sure. i can see dave s point, this will be a tough district. i would say as a young female republican, i m extremely excited to see new fresh voices on the national stage going head to head with representative alexandria ocasio-cortez. i think this is going to help us nationwide. i think it s going to help us in small dollar enthusiasm particularly in the suburban districts you mentioned with our female voters. dana: why do you think it will help? i think having a voice out there of reason who is proposing solution. if you watch that ad in its entirety, she talks about building bridges. she talks about solutions rather than self-promotion, which we are seeing from a number of house democrats. dana: it will get national attention, as we ve seen. ashley strong and dave brown, thank you. thanks, dana. dana: now your favorite campaign trail mix. 2020 democrats riding a green wave of online donations. bernie sanders about to give a speech on his vision of medicare for all.
hence, everything that s been happening on capitol hill. so the president is now grouping the democrats together in what he is referring to as the motley crue, still saying in a tweet today that it s fake news that is showing him behind that group of democrats. he s looking forward to his rally tomorrow night to try to change the story line and show a big crowd. kelly o donnell, i will see you in a bit, my friend. much appreciated. joining me is ashley strong, house speaker paul ryan s senior adviser and chief spokesperson. and she worked on scott welker s 2016 presidential campaign. and basil who worked on three presidential campaigns, including hillary clinton s first campaign in 2008. guys, thank you very much for being here. let me start with you. you are a veteran of a presidential campaign, right? you worked with former speaker paul ryan. what do you make of how the president is defending the poll numbers. is it fair to say old news, not worth it. let me first start out by sa
a lot of his democratic rivals on the debate stage potentially even prabs before that to sort of try to knock him down. but i think it s a good opportunity for joe biden to continue this narrative who can best take on donald trump. had do you think the next time we see biden it will be more in iowa last week, going after him again and again, naming the president directly? sure. any time joe biden can get up in front of a crowd and say, hey, you know, i think i m the one that should be able to beat donald trump because just look at what he s doing. look at the numbers. he s going after me because he s afraid of me. if he can go up on a stage and say something along those lines, it is certainly good tkpwoeupl. and to go back to ashley s point, it is still early. anybody s narratives could change when the two debates coming up. but this is good for joe bide especially at the moment. amen to that.
defects of the obama tier program. he has 234e6r been able to explain that. people are waiting, what is he going to put out. on the one hand he wants to put out a plan that he said he would and never has. if there is no chance of passing it, a pin gnat ta for democrats to whack at and they will be disadvantageous to the republicans. ashley, are you? i give the president for attempting to talk about policy and important policies for so many americans. i think we tried as best as we could. i say we, house republicans with the republicans to get a bill across the finish line. unfortunately we fell one vote short, as peter said. i would be talking health care. perhaps a different health care, not care for all. if you are a republican moving into this cycle, a lot is at stake leaning left, left, left. moving more and more toward universal health care. i would suggest that s something that republicans should be talking about.
will roll out this summer. we re going to produce phenomenal health care. we already have the concept of the plan. and it will be much better we will be announcing that in two months. maybe less. joining me now chief white correspondent peter baker with the new reporting. also back with us, ashley strong, ann gearan. abby. did anything change the calculus based on the reporting in the piece you have out? no. i think you heard from his tone he wasn t very excited about the idea about return to health care as a main issue. but the republicans and the hill look at this as a loser issue. democrats have a big advantage on the polls in it. the last one i saw by the ap has a 17-point differential between who americans trust more, immigration, taxes, the economy.