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To you. >> and aggressively going after it. >> and aggressively having a back and forth. where at some point we see that joe biden is there because he knows he has to be and there is a big difference in that. >> i think you raised something earlier, susan, that is going to be interesting. and that is the electability question becomes questioned if in the early caucuses he doesnt do well and someone like an elizabeth warren if she consistently upsets iowa and given she may win new hampshire does ...

Returned to the mean. but who knows. >> i mean, there was a heck of a breakout moment for kamala harris. if she could repeat that in a way that furthers her campaign, its going to be remarkable. if youre buttigieg, orourke, harris, klobuchar, castro, yang, i mane this must be so frustrating to know it has essentially been unyielding no matter what momentum you have. youre getting on this debate stage. youre one of ten people. and here you are still on the outskirts of the stage hoping to have th...

Insider survey, a survey monkey poll, they say they worry that the party nominee will be too far to the left. 12% said they worry it will be too centrist. do you think that tells us anything about the electability question? is it as true for someone as polarizing as trump? >> i dont think anyone thought he was a centrist in 2019, but i will say i went through the p y primaries are pulling them to the left. you can talk about issues and maybe talk about what is necessary, and in 12 and 16 democra...

Electability question. very important to democrats. but i think theres a sense that he could falter. then someone else would have to rise. we dont know who that is at this point. >> jill biden can be right and still wrong about her husband. the central question for democrats is nominating someone who is electable, who isnt going to scare off those voters who a democrat desperately needs. >> is that you essentially? basically republicans who dont like trump? >> no, look, i think its a lot of vote...

Concerned. for now, lets go to our pollster power panel joining me is tom bevan cofounder and president of real clear politics. chris wilson, digital strategy director for senator ted cruzs 2016 campaign. tom, lets start withtr you. should the similarities between joe and hillary have team biden worried? >> i think they should, and i think you make a pretty good argument of the similarities between the two candidates. at this point in 2008, in the race, democratic primary race hillary clintone, ...

Our pollster power panel, joining me as tom devon, cofounder and president of real clear politics. chris wilson, digital strategy director for senator ted cruzs 2016 campaign. tom, lets start with you. should the similarities between joe and hillary have team biden were read? >> i think they should come and i think you make a pretty good argument of the similarities between the two candidates. at this point in 2008, in the race, democratic primary race, hillary clinton was up 20 points over bara...

Bad for the country, good for joe biden and some other -- i think you could also argue kamala harris and some other more folks who are in the pragmatic lane when trump recedes, thats when i think you see someone like elizabeth warren who sort of touches peoples hearts and bernie sanders maybe, you know, gain some strength. >> alex had a great little piece about this, kasie. he wrote this back in june, our buddy alex wrote this. at time its can feel like the democratic primary voters are playing ...

There again, i could have this return to a white house similar to obamas. >> its interesting, though, that the electability question does seem to be mostly judged right now on that nostalgia and experience question, which is not really a tangible policy thing at all. so its just kind of odd that biden keeps delivering what is in many ways an eat your vegetables argument to a large part of the democratic base and if you look down in the guts of that poll, biden seems to be polling among the peopl...

If you look at poll after poll, anecdotically, they want to win. democrats just want to win and that shows up in polling in places like south carolina where voters by a vast majority say im willing to compromise someone who doesnt agree with me on all of my policies to win. i want somebody who can beat joe biden. now, the argument against that, elizabeth warren and others are saying wait a minute. every poll head to head shows me beating donald trump too so that electability question for joe bid...

Second debate, he had a fine second debate and hes still doing well. holding his position at the top of the polls. i took away what you took away, which was lets build on obamacare. that was a line in the sand with elizabeth warren and bernie sanders who said again and again, they want to get rid of private insurance and have a medicare for all plan. he was reminding people he think thats a bad idea. i would be careful with him on this electability question though. whos the person who can beat d...