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President trump for democratic voters as opposed who is the most progressive in the democratic field. >> it depends which voters you talk to. older voters that tend to support joe biden, they just want to get rid of donald trump and they are sympathic to biden's unity push. bernie sanders fires up young people even though he's an older guy. and the younger people in the activists class in the democratic party want to move things in a more progressive direction. they are pushing the party to the left. that's the sort of generational struggle i see being played out right now. >> good seeing you....

Break, we have seen a power struggle play out for the last month, and been reported as between older and newer guards of house democrats. minnesota congresswoman ilhan omar's comments about some supporters of israel. the fallout from which prompted the house to pass a resolution on thursday, ultimately condemning all hate. and while democrats voted in solidarity for the measure, its path to passage illustrated a delicate relationship between some of the party leaders and some freshmen members pushing the caucus in a more progressive direction. joining me now, two months into her first term, de...

Biden really comes from the good old boy politics of the past. >> i don't think joe biden represents that new thing that we need. we need a new economy, we need new politics and we need someone different. >> you hear that, and yet look at the poll numbers. his favorable rating among democrats, according to latest polls. 80%. only 9% unfavorable. those are rock star numbers. how do you square these two things. >> i think there's an ex-essential divide in the republican party between the nostalgia for joe biden and his language. the idea that someone needs to heal this country. on the other side...

Progressive direction. usually there is somebody that's pushing back. wanting to preserve the status quo. we get periods of progressive advancement, but conservative retrenchment. in the closing weeks of this election, we have seen repeated attempts to divide us with rhetoric, to try to turn us on one another. it's an old playbook where the powerful and the privileged say whatever it takes to protect their power and their privilege. even if it hurts the country, even when it puts people at risk. the good news is, indiana, when you vote, you can reject that kind of politics. when you vote, you ...

And it is because of the efforts of folks like you. that way abolished slavery and we and the great depression. and workers won the right to unionize. and women won the right to vote. that's why we had a civil rights movement. i know workers rights movement. and lgbt movement, because people fought for it. and by the way, every time we gain a victory, we move the country in a more generous, more progressive direction.