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Saw in 2007 with hillary clinton leading against barack obama leading among african-american voters all over the place. once he does well in iowa, they see that barack obama is not a protest candidate. he isse a real, bona fide top-drawer candidate. boom. they support him. >> laura: doesn't make you think also 2016 elizabeth warren should've just knocked down the clintons to run? that was her time. looking back in 20/20 hindsight that was her time to run. if you want to run -- you've got to take out the clintons to run! trump had to take down the bushes or do what he could to distance himself ...

Once he does well in iowa, they see that barack obama is not a protest candidate. he is a real, bona fide, top-drawer candidate. boom. they support him. >> laura: doesn't make you think also 2016 elizabeth warren should've just knocked down the clintons to run? that was her time. looking back in 20/20 hindsight, that was her time to run. if you want to run -- you've got to take out the clintons to run! trump had to take down the bushes or do what he could to distance himself from the bushes. it's a hard fit now because trump has changed to the chessboard on the issues of trade -- >> chris chri...

Top 1%. that's how we beat trump. we expose him for the fraud that he is. >> yeah, sharp words. and they're necessary. if you remember back in 2016 bernie sanders was essentially a protest candidate. and so he really kept his elbows, you know, to himself. even giving hillary clinton some assists, you know, saying i don't care about your damn e-mails. this time it's different. now he's not just there to push the party to the left, he is there to show he can run the country. now i have my misgivings about whether he could do a good job at that, but that's what he has to show, and he is running a...

Sanders trying to become the president and donald trump has a ceiling and they both have a ceiling but bernie sanders is a little bit higher. >> he was a protest candidate in 2016. and now he wants to be taken seriously, he has to do some of serious orthodox things that you have to do when running for president, sit down for interviews, he has been sort of skittish with the press. we will see if he can go all-in this time instead of hanging on to hillary's coat tails as it were. >> and looking at the favorability numbers, going up for harris? >> what do you attribute that to. >> not at all. th...

>> every time i see bernie sanders and the attraction he is getting i think of him as the ron paul of the left. he is a protest candidate. he speaks fondly of revolution and has operated outside the party structures. that said, he's doing pretty well in the polls. >> he's ahead. yeah. >> in some. democrats have a huge opportunity to pick up republicans. but if they latch on to someone who self-identifies as a socialist, that is going to drive republicans back into the arms of trump, especially when the platform has, you know, a $82 trillion tag on the green new deal. $32 trillion for medicare ...