sort of his sell. but i think beyond that, the progressive lane really is pretty clouded right nrowded ri democratic primary. he wasn t going to the centrist lane where people claimed there was a little more room, maybe. i think he looked at it and said, i can have more influence influencing the candidates that wouldn t be trapsi itraipsing t ohio. you can t do both jobs at all effectively. you have to pick one, and normally it s running for president that gets picked. i like what you said about staying in the senate. you have almost every member except sherrod brown in the democratic senate running for president. it doesn t seem like a place you can do work, but you can. the news is reporting that joe biden is 95% committed to running and his family is on board. so where is he now? what s the delay? i don t know.
i don t like the way he dealt with the criminal reform bill in the 90s or i didn t like the way he handled issues with president obama. they start bringing up things he said in the past. i think when you look at the actual polls, not just the focus group of a limited number. the recent polls had biden with 37% of democrats saying that he s number one choice and 51% saying he s one of their top choices. wow. right now he has the luxury of time because he s the front runner. he s got the money. he s got the staff. jedediah: got the name recognition. juan: mike bloomberg, former mayor of new york, today said he s not running. hillary rodham clinton said she s not running. i think a lot of them are looking to joe biden. other people on the badge, sherrod brown, terry mcauliffe who would occupy the centrist lien for democrats. the centrist lane is important because it has the advantage of saying i can appeal to people to
start paving that path of a potential more centrist lane inside the democratic party. we ve seen warren, you were just showing unabashedly liberal progress. gillibrand and harris and booker are sort of filling the left lane at the moment and we re waiting on some folks. you mentioned beto o rourke or mike bloomberg or joe biden who may also join amy klobuchar in this more centrist lane. when i say centrist, i m still talking about the democratic party of the left. just in the context of the p primary e fight. you noted she s not lined up with some of those other more liberal members. staying on klobuchar and in the days leading up to her announcement, she was subject to several reports citing anonymous former staffers that say she mistreats her staff. according to leg storm, she has the third highest staff turnover in the senate from fiscal years 2001 to 2017. here is how she responded to