fall in love and republicans fall in line but you see the democrats falling in line. he has trouble on historical grounds and he s not, you think about the rising coalition of the democratic party, he s not a great representative of that. we also see him citing polls and electability early and those are not normal this early in the race. there is a certain fear among some of vice president biden s allies that once fall begins and they start to pay attention to past votes, the 1984 crime bill and intervention in iraq, do those issues start to haunt him in a new way once voters start paying attention. for now, he s been able to escape a lot of scrutiny in the debate and hit a lot of issues but they haven t knocked him down. it will only get more intense as candidates clamor to stay in
congress. that s the reason the republicans in the senate and for the house for the most part, continue to support trump. that may end, particularly if the economy deteriorates anymore from this point on, you will see republicans who feel beholdened to trump emboldened to depart from him. i am mystified by joe biden thinking it is a great talking point and strength of his candidacy he can work with republicans. i agree it s a myth to say you can work with mitch mcconnell. those republicans not represented by donald trump leaves the door open a crack. does he need to do that now? maybe later. one of the big selling points with joe biden, i can actually get things done and get legislation passed. at some point you have to work with republicans, no matter who
candidates. what people thought about cory booker, beto o rourke and kamala harris, and they are not getting the traction, at least at the moment. it tells you how sober and serious the electorate has been, not that they re not senator candidates. i m struck by the kamala harris numbers. i think she s a strong candidate. why would she have dropped so precipitously. maybe there was a backlash to how hard she hit joe biden. maybe there is not an appetite beating up on the front-runner. a price to be paid for somebody that looks like they re creating or enhancing the circular firing squad. i will ask you the question. she got the lift people thought she would get after the first debate. you saw her polls go up. she had not a great second debate and looked uncertain and got hit pretty hard by tulsi gabbard. i know the people in her campaign thought that was a bad
controls the senate. you have to work across the party lines if you want to get the legislation through. i understand this not moment we re in but i don t think it s necessarily a gaffe. i will ask bob costa. my perception, this is not a mistake joe biden is making. he s doing it intentionally. the reason is because they have polling that suggests a lot of other campaigns looked at, too, although there is a part of this democratic party fired up for total war with republicans ad infinitum, ad nauseam forever, they have a lsu for blood and teeth on the floor, forever after, there are a lot of democrats, who make up a big churning of the democratic nominating electorate, still believe in the barack obama part of the case we can still disagree without being disagreeable. somehow there is a way towards progress. that s what the biden people are
early race. do you think there are parallels? i think there are parallels. this is like 2016, donald trump was ahead in the race and they kept waiting for it to change and other candidates to coalesce him and never did from day one. joe biden has come up with a formula very very appealing to the moment, this is not a normal campaign. what he s saying is, this is not the time for the revolution, a time for a return to normalcy, for those outraged and those exhausted by donald trump. we can have this debate about the details and policies but delay it until job one is done, getting rid of donald trump. frankly, notice that ad he released today did not mention iowa. that was a general election ad. he is immediately casting himself not in contrast with other democrats, this is what i would look like and the message