level in reality yet but that s lows, you can tweak them a little bit. but the biggest overhang over the u.s. economy and the world a place where he s been economy is u.s. trade policy. struggling and that s what the and the growing confrontation race suddenly looks like. that s the big that s beyond not what central of course though adrienne in bankers do. so for donald trump he finally the morning consult poll and reached that fork in the road or that cross roads where his every other poll out shows joe biden with a comfortable lead. how do you you obviously have been around democratic politics for quite some time. biggest calling card, economic how do you look at the monmouth growth was endangered on life poll? yeah. well, joe, it s interesting because obviously steve just support by the other calling card which is hostility to trade. something had to give. mentioned the biden campaign has i think essentially what you saw been pushing back against this was that he s pulled
people. and so that ad is incredibly it s powerful. it s smart. and i think it s good that the biden campaign is talking about issues and in particular health care as people have discussed, which is the issue that will be the most important issue for many americans. instead of not talking about electability. i think electability works to a point but people want to see that. they want to see like you just said, they want to see empathy. they want to hear him talk about his own story but not just that. but how is he going to move the country forward on an issue like health care? he talks about that at the end and what he wants to do with obamacare and building on obamacare. so yes, that ad is incredibly personal which is why it works because it s joe biden. this is the joe biden that we know and we hear about all the time and he s able to bring that empathy forward to the american people and i think it s smart that it s a smart ad. smart that they did that. you know, for those of u
remains very popular amongst the primary democratic voters and obamacare s popularity has remained steady through all of the debate in 2017. i think what biden and the biden campaign are trying to do, look, we have a contrast here. you have other democrats who want to start over, tear it down and start over as the ad said. you have the biden team that wants to essentially take obamacare and strengthen it and tweak it. and that s a message they think will work in a primary and a general. the question is, all of that energy you have seen it on the debate stage, over and over again, where the medicare for all crowd, the crowd that wants to take the health care system and essentially blow it up, take away private health insurance, that position is becoming increasingly popular among the far left and if it s biden versus let s say warren or sanders or someone from the progressive wing of the party, then it really becomes a where is the party s heart at? is that position one that essentially
taken away from president obama. progressive vote continues to be not taken away from president split among nine, ten other trump. taken away from president obama. people and biden is sitting president obama was not happy there as the only moderate in the field. it shows just it just shows that this happened because it was embarrassing to him, right? it was very embarrassing to him. where the democratic party has gone over the past four to eight and he wanted russia to be out years. yeah. of the what was called the there s no doubt about that. i ll say a couple things real quick. one of which is that the thing g8. and that was his determination. that i think the monmouth he was outsmarted by putin. poll is obviously an outlier and he was outsmarted. president putin outsmarted i agree with steve and adrienne president obama. is how does that work? does it foretell the future or misleading statement that not, but it s a real problem for the biden campaign in this respect. they
eight days later, new hampshire, you might say many are tracking sanders already got 61% of the vote in new hampshire. in this presidency is the undermining of the media and the warren, the track record of massachusetts candidates in the undermining of the truth, undermining of the journalists. iowa primary if one of them can the more you do that, the more break through in iowa it s hard you think you can live in the to see them not continuing and dream world and make up stuff winning new hampshire. and if you win iowa, and you win like that and pretend you were new hampshire, at meetings and when we show the picture of the meeting either way it works for joe biden. biden if the electability merkel and moda in the argument for biden you come in second or third in iowa what happens then? yeah. middle. we showed the picture before. they re sitting right in the i have to say, mike barnicle, middle of the meeting when donald trump said, oh, no, i though, you can make the argume