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Arguably more intimate events being held by the former vp, joe biden. his biggest selling point has been electability. now, polls are just a snapshot of a moment, just a suggestion. but this monmouth, maybe it does skew younger. maybe the smaller sample size does make a difference. but if you have all three of these people knotted up at the top. biden, warren, sanders, what does it mean for this party? thats the start of tonights great debate with ana casperian and ana navarro. its great to have...

Elizabeth warren they found among democratic voters to be the most popular candidate, and popular in terms of the favorable rating. bidens negatives have risen. where the horse race stands, seems biden has taken hits among some democratic voters. negatives have gone up a bit? >> the biden campaign forcefully pushing back on this monmouth poll saying its an outlier, looking at the small sample size, pointing out in august its a dead period for polling to begin with. this was conducted over a summ...

The president is doing all the among liberals hes been negotiating whether public or struggling. private. he is going back and forth. no surprise he continues to in this poll. among moderates in this monmouth and normally you dont get the president involved toward the poll biden barely leading. end to preserve the presidents hes been cleaning up among ability to cut a deal to moderates in other polling and then also this. preserve his negotiating space. the president, this president age. the dem...

Where the horse race stands, seems biden has taken hits among some democratic voters. negatives have gone up a bit? >> the biden campaign forcefully pushing back on this monmouth poll saying its an outlier, looking at the small sample size, pointing out in august its a dead period for polling to begin with. this was conducted over a summer weekend. youre not going to get the kind of response rate you like. but they also think that the fundamentals, the theory of the case for them is really still...

A health crisis. so, you know, healthcare is personal to him, but obamacare is personal to him. thats an argument that you see him make every day on the campaign trail. thats why voters are responding the way they are to him. >> now, one of the other farthers in the poll, which may be an outlier, is he was tied with andrew yang in terms of support of younger people. he has consistently had support among older voters, but not younger people. what could he do to appeal more to younger voters? >> w...

January, but she overcame that and steadily shes growing. not just in the polls, but in crowd size. >> mike, there is that morning consult poll out tonight, the biden camp is pointing to that one energetically. >> yes, they are. >> if you look inside that monmouth poll, if you take the horse race number out of it, one thing they found was that elizabeth warren they found among democratic voters to be the most popular candidate, and popular in terms of the favorable rating. bidens negatives have ...

Demograph demographics, the older ones come out in primaries. thats probably the one youd bank on. >> yeah, its incredibly problematic for biden, in the monmouth poll he was at 6% i think with voters 50 and under. that is not where you want to be. >> just to caution, thats a small -- thats a very small -- a cross sample size. im not going to take this as gospel. >> margin of error 5% to 7%. absolutely, we need to put that out there. just using that because thats what we have at the moment with t...

>> yeah. >> i mean, white and black voters above a certain age favor biden quite heavily. under a certain age, that does not appear to be the case. and if youre biden, and youre choosing between those two age demographics, the older ones come out in primaries. thats probably the one youd bank on. >> yeah, its incredibly problematic for biden, in the monmouth poll he was at 6% i think with voters 50 and under. that is not where you want to be. >> just to caution, thats a small -- thats a very sma...

Liz warren tied at 20. joe biden 19 within obviously the statistical average. what are they saying about this poll? >> reporter: well, theyre calling attention e tensiand rio to the small sample size. 300 voters with a lot of folks on vacation, thats raising questions about obviously whether this is an accurate snapshot of where the race really is. what theyre doing also is calling attention to another poll that came out with a much bigger sample size. thats from morning consult. that shows bide...

Is that the sample size is really quite small, just under 300 democratic voters, and that means the margin of error is large, plus or minus 5.7 percentage points. a lot. its important to note points. a lot. its important to note the real clear politics polling average still has joe biden with substantial lead although en there, biden, sanders and warren have double-dint support. they seem to be at the top tier. the average comport to the idea there are three at the top but if the biden folks are...