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And thats a problem. >> he has high favorability among republicans and thats something the white house is very closely watching. i was talking with sources who are republicans saying theyre very nervous, that if he could get to the general election, hes the guy that could be the most danger. they have not been talking about joe biden much. >> the president does. he mocks joe biden but if you talk to people, people around the president say he worries about the scrappy people from scranton. >> i h...

Is that many of the people in the establishment have co-opted his ideas. he has to go up against elizabeth warren, someone who mirrors him in a lot of different places. i think hes going to have trouble there. also, he has an issue with african american voters. they dont necessarily trust him. he got s shellacked throughout e south. he lost south carolina by 50 points in 2016. i dont think much has changed. hes going to struggle there. his strong point was in the mid midwest. i think if sherrod ...

Campaign is not talking to scranton and youngstown ohio and all the rest of it. if he feels the party is drifting to the left and can fill that lane and bring those people back he ought to jump in. >> to founder and ceo of axios. we will talk about bernie sanders in a second. we will talk about the race. i want to follow up because you know this stuff better than anybody. everybody is talking about these ideological lanes. at the end of the day, its about beating donald trump. i dont see democra...

Theyre going to leave him no choice. i dont think its great policy to do that. but if theyre going to say no way, were not going to fund the wall in any way for the president, they leave the president with no choice. then the responsibility falls on the democrats. the president has shown a willingness to compromise here. the republicans have been negotiating. if they dont want to compromise with the president, then the presidents going to have no choice but to do it. i hope they come to a deal. ...

Were working to make things simple, easy and awesome. to joe biden -- the scrappy kid from scranton, who became delawares favorite son. you were the first decision i made as a nominee, and it was the best. >> joseph robinette biden jr. is born to a businessman and homemaker in scranton, pennsylvania on november 20, 1942. looking for better opportunities, his parents moved 10-year-old joe and his younger siblings, valerie, james and frank, to delaware. >> there was no sense of

I think the minute donald trump got elected every political observer in the country said, you know what, joe biden -- >> joe biden is thinking, if only. >> if only. i tell you, a lot of democrats are thinking that. >> the states that put trump over the top against hillary clinton, rust belt, it was michigan, it was wisconsin, it was pennsylvania. where is joe biden from? joe biden, from scranton, pennsylvania. do you think he could have won the extra 70,000 votes? >> could joe biden have defeate...

The press always asks me dont i wish i were debating him. no, i wish during high school i could take him behind the gym, thats what i wish. >> thats joe. joe feels viscerally that this is a guy who talks about representing the people that joe grew up with and has no feel for them and is using them and has a dismissive attitude towards them. so it wouldnt surprise me that he on behalf of the people of scranton, pennsylvania would want to take him behind the gym. >> biden is also willing to be can...

And another friend of ours had gone out to get emily. i had found a lovely little farmhouse not very far from where jack was born and grew up. >> they had rented the farmhouse in pennsylvania. were not going to be expected to be in the area of scranton, p.a. we have -- none of us have a connection to it. its a good choice. big enough to not have neighbors around. we cooked together, we ate together, we had conversations. we recovered from the stress of being on the run like we were. and we had a...

Times in 133 years of this extravaganza. we just had the fireworks. it was a beautiful display. we have hundreds of people here today, including the young ones. come on over here young lady whats your name. >> elijah. >> where are you from. >> scranton. janice: is this four first punxsutawney phil is it going to be winter or spring. >> spring. janice: i have to tell you because we have had such cold temperatures this week and warm up starting this weekend here in punxsutawney where its going to ...

Democratic party, this incidentally is the reason that jared brown, the senator from ohio i think should be taken seriously, is to beat donald trump, you have to take back the so-called blue wall that turned out to be anything but, pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan and nobody at least on paper would be better at taking back the rust belt and scranton than joe biden. >> shepard: you said two dozen. can you imagine moderating a debate of 24 candidates? >> you couldnt, obviously, with 24. what you ...