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Would be positive flews. but it was well below expectations. dragged down it appears by the pandemic. he will then leave the white house and tour severe storm damage in new orleans. but on capitol hill, key democratic senators threw a wrench into his two track infrastructure and budget strategy. joining me now is david gurgen senior political analyst, served as adviser to just four presidents in both parties. good to have you on. >> good to see you, jim. >> all right. so we're seeing this in biden's approval rating. the latest mpr, pbs maris poll has it down at 43%. that is a trumpian level an...

Ability to break things down instead of i wrote the damn plan -- >> the damn bill. >> i wrote the damn bill. that is one place that i've heard from folks who have been out on the trail and been listening that she has an advantage. but we're at the very beginning of the process and we'll see biden support move from the other candidates. >> here is where joe biden is in trouble. yes, this poll is an outlier but if it goes in that direction but the case for his candidacy is you like me, you know me and i'm electable and we'll talk about how i'm a moderate candidate later and if elizabeth warren s...

Million people that have employer-sponsored health care away. >> there should not be such a thing as an american who doesn't have insurance or health care. that should be a thing of the past. >> reporter: now as for elizabeth warren and joe biden, the competition between the two of them is intensifying but so far they have not yet shared a debate stage. that could soon change. this week we'll learn which candidates with qualifying for the september debate in houston. so far ten candidates have made the cut and they'll have until tuesday -- excuse me, until wednesday to reach the criteria and w...

Do you support universal background checks? >> no. but vis-a-vis the president, erica, he's been all over the map. a week or two he said yes. the past week he's hedging the other way. look, 98%, 99% of the guns bought and sold in this country are already covered by universal background checks. we have a problem, you're right, too many mass shootings in this country. i don't think this is an issue which it comes to background checks though. we have a white nationalism, white supremacy problem in this country that we feed to be honest about and go after. >> so you want to go after that but just ...

Is the swing among conservative and moderate democrats. 40% in june were supporting joe biden and 10% behind bernie sanders and then 10% at elizabeth warren and joe biden is now at 22% and look at how much support has ticked up for bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. conservative and moderate democrats, what do you attribute the shift to. >> the sample size of the poll was small so we might be looking at an outlier but the trends are similar in terms of other polls in terms of the rise of warren and bernie sanders and they're pulling at each other's support. joe biden's support among some dem...