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And specifically saying we could use your leadership here. >> thats not surprising because the president has sort of danced with this a little bit in the past only to back away. only that meeting at the white house with a bipartisan group of senators saying he was in favor of background checks and pulling up in favor of talking to the nra. i think thats a real sense of urgency amongst democrats and frankly amongst the voting population at large over this issue. >> dana: let me show you one of th...

Hear what their thoughts are on that and how they can help not make it as bad as it was in 2008tua200 2008. >> gun violence. i think its important. its an issue from the communities, from police to everyday community gun violence. the mass shootings that have been happening. i think its very important, and we need to do something about it. >> gun control. thats a thing thats like close to my heart because, you know, like the innocent people are dying all the time. i feel like theres just somethi...

Concern, how can i establish myself and lead a good life if i have all of this debt. i cant purchase a home, starting my own business, getting credit lines, thats one of the hindrances that i have. >> reporter: both bernie sanders and elizabeth warren promising to cancel student debt. that played really well with the crowd here. three of the five candidates who spoke here at this conference, buttigieg, bernie sanders and elizabeth warren either on their way to or in south carolina, this key earl...

Democratic party. theres a hunger by republicans to run against them, to run against their politics, but also a sense that, hey, the way trump is trying to do this is going to turn off more voters, potentially, than attract. >> yeah, this doesnt -- so, whatever the presidents base s is, its a relatively small segment of the general voter population. the rest of the voting population, including many registered republicans hates this. they dont like the tweets. they really despise when the preside...

Carolina which like florida has a diverse voting population in a primary and the general part of the state. take a look. >> we defeat trump by running a campaign of energy and enthusiasm that substantially grows voter turn-out. >> does that mean he wants to take us back before the civil rights act was enacted, before roe v. wade? because were not going back. >> donald trump started the riot and lindsey graham and mitch mcconnell are the looters. >> beating donald trump is the floor. its not the ...

In the democrat voting population. whereas there is a lot of energy in younger progressive voters that bernie sanders and elizabeth warren and others are trying to tap into. >> harris: its interesting, the one thing about twitter, the ratio can sometimes make you stronger. so if you dont go into that room where everybody else is established -- and i understand there was a granddaughters graduation, and before that there was an event in ohio that he missed the democratic convention for. but you l...

Hampshire, white, older voting population, california is multi cultural and young. it brings that videos into the conversation. thats why these democrats came out here. most of them are not going to compete realistically for the 495 delegates, it is too big, too expensive a place for anybody other than the top tier that have money to pour into the state. nonetheless, theyre coming here to get in front of influential donors an activists, talk up their fortunes, talk them up in a way to get them g...

>> democrats are trying to make their caucuses accessible to people who cant make it in person. >> in the past, a campaign strategy was to get people to caucuses and out on caucus night. now they need to say is there a certain percentage of my voting population we should encourage to caucus? >> thats what they are doing including gillibrand. >> now with these changes more people can participate. >> the next step for democrats finding someone to set up a first of its kind virtual caucus night. >>...

It because the shrinking republican party, up wards of 88% approval, it is a smaller and smaller portion of the voting population. she gra she grasping at straws. they have criticized the party and trump fairly, there is not a lot you agree on. and the behavior of donald trump is to divide and use hatred as a way of triangling an issue, it used to be we would pick certain issues and he would pick hate. he is not happy and he thinks it is his best tactic to put that out there, to divide, and to k...

Voters in iowa if biden were to drop out according to that des moines register poll. >> there were a number of interesting nuggets out of that poll right there in iowa. but lets talk about new hampshire because its a tougher scene around this time for bernie sanders because elizabeth warren, of course, is from massachusetts and hoping to win that first primary state. why is this considered so crucial for bernie? >> reporter: its crucial for bernie, this is the place as he reminded voters here th...