this is real stuff. i was one of the people woo didn t like the strategy. my message to the people who employed the strategy and have the opponents you wanted to have, you better win. there s a lot at stake now. are we seeing the extreme candidates moderating when they have to run in a general? let s use kari lake in an example. there are a lot of republicans here who thought lake, in order to seal the deal on her republican nomination here would try to moderate and try to be a conservative but be somebody who can present yourself as a great general election candidate. she didn t do it. she ran to paul go start and wendy rogers and she won. despite $18 million being spent against her. compared to her campaign spending just 3.5 million. these candidates they are viable. in large part, we saw in 2020,
reporting on this that team trump is not laughing off elizabeth warren in nearly the fashion that they did a year ago when all of them were practically begging for her to be the 2020 general election candidate against donald trump. all right. sara, what was your reaction to those new numbers, warren surging ahead of former vice president biden? it shows to me that she s been playing the long game here. she has invested these resources early, she has so many staff in iowa, she s been playing this very carefully and avoiding the spotlight in some ways, but she has really been on the ground working this hard and it doesn t surprise me to see her at the top of that poll. sara, asawin, thank you so much for joining me this morning. coming up, the tax return fight. what to make of new york s effort to get eight years worth of tax returns from the president. years worth of tax returns from the president. every day, visionaries are creating the future.
do. but this idea i m not interested in apologizing, you know, that i can play the game just as well as you do, that could very well work in a general election. also, you never get anything for the apology. in a relationship you get something for the apology. i say something, you apologize. how he says cory booker should apologize to me, for what? when the president does it, what happens over time? when was the last time you saw the media reward someone for saying they were sorry or that they made a mistake? media is not the friend of these people. what this has exposed is if you deny it long enough, if you push back and say let alone it s subjective, i don t think i did anything wrong, it s not a matter of fact, you ll go away. you have to go away. joe biden s problem is he s a great general election candidate. he has to survive a primary going to cannibalize people like
have heard the last of michael cohen. representative elijah cummings said he would like to invite michael cohen back to capitol hill to testify once more. dave and christine. boris sanchez there. a new poll shows americans find the president is lying about the russia investigation. in the nbc poll, 62% think the president is not honest of russia. a new cnn poll has mixed news for the president. from the first in the nation caucus state. 2/3 of iowa republican voters would definitely vote to reelect mr. trump if the general election were held today. the caucus is to pick the 2020 general election candidate. nearly 2/3 of the polled said the state party should welcome
to be president. he believes he can beat president trump. if you look at the clinton-trump presidential election, i think joe would do very well in the swing states. he is really the number one surrogate for democrats going into the mid terms. so i think he feels really good about his chances if he was going to run. ainsley: do you think he has a good chance. i think he would have a great chance if he runs, he is a great general election candidate. the democratic primary will be fascinating. it will be like the republican primary probably a couple of years ago. you know, the democratic party is a little interesting. i think we will go back to more like a 2008 election than a 2016 election. rasmussen poll did a recent poll whereby 73% thought they would want a fresh face. the odds are biden and senator warren and sanders. you know, there is some really fresh, interesting faces. ainsley: is it too risky to put a fresh face out there,