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Focus groups, predebate focus groups last night with iowans, and i can tell you from that one group, they love her experience, they love what shes done. they clearly think she is ready but there is not that connection there yet. sometimes that takes time but they just dont feel it. i will give you another quick insight. what we saw in contrast with, senator sanders, they have a lot of concerns about his age, whether he is really a democrat. when it comes to the power of his message, it was reall...

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Odonnell. i put myself in the trump position here. i thought it appropriate for our last show. john you have done the focus groups that have shattered americas impression of who exactly supports tonld trump. and do you think it matters to trump supporters whou he ss how he does in the debate. >> first off i have a bunch of those hats and you are going to get pick which color you want. >> i will wear it and hopefully make america great again. >> the same way donald trump is impervious to most att...

Something. we were playing this before 7:00. so bloomberg, you figure out what you want to do with that. in washington we also have pulitzer prize winning editorial -- and well never play another focus group again. >> okay. >> jonathan capehart and former governor of vermont and form chairman of the democratic national committee howard dean. speaking of polls, a shock poll out of florida. >> the florida republican primary shows trump ahead of both jeb bush and senator marco rubio in their home s...

Names? >> it is interesting. steven ill go to you. youre a trump critic. i thought that my friend mary matlin had good advice. other republicans can learn from him, that they can speak their mind. they dont have to be so guarded in their own way and that they would benefit from their out spokenness. is there a lesson to be learned? >> i think there is. i think thats been true before donald trump. republicans would do much better to say what they believe and make their arguments the best they can...

You see that. even when you talk to voters and you hear them in the focus groups and so on theyre sick of washington. they hate washington. and yet, you know i hear from a lot of people we love ben carson but he cant win. some people say the same thing about trump. because they havent held elected office. and the theory is why would they elect somebody who has never held elected office to the presidency as the first time? is it possible? >> well anything is possible i guess. but i would have to ...

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>> that was 60% not so long ago. >> thats right. >> its 30% now. we have mike barnicle with us. mark halperin has great focus groups. >> yes. >> very excited about those. >> this is amazing. coming up soon -- >> this will really there are so many analysts and editorial writers and directors that have come on and really right sized us about this. and i think that these polls will back them up. >> so wrong for so long mika. >> yeah. >> we have been. >> so its over. >> its over for us. >> we want t...

The debate stage on thursday. >> we have a lot to digest. lets go back to the top of the charts, as kacie counts them down. if you can show us i guess, one through whatever number that was. a couple people we didnt mention were actually ben carson and ted cruz who were doing pretty darn well with donald trump sucking up all the oxygen. and ben carson also a name we just keep hearing. you heard it a lot in the focus groups. here he is at 10%. you take his 10% and donald trumps 19%, you got about ...

Didnt care about any of it. except the notion of healthcare. [ doorbell ] but the rest was i dont care. we flip-flopped. changed his mind that is okay. >> there is a ring at the door. and i think it is the reverend al sharpton. oh it just gets better. rev, thank you for joining us on this momentous day in newscasting. it is an honor and pleasure, as a former presidential candidate yourself no one probably has a better understand of that debate stage and what it what it actually means to run for ...