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Health care continues to be the number one issue. especially as we enter the anniversary of parkland is how we're going to tackle the issue of gun violence. we had another shooting just this last weekend in aurora. that is unacceptable and the republican party does not want to tackle that issue. we will win. it's interesting when you look at that and then you hear what john delaney, former maryland congressman had to say to our own ana cabrera this week. take a listen. >> mm-hmm. >> i don't have any advantage running for president as a white

Staff. i wouldn't be where i am and we wouldn't be able to pass all those bills and do all that work if we didn't have great staff. i am tough. i push people, that is true. but my point is i have high expectations for myself, i have high expectations for the people that work for me, and i have high expectations for this country. >> and this week we're examining how candidates are managing questions about race. >> i don't have any advantage running for president as a white man, which i would have across history. right, so the way i look at it right now i think the democratic party voters are go...

Candidate for the white house. the one who has been running this race the longest, declared his candidacy in july of 2017. john delaney. >> i think if i would have run 30 or 40 years ago as president, being a white man would have been an advantage. the way i think of it now, we're all on a level playing field and isn't that the way it should be? i don't have any advantage running for president as a white man which i would have across history. i think the democratic party voters will elect the person who they think is the best leader. they're not going to think about all that other stuff. >> he...

There is some political danger in the short term i think for democrats that these proposals seem too radical and utopian and even threatening to ordinary people. but what democrats like cortez are trying to do is to shift the entire structure of the debate to make thinkable policies that in the past, say, in the clinton and obama era could not even be discussed. >> former maryland congressman john delaney i guess running a year and a half now got in in july of 2017, he was asked here on cnn last night if it's a disadvantage in this party, this cycle to be running as a white man. here is his re...

>> i think what has happened to our democratic party in the country is we have become much more diverse, meaning we represent the american people, so i think if i would have run 30, 40 years ago, as president, being a white man would have been an advantage. the way i think of it now is we're all on a level playing field. and isn't the way it should be? >> yes. >> because that is really where we've come tomorrow. and i think that's great. our party represents the american people. and i don't have any advantage running for president as a white man, which i would have across history. right? so th...