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Strikes a to the heart of his fan base. biden speaks their language in a way that hillary clinton wasnt quite able to. so i think that is as much ego as political. >> i think all the years in washington, all the roar ra of the senate foreign relations and all of that, biden is undenia e undeniably, clearly still one of the people he came from. he is not a celebrity, hes not a member of the elite, he doesnt go to all the parties, he doesnt hang out with celebrities from hollywood. he doesnt look ...

They know that. number two hes from a region thats a very white working class region. he does very well in pennsylvania. and a lot of these white working class voters voted for president obama in 2012. we lost him in 2016. they could be up for grabs in somebody like vice president biden is leading the ticket. >> why do you think the president is afraid of biden? hes said hes more afraid of biden than beto. >> i agree completely with the analysis that adrian just said. its not just a political ca...

>> its undeniably, clearly one of the people he came from. he is not a celebrity, not a member of the elite, he doesnt hangout with celebrities from hollywood, he doesnt look like any of the clintons. no matter how fancy his talk is about foreign policy, hes clearly still joe from scranton. i think thats what wins. lets talk about beto. the president took a shot at his kinetic manner of campaigning. hes going for the kill already. there he is. very dramatic public performing. >> i was sort of st...

Continue on both beto and biden? why are we doing this if theyre showing all the signs and putting in staff, what are we doing this exercise for? >> well, i mean, with biden, a lot of people say that, you know, he has the room to make this decision. hes been in politics a long time. his supporters think that he can wait a little bit longer with this. you also have to remember that the end of the fundraising quarter is about to come up. >> thats it. >> at the end of the march, and so you could ri...

♪ >> shannon: former vice president joe biden flirting with the 2020 presidential run yet again today. it speaks to union workers. correspondent here to tell us about the latest tease by his core constituency. >> the excitement palpable as former vice president joe biden took the stage in front of the international association of firefighters in washington on tuesday. >> i appreciate the energy you showed when i got up here. save it a little longer, and may need it in a few weeks. >> tonight l...

That joe biden, if he does end up running, would end up making is, can you really run an obama third term, in a way, where you have joe biden, his appeal to a lot of the scranton, pennsylvania, and the delaware, that he certainly represented when he was a united states senator, focus on those people that he believes was why hillary clinton lost, not only in pennsylvania but lost in the midwest. the one challenge hes going to have, though, is that generational divide where some people might end u...

Far. joe biden isnt even in the race and the latest des moines register poll he is leading the pack. how do you think things are looking right now, michael? >> i tell you, joe biden is someone who is out from western new york. he is from scranton, pennsylvania just to our south. he is a good messenger for the working man. there are a lot of people that are holding off getting in or did not get in, brown and mccaul i have is waiting to see if biden gets in. he could shut down several people that ...

He has a shot at winning a state like ohio. if he doesnt and know with sherrod brown not running, who really speaks to those voting from the democratic party. >> i think the only other one is senator amy klobuchar from minnesota. thats not the same as ohio. >> its a little different. >> but shes won huge margins in minnesota. she won by over 30 points in 2012. shes the type of candidate that i think if its not biden who could put ohio in play. >> shies sort of positioning herself as a moderate, ...

Not turn out the voters. all this talk about whether the democratic party is going to be a moderate party or a progressive party misses the much bigger point. like barack obama, they have to be both. >> without question. we got that report in the the "new york times" yesterday that joe biden is now staffing up after he told john meacham last week that his family wants him to run. i was thinking of joe biden talking to us in that bar on the air in philadelphia during the 2016 democratic conventio...

Candidates jumping in, but the one thing he really had was ohio and rewinning ohio which, for a long time was and still is, considered a swing state but its becoming more and more increasingly republican and increasingly red, and that is one state democrats will have a big problem with in 2020. perhaps hes going to be communicating some pointers to whoever runs -- >> amy klobuchar says there is potentially too many midwest candidates and was there enough to go around. so thats a plus for her. >>...