today. he can mobilize a lot of young people. if he can do it that can he make a dent, but he can t win. especially the minority voters. the good news for him about, a third of the americans don t know who he is. he s known in iowa and new hampshire. so they may like the populist message. but there is a cultural barrier separating him from african-americans and latinos that i m not sure he knows how to cross. ryan lizza did reporting in the new yorker magazine and he got a hold of this memo back in 2007 that then senator barack obama senior staff and polster one of whom works for hillary clinton now wrote how to beat hillary clinton, where is she most vulnerable. they write she s driven by political calculation not conviction. regularly backing away and shifting positions on issues ranging from are war to social security to trade to reform.
able to score political points by opposing it. i don t think she s trying to distance herself from the president. she knows that the president, that the path to nomination of the white house runs through the obama coalition. she s not running for the obama third term, clinton third term. a lot in the democratic party, by distancing herself from the president, on this and other issues. this trade deal was a deal that his base really hated. he had to go with republicans to get that trade deal done. i think she s safe there. if she starts to run up over and over again, not only the flip-flop, but flip-flopping against the president, then she runs into a buzz saw. how much should she use her husband as a surrogate? he s here in las vegas. i don t know if he ll be in the room. eight years ago, he wasn t used that much. he may arguably be the most popular democratic politician out there. breaking news, hillary clinton is area hen woman. married to a famous man and great leader of t
main focus is here in the debate hall. also keeping a close eye on the spin room, top representatives of the campaigns, perhaps candidates themselves, mingling with reporters. cnn s kate bolduan in the spin room what happen do we expect tonight? this is where after the debate the action begins, wolf. yes, a lot is said in this two-hour debate. right afterward, this is what you re going to see. through these doors, you re going to see surrogates from the campaigns or candidates, as we saw with the last republican debate, fronting into the room to speak to you and make their case to the more than 700 members of the credentialed press at the debate. this place is so pack you ve seen these things, spinner sticks this is what you have to hold up in order to see the candidate or their surrogates. you ll see these all throughout the room. why do they come here after having so much to say in the debate? this is where they have to make their case. they often, they declare
that. and both parties this, is enormous pressure to conform. donald trump has changed a lot of positions. h marco rubio has changed his big position. on the tpp moving away from where she had been, it s a kind of a bipartisan problem at this point. guys, stand by. cnn has partnered with a political prediction market to see if the odds for winning the democratic nomination change during tonight s democratic presidential debate. right now hillary clinton is the odds-on favorite to win the nomination even though she s up to 2% since last week. joe biden s odds have dropped 4% in the last week. we ll see if there is a dramatic change in the newspapers ofup i after tonight. go to cnn.com/predict. there is much more ahead as we count down to the cnn
not here. by the way, even if he weren t live tweeting, which i m thrilled he s doing, even if he weren t doing that, he s going to be raised by these candidates, don t you think, because they don t want to fight with each other. they want to talk about donald trump and the republican party. they want him to be the face of the republican party. of course. that s why she went to the hotel yesterday. but the trump effect on the race has been fascinating, one, because of the outsider factor, different in the democratic primary. but number two, republican race will get there, eventually i m sure. yet to be an ideological fight. there s great ideological differences among the candidates but more about personalities because of trump, carson, fiorina. this is an ideological fight between hillary clinton, bernie sanders and others trying to get into the debate about taking the democratic party even more to the left than president obama. when he was elected people said, the country go