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Whether or not people can relate to them, within the file feel like they can have a beer with them. that that person understands the concerns they feel. that's a bipartisan issue. i think the question that do the brain in particular faces isn't the likability question, but a credibility problem. kirsten gillibrand, the comments when they got elected in the early 2000s, she was endorsed by the and ra. it was a very -- she billed us of is my view of conservative democrat. the senator gillibrand i got elected is now antigun, anti-wall street. >> kennedy: i want to bring harris end. >> harris: i w...

Lot of tests. the likability question was sort of the first one. i saw her this week in the senate and asked her whether she thought this was sexism. she didn't want to go into the issue. but that's something she's not going to be able to do this entire race. so there will be difficult situations that come up. a lot of people in washington were pretty dismayed with how she even -- some of her supporters, with how she handled the dna issue. she's going to be tested again and again. that's what running for president is. >> part of the likability came about when she released this video on instagr...

Credentials and her own experience. >> mike, sit tight. let me come back to the panel for a moment. as you heard mike mention, she is positioning herself as leader of the pack, being more grassroots and in opposition to president trump even though she did not mention the president by name. let's go for a few tweets now with regard to this whole likability question. i know we never talk he twoots. never, ever. might as well. how elizabeth warren avoid a clinton redux, written off as too unlikable before her campaign gets off the ground? then you have this tweet where she says i hear women candi...

And you saw the reaction of in that case the women back home who enthusiastically appreciated someone who was standing and fighting for them. >> i absolutely did, but the white house isn't in texas, it's in washington. >> that's part of the problem. >> well but you have to work with with -- if you want to be president of the united states you're going to live in the white house and work within the confines of the government. you're asking people about the constitution. you don't want to change the system that much so within those confines as president how do you change that? how do you get to ...

Personality questions are always very interesting to me. in terms of the connecting the likability question, president obama is trouncing mitt romney, 57% to 25% on the easygoing likeable question. same with compassion and understanding average people, obama is 53%, romney is 29%. but when we come to commander in chief, it's a much, much more narrow. obama at 44%, romney at 41%. >> well, look, first thought, anyone's likability numbers can hold up and 8% unemployment and hundreds of millions of dollars of negative advertising, there's something there. at this point, that's not going to change....