of a centrist position to preserve the affordable care act in the middle. let me put up this new poll. look, at the end of the day, we know there s plenty of other iowa polls out there. this one seems to mirror what we saw a couple days ago, which is biden in fourth, which i believe now is his second straight poll with biden in fourth. this has buttigieg, warren. look, butte jeigieg, sanders, warren. but that s a four-way tossup now. like you and i talked about, see, at some point like you don t want to be the front-runner. you know, four or five months ago of the democratic party because bad things happen. you want to be front-runner now? i ve had more people tell me the one thing they ve been concerned about, this was about two weeks ago, either piquing too soon. given what s happening with medicare for all, i think they re going to be in the barrel. in 2007-2008, obama didn t become the front-runner until the very end. and you ll see the and guess what?
guilt. it s one of the first red flags that went up for ambassador taylor. he knew it didn t make sense and that s when his antennas started to work and and in a straight line from that point, he starts to put together the sad truth, the truth that should break everyone s heart who cares about things being done the right way. that there was this grimy financial interest by rudy giuliani and his now indicted clients mixed up in this toxic brew with the president s shabby political interests. and they were pushing that and displacing the very serious national security policy that was that was critical to the defense of europe and ukraine and to our own national security. and as he watched it unfold, he brought it to pompeo. he tried to do something about it. he tried to see it in the best possible light until it was unmistakable that it was wrong. all right. a few things about the hearings next week. number one, any reason you re skipping thursday?
into the democratic party. they now show up, vote democratic regularly, and remember this is the culmination. this was the last piece of the puzzle that democrats didn t control. now, they have everything in virginia. there s nothing left. there are no more worlds to conquer. so if i were the republicans, i wouldn t spend ten cents in virginia at least until donald trump is gone. i was just going to say it it trump in this case in virginia, larry, felt as you just put it right, he just put he accelerated a trend. so i mean, at this point there is no alternative republican party left? there s there s nothing. it s really amazing. the republicans used to win because they nominated center-right people who are acceptable to the suburbanites and actually were well-liked by the suburbanites. now, it s the hard core, harsh republicans who tend to win
the core voters, the people who do turn out. they re going to be mad. so they ve got to walk that really fine line. they re about to be asked to do it in impeachment. one time, bill, this was during the tea party fight. i think there s an fable. the man just randomly jumped off a cliff. but you have to tell the rest of the story. he was being chased by a tiger. like, the point was he jumped to certain death. okay. but he had certain death following him. what she just described reminds me of that fable. but at some point, and i know we re partisan political hacks but at some point speak for yourself. especially, you. but at what point, do you do the right thing? i mean, at what point do you say i m going to be bigger than this this moment? look, if mitch mcconnell were on the ballot last night, mitch mcconnell would not be senator again. you have to see those tea leaves. i don t know if that s true. i don t know if that s true. i mean wildly unpopular but it s also a d
through, all the political capital the president used. all these democrats laying on the sword for this to get this thing passed. now, they want to now, when it s above water, kieser has 11 points above water now. now, they want to tear it all down and start start start over. to a lot of the obama people, it makes zero political sense. do you ever think the republican party would end up becoming the party of obama care at one point? i don t think they are yet because matt bevin didn t want to be it either. but that is the position that may become default if warren s the nominee. yeah, if warren s the nominee. but i think it makes it a heck of a lot easier for donald trump or whoever is the republican nominee because it is a fight that s been had repeatedly and i don t care what the polls say. this fight has not been taking place on a national level and there haven t been the attacks that there were of the, you know, harry and louise epic hilary clinton healthcare days. i don