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To the point i was making earlier, it's like he was preparing this for the entire time. he's been tearing up the credibility so he can pull from this group of voters. to shermichael's point, i think when democrats are kind of thinking about who they want their nominee to be this time, they have an ultimate choice do we want someone to pull people from the middle and pull in mod rats or someone who can super charge the base. i think democrats were initially at we need to expand our base. it feels like with the move to biden and buttigieg, we need to pull in someone who is safer. >> shermichael,...

Republican support. >> telling congressman joe cunningham to stop impeachment now. >> reporter: did that register with you? >> no. >> reporter: donna and andrew both oppose impeachment. but that hasn't impacted their support for cunningham >> no. because he's real. we need real. we have to get away from all of this there's influences from everywhere else that are guiding our politicians in making decisions. >> reporter: for now mod rats and independents we talked to are sticking with cunningham, especially as long as he keeps his focus and his message close to home. >> i don't think he's hamme...

>> there's something else going on here. >> sure. >> in my brief history of this life of mine, when you have these conversions, when you switch parties for political survival, they tend not to work. if you look at arlen "spectrsp . you represent this district or what have you, he's in no man's land. he has three republican challengers who have been life long republicans, as dana said. he has to find a place. i don't know if he has a place on the democratic side. maybe he should convert to the independent. . >> he becomes the man of the hour for just an hour. you wrote the impeachment diary the...

>> we don't even know! we don't know! >> so we're not even back where to where we were. >> you know what, jared is on it. >> scott, you brought up the mod rats a moment ago. this was, in a way, good news for the moderate democrats, as i said at the top. they have something, the usmca agreement, something they can go back to their constituents with. >> they can say we worked with the president and blah, blah, blah. >> emphasis on that. >> and i voted to impeach the same week. but at the same time it does give them some cover because the worse case scenario for the democrats next year is that ev...

The all-important state of iowa to find out. >> i identify as a democratic socialist, progressive policies speak to me. that's what i prefer >> reporter: maggie willems is in a moderate move. >> i understand i am not representative of the whole electorate. we need to be sure to be select the candidate that can defeat donald trump. >> reporter: here in mt. vernon and towns across iowa, willems and other democrats are thinking about electability as they search for the best candidate to beat president trump. most of the year the democratic race has been driven by left wing proposals. from the gre...