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He is going to talk about all of the sort of familiar themes over the last couple of years. and this is what really gets his juices going. he wants to get out there and start throwing punches. when you talk to people involved in the last campaign, people involved in this campaign, he loves having a foil. right now thats joe biden to some extent. expect him to get out there and start whacking the democratic opponents hard. you know, hes revved up. >> to annie carney, susan page, and john allen on...

But he is going to get out there and talk about the economic numbers, the low unemployment. he is going to talk about all of the sort of familiar themes over the last couple of years. and this is what really gets his juices going. he wants to get out there and start throwing punches. when you talk to people involved in the last campaign, people involved in this campaign, he loves having a foil. right now thats joe biden to some extent. expect him to get out there and start whacking the democrati...

Saenz is in eldredge, iowa. what can we expect from biden today? i think you can say that his events yesterday where you had that straight up biden versus trump split screen very much served his interests. >> reporter: well, jim and poppy, joe biden is here in iowa for the second day in a row and though his main foil president trump is no longer in the state we still expect biden to go after the president. yesterday throughout the day it basically looks like a general election matchup if biden w...

Both struggling right now in different ways because they dont have the shared foil that gave them their -- gave them their boosts in 2016. that is hillary clinton. are we just finding out how important hillary clinton was to both politicians? >> well, hillary clinton was absolutely irreplaceable for both these guys but i think senator mccaskill is absolutely right about what bernie sanders is doing. look how democrats won the house of representatives last year by flipping some of these suburban ...

They were waiting, waiting. that was their guy. he had 18 angry democrats, all democrats, many of them contributed to crooked hillary. and these were the people that were looking at me, did nothing, no collusion, the result comes out, no collusion. so now they say can we have a do-over? >> of course, factually, where to begin? theyre not all democrats and so on. but, kimberly, thats what the democrats are up against. >> yes. and there is a genuine concern that moving forward to impeachment could...

Embolden donald trump to be politicizely advantageous to trump. trump has been using the democrats has a political foil and it has served to be a talking point that has been picked up by republicans in the house and by his base for quite some time. and the idea that the democrats are just trying to take away the legitimacy of his presidency seems to resonate for him. so the democrats have that. on the other hand, as jonathan said, you have this growing, more than 60 democrats now in the house, m...

Trump. trump has been using the democrats has a political foil and it has served to be a talking point that has been picked up by republicans in the house and by his base for quite some time. and the idea that the democrats are just trying to take away the legitimacy of his presidency that this is purely a political move seems to resonate for him. so the democrats have that. on the other hand, as jonathan said, you have this growing, more than 60 democrats now in the house, members who want to r...

Look, the election is so far away. you dont have to single joe biden out by name yet, the president is eager to have a foil, and his campaign has been delighted by what david was noting. a very bad week for joe biden, where he had a series of missteps, having to reverse a position on a key abortion amendment and also, of course, not attributing parts of his policy statement. thats something that the trump campaign has been highlighting time and time again. so its pretty hard to see how the presi...

To go after president trump. it positions him as the front-runner. it acts as though this is the general election. it also works, according to all of our reporting, for president trump to have joe biden because as maggie haberman and kaitlan collins have pointed out, he likes having a foe. in fact, he needs a foe to stay focused on his own campaign. >> no doubt, it works for both of them to be in this mode. there are some trump advisers that felt that the presidents focus on biden might be eleva...

When he has a direct foil, and he has that in joe biden. there are going to be less than 100 miles apart today. >> and thats exactly what joe biden wants. he wants to be in iowa and for it to be framed him versus the president, not joe biden versus any of the other candidates running against him in the democratic primary. we have seen these two men go after each other for weeks. over their age differences, their policy values, their character. today, theyre going to be in the same state, but the...