you can do the public option. i don t support giving free college to wealthy kids which by the way bernie said 100%. i heard that. senator warren said 95%. that would include the kids that cheated to get them into colleges. i have about had it with this. i think what we need to do is start uniting our party, yubting our country. and you do that by reaching out not just to our base which is fired up, but also to independents, moderate republicans who may have voted for donald trump and are having big second thoughts. i think you saw a number of us talking about the fact that a house divided as i noted the abraham lincoln quote, house divided doesn t stand. what is the risk of a candidate like warren or bernie sanders who are strong on the issue of structural change in this country.
critically important that i intend to not only be a lead they re is going to accomplish great things in terms of the challenges that face us, but i intend to be a leader who unifies our country. i can t stress that enough. i started tonight s debate talking about this. this guy has been sowing hate and division among us. i travel our country. regardless where people live and even regardless of the party which they re registered to vote, they want to know we can unify around our common goals and our common problems and common hopes. please come on hardball many times. okay. i will. i want you on. i want to hear that message. kamala harris did really well tonight. i said it about two other candidates, but i think she did really well tonight. back to you. thank you very much. to the senator. i got to say something about the polls, because i worked for three presidential campaigns, and there is a difference. and in that top tier, she is right, there are five democrats who beat
what you can do with executive order is get my bill done and you can start the research on gun violence. i think those would be the things you can do on your own. you had a big night tonight. thank you. thanks to chris. thanks to the senator from minnesota. over to steve kornacki. specifically on the advanced billing of tonight by some as biden versus warren, because debates have a funny way of deciding what their personality is going to be. this is the matchup everybody had been waiting for or most people had been waiting for. we finally saw biden, finally saw warren tonight. they would probably be together. why it is so interesting, not just the fact that warren had been surging, the coalitions that each of them represent very opposite sides of the democratic party. this is going to be a big story going forward. some of the big differences, among white voters, this is the most recent cnn poll.
thank you very much. here s what we re going to do on our way to steve kornacki, we re going to stop and talk to senator. it strikes me that that s a unique politician because of two things on his bio. he s a road scholar and he is a military veteran. both of which were kind of combined on display tonight. and he s really kind of the only candidate on that stage who can legitimately claim outsider status. another an yang. that s a big deal. you notice he got in there a couple of times. that s why people are so frustrated with washington. i think his line in the health care, the opening of this debate around health care i think crystallized the health care debate unlike it had been crystallized before. i think when he said it helped joe biden when he said i trust americans to make a choice. that s the essence of this debate. are you going to give americans a choice? are you going to say the government is going to decide
darlings keep playing nice? meanwhile, pete buttigieg and kamala harris are eager to reclaim past glorious. both peaked earlier in the summer based on town halls, and both have seen a steady decline in their numbers since then. there s also the question of everybody else. andrew yang, beto o rourke, cory booker, amy klobuchar, julian castro all polling in the single digits despite strong showings in past debates. none of their political sparks so far, though, have caught fire. today s big question is will tonight change the narrative that this race has become just a three-way race? joining me from houston, nbc news political reporter ali vitaly, mike memoli, and msnbc correspondent garrett haake. ali, i want to start with you, my good friend, my road warrior. i want to show a clip of biden versus warren from a few years