just seven candidates. this is happening as cnn has new polling among democrats. former vice president joe biden, senator bernie sanders and senator elizabeth warren holding on to the three top spots. cnn politics reporter editor at large, chris cillizza here with new power ranks. what do you have? every two weeks going through and rank the ten most likely candidates to become nominees. michael bloomberg not in this debate and probably won t qualify for any if dnc keeps criteria the way they are. he is on track to spend more than $1 billion on television. a few polls have him at 7%. remarkable given he s only been in the race a little while. everyone else clinging on. andrew yang will stay in. cory booker may not. steyer is rich, castro, maybe not. may slim down more.
husband. i don t want to politicize his death. is something i m really grieving over. my family is still hurting. i have a brother, john s brother. my brother-in-law, in hospice, went into hospice at thanksgiving and these kinds of things, we re a family grieving and we should take a lesson from this and all respect each other, period, in the broader we need more civility in this country. some things should be off limits. let s take a deep breath. it s the holidays. many people celebrate different kinds of holidays. let s start to remember that we need to respect each other. if he thinks he s going to keep me from doing my job i m going to be right back at it when i leave here. hmm. jamie gangel, a cnn special correspondent and ana navara political commentator and republican strategist. wow. ana, first to you just on, a lot of what president trump said beyond being shameful was inaccurate, he called her i
to his impeachment is attack. just want of his targets, the grieving widow of a distinguished congressman and world war ii veteran. talk about congresswoman debbie dingell s response after the president suggested her late husband had gone to hell. plus, speaker pelosi s surprise move. talk to her daughter about her mother s mind-set during this historic moment. and just hours away from the debate tonight. the latest rankings of the 2020 democratic presidential candidates. you re watch wering cnn. i m brooke baldwin, we ll be right back. yeah, and he wanted someone to help out with chores. so, we got jean-pierre. but one thing we could both agree on was getting geico to help with renters insurance. yeah, geico did make it easy to switch and save. oh no. there s a wall there now. that s too bad. visit geico.com and see how easy
pelosi and her caucus are balking because they know their case is in mcconnell s view deficient and thin. looks like the prosecutors you are getting cold feet in front of the entire country and second guessing whether they even want to go to trial. they said impeachment was so urgent it could not wait for due process and now content to sit on their hands. go to our cnn senior white house correspondent pamela brown there in washington. we know the view on capitol hill. take me behind the scenes at the white house. the president s counting on a speedy trial, exoneration. how worried that may be delayed? reporter: there s certainly frustration behind the scenes in the white house. brooke, that this trial, that the president has been looking forward to, where he has been hoping this will be his final chance for vindication and it could be delayed with words nancy pelosi is delaying turning over the articles of impeachment.
in iowa, in new hampshire and his fund-raising, i thought a huge problem, less than $9 million in the bank end of september. now saying his fund-raising, raised more than $50 million. more than he raced in the previous three months. so tonight i expect one, two, to be really in the most prominent attacks. remember, seen elizabeth warren. got, center of it. buttigieg a pass in that last debate. i think biden and buttigieg the ones coming for the most scrutiny. warren a bounceback debate. mediocre in the last two. keep an eye on klobuchar. she s been a very solid debate performer. maybe with less candidates more time to talk and maybe more time to shine. brooke? everyone, find this debate this evening, pbs news hour politico democratic debate, live from los angeles. see it here on cnn and your local pbs station. coverage starts at 8:00 eastern. chris, thank you. as we ve said, battle lines drawn.