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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...

But they will not be deposited in this race. i've said in the network that the democratic party is more moderate and more conservative than the g.o.p. and the media give them credit for. they cover the aocs of the world, but the majority of the voters are moderate and conservative, that's why joe is leaving because of the black vote. >> julie: congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez has railed against billionaires during her time in washington. she has failed to mention that billionaire and 2020 dan tom stier donated to her 2018 campaign. here she is during a campaign rally for bernie sanders. ...

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...

Called having values. it's called giving a damn. >> former president obama recently just last month warned about those purity tests, bakari. so how is fighting over purity tests helping win over voters? >> it's not. and they call it having values and all of these other things that aoc stated but they're called having purity tests and i think you're seeing those backfire with elizabeth warren. this whole wine cave phenomenon, attempting to attack pete buttigieg from the way he raises money is backfiring on her because what we realize is that how did she raise money prior to the time that she be...

Nomination. while iowa is important and will give us the first sense of where voters are, the truth is that we've got a ways to go and i think what we'll see is exactly what we saw in jeff's piece, a lot more of people kind of trying out -- dating, right. i'm going to try pete. i'm going to try biden. who knows who is coming through next. and so i think we're going to see some movement until, again, as i say, once people start to have the opportunity to vote. >> jeff, focusing on those moderate candidates who are fighting for votes in iowa. there has been this clash between the progressives an...