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About this campaign season, there is someone that the media thinks is winning or losing and then there is the reality like the grass roots or the voters. ben carson is on the right and had more facebook fans than hillary clinton and bernie sanders combined, right? he is the darling of the grass roots. bernie sanders obviously has some appeal that we in the media are not picking up on to the degree that the headlines yesterday all touted exactly the same thing, which is hillsr[ clinton won and by...

Same thing, which is hillary clinton won and by and large all the grass roots, the polling, the donations, what have you, all out there in the world points to the bernie sanders. >> and with focus groups and people changing their minds, hillary clinton supporters watching that debate and then turning away from her and switching to bernie sanders. >> dont you think it is the part of this that is concerning to her. is not necessarily undecided will look at bernie sanders and say he won, or even vo...

He has to do it next week. she doesnt have to campaign anymore, right? >> the media was pushing the joe biden line so long they were desperate for some drama. what they really want to do is be able to help mostly hillay clinton. they could written these stories on tuesday morning before the debate. unless she had totally flopped this was going to be the outcome. >> she was good. i have toll it you she was good. >> now, interestingly though, the focus groups like bernie sanders. the folks like be...

Administration official van jones and senior advisor of president obama dan pfeiffer. you heard from the sanders campaign, what do you make of their interpretation, the reporters thought hillary clinton had a better night but the sanders people saying not so fast. their candidate did great. they think their candidate won and the fundraising backs it up. >> you know, its a very surreal experience for me because i sat on that stage last night and i look that the debate and said hillary clinton won...

Increasing the following to 1.69 million. clinton added 18,000 increasing her following to 5 had the 4 million. he got more google search traffic than all the other debate candidates. and then there was the focus groups. >> raise your hands. do you think bernie sanders won this debate? most of you. okay. >> how many of you walked in here supporting hillary clinton, raise your hands. half of you. how many of you are still supporting hillary clinton? only a small percentage. so who won the debate?...

What i think is really sort of the gold standards for debate so far this year. a civil debate, it was substantive and i think you were rewarded with a tremendous audience of 15 million plus people. so congratulations to you. in terms of our campaign, we thought bernie had a phenomenal night. i think what is fascinating when you listen to the debate, the extent to which issues people were talking about are issues bernie sanders has been talking about. its clear hes driving the agenda not only in ...

But ill say this. it answered one of two questions. first question is does she have the energy and the passion to prepare for a debate in the answer is yes and a lot of democratic party faithful were happy, even though bernie sanders won the focus groups and bernie sanders won the online donations and the number of twitter followers. a lot of professional inside-the-beltway democrats were happy, but she did not answer the question of what is she going to do a week from today because bernie sande...

Culture, whether we like it or not? >> well, i think its fine for them to fly confederate flags, you know, in their home, on their trucks and miss alford understands that well. the problem here isnt that they were flying confederate flags. the problem is they came on to these peoples property, shouted racial epithets and brandished weapons and threatened them. you know, you have a right in this country, you know, to fly a confederate flag and have a right to hate people in this country and dont ...

He got more google search traffic than all the other debate candidates. and then there was the focus groups. >> raise your hands. do you think bernie sanders won this debate? most of you. okay. >> how many of you walked in here supporting hillary clinton, raise your hands. half of you. how many of you are still supporting hillary clinton? only a small percentage. so who won the debate? >> bernie sanders. >> they point out there is nothing scientific about focus groups or google searches or socia...

And it is not this guy. >> so jeffrey, why is donald trump attacking bernie sanders and not hillary clinton? >> well, you know, first of all bernie sanders is a legit candidate here. i find it really fascinating here, genuinely fascinating that focus groups, fox, cnn i believe as well, with democrats after the debate. while all the pundits were giving the debate to hillary, the focus groups were giving it to bernie sanders. i think in essence what were seeing here is that shes won peoples heads ...