question, that moves. nobody signs an oath in august and says i will not change. flaskt if you look at early state polls. this is where i think biden and others may need to worry a little bit. 50% or right around that in the early states people responding say i might change my vote and support. and electability is a subjective question. you know, and i foe from working for johnier down double digits at this point. barack obama was down double digits at this point. there is a linc way to go. and so i don t think bidden can rest on the laurels at this point. to the point jenn makes though death down double digits. who can can rise? at this point anyone could. especially if people fall out of love with i had biden. kamala harris is the other streaking. 13 points down since the surge from the first debate. where she had the moment obviously calling out joe biden on busing. she is now become to where she was before that first debate. she surged and she is all the way back down. what does
a detailed analysis of what his busing position was in the 1970s, it s going to get worse and worse for joe biden. because he did hang onto an anti-busing position long after most democrats gave up including a southern democrat from north carolina who said i m opposed to busing, i didn t want it, but it s been working for the last few years and joe biden was trying to stop it even then in 1978. and one of his biggest opponents at the time was a the only black senator in the senate whose capital city was in the throes of this. so the story for joe biden on busing is actually a more durable controversy than the one of it way he talked about the segregationist senators in the fund-raiser. and there s a part of kamala harris story about busing she didn t finish and she will. and it s when she got off that bus because of busing, she got a great education. and that great, great education has her standing there tonight.
you re talking about all the things you want to do on guns but you re leaving these guns on the street. why not buy them back? and similarly congressman swalwell going to pete buttigieg on the officer involved shooting, saying you should fire the chief if the officer wasn t wearing a body cam. not suggesting he was the guy who mastered that dynamic, but it was the kind of thing where they knee each other records and they have critique ready for each other. i don t think this is gloves off primary anymore, and i think it s on substance, and i think everybody s capable of defending themselves and i think that s good. i think that for us watching the whole room changed when kamala harris took on vice president biden on the issue of busing and put herself in the story and really did what some people had talked about doing but no one had done. it felt different watching. did it feel different moderating? yes, that was one of those things where, you know, you feel the weather shift. and
address the fact that it was just wrong. and it it dispenses with also the relevance of the federal government to step in on civil rights issues where states have failed, which is why we had the civil rights act and the voting rights act. you thought he was hedging. well, we have a different perspective on it. brian williams and also nicolle wallace in new york. if vice president biden had handled it differently, used different language, would we be having this conversation? if he had said i was one of a hundred and i couldn t eoverturn the election results in the southern states of the people i served with but our job was to pass laws, do you for example respect all of the personal and legislative histories of your 99 colleagues in the senate today? brian, i i find it difficult to relate the reputation and history and actions and words of those two
issues. we knew that the issue of vice president biden s recent comments were going to come up. we were prepared with what senator harris had said to the press previously in response to those questions. we were prepared on all of their record in terms of race not only contemporaneously but in the past, and all of them have some interesting revolutions on racial issues or at least most of them do. but for senator harris to take upon herself to raise the issue of his comments about the segregationist senators and then to prosecute the case against him, and i think that s how she put it, on busing and to hound vice president biden, explain himself on busing in a way that neither of them was backing down. and she did it with such emotion, i mean that was a moment that any time you re preparing for debate, you know, that s the moment that you want. but in this case it had nothing to do with us. that was the candidates bringing that themselves, and it was magic in the moment. rachel, i wan