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You only moved to scranton a few years ago and you hail from oregon and so how do you know what the people of scranton really need? >> i think that is the outsider, it was a hit against me they tried to use during the campaign but i think we saw yesterday that voters are looking for a fresh perspective. i married into a family here that has been here for many, many generations so now in our household we have deep roots in scranton but i bring a perspective from oregon where public corruption doe...

Projects shes the new supervisor for loudoun county. republicans scored one win. reaves won over hood. elsewhere, jersey city, new jersey, residents voted overwhelmingly in favor of stricter renovations on short-term rentals. its a big setback for airbnb as it prepares to go public. in arizona it showed more than 70% to make tucson a sanctuary city. tucson is located 50 miles north of the mexico border. and scranton, pennsylvania, has its first female mayor. a former won, paige cognetti.

About you. harvard business school, teacher, goldman sachs, worked at treasury. you tell me why you want to be the mayor of scranton, pennsylvania. >> well, i think that i bring experience that just no one else on the ballot had yesterday, having worked in the u.s. treasury department in the obama administration during the financial crisis. i was able to be in rooms with people making unbelievably difficult decisions. and having seen those policymakers make those decisions, having understood how...

To scranton and thrilled that the voters agreed that outside perspective is what we need and what the voters chose. >> there is a famous former vice president who hails from scranton and i understand you received a congratulations call from joe biden last night. what did that call and can you share with us? >> well im devastated. i missed it -- >> you missed the call? >> i missed it. but the vice president did leave me a message and it was so warm and he was so proud of me, which was amazing. an...

"professor mantra" is going to stick. the president is usually the the who makes these nicknames of people. but this flies in the face of -- >> harris: can she overcome it? >> jeanne: i think its very difficult. the policy support the argument hes making. nancy pelosi has said the same thing. you dont disrupt something that people like. when it comes to their health care, people are okay with their private health insurance. fix whats broken. >> dagen: hes talking to the union voters. "you know w...

Battlegrounds? in michigan, which of course is a very key state, we see biden up by one, see sanders leading by three, but we see donald trump beating elizabeth warren by four percentage points. thats a big difference between those different candidates. what about in pennsylvania. obviously, scranton, joe, normal joe, all that stuff. joe biden leading in pennsylvania by one point over donald trump. sanders, trailing by a point. we see elizabeth warren trailing donald trump by two points. how abo...

Going to have to wait to see. i think theres two things here that we have to keep an eye on. i think ron might agree with me on that. as he said, suburban women and white women and sort of where they go and i think that depends on who the candidate ends up being for the democrats. now lets just take pennsylvania for example. if its warren, thats going to be a problem. if democrats tell me here in my state, you cant win pennsylvania without western pennsylvania. and making policy statements, bann...

Who are struggling to pay their medical bills, are already in a fight. >> reporter: under his proposal, blue collar workers will not be taxed and can keep their healthcare. >> we can do this, we can do it quickly without taxing the middle-class. we can make sure the 160 million people who have health insurance they like and keep it if they want. if not they can buy in. >> reporter: biden remains the partys front-runner nationwide but with 93 days until the nations first caucus in iowa biden is s...

>> tonight biden once again attacked warrens plan saying under his proposal to blue-collar workers will not be taxed and can keep the health care. >> we can do this, we can do it quickly without taxing the middle class. we can make sure that the 160 million people have health insurance that they like you can keep it if they want. and if not, they can buy in. >> biden remains the parties front runner nationwide but with 93 days to go on till the first caucus here in iowa come up biden is showing ...

Finish in 2008 with less than 1% of the vote forced him to drop out that night. matt finn is in des moines where the action is. hi, matt. >> tonight, liberty and justice celebration is considered one of the most important events up until this point of the presidential election cycle, this rowdy fund raiser is credited with super charging the campaigns for candidates like president barack obama. all of the frontrunners will be here given ten minutes to speak with no note cards. with 93 days until...