he can defeat prutrump. that should be the plank in the perform. his appeal is, remember me? i m back. i got this, guys. he s talking about electability. there s a reason he said beat trump like 19 times. but he s trying to make the case that the democratic party is not divided. for all of the talk about the progressive insurgency taking over the party, he s very popular. and he s going to be able to unite all of the wings of the party. what he was saying is let s deal with that later. i can get that done and i can win here. for those of us that are hold enough to remember 2016, these electability numbers go up and down. it s hard to look at a poll and take it seriously this far out. but biden is making the case. we can talk about the deals and the legislative goals, but he said this explicitly, we can t do any of this unless we beat
of our polling last week. only after some of the initial polls came out that we started seeing a big rise from him on thursday night and a bigger spike going into friday night. we got together on saturday morning and saw the final numbers. his numbers have rocketed. here is something that s really important to remember, ed. his electability numbers where republicans are saying who offers the best shot at toppling the president are nowhere near mitt romney at 47%. gingrich, despite his incredible collapse is polling in at 13% and rick santorum s numbers are only at 7% as it relates to electability. i think there are still some republicans that are looking closely at that. i think that s a good point. let me make a point with the republicans. i don t think that undid me in iowa eight years ago when they felt john kerry was more electable. i don t think the republican voters in iowa care that much about lekt ability.
seeing a big rise from him on thursday night then an even bigger spike going into friday night. we got together on saturday morning, we saw the final numbers. his numbers just rocketed. here s something that s really important to remember, ed. his electability numbers where republicans are saying who offers the best shot at toppling the president next november are nowhere near mitt romney. gingrich despite his incredible collapse in the poll is polling in at 13%. rick santorum numbers are only 7% as it relates to electability. there are a lot of republicans i was going to say, i think there are still republicans looking closely at that. yeah. howard? that s a good point. let me make a point about the republicans. i don t think that undid me in iowa eight years ago. they felt john kerry was more electable. his numbers surged in just the way rick is describing. i don t think the republican voters in iowa care that much about electability. they re more conservative. they re deeply
thursday night then an even bigger spike going into friday night. we got together on saturday morning, we saw the final numbers. his numbers just rocketed. here s something that s really important to remember, ed. his electability numbers where republicans are saying who offers the best shot at toppling the president next november are nowhere near mitt romney. gingrich despite his incredible collapse in the poll is polling in at 13%. rick santorum numbers are only 7% as it relates to electability. there are a lot of republicans i was going to say, i think there are still republicans looking closely at that. yeah. howard? that s a good point. let me make a point about the republicans. i don t think that undid me in iowa eight years ago. they felt john kerry was more electable. his numbers surged in just the way rick is describing. i don t think the republican voters in iowa care that much about electability. they re more conservative. they re deeply evangelical and principled. t
of our polling last week. only after some of the initial polls came out that we started seeing a big rise from him on thursday night and a bigger spike going into friday night. we got together on saturday morning and saw the final numbers. his numbers have rocketed. here is something that s really important to remember, ed. his electability numbers where republicans are saying who offers the best shot at toppling the president are nowhere near mitt romney at 47%. gingrich, despite his incredible collapse is polling in at 13% and rick santorum s numbers are only at 7% as it relates to electability. i think there are still some republicans that are looking closely at that. i think that s a good point. let me make a point with the republicans. i don t think that undid me in iowa eight years ago when they felt john kerry was more electable. i don t think the republican voters in iowa care that much about lekt ability.