bernie sanders certainly showed that last year. but there is a concern, and i ve heard it from democrats about joe biden and the fact that he just may not excite the base enough to be able to bring in the small dollar donors and he will be dependent on big donors and little else. i think there s a number of things in there, joe, i ll try to unpack quickly. first of all, as you said, the fund-raising dynamics in both parties i think but certainly in the party i know better have flipped around completely from a time when bundlers, individual givers dominated to now the online small donors dominating. what sanders did after his announcement of raising $6 million in 24 hours was stunning because you can do the math. how many 2,700 checks do you have to collect to equal that? there s a school of thought in
and i asked john, i said what do the chinese want? at the end of the day what do the chinese want? he said they want and the communist party wants 9% growth. that s what they have to have for their legitimacy. and that s what you five years later that s what you re saying. and, boy, it ain t 9% growth anymo anymore. what are the long-term implications for china, for internal security they might say. the china economy now is too large, too ma sure. all the low-hanging fruit has been picked. so the question is if the chinese can have high levels of growth, how does this 90 million person outfit called the communist party justify itself?
arrive with this class of democratic congressmen. with any group like that, you re going to have some number who have swrout side vioutside views and her job is to keep the party together and to be willing to take a stand on that is completely antithetical not just to her voters and base but to all americans. about you there are always going to be a couple people. just like the republicans have steve king on one end, they have rand paul, who is not a racist but have some out of the boxx views and they have to try to manage that. she knows when to draw a line in the sand and say it s not acceptable behavior and when to try to bring them together. these happen to be the most vocal members of the party and i think has time goes on, the novelty of having them say these
racialal change, this new divide, how to handle the new set of experiences that have come in to the party. they ve got plenty of critics inside their own party of how nancy pelosi handled that particular incident. this strikes me as the president, you know, using his norm-breaking rhetoric frankly, going perhaps too far in trying to make a point and capitalize on divisions that do exist within the democratic party. i mean, we ve seen that kind of hurt him, frankly, over the last couple of years. so we just of course for those that are listening to us and not watching, we just showed a graphic that showed, steve rattner, that 33 jewish members in congress are democratic to two who are republican. so quite a difference there. i m wondering, steve, what your reaction is, though, to what s happened over the past week with some of the freshmen members,
attempt to brand all democrats as being against jewish people due to the controversy around the minnesota freshman congresswoman. the democrats have become an anti-israel party, they ve become an anty jewish party and that s too bad. however, jewish voters have swung even more to the democratic party in recent elections. exit polls in the trump era showed that jewish voters favored hillary clinton over donald trump 71% to 24%, the democrats downev democrats did even better in 2018. while members of congress who are jewish are overwhelmingly on the democratic side of the aisle. here s where we are, joe.