top 1%. that s how we beat trump. we expose him for the fraud that he is. yeah, sharp words. and they re necessary. if you remember back in 2016 bernie sanders was essentially a protest candidate. and so he really kept his elbows, you know, to himself. even giving hillary clinton some assists, you know, saying i don t care about your damn e-mails. this time it s different. now he s not just there to push the party to the left, he is there to show he can run the country. now i have my misgivings about whether he could do a good job at that, but that s what he has to show, and he is running against donald trump and exposing him as a fraud i think is a really is a really smart tactic. is this the reflection of where the party is going to be? you guys have been mixed minds, don t talk about trump like trump, he goes high, we go low. that isn t going low. that s punching him right in the
sanders trying to become the president and donald trump has a ceiling and they both have a ceiling but bernie sanders is a little bit higher. he was a protest candidate in 2016. and now he wants to be taken seriously, he has to do some of serious orthodox things that you have to do when running for president, sit down for interviews, he has been sort of skittish with the press. we will see if he can go all-in this time instead of hanging on to hillary s coat tails as it were. and looking at the favorability numbers, going up for harris? what do you attribute that to. not at all. that s not surprising to me. elizabeth warren has been really smart about not just presenting it as hey i m a policy laden candidate but i have a plan. policy and plan is different. policy is i m walkish and a techno crat from dc and a plan is i m prepared and i have a plan to get us out of the trouble that we re in. she has been able to make that pivot that hillary clinton maybe was not able to quite m
every time i see bernie sanders and the attraction he is getting i think of him as the ron paul of the left. he is a protest candidate. he speaks fondly of revolution and has operated outside the party structures. that said, he s doing pretty well in the polls. he s ahead. yeah. in some. democrats have a huge opportunity to pick up republicans. but if they latch on to someone who self-identifies as a socialist, that is going to drive republicans back into the arms of trump, especially when the platform has, you know, a $82 trillion tag on the green new deal. $32 trillion for medicare for all. i mean, these are ideas that are popular with a certain segment of his base, but not i know you want to bash socialism. i m not bashing socialism. but to that point, if you look at the 40 members of the house elected, democrats elected in the house, 33 of those members are new dems, centrist new dems.
policies is loud and resonates. every time i see bernie sanders and the attraction he is getting i think of him as the ron paul of the left. he is a protest candidate. he speaks fondly of revolution and has operated outside the party structures. that said, he s doing pretty well in the polls. he s ahead. yeah. in some. democrats have a huge opportunity to pick up republicans. but if they latch on to someone who self-identifies as a socialist, that is going to drive republicans back into the arms of trump, especially when the platform has, you know, a $82 trillion tag on the green new deal. $32 trillion for medicare for all. i mean, these are ideas that are popular with a certain segment of his base, but not i know you want to bash socialism. i m not bashing socialism. but to that point, if you look at the 40 members of the house elected, democrats elected in the house, 33 of those members are new dems, centrist new dems.
to be outside the congressional building and hannounce his presidential run and i went to lunch because i didn t have time to cover it. and now the world has changed. bernie sanders in front of thousands laying out an expansive platform, laying out a biography of who he is. so much of his last run was about in opposition to the kind of democratic establishment, hillary clinton specifically, and this was a much more traditional campaign launch where he is defining himself and his biography and where he came from and contrasting himself personally. and why does he feel like he needs to do that? in part i think because there was a sense the last time around that in a many ways bernie sanders was a candidate who caught the car, right, dog who caught the car, that he was essentially a protest candidate who because it was a two way race and who brought some ideas that were very different than hillary clinton in the race, that he really caught fire. but i don t think at the beginning of t