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Warren and harris. they showed they can be on the stage 1 with donald trump, in particular harris as we saw in the second of the debate. youre seeing that in the polls right now. >> i dont think they can just be on the stage but kick his as. >> yes. im trying to say it nicely. >> established. nicer than me. youre nicer than me too. go. >> heres where the fight happens. >> all right. >> with all due respect to all of my brothers and sisters at the table, the electability question relative to the ...

>> many of the democratic presidential hopefuls are in iowa tonight. one of the issues theyre facing is the electability question, as in who has the best chance to defeat president trump. correspondent peter doocy reports from des moines. >> last week she pick aid part joe wyden. this week shes hat a picnic. >> im prepared to prosecute the case. [applause] >> kamala harris trying to build on a buzzing debate debut in iowa. >> not only am i here because i think it is important obviously to the ca...

>> many of the democratic >> many of the democratic presidential hopefuls are in iowa and one of the issues they are facing is the electability question as in who has the best chance to defeat donald trump? >> last week she picked apart joe biden. >> im prepared to prosecute the case. >> kamala harris trying to build on the debate debut in iowa. >> it is important to the campaign. it is important to me personally for the people here, to help inform what i think about issues and a great priority....

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The other interesting thing in the debate will be you saw castro went after beto orourke. you saw kamala went after biden. and they both moved in the polls. so my guesstimate is for all of the other candidates who will be on that debate stage in july, they are going to be very aggressive. we are now getting to the point where these candidates if they cannot show momentum, they cannot raise any money and their campaign will be doomed. were really getting to the point that they have got to really ...

Voters who is actually going to activate and energize the base. thats a whole different equation of electability that i think we also saw on stage with different candidates trying to hold joe biden accountable for his record, whether thats bussing or iraq or any of these things. >> i mean -- >> go ahead, neera. >> i think -- i think that the electability question has actually changed if you look at the cnn poll today. of course, its just one poll. >> yes. >> kamala harris and elizabeth warren ar...

And then elizabeth warren and kamala harris following. theyre all pretty different democrats. so that variety of electability keeps changing. and then at the same time, like, we have these voters right now in the most polarized time in politics where we have conservatives who are just going to vote for the candidate who is not a democrat and democrats who are going to vote for a candidate who is not a republican. and meanwhile, there are all these working-class voters and young voters who stayed...

>> so no, joe biden was never going to continue to lead by the margins he was leading on. we hadnt seen anyone on stage together yet. he was holding a limited number of events. we hadnt -- at least the american public hadnt gotten a great look at joe biden. they took a look at him on stage last week and again in this poll -- see if the other polling runs parallel with it, they didnt like what they saw. for the most part. >> well, i didnt like what i saw. i mean n the moment as stage craft as ste...

>> not to plug just cnn. >> you can anytime you want. im fascinated by the electability question. the six in ten democrats saying it is more important to have a pneumn nominee who can beat trump. biden is leaps and bounds ahead when it comes to that measure with 43% saying he has the best chance of beating trump. then you have sanders. what does this actually tell the campaign? how do the other campaigns attempt to chip away at that? >> a couple things, when you look at the number, what is strik...

We have never lived in this moment before, so if you like any of these women, donate and support them because thats the way they actually win. thats how you get over the electability question, you support the candidates that you like. >> these two, rick, warren and harris, you have more policy focus, harris goes more on the offense. but the strategies have worked for them. what do you make of that, and do you think they were the windows of their respect active nights. >> i think they were, but i...