aside. and then there s a fight for the centrist lane. senator harris and senator booker could have made a play for and beto theoretically could have made a play for but it s buttigieg who has emerged in that centrist lane. but here s the problem for his pathway to victory, victor, is those people who have caucused with republicans in the past are very unlikely to actually show up and caucus with democrats in the future. it s very tribal, we re very split partisan. those sort of voters who go back and forth are much less reliable voters. if i m elizabeth warren, i feel much better about where i am in the early states because it s going to be the most socialistic voters that are going to be energized and ready to go vote. so he s got that challenge. what s going for him, he is beginning to lead in that lane and he has got the money, even more money than joe biden. several times more cash on hand. two interesting elements that point to or support what you re saying is two-thirds of the
they are pretty talented, impressive group of folks. it s hard to break through. think about those that don t make the debate stage, delaney, bullock, ryan. a lot of folks who are the ones that could possibly challenge joe biden for moderate, centrist blue-collar lane of the party, if we re going to use the lane metaphor. those folks are gone. that could be the one thing good for joe biden is none of the serious folks left on the stage are actively trying to compete with him for that maybe with the exception of amy klobuchar. in some ways only a couple points here and there. it s fascinating. the folks knocked out are the ones that could have challenged joe biden for the centrist lane and never caught fire doing so. thanks to both being on. it s always a pleasure. thank you. following breaking news out of washington. department of justice releasing
find a new identity going forward, and part of that is going to be grappling with this, you know, enormously popular two-term president who was the last major democratic figure in the white house. fred, i agree with everything molly just said and i think that s right, that some of these lesser known candidates have to distinguish themselves from the obama/biden administration. and yes, president obama and everything he did is obviously fair game to them, but it baffles me that democrats, especially the centrists or moderates including vice president biden have not found a better way to run on the obama record. before we went on air, i looked at the unemployment statistics for nevada where all the candidates are today, when obama took office unemployment in nevada was 9.5%. there, the vice president biden or the congressman delaneys who are in that centrist lane can t make a better case for that astonishes me. it would seem the american voter is looking for if
for some criminal penalties for unauthorized border crossings. did he make his point? who won that exchange? he didn t make that point and here is why. joe biden says he still wants it to be a crime to cross the border but literally moments before that he said he would absolutely end obama s deportation policies. so if it s a crime to cross the border but you don t want to deport the criminals who have crossed this border and remove them from the united states, you are an open borders advocate just like your peers who want to decriminalize. joe biden can t escape the far left label. he is trying to preserve the centrist lane but there isn t a centrist line in the democratic primary. sandra: the president heads to ohio for another campaign rally tonight. what should we expect to hear from the president? i ll be heading out to ohio to meet the president there in a bit. we re going the hear about the
he did show he could stand in the ring and take attacks from all different sides and stand up. i think the other contrast that you saw if you re looking at night one and night two of this round of debates is on wednesday night tuesday night, you had elizabeth warren and bernie sanders put in the position of having to defend this progressive agenda of which they have very much been the architects and a number of centrists on the stage trying to argue that perhaps this will actually hurt the party in terms of appealing to some of those independents that they want to win back from president trump whereas it was last night joe biden commanding that centrist lane and everyone around him was picking at some of his wlord it comes to issues like criminal justice, immigration, health care areas where they don t