up eight points. meanwhile, in texas, biden is in the lead at 23%. of the 2020 field by five points, falling three points since september. and the university of texas/texas tribune poll. and warren has 18% of support. and sanders rounds out the top three at 12. and presidential candidate kamala harris is responding to comments made by south carolina congressman jim clyburn about black voters and fellow candidate pete buttigieg. watch. is mayor buttigieg s struggle with black voters in your state of south carolina because he s gay? well, that s a generational issue. i know of a lot of people my age who feel that way. but i will say this, dana, my own grandson, who is 25, i think he is 25 years old, that guy is a big buttigieg guy, and of
with black voters in your state of south carolina because he s gay? well, that s a generational issue. i know of a lot of people my age who feel that way, but i will say this, dana, my own grandson, who is 25 years old, i think, that guy is a big buttigieg guy and, of course, he does it because he believes in the guy, not because he s gay. are you saying for older african-americans it is an issue? yes, it is. there s no question about that. i m not going to sit here and tell you otherwise because i think everybody knows that s an issue, but i m saying, it s an issue not the way it used to be. all right. here is how mayor buttigieg reacted this morning on cnn when he was asked about that. watch this. i think the reason why people in my community move past that and rereelected me and the
to make that claim 100 days out. look, i was in des moines the whole weekend. pete buttigieg s show of force was quite something. he had people coming from all over the country. i saw a hundred people from california alone sort of plotting their march through des moines. he had the parade to end all parades. he was actually holding the hand of his husband and the hand of his mother as he walk neighborhood that space. i mean, it was something that you really couldn t imagine a candidate doing, even eight years ago. here we have somebody who s clearly under facing a lot of momentum right now. he is really going all in, in iowa. he wants to do a big showing like obama did 12 years ago. he said 12 years ago there was a guy with the funny name who became the winner. so he is trying to wrap himself into that sort of obama mold. but for the fact that he does not have black support. obama even when he was running against hillary clinton and nobody really knew him very well
i don t know that i buy it. valid point. christine, mara, mike, thanks. see you bright and early tomorrow morning. i ll be there and you ll be there. hopefully before you. back with another hour of kasie d.c.. josh letterman is just back from ukraine where rudy giuliani is stoking an investigation into that country s parliament and what they did in 2016. and tune in to morning joe tomorrow, as we just mentioned, for me and mike, for live interviews with 2020 democrats, senator cory booker, mayor pete buttigieg and much more. we re back after this. igieg and. we re back after this. as a struggling actor,
clyburn. do you think pete buttigieg has articulated a way to bring in some of the black voters that he says he wants? because nobody really has in the race with the exception of joe biden. well, mayor pete is nothing but articulate. he s articulate about everything. i think his problem with the black community with black voters is simply a lack of familiarity. that s it. i don t attribute it to his sexual preference. i don t attribute it to, you know, his policies. i think his policies are probably, they are, not probably, they are very favorable in terms of equity, pay equity, educational equity. they are very favorable. it s just a lack of familiarity. and, beth, what s your take in terms of his ability to broaden his base? was it naive of him to say that this race has really boiled down to him and elizabeth warren so early on when clearly you are still seeing big momentum behind people like bernie sanders? yeah. it was very arrogant of him