the jabbing went on all weekend. same old-same old is not going to work, in my view. so when you have candidates out there without naming them who have voted for terrible trade agreements, you don t think trump will be talking about that? the last thing a nominee should do in the democratic party is to offer something that, in fact, they re not being authentic about that they know can t get done. because trump will eat them alive. cnn s arlette seinz has been following the trump campaign closely and she joins us for discussion. talk about eating his lunch and
versus a progressive one. first it was clinton versus sanders and then biden versus sanders. they had been engaging in vigorous policy debate. joe has voted for terrible trade agreements. i don t know that there s any trade agreement that the senator would ever think made any sense. joe and i have a fundamental disagreement here, in case you haven t noticed. [ laughter ] obviously the paris accord is useful but talks to doesn t go anywhere if you re laughing, joe, you re missing the point. this is an existential crisis. about a year later, biden s governing from the core and base of the democratic party. the progressive base, pushing the liberal plans i just mentioned, spending that outstrips anything from the early days of the obama/biden administration, pushing higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations, and joe biden taking sides with labor more than he did in past decades or
security as well. medicare and medicaid. he meant iraq, he meant clean up the streets with the crime bill. that is then, in joe biden s career, we know that party he s in seemed too split. to presidential cycles in a row. first, it was clinlton and sanders and biden versus sanders. they have been engaging in months of vigous policy debate. joe has voted for terrible trade agreements. i don t know if there is any trade agreement that the senator thought would make sense. joe and i have a fundamental disagreement here, in case you haven t noticed. obviously, the powers of the court are useful. if you re laughing, joe, you re missing the point. this is an existential crisis.
voted for terrible trade agreements, you don t think trump would be talking about that? when you have candidates who are not going to lower the cost of health care for people, which many of my opponents are not, okay, that is a real vulnerability. so i guess my question, guys and again, we ve been locked in the capitol building for three months, so forgive us if there s ignorance on this level. is there a bernie sanders surge right now? we ve seen a number of headlines. or is he just where he s always been and other people have floated up and down? i think a big part of it is that bernie support has remained stable. the people who like him really like him. they liked him in 16, they re not going anywhere. when you look at polling from the early states, people who say they ve made their mind up and aren t changing their mind, those numbers are much higher for sanders. which suggests his support is real locked in.
democrats look ahead to the first two primaries, sanders and joe biden have remained the two candidates to beat. consider the politics polling averages from one year ago today. joe biden has gone from 20.3% to 20.1% while sanders has gone from 18, 218.8% showing consistency of both campaigns. in a new interview with the los angeles time sanders is trying to distance himself from biden saying some candidates are running the same old same old campaign adding if you are donald trump and got biden having voted for the war in iraq biden having voted for these terrible trade agreements, biden having voted for the bankruptcy bill, trump will eat lunch. sanders still the times he is the candidate to beat trump, reaching out to progressive voters, something aoc may know something about. mike: voters will not be