back live in detroit, cnn debates. joe biden thought he was too polite in round one but more aggressive approach in debates has certainly worked for other candidates, it can take a wrong turn for others. remember this? you ve mocked mr. trump s tan. you ve made fun of his spelling. you called him a con artist. you suggested he wet himself backstage at the last debate. he hit my hands. nobody has ever hit my hands. look at those hands. are they small hands? and he referred to my hands, if they are small something else must be small. i guarantee you there s no problem. i guarantee. okay. that definitely backfired for senator marco rubio in 2016. remember, guys, here are the poll numbers right now, at least involving the top five polling democrats currently. biden has actually gone up since the first dough bait. senator harris has gone down.
so i do expect there to be some things that are not in this biden/harris, biden/booker kind of realm we want to see. the second night is going to be pretty exciting. michlta, what will president trump be watching for on that stage? who he can make fun of and the tag lines. that was like lock her up or whatever he can come up with. i think that one of the things that people really need to watch is the fact that even though biden took a beating, he came back up in the polls, which tells me that americans are still looking for the grown-up in the room or somebody who has some sort of who can be the calm amongst the storm that s going on in terms of this division in america. i think that biden is going to have to differentiate himself, because he has a problem. everyone is going to come after him. he has to be able to say, yes, i was part of the obama administration, but i m my own person. this is what i m going to offer. i think that he actually took a
week as flood of earnings hit wall street. still the dow is up more than 15% this year. the nasdaq and the s&p 500, they re up more than 20% this year. so it s up to fed chief jerome powell and company to keep the rally going. invest aerns of courors and of president will likely cheer a rate cut. also in the mix big names report earnings. apple, mastercard, fisa, general motors, exxonmobil among many others. plus the first ruts as a public company for wall street darling, beyond meat. that stock is up more than 700% since going public earlier this year. in new york i m christine romans. now just a couple days before our big democratic debate here in detroit, to 2020 candidate bernie sanders boarded a bus this morning from detroit to canada hoping to draw attention to the plight of diabetes patients who raegularl make this trip because insulin, the life-saving drug they need, is cheaper across the northern border. he took on big pharma before
so, joe, biden is signaling he will have a more aggressive strategy here. is that necessary? i think he will hit back when he gets hit. the criticism from the first debate, which was fair, he let things go by. his numbers depend more on what trump is doing than what the other democrats are doing. and as trump has ratcheted up the somewhat bizarre behavior, somewhat racist behavior, i think democrats are coming around to this idea of boy, we better nominate someone who can win. that plays to biden s strength. it may not be the case, but that s the current thinking. i think the more trump injects himself into the race, the better it is for biden. and, you know, whether that means he has to hit back every time, i don t think so. but he does have to show he can take a punch because he ll take
that means deterrence efforts, whether it be sanctions or cyber operations, haven t worked. we also know that our defenses aren t really up to the task when it comes to our election infrastructure. all 50 states were targeted by russian cyber ops in 2016. yet over a third of our states are still using paperless voting systems, to some agree. we also know that russia is still engaged in a highly sophisticated information war fare campaign against the united states. this time around, ana, they have a mega phone in the oval office. president trump s twitter feed alone, by retweeting, helps russia advance its information war fare mission against the united states. for all those reasons we are entering this election cycle, knowing what the threat involvement looks like and policymakers, mitch mcconnell in congress and president trump himself are refusing to take action to stop it. samantha vinograd, as always, great to have you.