deval patrick may be able to do that, so what this is, this is a cry for help. this is a cry for help from the democratic establishment that is looking at this race and seeing joe biden's old and fragile and not ready to go mano a mano with donald trump and the pummeling he's going to get from donald trump at his machine and they see elizabeth warren, who is embracing this far left agenda, that gives no safe harbor to people who are suffering from trump exhaustion, so the democrats see this race slipping away from them, they are desperate for somebody else to come in, the leadership of the democratic party and they think that deval patrick and grab that obama lane, bring the african-american in the way hillary couldn't. >> bret: cory booker couldn't either. >> what's his platform? is going to embrace a platform like warren 'ischemic two-term governor for massachusetts. his popularity went like this in the state. he was not always popular. any of the platform is winnable, and that's the real problem with the democratic candidate. >> mike bloomberg interesting because mike bloomberg in the