republicans and democrats, if they share one thing, it s disgust with politics as usual. he s a new face as a nonpolitician, it helps him. he s going to be a factor if he runs in this race and he is actively exploring it right now. can he be the nominee? that would take on obama-like lightning bolt. he was a fox news contributor but no longer because he is thinking about running for that republican presidential nomination. what about the democratic side? no clear front-runner. 65% look at, this hillary clinton, 65%. the republicans look at a muddled field. she s the overwhelming choice of democrats. 10%, elizabeth warren. 9%, joe biden. bernie sanders at 5%. andrew cuomo at 1%. if you look at this, if hillary clinton doesn t run, it gets interesting. loyalty to joe biden, the vice president, jumps to the top at 41%. but look at elizabeth warren. she doubles to 20%.
evangelical bookstores. we re seeing he s not a politician and republicans are disgusted with washington so they re looking at him as an outsider who could run. but if you look at this, i ve been doing this for 30 years, never have you seen a republican field so wide open. interesting. so what about the democratic side? that s a very different calculation. no front-runner on the republican side? look at the numbers on the democratic side. hillary clinton 65%. wow! that s jeb bush would look at those and be envious. elizabeth warren at 10%. if clinton doesn t run that gets interesting. joe biden at 9%. bernie sanders at 5%. if clinton doesn t run, carol, and we all expect she will run and we expect we ll hear from her in a month or two, the loyalty to joe biden, loyalty to joe biden kicks in there. but if you re elizabeth warren and hillary clinton doesn t run, you re looking at that number and smiling because you think the liberal base wants you to run. again, remember, we sh
those are unforced errors. i think the elizabeth warren folks see an opening. on the left, how big is the problem president obama is too conservative. that s who elizabeth warren would be going after. i don t know how many they are. one other thing about the economy being everything here. leadership is the issue. it s leadership whether it s on foreign policy or the economy. that s true. she s not projecting. but liberals like hillary clinton right now. they like her more than they did in 2007 and 2008. they are coalesced behind her. they believe it s her turn. they like somebody that s change, different. you re seeing it on both sides. that s why rand paul is exciting. if hillary clinton doesn t run let me ask you about republican party. chris christie is having a tough go in our poll as chuck todd described. he had a pretty good trip to iowa as people aren t as
everything here. leadership is the issue, and it s leadership whether it s on foreign policy or the economy. it s true. that perhaps he s not projecting. but liberals like hillary clinton right now. in fact, they like her a lot more than they did in 2007, 2008. they are coalesced behind her. they believe it s her turn. they like the idea of somebody that s change, that s different. this is why the rand paul thing is so exciting. we can talk about the divisions in the republican party. if hillary clinton doesn t run, we ll see let me ask you about the republican party. chris christie is having a tough go in our poll as chuck todd described. he had a pretty good trip to iowa where people aren t as concerned about traffic over the gw bridge as the media might be. i think it s probably helped him with conservatives. anytime the media takes you on, it s a good thing. long term the fact that the federal prosecutors are still looking into him, until he gets out from under that a
want to be there every day for the next ten years. is elizabeth warren the front-runner if hillary clinton doesn t run? we don t know if she will run and she s got to make a we don know if she s going to run. i ll say what i know about hillary clinton, when faced with tough decisions they tends to do what the responsible thing to do. we ll see at the end of this year what she thinks as they looks at those opportunities. i would not immediately say that elizabeth warren is the front-runner. we don t know where people will be. i think there will be a laud of adjusting there. she herself said she wanted her term in the senate six years. let s look at those. i would say this, i m a great admirer. i campaign eed hard for her. obviously very popular. i don t think you can go back in american politics, certainly not 50, 60 years, and this fallout, even before the midterm election