lot. if you attack donald trump that s not going to appeal to them and the electability arguments don t fly because they don t think trump has an electability problem. the vn she hasn t executed a strategy that does better there is i m not sure if there s one available that will work. i would take issue with the fact that there s an overwhelming majority that are supporting trump, but still he s below 50%. and i think all the polls the continue to show him in the low 40s show me there s 56 plus that are looking for an alternative. i would even say that there s probably 30% of trump s 44% are just waiting for somebody to show that they have enough to be able to continue his policies, but without his rhetoric and his vernacular. well, how long are they going to wait for? i mean, the voting starts in two weeks. i feel like this is the theory we ve been hearing better part of a year. and the polling a year ago looked like ron desantis might be able to do that and once the candidates
trump? and when you think about who would beat donald trump you think about the 77,000 voters. you think about who can get those people back, or the case which i think warren is making and sanders is making, they also make electability arguments, the person you think has the best ideas. and i think there are some interesting polling data around how democrats are thinking about that. but i think that s where it gets complicated i think for democrats. because if you re voting on if you re a democrat and you re voting on what you think the best ideas are, you can look at polling that says your version of the best idea is not very popular with general election voters. you go issue after issue that came up last night. having a medicare for all program that gets rid of private insurance. that s two-one popular with democrats. you re going win a democratic primary if it s just on ideas and just democratic voters. flip it around and ask about general election voter, 54-41 opposition. you s
compatibility, what s more important to you, best chance of beating trump, 58% there, agreement on the issues 39%. that s the old al davis thing from the oak aland raiders, jus win, baby. watching it last night i was struck, there are all of the arguments and all of these conversations democrats are having, democratic voters are having about the question of electability. it s interesting to me there s a challenge for some of the candidates who have electability arguments, how do you convey it in a way that doesn t make it sound like a political science film? i was listening to klobuchar talk in philadelphia about it and it fascinates but you re right about that. but that s a tricky balancing act. in some ways you want to be able to speak on a granular level she did but you need to make big, broad themes like that and sell yourself. there s some concern that people
first, though. that s the thing. see, that s such a democratic thing. there s two thing that democrats do. look what happened to us. i m not recommending it. don t try this at home. is gillibrand on the stage with biden? let me look. so there you go. she needs a breakthrough moment. she s defined herself as a candidate for women. my gosh, if she doesn t what is? . mayor pete is going to have to come after him as well for being old school. i was saying this all along. who s going to be the dick gephardt? who is the person who s going to go on the suicide run? i m going to take down the big guy because that s my moment. i don t think bernie sanders and harris have to do that. they re not going to have to go after joe biden. they re going to be making electability arguments. it s going to be about issues. it can t be ugly. it can t be personal.
there you go, here s the perfect, she needs a break through moment. she s defined herself as a candidate of women. women for women. my gosh, if she doesn t it s not hard to predict gillibrand s moment. and mayor pete is going to come after him as being for being old school. i said who s gonna be the john kasickasich, who s going t on the suicide run. i don t think bernie sanders and harris have to do that, they don t have to go after joe biden. they re going to make electability arguments. i think it s going to be about issues. it can t be ugly, personal, it probably will be ugly but it can t be personal. . personal? i don t i don t think the base wants that. i agree with you. i think there s a hunger for how are you going to move us forward? we are in a dire straight, how