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The once proud party of abe lincoln and ronald agoreagan of adulation cult. it is far more important than who has the most extensive plan to hand out free money and require everyone to get their health care through an expanded medicare. do you agree with all that has been said? this isnt all of it. are democrats focusing their energies in the wrong spaces right now? >> if they learned anything from 2016, the negative implications of a purity test. hillary clinton was more than a qualified candid...

About what america is and what it represents. i dont think thats the kind of message democrats can use to w win. >> jessica: shes been campaigning for bernie sanders, who has sworn off any billionaire donors but we are now learning in august 2018, she accepted a $2700 donation from billionaire and 2020 democrat tom steyer. just last week, she slammed billionaires funding campaigns, taking aim at pete buttigieg for questioning "purity test" for democrats. watch. >> for anyone who accuses us for i...

What is determining this race. if you like donald trump, you liked him since day one and you like him now. if you believe in a progressive vision, nothing he says will influence you no matter how much they put behind a digital or tv ad. >> there are certainly people who are saying he is trying to buy this election, but i heard that out there, then you have a real moment of the last debate, the purity test, and if you hold the fundraiser in a wine cave, if that is a negative with democratic voter...

>> absolutely. and, you know, the democratic party is not really riven by this great strife. i think sometimes republicans want to make it seem as if this is 1968 where you have, you know, antiwar g. mccarthy people against hubert humphrey and lyndon johnson. really its just been temporarily in the possession or part of the party has been temporarily in the possession in custody of what you might call the woke police. these folks on twitter who are trying to enforce a particular kind of progress...

Are they as ideological as the leaders and the progressive candidates? you have a purity test. buttigieg is tying into that. >> durability of the joe biden debunked that? >> thats the point. i think theres more -- there has been a return to the middle. maybe its just, you know, a kind of a return to something thats normal? >> familiar. >> yeah, familiar, normal. name recognition. i think voters look at a sanders, warren philosophy and say too extreme. because its too extreme for the country anyw...

Figuring that out. because it is not just south carolina. its also a lot of these southern states that come afterward. its california. a lot of the states that come later on in the process require you to appeal to black and hispanic voters. and for that reason alone, even if joe biden loses in iowa and loses in new hampshire, the delegate count is what matters. and he has a major advantage because of his strength with minority voters. >> and the durability and recognizability. you know, joe bide...

The campaign thats really still getting a lot of play. that is the wine cave moment when elizabeth warren attacked him. watch. >> so, the mayor just recently had a fundraiser that was held in a wine cave full of crystals and served $900 a bottle wine. billionaires in wine caves should not pick the next president of the united states. griff: is he really maybe with his donation schtick, im not sure how its going to work out for him. is it really helping to keep the steam rolling on what was clear...

A bottle wine. >> now is not the time for these kind of purity tests to distract from what we are all trying to do. >> i dont think the american people are looking for purity. they are looking for someone whos trying, trying to make the system better and thats what im doing. >> for anyone who accuses us of instituting purity test, its called having values. its called giving a damn. >> i wouldnt be doing this if i didnt have values and give a damn. >> bret: residual followed from the debate in lo...

Trauma versus quinton, we struggled to get out the vote with young people, people of color, minorities, and we have to do a better job with that. in >> leland: there is now this question of purity test when it comes to donors. elizabeth warrens latest campaign ad taking a hit at mayor pete, take a listen. >> i am not doing big dollar, i am not cozying up to super pacs and my first priority as president will be to pass the biggest package of anticorruption reform since watergate. >> leland: as yo...

Tests you yourself cannot pass." >> jon: the point being at the same time on that stage, the only person on that stage that was not a millionaire or a billionaire. im not buying that any one of the individual candidates havent endorsed anybody but i think thats one of the challenges supporters of elizabeth warren have, you apply this purity test in an environment where it actually doesnt work. unfortunately because citizens united is a thing, if we are going to battle republicans we are going to...