opponents are talking about. you know what? we re going to have the american people behind us. we will have congress behind us. one of the great complaints we hear here. you hear from the sanders wing is nobody ever says, you know, he does well but they think he s just in this progressive lane. look. i thought he had his best performance that i ve seen in a while. and he owned it in a way that elizabeth warren didn t. and you could see. i m curious to see how does what does she do now? bernie sanders is i wouldn t say it s a surge. but if you look at the polling, he is you know, we re seeing a a a a small comeback on him. he reevcovered from the hear attack politically. he s recovered from it physically. now, he recovered from it politically. and, yes, i think he had a very good night last night. i think he s generally a pretty good debater. pretty consistently steady. he had some humor. it was a warmer bernie than i m used to seeing.
into iowa? well, it is remarkable story first of all. and i think for all of the tactical mistakes laid out in there, there was a bigger mistake in this campaign. kamala harris could have run as a centrist, former prosecutor. instead she bet that the warn/sanders wing of the party was ascendent and spent the whole campaign struggling over herself to get back to closer to what she is throughout her career and as a result i think voters on both sides of that ideology divide and it is tough to recover from that and she is all in in iowa, and a decent showing in iowa or not much to go on beyond that. we ll see how it goes there. and we re learning from the biden came they re entering a new phase at this point. this eight-day bus tour focusing on iowa. and polls show that biden is losing support there. but they re saying we feel like the more joe biden is one on one
novemb november? might kobach be a republican nominee in a general election context? you mentioned michigan and missouri as well as kansas. we re looking at the ocasio-cortez/sanders wing of the democratic party. many challengers there pit them against the more establishment wing of the democratic party and we ll see if the energy is playing out the way it did in ocasio-cortez s wing in new york. the manafort trial continues, rick gates back on the stand this morning. how do you think this will play or seep into the political discourse in the coming weeks? it s a good question. the thing we re learning time and again is that the russia investigation overall or the manafort trial, it is not big talk on the campaign trail. what i think it does is it feeds the president s mood and that overall environment is having an impact. i don t think you ll see one
wins. now appear to be at the democratic party s back, but for how long? there s still a party without a leader and without a clear message. panel is still here. joining us, the nan whoman it i keep the democrats coming out on top. long time no see. must be in a lot better mood than sunday? we feel good. not only a good night in virginia but new jersey. go up and down and all around the united states. we now have the state senate in washington state. so we have every chamber there. down in georgia, too two seats of the special election. no longer a super majority. those wacky constitutional amendments they can t get through. and talking about donna brazile out there, talking about issues between the clinton wing and the sanders wing and a loss here. look, doug wilder, no supporting top of the ticket.
governor s race next week. there you have a candidate who does not come from the sanders wing of the party. if he lose in addition race when democrats have spent most of the year thinking they would do fine in that race, that will embolden the sanders forces that much more. there will be sanders people who are like, we kept saying it. now donna brazile said it. it is not some supporter of bernie sanders. it is donna brazile who nobody has mistaken for a sanders supporter. she was accused of helping hillary clinton at a forum. i m not disagreeing with you. there were elements like the debate schedule that were tilted in hillary s behavior. as democrats we have to figure this out. the difference between bernie sanders wing of the party and everybody else is not that great. and the virginia governor s race is a great example of what we need to focus on. that s a winnable race for us. considering how that republican is running. he is running to the depths of