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Policies is loud and resonates. >> 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 ...

To be outside the congressional building and hannounce his presidential run and i went to lunch because i didn't have time to cover it. and now the world has changed. bernie sanders in front of thousands laying out an expansive platform, laying out a biography of who he is. so much of his last run was about in opposition to the kind of democratic establishment, hillary clinton specifically, and this was a much more traditional campaign launch where he is defining himself and his biography and where he came from and contrasting himself personally. >> and why does he feel like he needs to do tha...

A party of trump in a way i did not see before bush. >> we've been studying this. we ask this question a lot to try to figure out. you are right the trump wing of the party is growing. here's what it was the last time we did it. do they support the president? 57%. are they more of a trump supporter than republican? 57% of republicans call themselves that. but that's 40 % of the party call themselves a republican before. >> here's my final point to that. then you take him on the same way that barack obama took on hillary, by expanding the electorate. the conventional democratic electorate, we l...

Much more pro trump than pro republican party. i think in a lot of ways this is a party of trump in a way i did not see before bush. >> we've been studying this. we ask this question a lot to try to figure out. you are right the trump wing of the party is growing. here's what it was the last time we did it. do they support the president? 57%. are they more of a trump supporter than republican? 57% of republicans call themselves that. but that's 40 % of the party call themselves a republican before. >> here's my final point to that. then you take him on the same way that barack obama took on hi...

He's got 49.9%, 48.4%, that's more than .5% so it's not going to be an automatic recount. >> not an automatic recount at all. they seem to be subjecting the secretary of state was about to offer them a lifeline, some path to recount and jake just pressed him there with the exact right questions and the secretary of state was quite candid saying i don't see this happening, given our state history, success of running elections in the past, i don't see this happening. the question is, let's respect the process. what could happen? how many military ballots are outstanding? enough to swing 20,000 v...