vice president said. in the weeks and months to come, it is the congress job to pursue the facts and to hold donald trump accountable. in the meantime, my job, our job, is to make sure that above all else we beat donald trump. reporter: and so chuck, what is interesting is that we ve had this discussion since the beginning of biden s campaign about his biggest strength in this race being his ele electability. so he is deferring the question of what happens next in terms of impeachment to congress. he wants voters to he focused on the fact that there are 70 polls that show him beating donald trump head to head. that is what he is trying to do here by distracting the voters. any change in attitude from the biden campaign about how to imagine all the
also the same day that his campaign launched the first biden 2020 tv ad in any state. they say that they are spending high six figures to get it on alomar k all markets today. they re just flashing polls onto the screen, urging primary voters to consider that despite him not being the most progressive, he does have the strongest polls head to head against president trump which is similar to what his wife was arguing up in new hampshire. dana: we talked about ele electability and if that s your strongest suit, i guess that s what you ll lead with. julian castro has qualified for the next debate? reporter: right. and so now there are ten democrats who need to go to houston for the first debate of
here at the iowa corn feed event, they were talking to 1,100 people. it was a festive atmosphere. an opportunity for many candidates who aren t polling high in our most recent nbc news/ wall street journal poll as an opportunity for voters to meet them and hear from candidates for the first time. richard? thank you so much. busy time there. let s go to vaughn. what are you seeing in terms of the same topics? number one, the tweet put out go back to your country and new numbers coming out from the new poll. harris not doing so bad in terms of the numbers here. reporter: if you look at the numbers there, she s about 1 percentage point up over trump. harris over the last couple months has made the case to voters on the question of ele
those three states. those things are usually exclusive. 200,000 people, black people in wisconsin, have their vote suppressed. the margin was way short of that, john, and you know that. but let s we have some instead of the 2016 and going back to that, let s look at the new poll that came out today. one of our guest newspapers, washington post abc poll. on that question of ele electability, watch them up against donald trump in a head to head race. you can see biden leading by ten points over president trump, bernie sanders by a point, harris by two, warren and buttigieg tied. as long as the polls look like this, phillip, does joe biden get to run electability? that s the best news joe biden has had in a week and a half. he jumped into this race saying essentially i m running against
we brought democrats and republicans together and i think that s the message. as a small business person and entrepreneur, we took that kind of scrappy spirit into achieving progressive goals but without having to have big government. so for people who aren t familiar, just to be real clear, is your aversion to socialism about electability or is it really an economic aversion? well, i this i both. i mean, i think in terms of ele electability, republicans will call us socialists and that is if we don t fight back and clearly say we are not socialists, that s going to make an election in 2020 much harder. and i also would argue that socialism doesn t work. it s not the successful way of solving the real challenges we face. if we re going to address not just universal health care and achieving that, making sure that health care is a right and not a privilege, but actually controlling the inflation of health care, we re going to need to bring businesses and