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Electability thing, i just wonder about because i look at polling. its february. i look at polling about the general election. by and large, biden runs the best across the same number of states, but its not as though bernie sanders most of the data i see he is ahead or competitive. is he exactly where biden is, no. so the electability thing, donald trump was -- if we were all here, if you asked me who is more likeable, the governor of ohio with a proven voting record of winning in a swing state ...

Why? because if you look inside this poll, support for medicare for all plummeting down to 36% support. >> yeah, its pretty simple. this country, you cant tell 160 million people youre going to take something away they already have. and i also think the electability thing. ive said this all along. i do not think she is electable. i think she would get trounced in a landslide with trump. i also think she has a likability issue. this is not a gender thing, this is tone and manner thing, i think th...

>> i dont think its a lie. most people believe that politicians lie. i do think there is something going on with biden. he lost a step. its one thing to gaffe. he could not remember president obamas name the other day. just called him his boss. what makes this such a big thing going into the next debate is that these young people are going to start to frame it -- if they take off the gloves -- they can make the argument that biden is too old and you see he is too old. its not about new ideas. ca...

What do you make of this? >> i dont think its a lie. most people believe that politicians lie. i do think there is something going on with biden. he lost a step. its one thing to gaffe. he could not remember president obamas name the other day. just called him his boss. what makes this such a big thing going into the next debate is that these young people are going to start to frame it -- if they take off the gloves -- they can make the argument that biden is too old and you see he is too old. i...

Well at the debates. he appellahasnt put out a poli thats ben received so well. >> what if he loses after iowa? does that change the entire calculus? >> the entire race changes after iowa. at that point, voters in other states start to parrot what theyre seeing. were talking about the electability thing. really, its what are my neighbors going to do? what are the people who live around me going to decide based on the veavailable pool of candidates? i think other states will follow suit. >> to th...

Apparent now, this need to lean into iowa. this probably was my biggest takeaway. iowa is always important, its first, it dictates who has momentum and blazes a path to the nomination. i think it may be even more important this time because what were seeing from democrats in every poll is that they have this electability thing on their mind. they want to choose the nominee that they think is going to have the easiest time defeating donald trump. so right now joe biden has that as a strength in h...

Subpoena power. >> democrats are out thinking themselves in the same way the electability thing, you may really want to beat donald trump, you cant personally work out to the most electable candidate is. in the same way, impeachment, you cant game out what the political impact of impeachment is going to be. >> sean: braswell rachel maddow, the number one conspiracy theorist in the country here to react to this and the hills media reporter joe concha. i remember a moment where you said that cnn w...

To try to fend bernie off? >> well, she has made it clear she going to be taking the gun issue which is popular with the democratic base, and obviously, president clinton e excuse me, president obama, freudian slip, and one of the remaining days in office and hit it hard. that is a message that is going to be working with the democratic primary voters, and maybe it is not going help her win iowa, but it is what happens with bernie sanders there. is a lot of talk about, that and she going to be h...

Like, youve got to do the electability thing. it is not what they want to hear in florida, which, by the way, was backing newt gingrich in polls from december all the way up to new hampshire. its a very conservative environment down there, anyway, and i think you have to go to his character if you want to defeat him, not just electability. >> thats the point. because the republican sort of groupology is very mixed. you have establishment republicans who have to think about strategy. thats electa...

we begin this evening with the still growing political and legal uproar in the state of mississippi. state officials may ask for nation-wide help tracking down some convicted murderers pardoned this week by the outgoing governor halee barber. some victims families are worried and furious. >> we are in jail now and david is out of jail. we will forever be looking over our shoulder wondering if today is the day that david decided that he was going to finish what he started. >> cnns marti...