren, demanding she release more information about the money she made doing legal work for big companies in the 1990s. >> i certainly think it would be a good idea for her to release tax returns, as i have, covering her entire career in the private sector. i think thats one way to show you...

Country say to me, i like pete buttigieg but in the larger scheme of the electability argument, theyre concerned about how hes doing with black voters because every democratic primary voter knows this is a group of voters you have to win over. south carolina, but nationally for sure, if you want to be a successful nominee. >> and we learned from hillary clinton that black voters will stay home. >> absolutely. >> does the presidents re-elect look at this and say, oh, good, the more controversy, t...

About him the most. hes not there for wall street or hollywood or big oil or big pharma or big anybody. its big us. >> just interesting the different strategies. biden says close your eyes, im a president. bernie, like blue-collar. all of them are trying to appeal to their supporters, but this is what joe biden is trying to do of all those. his is a bit of a -- theres an electability argument. remember this, i dont need on-the-job training or whatever. but bernie sanders, the most interesting th...

Party. you he sshow up on super tuesdad people have formed opinions. and i think hell make an electability argument, whether he says it outright or not. but you have to ask as a matter of cultural politics, not economic policy or security policy, but on guns, issues like marriage, issues like abortion, can he compete with president trump in the right states with the right voters enough to eat into his margins, particularly with white working class voters so that he can do damage in wisconsin, in...

Raise for that lifeblood to keep the lights on. you have to continue to fund raise and he doesnt have that problem. >> but he has another problem because he says hell fund his own campaign. theres a contribution threshold if youre going to make the debate stage. how does he plan to qualify for that threshold? >> its a really good question. because we know that other campaigns have had to put a lot of resources and frankly strategize on how theyll hit the donor thresholds to qualify for the debat...

>> good morning. >> so bloomberg is joining the candidates who could defeat president trump. what does this say about the electability argument for moderates versus progressives? >> well, i think first and foremost, most polls show the extreme vulnerability of president trump. his approval number is barely in the low 40s, if it even reaches 40. i think that poll showed that the democratic candidates are in the mid-40s. the president struggles to get out of the high 30s. first and foremost this s...

Shift in this electability question in the general is certainly behind bloombergs interest in joining the race. and he said, "the data shifted after impeachment. democrats were always focused on electability, but after ukraine that impulse became even stronger. and the current field is not well poised for success." how do you see it? >> well, 97% of democratic voters say that it is very important or extremely important to defeat donald trump. so, the electability argument is primary in this deba...

Now heres my question, what does bloomberg think that allows him to believe he can beat the other people in the field? whats he got that they aint got? >> hes going to argue that of course hes an independent, right? hes a guy who was an independent mayor of new york city. hes crossed party lines before and hes going to sell it along elect ability and say i was an independent, these are in these swing states and were talking about the swing states because thats where the election is decided. >> h...