into labor market. hard to move up the ladder. food and goods are more expensive. i don t have as much controversial his healthcare spending anymore. and people want a candidate that connects with them on those issues. that is going to be more important than the details of their economic policies. so the moderators say they will pin the candidates down on such questions. eric, do you think they will? we ll have to wait and see. we ve had three debates so far, carol. and so far the fundamentals of this race have not changed. trump and carson continue to dominate the field. none of the candidates have been successful in challenging their policy positions. and with respect to ben carson, sometimes those policy positions can be perplexing. and with respect to mr. trump, those policy positions are at odds often times with the republican base. which gets know a larger point. and that is in the these
jon: eric fehrnstrom from the republican side. chris comean necessary from the democratic comean. thank you. we re a nation that emmuch better to have people empower decisions for themselves. that is you can t fix something that was a failure from the start. we have to start over. when i become president i will work immediately to repeal and replace obamacare with a system that looks more like the successful enterprises and successful systems of our great country. jenna: a lot to focus on democrats today, but republicans on the move as well. jeb bush is one on the campaign trail, revealing a plan to repeal and replace obamacare. the former florida governor says his plan will cut costs and also expand consumer options. it is a worth a closer look. peter barnes from the fox business network is doing just that he is live in our washington bureau. peter? reporter: jenna, jeb bush timed his announcement on the
up for their first face off and we have first polls in the democratic field. they show among other things that hillary clinton is losing support as the democratic nominee preference. she is down 16 points since june and bernie sanders and still undecided vice president biden gained some ground. 10 and eight percentage points respectively. we have eric fern strom, former mitt romney advisor on his 2008 and 2012 campaigns. chris kofinis, former director of communications for senator john edwards. welcome to you both. with the numbers should the hillary clinton campaign be nervous? well if you re a smart campaign you re always nervous. you have to approach that. you have to approach things. she is still got a commanding lead. her numbers have clearly fallen. i can tell you, i think, there are some challenges they have to address. des moines doing, i was doing focus groups, predebate focus groups last night with iowans, and i can tell you from that one group, they love her expe
going to be a hoot to watch that one i think will be a show-stopper, because i d like to hear and i don t know if you re taking suggestions or anything, but i sure would love to hear donald trump responding to what he would do, for example, about paid leave. i haven t heard what he said, but certainly the others have been saying it. what he said about carly fiorina today, people have said he s a chauvinist pig, he s not a big, he s a parrot. he s saying what is going on behind the scenes. he wants to shut down the government on planned parenthood. why love to hear whether he agrees with all of the rest of them on the violence against women act, or on raising the minimum wage, where you ve got two thirds of women who are affected. let s hear what he says about that. okay. eric, let me ask you, you ve been through many, many presidential debates with governor romney. if you were vising donald trump,
sanders. the vermont senator remains relatively level in national polls, did you has rallied in early states, now tied in iowa, and ahead of clinton in new hampshire. could you see yourself being president of the united states? increasingly, yes. but many voters cannot, according to a new cnn/orc poll, even though sanders is really challenging clinton in the two early states. jake, only 13% say he s likely to be the nominee 22% think biden. 5% think clinton. thank you, brianna. let s talk about this, with our panel. jennifer gran hod many, and political consultant eric fehrnstrom. thanks to both of you for joining muss. governor granholm, you served as an advisory to a proh clinton super-pac. as you know, the importance of poll numbers isn t necessarily