to contrast their own accomplishments and what they would do moving forward versus what he has to offer. that s the nature of being the front-runner. you know, a lot of folks say that he did badly in the first debate. he certainly didn t shine, versus his opponents. but he is still the front-runner. you saw a couple of polls come out recently, both nationally as well as in the early states, and they look really good for joe biden. what that means going into the second debate is that there s going to be even a bigger focus on him in terms of trying to knock him down a couple of notches by his rivals. uh-huh. i want to get to the polls in a moment. first, kelly, we ve also seen cory booker coming after biden, calling him the architect of mass incarceration, and biden questioning local police practices during booker s time in newark. how effective is the strategy of booker going after biden? we ve seen harris do this effectively in this last debate. do you think it will work for cory bo
when senator barack obama went into south carolina more than eight years ago, the lead of secretary clinton evaporate. i m from south carolina, and i would draw no comfort from the place that vice president biden is in the lead at this moment. it s still early, and it s a crowded field. and a lot more will happen and has to happen. let me ask you quickly a sentence i never expected that it would come up in our conversation. let me ask but a$ap rocky. the president tweeted several times about the american rapper who was jailed in sweden. he tweeted sweden has let our african-american community down in the united states. as the former president and ceo of the national association for the advancement of colored people, where does the case and justice for a$ap rocky fall in the rank of issues that this
biden, and harris. instead, i think harris and bernie are going to let the voters decide based upon the merits of their policy. they re going to trust the voters to make a decision based upon the details they ve laid out as what they would do for a president. that s more to their style, that plays to their strategy to win this race. yeah. we will certainly be watching on both nights. kelly and maria, thank you both. thank you so much. thank you. see you soon. the lineups are set for the cnn democratic presidential debates. two big nights. ten candidates each night, tuesday and wednesday at 8:00, live from detroit. only on cnn. now a win for the white house as the supreme court said the president can use billions of pentagon dollars to build a border barrier. the high court overturned a lower court decision allowing the money to be spent while the legal fight continues. while the battle is not over, the president is declaring