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Voters in iowa still saying theyre open to changing their pick for president. i think thats a unique thing to the iowa caucus. >> i think that suggests some dissatisfaction with the field. i think because this field is so robust and there are a lot of different alternatives, if youre a progressive, a moderate, or somewhere in the middle, you have a lot of different options. i dont think its dissatisfaction. i think its the fact that democrats have an abundance of choices and a lot of democrats, ...

Numbers. i do think theres an electability issue there. >> as i say, she was surging until she put out this -- officially put out the poll for medicare for all. karine, so joe biden, again, after another perceived poor performance at a debate holding on, yes, had is a national poll. no, the election is not a national referendum. hes holding steady at the top there. >> yeah, hes holding steady, and he has been for the last couple of months. a lot of it is the name i.d., people know joe biden. the...

Strategy, though, well have to wait and see. >> shes trying to stay close to him even though hes sort of pushing back on the differences in their health care plans. leyla santiago, thank you for that reporting. lets take another look at the top tier candidates based on the newest poll, biden, warren and sanders. just briefly what do you each say as each of their vulnerabilities? and sarah, ill start with you. >> obviously with joe biden what weve seen is that hes vulnerable to a series of attack...

Foreign policy, on the economy, its having-jerome-bettis- on-your-flag-football-team easy. then what i dont understand about joe biden is why doesnt go get em, bus! he talk about the economy? ohhhh! the economy is -- joe biden can [laughing] make a very credible case that the trajectory of the economy cmon bus, cmon! hey, wait, wait, wait! started in 2009 with barack hey man, i got your flag! i got your flag, man! i got your flag! obama. it has risen steadily, not huge, its geico easy. with lice...

Independents and moderate republicans who deserted our party in 2016 for donald trump. you make the case to them, add to an ignited democratic base, and win big and win back the u.s. senate. thats the recipe to getting all of these things done on climate change and immigration reform. >> why do voters who perhaps share your view of this electability issue right now view joe biden as that electable candidate? >> they know him. vice president biden has been in leadership for many, many years. they...

Heard from both jill and joe biden that the whole electability issue. it is certainly top of mind for a lot of democrats. i wonder if people there are talking about it. is that what is foremost on their minds? >> this presidential race is so interesting. i feel like the week theyve started leaning in directly and bluntly into the fact voters are considering this idea of quote/unquote electability. and it is such a nebulous material. voters mean such a variety of things when they talk about it. v...

Clearly the beginning of a potential path to victory. if you win the first caucus state, then you get to sort of say to everyone i am a person who can win and i can go the long distance. >> i want to underscore this point because yirpg its so critical. we talk all the time about electability. we see in the polls that -- i spent a lot of time asking voters how do you judge that, what metrics are you using to determine how do you figure out who can be the one to beat donald trump? not very good an...

I noted in the cnn poll, kamala went up 9 and warren went up 8 and the 17 points came from white men. i suspect that maybe that suspect for women might be more durable because its contested more. >> this electability issue which voters have been talking about a lot. the "huffington post" post still shows joe biden at the top in electability. but its a drop for him on that score. an increase for senator warren and senator harris and bernie sanders staying about the same. pete buttigieg staying ab...

Biden is now on that electability issue. >> thats right and its a considerable drop for vice president biden and it has to be noted. for all of the historic candidates, once viewers and voters and activists see them on stage and see them compete and see their visions put forward in an exciting and clear and specific way, folks are reacting to them. thats part of what you are seeing. they are being excited by them. one of the things we hear from the movement is that its early and they want to get...

Durable because its contested more. >> this electability issue which voters have been talking about a lot. the "huffington post" post still shows joe biden at the top in electability. but its a drop for him on that score. an increase for senator warren and senator harris and bernie sanders staying about the same. pete buttigieg staying about the same and a drop for beto orourke. now you have senator warren and harris climbing up in a territory close to where joe biden is now on that electability...