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The once proud party of abe lincoln and ronald agoreagan of adulation cult. it is far more important than who has the most extensive plan to hand out free money and require everyone to get their health care through an expanded medicare. do you agree with all that has been said? this isn't all of it. are democrats focusing their energies in the wrong spaces right now? >> if they learned anything from 2016, the negative implications of a purity test. hillary clinton was more than a qualified candidate and should have beaten donald trump in 2016 but the democratic party fell victim to some of the...

About what america is and what it represents. i don't think that's the kind of message democrats can use to w win. >> jessica: she's been campaigning for bernie sanders, who has sworn off any billionaire donors but we are now learning in august 2018, she accepted a $2700 donation from billionaire and 2020 democrat tom steyer. just last week, she slammed billionaire's funding campaigns, taking aim at pete buttigieg for questioning "purity test" for democrats. watch. >> for anyone who accuses us for instituting purity tests, it's called having values. it's called giving a damn, it's called havin...

What is determining this race. if you like donald trump, you liked him since day one and you like him now. if you believe in a progressive vision, nothing he says will influence you no matter how much they put behind a digital or tv ad. >> there are certainly people who are saying he is trying to buy this election, but i heard that out there, then you have a real moment of the last debate, the purity test, and if you hold the fundraiser in a wine cave, if that is a negative with democratic voters how do you look at the beauty tests, the whole idea of fundraising and especially now when democra...

>> absolutely. and, you know, the democratic party is not really riven by this great strife. i think sometimes republicans want to make it seem as if this is 1968 where you have, you know, antiwar g. mccarthy people against hubert humphrey and lyndon johnson. really it's just been temporarily in the possession or part of the party has been temporarily in the possession in custody of what you might call the woke police. these folks on twitter who are trying to enforce a particular kind of progressivism. joe biden considers himself, rightly, to be a progressive, to be in that great progressive t...

Are they as ideological as the leaders and the progressive candidates? you have a purity test. buttigieg is tying into that. >> durability of the joe biden debunked that? >> that's the point. i think there's more -- there has been a return to the middle. maybe it's just, you know, a kind of a return to something that's normal? >> familiar. >> yeah, familiar, normal. name recognition. i think voters look at a sanders, warren philosophy and say too extreme. because it's too extreme for the country anyway and we'll get to that more in a general election but i think that becomes a big factor in th...