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gigot. joe biden and donald trump squared off thursday night in atlanta in a high stakes debate with both candidates hoping that the showdown would reshape the political narrative and per if suede undecided voters as polls show them in a tight race for the white house. president biden attacked donald trump's character in the wake of his felony conviction in new york and tried to link him to the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. but the 81-year-old's own performance exacerbated concerns about his age and ability to serve a second term as he stumbled through his responses and oft...

Pete buttigieg's slow rise in the polls to second place? >> well, yasmin, it reflects the idea that his name is growing. he has painted himself as a centrist alternative to candidates like elizabeth warren or bernie sanders who are progressive. over the last couple of weeks, he's continuously put out this message that medicare for all plan isn't what the country needs right now and instead has touted his medicare for all who want it. we've seen that joe biden has had some struggles on the campaign trail. we're seeing that he's starting to plateau in some of the polls. mayor pete especially fra...

Legitimate. i think there's also the question, joe, that if you're defining our politics still to this day. >> well, what is also striking right that joe biden does to me, and i'll go back to this ultimately fade, his support is for a moment, this was the broader than it is deeper, one of the questions is when and traumatic event because we were how, and is there time for knitted together. everybody saw what was going on, somebody else to step up and however remote they were, claim the centrist alternative wherever they were in this to the progressives, whether country. but at the same time, t...

Weighing in on it. and you have to keep in mind why this debate was almost nasty in a way and people picking on each other so much is because for most of these candidates that may be the last time the american public sees them on a debate stage unless they break through. you need 130,000 unique donors and 2% of the polls to get on that december debate stage. jonathan and i were doing the math during the break, and it looks like fewer than ten may make that. this was a make or break moment for them and honestly, i didn't see most of them break through. part of also why biden is doing reasonably...

Right and positioning himself as a centrist alternative, an electable option for the gop establishment. the stump speech version paints him as a common sense centrist, the guy who was down with obamacare's medicaid expansion, believes in climate change and is open to immigration reform. who gave the sympathetic answer to the same-sex marriage question during the gop debates and who managed to get re-elected by a whopping 31-point margin? ohio. what 538 describes as the swingiest of the swing states. it's a strategy that made kasich a serious contender among the crowded field of republicans. he...