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Race with. hi floor or creeling? turns out the electability question really, really matters, because so many of the democratic voters are so driven by this question of, which democratic candidate do i feel like can best beat donald trump? >> hmm. did you want to jump in? >> yeah. he looks more electable when he has a debate like he had last night. it was a strong debate. wasn't just that he won by not losing or won by being safe. he went out there. he took chances. seemed coherent. was passionate. i think this feeds into -- he's not my candidate necessarily. i kwcome from the progressive wg of...

Has been a loser for the two liberal senators. >> okay. you say the debates haven't had an impact. i would argue that if the debates haven't had an impact, it's been on the entire democratic party taking a huge step back from medicare for all. >> sure. right. but also, though, the confusion of warren and harris came after the debates. right? >> true. no doubt. but it did help sort of accelerate that, whoa. >> then there's the electability question. and i don't think any of the challengers to biden have been able to dent this perception that he's the best one to run against trump. >> i'll be ho...

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...

The primaries for those candidates who would have to be on the hill in order to vote. however it clearly does benefit biden because it brings back the electability question who was doubling down on punitive health taxes and the medicare for all bill. so in that way with a focus on trumpet and not on the unpopular democratic agenda, it does help a candidate like biden's only message is that i am delectable and i will continue the obama administration. >> neil: he's also been trying to rein in the more aggressive spending plan for people like bernie sanders and elizabeth warren, and i'm not, i'm...

A shrill before, which you can argue is sexist, what if it was. but he's coming across as a totally different candidate this time. i would ask jessica, if he doesn't get the support in the primary but she still wins the primary from the african-american vote, is that something you can then go out and re--campaign and get that group? were statistically, if you don't have a group in the primary, do they just not show up in the general? what does history tell us about that? >> jessica: history tells us -- and wolf wolf blitzer discusses on his show he was widely panned for it. that it would come ...