candidates. i think the second debase i want to remind people biden, bernie, buttigieg all on one night, you wonder how does that affect the strategy. right. . it seems a bit more what we saw when you have all of the stars crammed on the stage together. it was hard for any of them to break through. does that benefit someone like a biden in this case? i don t know. does it benefit bernie? it s impossible to say until you see what kind of mood they re in, what kind of sleep they had, how on top of their game they are. i think it s i wouldn t venture a guess as to who could outperform anybody on night two just because there s an awful lot of talent on that stage. steve, four candidates didn t make the cut.
1987, it was about family four years ago just after the death of his son beau. you talk about the process being a slow boil here for bide i don t know biden as he gets a little warmer on that every day. it s amazing how much has changed in 30 years and how little has changed. joe biden is a senior statesman in the party, one of the most popular figures in it. he thinks he s probably the best one to win over donald trump. but he s also a father and a grandfather of a family that has had to endure a lot of heart ache and to do so in the public eye. we also talk about the decision of the family is so important as they think about it. with biden, that s especially so. his aides are drilling down and getting ready for a final decision from the vice president. those discussions are as much about the politics, of whether he can win a primary as it is of whether his family is ready.
specifically the concern is about donald trump. they saw in 2016 and have spoken to other democrats that he s shown that there s nothing sacred to him, that he s willing to attack a candidate s family based on the truth and based on lies. so one of the major factors in the coming weeks, biden will be doing one final round of gut check conversations with his children and grandchildren, making sure everyone is ready for the fact that a lot of the family s laundry will be aired in the public and they want to make sure they re comfortable with it. aides insist this is not 2015. he is much closer to saying yes than he was back then. have you seen anything from your reporting that joe is willing to lengthen the field, he doesn t feel compelled to announceneck week. he could wait until the middle of march or maybe even the end of march. we heard that from the vice president just weekend.
voters on the ground in early primary states and strategists and campaign operatives around the party, they re of two minds here. to a lot of people biden has the track record, he is a senior statesman of the democratic party now. he s the closest thing that barack obama has in a political heir. on the other hand if you look at what s animating the democratic base right now, the push for gender equality, the push for racial justice, economic populism, i think a lot of the opponents are looking at his record from the grilling of anita hill and they think his support is soft. i want to get you to the chart when you studied the ideology involving the senate candidates before we do that, i d be remiss to not bring up
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