toss-up race among four or five people and then you have trouble if you re joe biden. with all the noise today, something threatened to get lost.fo let s hear mayor pete. rhodes scholar, gave a speech today on foreign policy. this administration has embraced and emboldened autocrats while alienating democrats and allies around the globe. we need a strategy.s not just to deal with individual threats, rivalries and opportunities, but to manage r global trends that will define the balance of this half century in which my generation will live the majority of our lives. a.b. stoddard, what has become such a central question of this campaign, staying power, running room, how much power does that man have? i think we all know he s going to have a great debate. we all know that the people who are gravitating to pete buttigieg just trust him.at they don t even need to look at his plans. they trust his intellect and
the president today raised questions about your age. he raised questions about whether you have the stamina to run for president. there s been a lot of questionsu about your schedule and that it s been a little lighter. than some of the other candidates. look at him and look at me and answer the question. you answer the question. will you please answer the question? it s self-evident. you know it s a ridiculous assertion on his part.se anyway, look, people have a right to question all of our ages. that s totally a legitimate thing. all i can say is watch me. now, as to the new york times reference to polls that are capturing the president s ef attention in the latest quinnipiac nationwide survey, quinnipiac nationwide survey, ac joe biden now leads the president by 13 percentage points in a hypothetical generally election matchup. though general elections a collection of 50 separate elections. that same poll shows five other democratic hopefuls, bernie sanders, kamala harri
all these other polls, the most important poll of the last few days has been the des moines po register poll over the weekend which did show joe biden had lost a little altitude there and others had gained. now you have very clear top tier, five people on the democratic side, and the people moving up right now, mayor pete and elizabeth warren, the peopli moving down right now have been bernie sanders and joe biden. not dramatically but the trajectory is not what you want to see if you re joe biden. i believe he s down four points in that poll from the previous one in iowa. and that s where it starts. when donald trump calls him 1% joe biden, he s talking about s 2008 where he had to drop out the next day. they re going to be watching those iowa polls pretty closely, i would say, in biden world. if you see others tick up and his tick down, it becomes as tooff race ce
they re looking for different options. people are looking for a liberal or more progressive alternative to biden. l i hear that all the time. sometimes that he may be bernie sanders. sometimes that may be elizabeth warren. but people want to back a winner and that seems to be the thing here. so when it was beto o rourke launching his campaign and it seemed like all the excitement was around him, he benefitted. when pete buttigieg had a moment, he benefited. a lot of people said warren was their other favorite candidate in this race. yes, there is that big gap between joe biden and the rest of the field, but you still have to think with the debates coming up there s a lot of room for other folks to gain if biden appears to slip. if you let any air out of that balloon, the momentum works the same way coming down, i think. t and we might see some of that happen once we get into the debates and start to see all these candidates lined up together on the same stage. a.b., i want to play fo