kams kamala harris, do that heavy lifting when frankly it strikes me that anybody who's running to be the standard bear in democratic politics, to be the party's nominee should be able to speak articulately and authoritatively about issues of race considering that black folks are the reliable core of the party. >> absolutely. the reality is for many people of color, black people, latinos, asian americans, the state of race in america right now is as important as the economy and housing and national security and trade. and the reality is, race interjects all of those topics anyway. and so they'll want to back a candidate who can speak to those things. >> and david jolly, the president didn't tweet last night during the debate but he has in the last hour. he wrote in part this. he says, the people i saw on stage last night, and you can add in and he mentions joe biden with the pejorative nickname that he so often uses that we won't repeat, he says joe biden, kamala harris, and the rest will lead us into an economic sinkhole the likes of which we have never seen before. with me, only up. so who of the contenders so far