announcer: this is cnn town hall brought to you by shrm, creating better workplaces for a better world. more information and resources from shrm. joe biden drawing on his blue collar routes to draw a sharp contrast with rival elizabeth warren. at a cnn town hall last night, biden on one hand insisting this isn t personal. on the other saying warren in his view risks alienating critical voters when she said they should run instead to a government medicare for all. the attitude that we know better than ordinary people what s in their interest. i know more than you, let me tell you what to do. and it wasn t elitist, the
general, that she claims to be so proud of. a lot of concerns and a lot of issues raised there. this isn t personal. this is really about making sure the american people have the truthful because that s what this process is all about. it is about understanding how critical the decision is that s before us and the kind of leadership that we seek to bring. do you think she has good answers? if she has, she failed to present them. the answers she s chosen to give has nothing to do with it. she will not address the concerns raised regarding her record that she s said she s proud of that has caused more pain and suffering to people in california. instead of using the position of power, to be that force for positive change to be a champion for the people she claims to be. instead, she used to it further oppress people in an already broken criminal justice system. the only response i ve heard her and her campaign give is to push
the president a racist. the president whom she s tasked this isn t personal. this is in the public you wouldn t want to comment on someone s marriage. but this is playing out shakespearean isn t a good enough term for it. this is playing out in public. but at the end of the day it s stress she s put herself under by standing by a president who doesn t deserve her fidelity quite honestly. i assume it s stress. stress to a degree that most people wouldn t understand. and thus she s asking a question that seems to play directly into what people are accusing the president correctly of. which is racism. listen, i want to put and i want to get your response to this because frank just mentioned kellyanne conway s husband writing this piece for the washington post entitled trump is a racist president. he writes in part, telling four non-white members of congress, american citizens, all three natural born, to go back to the countries they originally came from, that s racist t
hurt our country in terms of the green new deal, in terms of medicare for all, in terms of open borders. so we re talking about the things that unite us, we have a strong, healthy, growing economy and those are the things we ought to be talking about. bill: what the president would argue he would say this isn t personal, it s politics. do you see it more personal than politics based on that answer? well, the way i like to do things is deal with the policy. i m happy to label the policy because it is extreme. it is so far out of the mainstream of america and certainly what i hear about in wyoming every weekend that for many people it s scary. it s not where this country needs to be headed. we need to be headed in the way we re heading right now. take a look at where we are. 50 years since the launch of the flight to the moon today. our economy is the strongest it has been since that day. unemployment numbers way down, wages way up. it s a result of the policies
format, he s being helped from some outside forces as well. i think senator harris and vice president biden have to get off of bussing if they want to help themselves. he s better in the one-on-one interview. our colleague took the poll numbers and polls averaged together. biden down five. harris up ten. not a good look for biden. he seemed personally hurt by kamala harris attacking him in the debate. he brought up his son. they had a close relationship. you hear joe biden say, you know me. you know me. it s very personal for him. that said, the harris campaign said this isn t personal. she was drawing a contrast talk about her experience. she was drawing a contrast about policy during that exchange. politics can be personal but