make their white house pitches. top names at that event include former vice president and national front-runner joe biden and the two senators close on his heels, warren and sanders. arthel? arthel: jackie, thank you. you didn t just vote for me. you voted for four more years of putting louisiana first. [cheers and applause] eric: they celebrated the results, even though it was close. louisiana governor is keeping his seat. the democrat claiming victory in that run off election yesterday, edging out republican businessman who was backed by the president. we have more from baton rouge where the gap was just about 40,000 or so votes. hi, casey. hey, eric. yeah, we were right there in the room when the governor was making that acceptance speech last night, and the crowd just absolutely went wild as the returns were coming in, especially from some of the
with the intention of sowing chaos in the democratic presidential primary. the theory, a lengthy trial could potentially sideline six of the democratic candidates who are also sitting senators. yes, there are still six sitting senators running. i know you probably only think it s warren and sanders and who else? well, it s elizabeth warren, it s bernie sanders, it s michael bennet, it s kamala harris, it s amy klobuchar and i m drawing a blank. cory booker, of course, during the most important part of the primary calendar. it s a strategy that has potential to backfire because the president and the evidence in the impeachment inquiry has made it clear the candidate he worries about most is joe biden. and sidelining biden s two main rivals could actually help him win the nomination, not hurt. but logic aside, republicans today are confronting a potentially bigger problem when it comes to defending the president from impeachment while also looking ahead to his re-election bid. yesterday
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so i m not part of the hand wringing. i m very excited about our candidat candidates. so i remember that clinton situation back there in 92. there was some italian that nominano nominated him tech convention, funny guy, big nose, weird smile, i think he was from new york money. great speech giver, too, by the way. he could. he read them and really owned them. god rest his soul. this idea of a new bunching up in iowa, it was all about biden, then biden and warren and then biden, warren and sanders, now it s about four at the top. margin of error makes this pretty well dead even. the buttigieg has every right to bang their chest and say look how far we ve come, but look at the jump with buttigieg. but you basically have a four-way tie in iowa. what does that mean to you? well, it means that we re at mile nine of a 26. mile marathon. i used to run marathons and i have no idea who was ahead at
polling. if we have additional candidates i welcome them. if we don t, i am absolutely confident about the candidates we have right now. they re taking it to donald trump, we re leading with our values, we re talking about the issues that people care about. so, i m not part of the hand wringing. i m very excited about our candidates. so i remember that clinton situation back there in 92. there was some italian that nominated him at the convention, funny guy, big nose, weird smile, i think he was from new york. great speech giver, too, by the way. he could. he read them and really owned them. god rest his soul. this idea of a new bunching up in iowa, it was all about biden, then biden and warren and then biden, warren and sanders, now it s about four at the top. margin of error makes this pretty well dead even. yes, the buttigieg campaign has every right to bang their chest and say look how far we ve come. but look at the jump with