and i think kamala is going to take some of tat african-american vote from biden. remember what s happening now in the spin room there s two things. candidate staff doing one thing. sometimes it s not related to what the candidates are doing, and that s going around the room giving interviews. that s going to do it for this first post-hour of our coverage and now midnight eastern time has arrived as hour two of our post-debate coverage continues. nicolle wallace, in the last hour since we re talking about breaks, you indicated we hadn t talked about bernie. we haven t, and i m curious why. are people not that into him this time? are you looking at me? my oldest child, my daughter was a bernie person. the last time i had in my household one bernie and one hillary voter. and this time, you know, before this debate happened, she named her favorites as kamala harris, elizabeth warren and what she called youth pastor beto because he reminds her of a youth
there s the sconceitant factor, most democrats feel good about his service with president obama, his knowledge of foreign policy and his good spirits. biden has also benefitted from the absence of candidates competing in his lane. had michael bloomberg entered the democratic race if any of them had raced biden s towering lead would be substantially lower right now. his great advantage is he hasn t had to share the vote for his kind of candidate. elizabeth warren has been campaigning hard and at bernie s expense. this means the voters on the hard left have two front runners of which to choose. looking ahead at the debates i see the three front runners, biden, one bernie and warren fa serious challenges. i expect pete buttigieg would make a good run-down the center left putting a challenge to biden. akened dt first test now is to outrun the candidate who offer
democratic socialists muscular fund-raising and sound encourages that the strength of his candidate could define the candidates as a more liberal group. many are borrowing proposals that he championed last time like tuition college or medicare for all. that is a good haul. significantly more than kamala harris raised in her first day. bernie sanders will force democrats to lurch further to the left, further to the progressive socialist side of the democratic party. you re seeing candidates trying to out-bernie bernie. there s only one bernie and he s in the race now. so voters have a choice between the person that brought democratic socialist policies into the primary process and others that have made the ideas part of their platform. charles? charles: thanks, peter. i appreciate it. with the 2020 field growing,
record on gun control. hold ground on any attack for her fight for progressive values. question sanders how he intends to pay for trillions of dollars in new initiatives. guy, you re shaking nodding your head. i have to tell you, coming up later this afternoon at townhall.com i have a story coming out. on my ride up here this morning on the train, someone very close to clinton world, let s put it that way was having a very loud conversation in my train car. ow oh. another one. about the debate, had very choice comments about the vice president. very choice comments about bernie sanders. talking about the debate and it is very clear they want to go after bernie on gun control because it is very popular issue with liberal base. one bernie is to his left. progun in blue state vermont that is in favor of second amendment gun rights. that is vulnerability they may