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Electability in this race. >> this is the raging debate, brian, that democrats have been having this entire cycle and it started even after 20 -- immediately after 2016 and its whether or not democrats just want someone that can beat trump and right now biden seems to be winning that argument and claiming that mantle but there is opposite which is that maybe we shouldnt go the route we always go, which is with another older white male and with some return to normalcy. maybe democrats should go t...

Salable in states that are not california. >> hes so right. so many people especially some older folks in the democratic party are warning if you embrace the far left, you will hand reelection to donald trump and the party has to go after electability in this race. >> this is the raging debate, brian, that democrats have been having this entire cycle and it started even after 20 -- immediately after 2016 and its whether or not democrats just want someone that can beat trump and right now biden s...

>> beto is more of a moderate centrist democrat. policy wise, beto orourke has voted for the disastrous trade agreement like tpp which was horrible for american workers as we know, he voted. -- deregulate wall street a couple times. he doesnt support medicare for all despite its popularity among even more moderate democrats and that is a huge turnoff for progressives. rob: from what i understand you are more for bernie guy and you think beto is trying to hitch his ideals to bernies and play off ...

Kerry. the second thing is theres no major front-runner in this race included but the thought were going to go to the more progressive candidate is probably not true. the other thing as you covered is seven states have gone from caucuses to open primaries in the 2020 election, which is going to open it up to a much bigger group of people, including independents and republicans in the democratic primary. and likely go to electing or nominating a more electable candidate in the general election. >...

So it says more about how they would like to kill her candidacy than it does about her and her style. paul: what about the question of elec electability. shes saying i could win against donald trump. >> theres something to it. you had the same sort of thing happen in 2016 with hillary clinton and bernie sanders, bernie sanders saying he was the more progressive candidate, hillary clinton saying im the one that could win, but she didnt win in the end. paul: i think a lot of democrats this year, j...

For many, she is not nearly progressive enough. so it says more about how they would like to kill her candidacy than it does about her and her style. paul: what about the question of elec electability. shes saying i could win against donald trump. >> theres something to it. you had the same sort of thing happen in 2016 with hillary clinton and bernie sanders, bernie sanders saying he was the more progressive candidate, hillary clinton saying im the one that could win, but she didnt win in the en...

That are open. we need to redesign our education system like we did in virginia. we teach cybersecurity in kindergarten. we did the workforce performance development. you go to community college and get one of my credentials, we pay for the whole thing. thats what people want. >> to be elected in virginia, you needed to be a centrist democrat. you were a centrist democrat. thats the way you governed. now the party is moving to the left. you have a more progressive candidate. elizabeth warren is ...

Like new hampshire and iowa are democratic voters saying yes, we would like a more progressive candidate. does that mean defeat? so the question for democrats is, how progressive can they go and still can they still win border states? they cant win with a candida candidate -- >> there is elizabeth warren, there is bernie sanders, potentially joe biden, you name any candidate, pamela harris, christian gillibrand. im thinking of everyone in the senate that is a democratic. does that push them more...

Maybe its not as sexy. >> i think its sexy. i think shared brown is jurod b sexy. >> thank you, mike. >> whey did was went through every primary that the dcc made its endorsement in. theyre loathed by the left. theyre seen as putting their boot and dictating who gets to run. so my analysis shows there are a ton of examples where the centrist candidate didnt like it and that candidate won. and there is a bunch of races in the house where a progressive candidate got through and i think they blew a...

But a fascinating new interview thats just come in, he did with sinclair broadcasting, he was asked if he had any regrets over the past two years, and he said this, david, quote, i would say tone. i would like to have had a softer tone. and he added, he maybe had no choice because of how democrats were talking about him, but he added again, i could have been softer. >> tone on the eve of the election. >> reporter: especially given the way hes ending this campaign. >> big deal. all right, jon kar...