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campaign has always been. but for the first time you re hearing it not in sanders voice, you re hearing the same message briepis repeated by an average joe. it reminds me your optimism is wonderful about the fact that you think we re going to know the day after the iowa caucus who wins, but i remind you, we could be in a recount, an iowa recount. you never know. even if it s close, if there s no clear winner, that is part of dynamic. it s interesting that it s this close. the candidates know we have to spend our money. yeah. clearly with biden and warren they re very much sticking to the message they ve had the whole time, warren being this sort of policy wonk, talking about climate change and biden saying, look, i m already a leader. but the change with bernie, he s expanding his base or say it s more than the bernie bros that are behind me. we ll see if it works. buttigieg spent more than that. he s at $5 million.
that he is a policy wonk. both he and george kent remembered dates really well. they reflected on history, really particularly, and so i think they did display themselves as not folks who wanted to be star witnesses for the democrats but folks who were there to tell the facts. both of them, kent and taylor, they weighed in on the role of rudy guilliani in all this diplomacy. listen to this. was mr. guiliani promoting u.s. national interests or policy in ukraine, ambassador? i don t think so, ma am. mr. kent? no, he was not. what interests do you believe he was promoting, mr. kent? i believe he was looking to dig up political dirt against a potential rival in the next election cycle. ambassador taylor? what interests do you believe he was promoting? i agree with mr. kent.
the american people about issues affecting them. but we won t take the punches lying down. and vice president believes this is serious. we are at a remarkable moment in history and we all have to be willing to stand on the side of truth, justice, oto reservprese constitution. and i hear everything that you are saying. i m a policy wonk. but today it is easier to talk about policy stuff from elizabeth warren than joe biden because unfortunately you are still talking about this situation. ali, look, we believe that this is about donald trump. so the questions that come up when every time a trump henchman or the trump campaign tries it assert that vice president biden did anything untoward, tries to assert a lie that there was something fishy going on, anytime that comes up, the
now you have a poll that proves it. warren and biden tied statistically but warren on top in iowa. how does that change the race? well, it changes the race because it confirms i think what we ve seen anecdotally in the early states, the energy around warren s campaign is very real. she s not the policy wonk that i think a lot of people thought she would be. she s warm and engaging and it shows that biden as a front-runner really is fragile. it s something we ve been talking about for several months and i think it is a real thing. the other thing that hasn t changed is that the people below warren and biden, with the exception of maybe bernie sanders, are really struggling to find a foothold here and time is starting to run out. we are into the fall and the caucuses are within sight and one of them is going to have to find a way to make a move. on the one hand, 19 weeks is a long time and on the other hand it s not a long time. you have halloween and