and reaching out more to african-american voters. direct references to racial issues which he shied away from and, three, taking on the president. i ve listened to a lot of bernie sanders speeches. when he started talking about his personal background, i sat up on my couch because i really have not heard him talk about that. it s a compelling story. i don t know if most people, even the diehard bernie supporters necessarily knew about his father coming over without a nickel in his pocket from poland. and the fact they lived in a rent-controlled apartment and his mother s dream was to get out of that apartment some day. and that dream was never fulfilled. i think it goes to show back in 2016, he absolutely knew what he was doing. he wanted to present the policy contrast to hillary clinton. this time around, maybe he sees that s not going to be enough because the field is so big. go ahead. exactly. i think we re seeing bernie sanders 2.0 in this new race. he sees himself as more of
if i had any of that in my background i would not have gotten a security clearance. that s why the speaker of the house, paul ryan, republican, stripped of his committee assignment on the armed services committee. it s not me, not hillary, it s the republicans. this is a plus ten republican it s a pretty republican district, considered a safe seat before the indictment. it seems to me he could just go after you on the tax cuts and obamacare. he could say i voted for the tax cut bill and my opponent would not have and i voted to repeal obamacare and my opponent would uphold obamacare. is he doing that? he s not doing that and he has ten years of a record to run on. what is he doing? he s acting like an amateur. he is. his dad came out and attacked me at a press conference. he can t stand on his own two feet. three polls have us tied, chris. look at his ad, his ad tells you everything. he s clearly threatened. we have policy contrast. i want to expand medicare.
assignment on the armed services committee. it s not me, not hillary, it s the republicans. this is a plus ten republican it s a pretty republican district, considered a safe seat before the indictment. it seems to me he could just go after you on the tax cuts and obamacare. he could say i voted for the tax cut bill and my opponent would not have and i voted to repeal obamacare and my opponent would uphold obamacare. is he doing that? he s not doing that and he has ten years of a record to run on. what is he doing? he s acting like an amateur. he is. his dad came out and attacked me at a press conference. he can t stand on his own two feet. three polls have us tied, chris. look at his ad, his ad tells you everything. he s clearly threatened. we have policy contrast. i want to expand medicare. he wants to raise the retirement age to 72 years old.
trump defies all of the normal political rules. his people standby him when he says this is the truth. and to be honest, i don t know that any of us could know what e he saw from his apartment on 9/11. but it will be interesting to see cruz really take him on especially in iowa. we have expecting cruz to rise. he s got a really robust fundraising operation. so far he s take an light touch with donald trump that you re starting to see him draw policy contrast. for example, on the database of american muslims. cruz saying he does not agree with trump on that. it could be a really interesting debate as we head sbo the holidays. thank you both. ben, i can t help but think of the great stephen colbert and truthiness. thank you, great writing. major cities across the united states now retraining
can t enjoy even if she s suffering in suffe suffering in new hampshire? should she be careful about where she is heading into this debate. you raise a good point. she is winning everywhere else. for as much as we want to see a horse race and world-class boxing match, this debate is shaping up to look more like a civil mediation session. they re talking nice things about each other. bernie sanders on meet the press hoping to strike a policy contrast with her. she does and she knows this from 2008, need to be careful. she can t take anything for granted. i just don t think you ll see them fighting with each other. you ll see them civilly trying to contrast one another s policies. look, i for one refuse to be upset with more civility in politics. i do think you ll see folks on the down card, to extend the