voters i think is a sense of who are you fighting on behalf of and who do you trust? and that is something that can be orthoganal to what your party does. it will be interesting to see how the personal and party line up as we go forward. leaning in on beto a little bit there, was a lot of hype around him. he raised $80 million. he was running against ted cruz, one of the most disliked u.s. senators in the senate. it was an easier match-up. and you re right. he did not have a reason as to why i was running for president, which was the big, big flaw coming into this. saying i m born to do it is not a reason to do it. and also this is 24 people. a very talented diverse group of people. exhausting. bup it s exhausting and it s very difficult to do. with tonight and the moderates versus the progressive, everybody thought it was going
tomorrow night obviously we have the two black candidates as well as the person right now who is leading the black vote on the polls, joe biden. but on that subject of trump and race and how it int sects with the democratic race here s a new poll. asked the question from quinnipiac, is donald trump racist? this is all voters. across the country a majority, 51% say yes, the president s a racist. 45% say no. here s something interesting as it relates to the democratic primary. break this down among white voters because there s been talk here about is there a group of white voters that maybe will rally around the president? you heard that. but the flip side of it is this. this group of voters right here, white voters with a college degree, this is a group that over time we ve been talking about has been trending more democratic. this is a group of voters you saw in those suburban districts in 2018, really rallied around democrats, helped bring them to the 40-seat gain. you see on this q
to be bernie versus warren and it turned out to be warren and bernie versus everybody else. and i think a lot of that was just how the debate was set up. it was set up to be a disagreement and it was set up for all the moderates to really go after the two front-runners. you just saw that the way it played out. if i am biden and his people, i will take notice to that for tomorrow because that s what i is this going to be how it s going to play out for biden tomorrow? as well? they re going to set that up as much as possible clearly. exactly. if i was biden s folks i would be paying attention to that. and senator, to chris hayes s point we love a category. we do research based on categories, we place people in categories. often we know this. voters choose who they want to have a beer with. yeah, and it drives people crazy when we talk about likability because it diminishes the seriousness of it. it is, you know, falling into the trap.
what did you make of this fight with tim ryan, steve bullock, john dlan yo, john hickenlooper, i had to read their names off this paper. that s just an editorial comment. who did you make of all these people all hitting sanders? do you think any of them did better? the forum of the debate and the tactical debate, moderators didn t land it in terms of how they speak, but in terms of just the content of what they re saying there isn t a real governing vision for the democratic party, for america that they re offering, that s akin to how bold elizabeth warren and clear elizabeth warren and bernie sanders are being about what they want government to achieve. but what s the difference between them? here s the thing. i feel like the democratic party is these three different parties. it s like the hope party, the party that wants some big vision. there s a liberal party. there s a very progressive party. the warren-sanders kind of wing of the party.
government can do it, but there s also the fact there s a certain degree that if democrats want to do big things, and i think a lot of them want, to particularly as the climate crisis bears down on us, you have to find some way to engineer not only the trust but the capacity to do things and the only proof of the pudding is in the eating. so we re back to my question for senator mccaskill, and that is how are you going to go to youngstown and say your union plan, i know you re happy with it but i m going to replace it. i think you re going to how do you make that? you convince people there will be something better at the end of the day. the reason people like medicare. the republicans have tried to privatize and voucherize medicare time and time again. they had unified control of government and they couldn t do it. why couldn t they do it? people like medicare. medicare s one of the most popular things the government does. but i ve got to be honest with you, and part of