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And no criticism in terms of the intellectualism of it. but the politics of it. i dont know that, that party, even its best agent, understands how to win in this environment. >> well, chris, i mean, quite frankly, i have been saying that for a long time, and getting criticized for it. even from, you know, democrats who are currently in power, are not happy. i just -- i just -- i just think, if you are looking at the -- just the raw politics of it. which i have said, republicans are better. doesn...

Find a new line of attack. after going after vice president biden and after going the top-tier candidate, now pete buttigieg has jumped ahead of her and her chances of winning are going down. he has decided to go back to the same class warfare talking points. president trump is going to going to 2020 with $1 billion in his war chest. so whoever the democratic nominee is is going to have to raise more in order to be able to compete on the airwaves, not even talking about the amount of free media ...

>> poll numbers have dropped and because of that she has to find a new line of attack. after going after vice president biden and after other top-tier candidates, now pete buttigieg has jumped ahead of her, and her chances of winning are going down. she has decided to go back to the same class warfare talking points. lets understand, president trump is going to going to 2020 with $1 billion in his war chest. $1 billion. so whoever the democratic nominee is is going to have to raise more in order...

Also decrying billionaires when shes taking money from 30 billionaires. so all of these socialist candidates who praise socialism and big government takeover have taken money from billionaires and are millionaires themselves. it really is very rich and the american people see right through the act that theyre proposing with their words. >> jennifer is joining me here on set in washington, d.c. thank you for joining us. >> youre welcome. >> a vocal supporter for mayor pete buttigieg. going out of...

Also decryinge billionaires when shes taking money from 30 billionaires. so all of these socialist candidates who praise socialism and big government takeover have taken money from billionaires and are millionaires themselves. it really isis very rich and the american people see right through the act that theyre proposing with their words. >> jenniferin is joining me here on set in washington, d.c. thank you for joining us. >> youreer welcome. >> a vocal supporter for may pete buttigieg. going o...

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...

But they will not be deposited in this race. ive said in the network that the democratic party is more moderate and more conservative than the g.o.p. and the media give them credit for. they cover the aocs of the world, but the majority of the voters are moderate and conservative, thats why joe is leaving because of the black vote. >> julie: congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez has railed against billionaires during her time in washington. she has failed to mention that billionaire and 2020 da...

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...

Called having values. its called giving a damn. >> former president obama recently just last month warned about those purity tests, bakari. so how is fighting over purity tests helping win over voters? >> its not. and they call it having values and all of these other things that aoc stated but theyre called having purity tests and i think youre seeing those backfire with elizabeth warren. this whole wine cave phenomenon, attempting to attack pete buttigieg from the way he raises money is backfir...

Nomination. while iowa is important and will give us the first sense of where voters are, the truth is that weve got a ways to go and i think what well see is exactly what we saw in jeffs piece, a lot more of people kind of trying out -- dating, right. im going to try pete. im going to try biden. who knows who is coming through next. and so i think were going to see some movement until, again, as i say, once people start to have the opportunity to vote. >> jeff, focusing on those moderate candid...