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One. so, if we're seeing movement like this among white women without a college degree who make up 28% of the voters in the midwest battlegrounds like wisconsin, like michigan -- >> it matters, i get it. so now you have to look at it on the democrats' side. how much do people who say they want a particular candidate mean it? you call that durability. >> yes. >> what do you see? >> just to sort of set the stagework here, look at this. this is my average of polls in december of 2019 versus december of 2018. look at biden. so similar here, 28% now versus 27% back in december of 2018. bernie sande...

Like wisconsin, like michigan -- >> it matters, i get it. so now you have to look at it on the democrats' side. how much do people who say they want a particular candidate mean it? you call that durability. >> yes. >> what do you see? >> just to sort of set the stage, this is my average of polls in december of 2019 versus december of 2018. look at biden. so similar here, 28% now versus 27% back in december of 2018. bernie sanders, the same thing. 18% now versus 17% back in december of 2018. and why is that? i think one key thing, you're talking about this durability. our last poll, we said, wh...

>> what we're seeing in virginia, new jersey and states across this country are large voter turn outs, people standing up and fighting back and demanding we have a government that represents us and not just the 1%. if i were the republicans i would worry very much about 2018. >> bernie sanders very comfortably drawing a line. after that special election, alabama many pundits especially those from the south issued some caution and said this is an out liar, you can't draw too many conclusions to what happened there. what does it say to you about the prospects for democrats going forward? >> look...

What it's going to be by who they select as the nominee. now, in between, you can have great policy debates about what to do about the budget, about health care. of course about foreign affairs. the democrats have often argued internally on all three matters and so have the republicans. so i think it's great to have a policy debate now about what to do about health care, as he just mentioned, than to have absolutely no reflection on what happens in the 2020 race or even 2018. bernie is great to bring this up and hillary is great too to talk about, okay, what would be a better strategy to win n...

>> healthcare for reform was pu. on the senate side several deadlines have come and gone and efforts to retool legislation. >> we probably have about 45 or 46 yeses now. we are close. it is a handful of knows right now. who, i think they are going to get to yes. i think they have to. >> republicans are frustrated by lack of progress on major agenda items but they will be graded by this congress is performance after two years not six months. then that fundraising will help fuel campaigns in 2018. bernie sanders is considering run for president in 2020. that's according to an associate who worke...