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Lire performing and win the nomination? >> most of voters know his character. thats why hes steady in the polls. but if elizabeth warren or bernie sanders take him on in iowa and new hampshire we have a fight on our hands. we know he may misspeak. but right now its an electability argument saying hes the one who can beat trump. until we can find other candidates who can beat trump. >> there are four or five. but joe bidens steady support is because people know him. he was obamas guy. but they se...

Ideologically related to their party and candidates fencing i like this person for health care, for military, international affairs. in reality, you need someone whos going to be a good president and i think the democrats are saying this is our ideology is being trump. thats our goal. so biden is the guy. tonight he is the best guy for that >> sandra: we are going to see a complete shift once the progress of democratic policies are around a single candidate. right now hes leaving because he is t...

Care about the electability argument, they care about somebody fighting for them. >> jon: one of the paths among democratic candidates right now seems to be asking those who are not religious the vote for them. if have you seen that approach from people like beto orourke? >> i think its been happening but now we are talking about it, i think the idea of the democratic party which is people who are ultrareligious, people moderately religious and people that have no religion whatsoever or dont bel...

>> absolutely. but if you look at most polls of the democratic electorate, i think the party is generally moderate, and they want a candidate -- >> its older than you realize. >> its older and they want a candidate on some of these issues that they are dealing with, whether its medicare for all. they want a candidate who is, you know, a bit more centered. now that may not appeal to younger voters who may want to go a little bit harder to the left. but that might be enough for someone to get 30% ...

Dnc spokesperson said. if you are a few months before the iowa caucuses and cant get 130,000 donors and cant crack 2% in a couple of polls, thats on you. theres an appetite to start being able to focus on the candidates who have demonstrated the most movement in this race. >> i think the big thing that democratic voters want to see is electability. whether or not whoever they nominate can beat donald trump. if youre not on that debate stage, how do you make that electability argument. it gets to...

Needed to do. you have to make see what you can do to make healthcare work. >> lets talk about the reaction from the other candidates. sanders is reacting to this campaign ad. this new poll. that was released yesterday. showing him neck in neck with biden and warren. they believe the polling opens the doors for an electability argument. does it? >> it could. you have to see a few more ads like this. and you have a big swing here in terms of of the margin of error is big. if youre bernie sanders ...

Bernie sanders is reacting to this campaign, to this new ad now, to this new monmouth poll i should say that was released yesterday showing him rung neck and neck with biden and warren. 9 campaign believes this polling opens the door for an electability argument. does it? what do you i? >> it could. you have to see a few more ads like this. and of course you have a big swing here in terms of the margin of error is pretty big on this poll. but listen, if youre bernie sanders youve got to be looki...

Saying i dont care. >> just looking at the polling, to your point the voters, look, it really isnt surprising. the thing about that ad to your point is that it is empathetic and emotional is that it is joe biden in his authentic self. i think thats why its resonating and thats what people know of joe biden, being comforted. the thing that i would, just a red flag phon their campaifor tu throw electability out the window here, you throw that out. you look at the polls and multiple polls show abou...

Seeing from bullock and delaney. here is what i would say, chris, and there is a point in what theyve said. if you are not on this stage, if you are trailing in national polls, training in money, youve got one tool in your tool kit and that is to organize in a state that you think you could possibly pull off some type of jut set or at least a newsworthy showing. so organize in iowa, organize in new hampshire, organize in nevada or south carolina, one of those. thats really all youve got left at ...

Way since essentially bragging rights are going to a whole bunch of them? >> well, i think that joe biden has actually started to realize that in addition to making an electability argument he also has to make an argument on policy and thats why you see him, you know, sort of rolling out a discussion around health care, he did some ads focusing on health care reform and connecting that to himself personally. but ive always believed that this race is about head and its about heart. voters are goi...