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Saw in 2007 with hillary clinton leading against barack obama leading among african-american voters all over the place. once he does well in iowa, they see that barack obama is not a protest candidate. he isse a real, bona fide top-drawer candidate. boom. they support him. >> laura: doesnt make you think also 2016 elizabeth warren shouldve just knocked down the clintons to run? that was her time. looking back in 20/20 hindsight that was her time to run. if you want to run -- youve got to take ou...

Once he does well in iowa, they see that barack obama is not a protest candidate. he is a real, bona fide, top-drawer candidate. boom. they support him. >> laura: doesnt make you think also 2016 elizabeth warren shouldve just knocked down the clintons to run? that was her time. looking back in 20/20 hindsight, that was her time to run. if you want to run -- youve got to take out the clintons to run! trump had to take down the bushes or do what he could to distance himself from the bushes. its a ...

Top 1%. thats how we beat trump. we expose him for the fraud that he is. >> yeah, sharp words. and theyre necessary. if you remember back in 2016 bernie sanders was essentially a protest candidate. and so he really kept his elbows, you know, to himself. even giving hillary clinton some assists, you know, saying i dont care about your damn e-mails. this time its different. now hes not just there to push the party to the left, he is there to show he can run the country. now i have my misgivings ab...

Sanders trying to become the president and donald trump has a ceiling and they both have a ceiling but bernie sanders is a little bit higher. >> he was a protest candidate in 2016. and now he wants to be taken seriously, he has to do some of serious orthodox things that you have to do when running for president, sit down for interviews, he has been sort of skittish with the press. we will see if he can go all-in this time instead of hanging on to hillarys coat tails as it were. >> and looking at...

>> every time i see bernie sanders and the attraction he is getting i think of him as the ron paul of the left. he is a protest candidate. he speaks fondly of revolution and has operated outside the party structures. that said, hes doing pretty well in the polls. >> hes ahead. yeah. >> in some. democrats have a huge opportunity to pick up republicans. but if they latch on to someone who self-identifies as a socialist, that is going to drive republicans back into the arms of trump, especially whe...

Policies is loud and resonates. >> every time i see bernie sanders and the attraction he is getting i think of him as the ron paul of the left. he is a protest candidate. he speaks fondly of revolution and has operated outside the party structures. that said, hes doing pretty well in the polls. >> hes ahead. yeah. >> in some. democrats have a huge opportunity to pick up republicans. but if they latch on to someone who self-identifies as a socialist, that is going to drive republicans back into t...

To be outside the congressional building and hannounce his presidential run and i went to lunch because i didnt have time to cover it. and now the world has changed. bernie sanders in front of thousands laying out an expansive platform, laying out a biography of who he is. so much of his last run was about in opposition to the kind of democratic establishment, hillary clinton specifically, and this was a much more traditional campaign launch where he is defining himself and his biography and whe...

A party of trump in a way i did not see before bush. >> weve been studying this. we ask this question a lot to try to figure out. you are right the trump wing of the party is growing. heres what it was the last time we did it. do they support the president? 57%. are they more of a trump supporter than republican? 57% of republicans call themselves that. but thats 40 % of the party call themselves a republican before. >> heres my final point to that. then you take him on the same way that barack ...

Much more pro trump than pro republican party. i think in a lot of ways this is a party of trump in a way i did not see before bush. >> weve been studying this. we ask this question a lot to try to figure out. you are right the trump wing of the party is growing. heres what it was the last time we did it. do they support the president? 57%. are they more of a trump supporter than republican? 57% of republicans call themselves that. but thats 40 % of the party call themselves a republican before....

Hes got 49.9%, 48.4%, thats more than .5% so its not going to be an automatic recount. >> not an automatic recount at all. they seem to be subjecting the secretary of state was about to offer them a lifeline, some path to recount and jake just pressed him there with the exact right questions and the secretary of state was quite candid saying i dont see this happening, given our state history, success of running elections in the past, i dont see this happening. the question is, lets respect the p...