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We're going to go live to a couple of locationsment let's start with alley vitale in franklin new hampshire covering warren and gillibrand. walk us through for starters, this new plan that warren is unveiling. >> reporter: yeah. that's exactly right. the plan that she's unveiling to to try to get at the racial wealth gap as it pertains to small business own eshs. how she plans to do that is $7 billion in grant money to try to give small business owners and raise the number of black, latino business owners across the country. this all comes ahead of the -- a black economic alliance forum. it's ...

Could. you have seen the trump campaign be essentially delighted in recent days based on what our sources are telling us over the missteps you have seen from the biden campaign, including the reversal on the hyde amendment. including not attributing his policy statements properly, and not coming to iowa this past weekend when all of the democratic candidates were here because he was at his granddaughter's graduation. instead, they're going to try to use it against him today, framing the president as someone who actually comes to iowa. instead saying i believe the trump campaign spokesman said ...

Economic patriotism. she's clearly continuing to bet, brooke, that being the idea candidate and the policy candidate will pay off in the end. >> what about just, mj, this issue of climate change, is it becoming a litmus test for the democratic candidates? >> reporter: as you mentioned this morning, joe biden put out his climate change proposal and i think it is important to note that this is an issue that so many of the democratic candidates are talking about. they are talking about it by releasing their own proposals. and they're being asked about it. when they're caming out on the stump an...

No holiday weekend for 2020 contenders, they're raising money, plotting strategy with the critical debate now just a month away, and of course out on the campaign trail. bernie sanders has been stumping in new hampshire, pete buttigieg is home in indiana while cory booker and elizabeth warren are spending memorial day in iowa. as warren continues to brand herself as the policy candidate, is it working with voters in the hawk eye state? nbc road warrior ali vitali has been on the road, and she joins us now. what do voters there have to say about warren and the fact that she is running clearly t...

Trying to mix her personal narrative with the way she pitches policy to voters. it matters they care and her idea of being a candidate with the plan, t-shirts say that, is percolating and voters are internalizing. so much so other voters said she feel other candidates aren't talking about policy nearly enough. that's not necessarily true. some get on the stump and talk about policies. the fact warren is percolating at the policy candidate gives her branding to stand out from the field at this early point and take it through the summer and into the fall. >> and democrats, a lot of democrats, se...