joe biden are the 2 candidates to beat. joe biden has gone from 27.3% to 28.1 and sanders is up to 18.8%. showing the consistency of both campaigns. in an interview with the l.a. times sanders is trying to distance himself from biden saying some candidates are running the same old type of campaign. adding if you are donald trump and you have biden having voted for the war in iraq and terrible trade agreements, trump will eat his lunching. lunch. sanders said he can reach out to young voters something aoc knows if. voters in north carolina won t be required to show a
new records the nasdac training over 9,000, so driving the year- end gains trade optimism of course and robust holiday sales showing the consumer is alive and well. holiday sales grew 3.4% overall, that was according to mastercard spending pulse, and the survey also shows that online sales were up 18.8%, as consumers were shopping on their devices more than in the stores. earlier this year, there was some recession talk, remember that? there were concerns that consumer spending would slow, doesn t seem to be the case here and the consumer reports accounts for roughly two-thirds of u.s. economic activity. meantime those markets let s take a look the dow is up almost 23% year-to-date up 56% since trump s election in 2016. the nasdac that i mentioned up 35% year-to-date, that s because of the tech name, including your favorites, apple and amazon. these are some tech names but they are also falling into the
tariffs and then our economy is doing so well, consumers are still spending money here. it was a strong christmas holiday season and we saw sales of up to 3.4%, online holiday sales were up 18.8%. companies like apple making new all-time highs and as we see these markets just on fire at the end of the year here, such a big difference from last year when we had a major sell-off and it lots of optimism down here early. so some good news. alicia: good news especially for investors the day after christmas. gerri willis, have a good one. an update to a story that we told you about earlier in the hour, new york city police say they found the 14-year-old is suspected of killing a bernard of freshmen earlier this. detectives tweeted the news earlier but now they have released the teenager. it s unclear if he will face any charges.
have two different victors i think between iowa and new hampshire and michael bloomberg has enough resources available to him to be able to concentrate and get a lot of delegates out of the super tuesday. leland: let s get to the polling in terms of where things stand in iowa and you may be right about a split iowa and new hampshire. bernie sanders, 20, biden 18.8 all the way down to poker at 2.8, bloomberg did not even make it there. does the idea of a split iowa and new hampshire and super tuesday give the president more foils to hit back against? i think this whole field of democrats is a disaster and when you talk about michael bloomberg, you can t by election. i understand he has a lot of money and spends a lot of monies. he is using democrat talking points. leland: he did buy the new york mayor s race.
biden 18.8%. and warren bringing up the top 4 at 16. next month will be in des moines. we ll be there. steve: do you know what we should do the rest of the program every time somebody including the people on tv in the sound bites every time somebody says wine cave we do a drinking game. let s practice. katie: too early for that. steve: it s not wine. steve: okay. wine cave. pete: not going to play? a couple years ago did i go to an event and it was in a wine cave. steve: hey, i have a better idea, this is more with things that happened this week. every time the democrats mention impeachment, take a drink. [laughter] steve: this is going to be something. i hope you are thirsty. katie: they left town. democrats left town yesterday. steve: the democrats in los angeles, they were talking, get your drinks ready they were talking impeachment.