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Party. you he sshow up on super tuesdad people have formed opinions. and i think he'll make an electability argument, whether he says it outright or not. but you have to ask as a matter of cultural politics, not economic policy or security policy, but on guns, issues like marriage, issues like abortion, can he compete with president trump in the right states with the right voters enough to eat into his margins, particularly with white working class voters so that he can do damage in wisconsin, in michigan, in pennsylvania? and the democrats, as well as they have been doing, have a lot of troub...

Raise for that lifeblood to keep the lights on. you have to continue to fund raise and he doesn't have that problem. >> but he has another problem because he says he'll fund his own campaign. there's a contribution threshold if you're going to make the debate stage. how does he plan to qualify for that threshold? >> it's a really good question. because we know that other campaigns have had to put a lot of resources and frankly strategize on how they'll hit the donor thresholds to qualify for the debate stage. our colleague reached out the national democratic campaign they haven't gotten back t...

>> good morning. >> so bloomberg is joining the candidates who could defeat president trump. what does this say about the electability argument for moderates versus progressives? >> well, i think first and foremost, most polls show the extreme vulnerability of president trump. his approval number is barely in the low 40s, if it even reaches 40. i think that poll showed that the democratic candidates are in the mid-40s. the president struggles to get out of the high 30s. first and foremost this shows the vulnerability to a democratic nominee. that is why you are still seeing a shifting of the r...

Shift in this electability question in the general is certainly behind bloomberg's interest in joining the race. and he said, "the data shifted after impeachment. democrats were always focused on electability, but after ukraine that impulse became even stronger. and the current field is not well poised for success." how do you see it? >> well, 97% of democratic voters say that it is very important or extremely important to defeat donald trump. so, the electability argument is primary in this debate. but outside of that, you can't throw away the electability argument totally. there are some who...

Now here's my question, what does bloomberg think that allows him to believe he can beat the other people in the field? what's he got that they ain't got? >> he's going to argue that of course he's an independent, right? he's a guy who was an independent mayor of new york city. he's crossed party lines before and he's going to sell it along elect ability and say i was an independent, these are in these swing states and we're talking about the swing states because that's where the election is decided. >> he was in low single digits -- >> that's the primary. he's going to pivot to an electabilit...