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Feel that way. i will say this, dana. my only grandson who's 25 years old, that guy is a pete buttigieg and he believes in the guy, not because he's gay. >> are you saying for older african-americans, it is an issue? >> yes, it is. >> there is no question about that. i am not going to sit here and tell you otherwise because i think everybody knows it is an issue. >> i am going to get my thoughts on this that goes around and started with karine. yes, there is no denying and mayor pete's sexuality will be an issue for a lot of people, maybe potentially more so with african-americans. you got to ...

African-americans support is older african-americans taking issues with his sexuality. for some folks it may come up and may be an issue. i hope not. when i was talking to folks as well. i live in north carolina and south carolina working on presidential campaigns in the past, i go in and i call folks. a lot of it and early on, not that many months ago, they did not know much about mayor pete, right? a lot of it and we talked about this earlier in the show, a lot of it was just a name id, getting to know who he was. once you get passed that and you have the conversation and you kind of lay out...

Warren up, i can show you a poll. if you want a poll that shows biden up. if you want a poll that shows bernie coming back, i can show you a poll. and it's also if you want to show that a poll that shows peter buttigieg is in the first tier, top tier, i can show you that. and i think that's just kind of where we are. we still have a little bit more ways to go. and i think of polls that really matter are the state polls. a lot of undecided in those polls. people haven't made their minds up. and i think there's just a lot more to watch and to see where we're going here. >> i agree. i mean, i thi...

Snickering in the background or trying to get in there. >> democrats have a golden opportunity. they can appeal to all of these x republicans, all of these funky republicans independence, their entire really base. pete buttigieg says take back the patriotism and national security issue. the reason why colonel vindman was so concerned of ukraine getting weapons because that was u.s. policy, we want them to defend themselves against russia. an episode like this shows how really superficial and phony the flag wavers on the republican side. for democrats, they should ram this home again and again....

Biden got the support. these are mostly older african-americans. what i found interesting is voluntarily folks brought up mayor pete's name. one person brought up his name because she liked the fact when asked about the police involved shooting in south bend and what was going on with the police department, he owned up to his own failings in that regards. she liked that honesty. another relative, older african-american relative kept on saying she liked the fact that he was straightforward. she said it so many times. he's honest of who he is which means no one can hold it against him and use it...