on a politics of a bygone era. in the end maybe it s possible that joe biden can overcome that. i think it s more likely that bernie sanders could overcome it in part because he proved in his last cycle that he has a real connection with students, for instance, but also because it s not just the money. he has an immense network of volunteers that he can rely on. when you look at the money, it came from hundreds of thousands of donors already. those people will go out and canvass for him, knock on doors for him, recruit for him. i think bernie is actually better positioned on the age matter than joe biden is precisely because he has an infrastructure that will help him do that. those people who were with bernie when bernie was the anti-hillary-clinton, now you have amy klobuchar, the possibility of beto o rourke jumping in, a host of candidates out there and more jumping into the fray every day. i think the issue in talking to bernie s folks about this,
we ve kind of forgotten who we are. democrats and republicans. we walk around like, oh, woe is me, we have so many no, i really mean it. think about the think about the dialogue. oh, my god, we re in trouble, oh, we have these oh, how are we going to what are we going to jesus god. guys, it s time to get up. get off our knees. get up. remember who the hell we are. this is the united states of america. joe biden, classic joe biden, speaking on home turf to the university of pennsylvania on tuesday, road testing a message that could become the basis of a potential campaign. let s get the inside scoop from mike memole, msnbc contributor sam stein, and beth lui.
mike, you were there in the audience, you saw the way the kids reacted. this was classic biden. of what s your read on this? yeah, andrea, that s right. i ll be perfectly canned it with you. you know from the discussions that we would have off the air here in the bureau and elsewhere that my own reporting and my experience in covering biden now for more than a decade had been pointing me in a direction that he was less likely to run in 2020, that we would have a similar situation as in 2016 where he got close to the line and backed off. but my conversations over the last week or so with members of his inner circle has me realizing that his default position is that he will run for president. two things are clear, one is that he believes he has time. you were in munich, you heard him say over the weekend that he thinks we start our election process too early. as one biden adviser said to me,
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be vice president. then he added, the might have been a better pick. no, biden is perfect in the white house. we need this kind of soft news complete with the creepy memes. this is a man who can find the funnely without even trying. that is a real talent. we need that in the white house, because the news is depressing. that s a good point. we need a clown in the white house. a guy gets to close or a guy that can t spell potato. if obama anything happened to him, god forbid biden would be our president. what would the country be like, ben? i think it would be a scary country in lots of ways. whatever sort of whim takes the president at any moment s notice. this was a classic biden move in