build her momentum. he s off the campaign trail for a couple of days. we are getting to that point where every day counts. stick a bernie sanders is splitting up that progressive vote. now that he might be taken away from the campaign trail for some duration, it might further propel her. neil: in a respectable way, this idea that she will never win a general election. she couldn t get further than that. that might be to the president s favor. in recent polls, she actually was ahead of biden. that is because some bernie sipped on my supporters are shifting towards her i will say this. there is a lot more enthusiasm
you and senator sanders agree a lot when it comes to policy. you clearly have mutual respect between you two as individuals, there s a lot of overlap in your supporters and admirers. you re both so popular right now in this primary that it s possible that you two may split the progressive vote down the middle, thus resulting in a more centrist candidate winning the nomination instead of either of you. how do you and senator sanders avoid that fate? look, i ve been friends with bernie what feels like forever and forever, certainly long, long before i ever got into politics at all. the first town hall i ever did was for bernie up in vermont when i was still teaching. but i see this as where we are right now is we re just out there, everybody is, making your case for your vision of what it would mean to have for you to be in the white house, what your case is for the argument for what we need to do as a country. and i think that s a good and healthy thing to happen, to get a lot of pe
we re joined again live by senator elizabeth warren, a democrat who is in the democratic contention for president for 2020 i want to ask you about what you were just talking about before the break, this idea of change from the inside, from a person inside government being made possible and being essentially effectuated by a big movement. that s something i ve had a lot of conversations with senator bernie sanders about you and senator sanders agree a lot when it comes to policy. you clearly have mutual respect between you two as individuals, there s a lot of overlap in your supporters and admirers. you re both so popular right now in this primary that it s possible that you two may split the progressive vote down the middle, thus resulting in a more centrist candidate winning the nomination instead of either of
for this moral revolutionary during changes that they are seeking to implement and run on, it could be that it s not going to stick, biden s voters, biden s supporters support him no matter what and are going to stick with him through this. i think tom s halves these numbers of memories but for our number viewers here we go. bernie sanders is just below 70%. this is what it but there are two things holding biden up right now, the fact the progressive vote is being split between sanders and worn because they have more support than he does if you combine them. and then is a support among african-americans and that it s his firewall. the problem is and i ve said before, between february 3rd when i will vote and february 29th when south carolina votes, if joe biden doesn t win in iowa or come in a close second and if he doesn t finish first or a close second in new hampshire, that s a long three weeks and we can come a lot will happen in the time if he seen us not being able to sort of
their early 20s for insurance coverage when it s all gone? that s exactly right. we fought an election in 2018 largely on this very issue. and part of the reason democrats were able to win the house back was because they were making the strong case for protections obamacare has meant for working people, middle class families. that s something obviously vice president biden was integral in getting that done and that s been a cornerstone of his campaign and something you re going to hear him talking about tonight. as long as bernie and elizabeth are dividing up the progressive vote you guys can win. but the minute bernie drops out or elizabeth drops out it s you against the progressive left which is beating you right now 2 to 1. how do you beat a united left? i think what you re seeing in the polls today is actually more democrats are aligned with the kinds of policies and the argument that joe biden is making than they are with, you know, as you would describe the far left of the