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Scott walker will formally announce his bid for the white house. he officially becomes the 15th candidate to enter the crowded gop field early this morning, posting this video on line. >> in the republican field, there are some who are good fighters. they haven't won those battles. there are others who won elections but haven't officially taken on the big fight. i've shown i can do both. now i'm running for president to fight and win for the american people. not sacrificing our principles. >> a crowd of about 3,000 people are expected for the kickoff speech in the town of waukesha wisconsin....

The "washington post" helpfully shows, sanders has nearly as much support as a republican candidate of all combined. does he have a chance to win? joining me from the sight of sanders' kickoff speech in vermont is john nichols, correspondent for "the nation." give me a sense of the scene. there was a ton of people. what struck me was, bernie sanders is familiar to people who are progressives in the u.s. you see him on this network as a gadfly. here he is in a big crowd, the cheering, the signs, the whole thing. >> yeah. it really was. they had a theme to it. this is a waterfront, mayor of burl...

Organizational and fund-raising advantage, and in the current polling. which shows clinton with the support of 64% of democratic voters, and sanders at just 7% behind two democrats who appear unlikely to enter the race. now, it doesn't mean sanders doesn't have a real constituency. when you measure in terms of actual voters as this chart from the "washington post" helpfully shows, sanders has nearly as much support as a republican candidate of all combined. does he have a chance to win? joining me from the sight of sanders' kickoff speech in vermont is john nichols, correspondent for "the nati...

Issue of false equivalence? the idea that both sides are somehow equally to blame for the dysfunction in washington? >> i think this was a huge deal what happened here. in a couple of respects. one is, this is a real challenge straight up to the media. and he's echoing what soar people have said, tom mann in his book, it's even worse than it looks argued that look, the republican party now is different from the past. you can't just say democrats have moved left and republicans have moved right. no, republicans have moved farther right. i think he's laying down a gauntlet that will start a deba...

If you have to say you are pursuing policies you are not actually pursuing. if you have to deny knowledge of the policies that you are pursuing, that you are signing into law, it probably means that you don't have a good argument for those policies. which means you can only hold on to those policies and justify them through muscle, right, through pure political force. and political ends that can only be sought and held on to by pure political force are weak and vulnerable. it is not an accident that when hillary rodham clinton chose to give her first speech on policy issues since she stepped d...