bookers, like harrises, like klobuchars and people polling lower than that still have a shot here. we re still five months away. even if you have favorites right now, that doesn t necessarily mean they ll be favorites come the caucuses in february. let s talk coming out of iowa. two, maybe 3 if they reach february? if you look back and go all the way back since 1972 like i did and essentially say, okay, the eventual nominee, how did they finish in iowa, pretty much all of them either finished first, second or third. there was just one who finished fourth back in 2008 but that was described with a virtual tie with brett thompson. so it s not surprising that folks like kamala harris are moving to iowa, staking their campaign on it and saying there are basically three tickets out of iowa. based on history there really
are three tickets out of iowa. so candidates like booker who are polling below 5%, they really need to up their game if they want to have any shot at winning the nomination. let s bring in robert zimmerman, democratic strategist for the dem naocratic national committee. let s start first with cory booker. this is not an end of the quarter stunt, this is a real unvarnished look under the hood at a level of transparency unprecedented in presidential politics. $1.7 million he needs in ten days or they don t see a legitimate path forward, never cracked into the top tier. is the writing on the wall for senator booker? either it s a bold political stunt to galvanize his supporters or it s a hail mary pass. but it s very obvious that he is sounding an alarm and clearly it s not just about the low polling numbers, it s just about being able to qualify for the debates, being able to raise the money and show he s got the broad support to keep in the
right now are really entering this crunch time period, trying to make sure that their campaigns are viable and that they can continue moving forward. now, we are here at the polk county steak fry at the cory booker event just before the steak fry. he s actually going to be speaking to supporters and then marching over so potentially we ll hear from the candidate himself in just a few hours. thank you. let s talk about this and the 2020 headlines with harry linton. good morning to you. in addition to the fund-raising problems, challenges that cory booker is having, he s never really cracked into the top tier of candidates. talk about some of these polling numbers we have. yeah, so good morning, by the way. if you take a look at the average of polls in the state of iowa since the last democratic debate, what you essentially see is a top tier between joe biden and elizabeth warren and cory booker is not anywhere near that at all. you see that he s not in the top six, he s below 5%
of course there will be vegan options too. there will have to be for senator booker. you bring up that personal retail hand-to-hand, face-to-face type of politics, but according to the des moines register and we ve got pictures from supporters outside of the polk county steak fry. the top five national candidates at least, only bernie sanders cracks the top ten in the number of visits to the state or events held around the state. you ve got at the very top there john delaney who at the latest iowa poll is 1%. amy klobuchar behind that pretty low. really how much does it matter if this is what we re seeing with the most events. they seem to have the least support. reconcile that. trust me, it matters. now, maybe if you re not a viable candidate it s going to matter a lot less. jim delaney could move there and take up citizenship and pay his
debates and keep his candidacy alive. you re seeing candidates drop out from the overall election once they realize they can t even make it to the debate process. so it s a bold play by him to stay viable. based on the numbers we ve seen, both polling and fund-raising, at the end of the second quarter and the polling that continuing, he may be taking this method to try to raise some money but there s probably a long list of candidates who are facing the same urgency. oh, absolutely, there s no question. you saw mayor de blasio drop out yesterday. you ll see others as the standards get tougher going into the next debate, going into november s debate and january debate. as the standards get tougher to qualify, you ll see more and more candidates drop away. that s just the reality of the process. but iowa certainly is a very important determinant in terms of who can move forward. let s broaden the conversation to iowa and senator kamala harris. early on she prioritized south carolin