i m like why you? right off the bat we re stumped. he said two things i wanted your take on. one is there s too many people and what president obama once said about the republicans is their firing squad is going to turn into a circular one and that s no good for the democrats. the other one is they have to be careful about political correctness because they wind up punishing their friends. they wind up punishing people with them. the right doesn t give a damn and it works to your disadvantage. too many and too much pc. do you agree with either? i don t think it s the role of the dnc chair to say there s too many or there s too few. i think we have spectacular candidates. there s 23 won t make it to the mountain top. my job is to make sure that everybody gets a fair opportunity to communicate their vision. we re moving through the debate cycle and in september we ll be raising the threshold.
they wind up punishing people with them. too many and too much pc. do you agree with either? i don t think it s the role of the dnc chair to say there s too many or there s too few. i think we have spectacular candidates. my job is to make sure that everybody gets a fair opportunity to communicate their vision. we re moving through the debate cycle and in september we ll be raising the threshold. so they understand that you have to continue to make progress and what i think is exciting about this process is there s so many engaged people because these candidates all have a base of support and we have to play, what i call a long game here. if we re perceived as saying you shouldn t be in, then we re
new deal is like political kryptonite. they don t want anything to do without. he is splitting the difference, he has promises without green new deal funding. only 1.7 trillion in federal spending which is a lot of money but to the left today, they want world war ii level mobilization. if they to spend 40 to 50% of gdp on this problem and joe biden isn t going anywhere near that. he is trying to assuage the left but not do it in a way that alienate those voters. martha: so why politically? you look at where he is right now, he has a head and almost all the polls doing very well with president trump as well. what is on the horizon is the debate cycle that will kick in later this month. is this a way to stake out when the question on climate change comes, have a plan and i rolled it out a couple of weeks ago.
republicans we had 16 candidates and i remember sitting in a room with people far more important than me saying we re going find out who we are now. we re going to find out who the republican party is going to be. great debate cycle. all the super stars in it. and we found out what the base wanted and what they wanted. throw everybody in washington out. drain the swamp. illegal immigration. and donald trump won. he does demand loyalty. no question about that. so at the end of the day, we re defining, and i hear what bob corker, who s my friend, says and mark sanford, who was governor while i was party chairman, and we re still trying to figure out who exactly the party is. but the pear harty has changed. have they changed or did donald trump really understand the base of the party maybe more than the republicans who were saying it s all about, you know, tax rates and other things that sort of the elites in the party cared about. but donald trump vis rally got
isis claiming responsibility. this was the first time that women were allowed to vote or run for office. though, the female candidates were not allowed to talk with male voters. most of the campaigning was done online. for the first time in this republican debate cycle, donald trump may not be the biggest target. why? ted cruz. he s surging. that means he s going to take some hits. we ll break down the biggest republican rivalries and what everyone stands to gain and to lose. coming up. that s vegas, baby. technology empowers us to achieve more. it pushes us to go further. special olympics has almost five million athletes in 170 countries. the microsoft cloud allows us to immediately be able to access information, wherever we are. information for an athlete s medical care, or information to track their personal best. with microsoft cloud, we save millions of man hours,