includes, you know, five general election matchups. across the board, the democrat beats a democrat, beats trump, who s stuck at 40% or lower. if the majority of democratic primary voters say they want a candidate who can beat trump, then what should they do with this? look, as sahil was just saying, electability is the strongest component here. the question is what is that exactly? if you look at these polls, it s basically a wash. it s basically a wash in terms of joe biden or elizabeth warren. so the question here i think about electability is going to change a little bit going into the fall. fredricka, one other thing that s changed over this summer, as we take stock of this as we almost hit labor day, there s not likely to be a third-party candidate. earlier in the year we thought there would be. that s why these head-to-head numbers are so interesting. but 40% for president trump, that s trouble for him potentially, but it s early. jeff, sahil, thanks to both of you. apprecia
plans to fix what ales them. are plans as compelling as feeling people s pain? you know, like clinton, like obama. they weren t detailed plan guys. remember the vision thing? next, when did you decide that attacking a president was a good idea but that president should be obama? almost more so than the president you will face, the one you all call a criminal and a pathological liar. first of all, mr. vice president, it looks like one of us has learned the lessons of the past and one of us hasn t. you invoke president obama more than anybody in this campaign. you can t do it when it s convenient and dodge it when it s not. castro worked for him. booker used to call him, like, his best buddy all the time. and, look, here s what s more important than the hypocrisy of it. president obama is the only one of you who matches this president in party popularity. he actually beats trump. so what do you gain by going at president obama?
you invoke president obama more than anybody in this campaign. you can t do it when it s convenient and dodge it when it s not. castro worked for him. booker used to call him, like, his best buddy all the time. and, look, here s what s more important than the hypocrisy of it. president obama is the only one of you who matches this president in party popularity. he actually beats trump. so what do you gain by going at president obama? you think that you ll weaken biden enough to justify how much you piss off democrats and empower this president to use the same attacks against whichever of you comes through? and when you weren t going at obama, you were going at each other in ways that brought you down and gave an opening to your opponent. candidates attacking biden for deportations, trump smiles. all of these implicit and explicit accusations that biden has issues with race.
who i think wants to sound like a moderate in some moments and wants not to in other moments. and i think chooses those very carefully. so i think he actually lives in between those two spaces. of the people clearly occupying the moderate side of the stage, i actually thought tim ryan had the best night by far. i thought he never had a misstep. you can disagree with his policies, but he was very clear in stating them. he s from ohio, which we must never forget, and he doesn t let you forget. he s given us eight presidents. yeah. and the other one who is kind of near that category is beto o rourke that, because he s from tex texas, does not embrace all the liberal positions. he stressed the 38 votes in texas because there is a poll that shows beto o rourke beats trump by double digits over trump. at the top of the game tonight,
setmeyer. angela, why aren t you here? i didn t get the invite. i ve been working with my guys. good evening, everyone. tar a, this new poll out may strengthen biden. biden is the only candidate that clearly beats trump. the others show nee clear matchup. give me your reaction. well, obviously as someone supporting joe biden i m happy about this and it goes to the argument he really is the person out of the field right now that can connect with voters democrats can win back in order to win back the white house in 2020. ohio, michigan, pennsylvania, joe biden has consistently polled well there because those are the people he speaks to the most and those are the people they lost. the obama coalition, which allowed donald trump to win.