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Heard from both jill and joe biden that the whole electability issue. it is certainly top of mind for a lot of democrats. i wonder if people there are talking about it. is that what is foremost on their minds? >> this presidential race is so interesting. i feel like the week they've started leaning in directly and bluntly into the fact voters are considering this idea of quote/unquote electability. and it is such a nebulous material. voters mean such a variety of things when they talk about it. voters in l.a. gave as you pretty big spectrum of what the word electability means to them. >> i thi...

Clearly the beginning of a potential path to victory. if you win the first caucus state, then you get to sort of say to everyone i am a person who can win and i can go the long distance. >> i want to underscore this point because yirpg it's so critical. we talk all the time about electability. we see in the polls that -- i spent a lot of time asking voters how do you judge that, what metrics are you using to determine how do you figure out who can be the one to beat donald trump? not very good answers back. they're like thats a really tough question. one thing we all know is winning does that....

I noted in the cnn poll, kamala went up 9 and warren went up 8 and the 17 points came from white men. i suspect that maybe that suspect for women might be more durable because it's contested more. >> this electability issue which voters have been talking about a lot. the "huffington post" post still shows joe biden at the top in electability. but it's a drop for him on that score. an increase for senator warren and senator harris and bernie sanders staying about the same. pete buttigieg staying about the same and a drop for beto o'rourke. now you have senator warren and harris climbing up in a...

Biden is now on that electability issue. >> that's right and it's a considerable drop for vice president biden and it has to be noted. for all of the historic candidates, once viewers and voters and activists see them on stage and see them compete and see their visions put forward in an exciting and clear and specific way, folks are reacting to them. that's part of what you are seeing. they are being excited by them. one of the things we hear from the movement is that it's early and they want to get to know folks. sure, vice president biden and senator sanders have support because of their nam...

Durable because it's contested more. >> this electability issue which voters have been talking about a lot. the "huffington post" post still shows joe biden at the top in electability. but it's a drop for him on that score. an increase for senator warren and senator harris and bernie sanders staying about the same. pete buttigieg staying about the same and a drop for beto o'rourke. now you have senator warren and harris climbing up in a territory close to where joe biden is now on that electability issue. >> that's right and it's a considerable drop for vice president biden and it has to be no...