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>> former texas congressman beto o'rourke turned presidential candidate has managed to amass a substantial small donor list and strong name recognition. he also got criticism for not revealing many policy specifics. that was before he rolled out an ambitious plan to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2050. >> it's hard to argue that there is anything more important facing this country, this generation today, and, more importantly, every generation that follows. here we are in california that has seen record droughts, record wild fires, in my home state of texas record flooding from hurricane harvey in 2017. 58 inches of rain. it was the third 500-year flood. we just saw along the missouri river in nebraska and iowa and
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perspective on this, they really want to hear someone who marries both substance and charisma. listen to what one voter said to me earlier today at warren's first event here in iowa. >> so talk to me about what's the most important thing to you when you're looking at all these democratic candidates. >> structural change and who can beat donald trump. >> can those two things live in the same place, you think? >> they'll have to, yes. >> reporter: and i think when you have this conversation about electability, yes, there's partly a gendered aspect to that, that i think we and other reporters have been talking about, but there's also the concept of beating donald trump being the top concern for many of these voters and thinking about what's the best way to do that. yes, they like the policy specifics that elizabeth warren is bringing out, but they're also trying to figure out if they can marry that with c charisma and the energizing factor. at least that voter thinks she can do it. so i'm keeping my ear to the ground on what the evolution is for these voters as they try to parse through the field.
that she has. so there is a wealth of policies that are particularly addressing systemic discrimination and i think that it is a little too early to tell whether or not that will play with voters. they send to say that they like policy specifics, but when itvo. >> yeah, it becomes all personality. profession or, y profession or, you think this may be a strategy that pays offer for the senator? >> i do.or, you think this may be a strategy that pays offer for the senator? >> i do. we know joe biden has a built-in base. but elizabeth warren is putting together something that i think will resonate with younger black voters because it is so policy specific. and we saw obama's policies where he essentially said my policies will lifts all votes. well, apply that is not the case because we have a 400 year wealth gap within the black
this race began with a level of scrutiny and intensity that was unlike anything that i'd experienced. >> reporter: call it beto 2.0. according to a source close to the campaign, staffers are working to make o'rourke appear more presidential, including tackling what many have criticized. >> beto o'rourke facing new criticism for his lack of policy specifics. >> when are we going to get an actual policy from you, instead of platitudes? >> reporter: this month, the former texas congressman unveiled a proposal for climate change, including a $5 trillion investment. he wrote an op-ed, laying out how he wants to end gun violence, and tweeting steps he'd take for criminal justice reform. he admits he's been studying quite a bit. are you in official debate prep? >> i want to make sure i perform well at the debates. >> reporter: one staffer told me o'rourke learns more from personal interactions than policy meetings, and is
about any of the 22 democratic candidates. he focused on president trump today. he said policy specifics aside, the single most important thing democrats have to do is defeat donald trump who he called the divider in chief. >> we watch the president for three years. look at what he's doing. instilling fear. i mean not joking! instilling fear. selling division, stoking racial division. undercutting every institution designed to check the abuse of power by the president or anyone else. reporter: joe biden believes he can win a back the lou color working-class voters that voted for trump in 2016 a state like pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin. trump won pennsylvania in 2015 by less than one percentage point becoming the first republican to do so since 1988. the latest poll shows joe biden has 11 point lead over donald trump in the pennsylvania area. he's the only democrat with a double-digit lead over the president in that poll.