elizabeth warren? his wealth tax is far more aggressive than hers. his policy proposals are much more aimed at bringing todown billionaires. he calls himself a socialist and she says that she is a capitalist. they don t like what bernie sanders says either. but i think that the fundamental difference and probably exacerbated by the health scare that bernie sanders has had in the last few days is they don t think that he can win. but they do believe that she can win and polling is telling us that she is pulling up to even or passing joe biden on a national basis. she has passed him in a recent iowa poll. so she is the candidate with the momentum in the race. we haven t heard her fundraising number, expect that it will be substantial. and i think that it is pretty clear that when somebody is on track to compete seriously as a finalist for the nomination and is proposing the policies that
fundraising number for the second quarter, but when you look at the polls in early states or nationally, he s sort of in the fourth or fifth position in the top tier of democratic candidates. when you look at his candidacy, he was virtually unknown months ago. it s possible that people are still getting to meet him, and his day job, unlike some of his fellow contenders in the race is fairly demanding, especially recently as he deals with the fallout of the police-involved shooting in south bend. so he hasn t been on the campaign trail as much as some of his fellow candidates. but come december 31st when his final term in office is over, he will be free to do much more campaigning six, seven days a week. one of the interesting things to me about his fundraising strategy is that he s pairing these sort of large donor events with smaller donor grassroots events where people can get in for 5, 10, 15, $20 and you really see that in his second
new york city won the week. nothing can hold this city down even with the mayor way in a different state. they re like we re going to hold it together. it was an amazing day for new york city. new york city came back from a blackout. god bless you, new york city. y all won the week. beat that. i want to do a lightning round before we go. who politically won the week this week? tara, who do you think of the democratic candidates running? that s a tough one. i would have to say elizabeth warren because of her fundraising number. people forget her campaign was on life support at one point with respect to fundraising. so the numbers that she put up especially given that they were from small donors, i think that s huge. all right. fernan? i time president elizabeth warren starts trending on twitter, i double down on what tara said. elizabeth warren. she also had big policy statement this week on immigration which i think set the tone again for the
challenge to mitch mcconnell but yesterday voiced very different opinions about judge kavanaugh saying first in an interview that she saw nothing in his record that would disqualify him and then later on twitter offering an apology suggesting she would have voted no for his confirmation and saying she disappointed some of her supporters. it s the same idea. is this a moment where you could work with the other side, that you could work with republicans could hurt her chances or is that something you need to do in kentucky at the risk of alienating the sort of liberal energy that seems to be behind her according to that fundraising number? i think the most important thing that amy mcgrang can th cs just be amy mcgrath. you have people trying to calculate the most salient condition and the position that s going to appeal to the largest number of people, which
in the polls. today as everyone is getting ready to head out to the holiday weekend and they re dealing with that fallout, we saw the biden campaign take that opportunity to put out that fundraising number, $21 million. it s not as high as pete buttigieg. but the biden campaign pointing out they hadn t been in the race for that full 90-day period. if you average it out, per day, he did in fact raise more money than any contenders at least from who we ve heard so far. 90% of donations come from small donors from grassroots supporters in less than $200 increments. and they re high-dollar fundraising as well. what s important to know and the biden campaign also wants to point out a dollar for joe biden low it s a lot longer than a dollar for even kamala harris. we talk about it a lot on our air but maybe the average voter doesn t have a lot of recognition in. biden is putting that money into