bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, pete buttigieg, kamala harris all rounding out the top five, as you see here. we re seeing, though, joe biden with the smaller advantage than seen in recent national polls. natasha, what do you make of it? well, he had really high numbers, around 30%, and a lot of that was just due to name recognition. it was going to be really difficult for him to hold on to that because we already know a lot about him. he s very experienced, but what was likely to happen was there were going to be some other candidates that as democratic voters got to know them, in particular thinking of buttigieg, and to some extent warren, who has been doing a really good job of traveling around the country and really selling what her policies are, that the these candidates would get a bump. we have seen they have had a bump. particularly buttigieg, i think his bump is up 13%. warren is up 6%. so biden slipped a little bit, going down to 24%, and so he s going to have to come in
strong in iowa and differentiate himself from all of these different candidates and why they really need him. he s going to have to explain, again, and again that he probably athe we re still 17 mo, has the best chance of beating trump in a head-to-head, with the latest poll revealing a 2020 matchup would be 53% for biden and 41% for trump. but what a crowded field we have. if we could pull that graphic up again to show if if we have it the democrats running to get the nomination for this general election. so many of them polling in the single digits, natasha. given this crowded field, do they have a chance of breaking out at this point? i really think only five candidates have a chance. biden, of course, sanders, buttigieg, warren and kamala harris. she s the only one, kamala harris has 5%. everybody else is just too far. i don t think beto o rourke or cory booker really have much of a chance at this point, and they
came out, republicans started to turn on richard nixon and his approval rating went down to the low 50s. so it could be that they initiate impeachment. might not be that popular in the beginning, but as the information is revealed and they make the case against the president, they ll be able to get a consensus amongst the u.s. public that this was the way to go. the other legal argument is that if they initiate impeachment they re going to have a wider power to subpoena documents and to get depositions. so it s going to be a really tough decision for them to make, but i still think they re trying to be cautious, lay out the case and eventually some information might be revealed that will lead nancy pelosi to say, okay, i think we need to start initiating impeachment proceedings. natasha lindstaedt with perspective for us. natasha, thank you. thanks for having me. some news to share with you now about former boston red sox star david ortiz. he s now recovering after being shot sev