decades, he has been in the administration for 8 years. it's hard to imagine democratic voters given the current environment going for a guy like him. when you have a situation where you are going to have early voting starting in california the day that you have the iowa caucuses begin this year, all that front loading of voting out west is going to give a tremendous advantage to other candidates other than, say, a guy like joe biden who is going to be running more in the sort of traditional republican mold and give that advantage to people socialist programs. ed: there is another report saying that biden might be telling democrats privately that beto o'rourke could be his v.p. and get a young face. is that two white male for the democratic party. >> it is the strategy he has got to find somebody else