Democrats was a lot of them looked at the prospect of nominating Bernie Sanders, said you know what, thats a risk we dont want to take and they looked around and said, you know what, joe biden is the best alternative. We are going with him. Do you agree or not . I do. He had assist with that. It did help imthat you that folks like Pete Buttigieg and amy klobuchar. This is our guy, he has the best shot. The field is clear and he is the alternative to bernie. Paul so is that plausible to you, dan, do you think that that is my theory or Something Else . I guess he got an assist from Mike Bloomberg and that moved him out in the view of democrats as alternative. Yes, the Democrat Party is a big interconnected institution. There were significant endorsements, jim clyburn, congressman from south carolina. Susan rice, formerly Barack Obamas chief of staff. Harry reid, harry reid called chief of staff and told him im sorry its nothing personal, its like the godfather. Paul its strictly business
Thank you for joining me today. It is a delight i thoroughly enjoyed your book. It is a timely subject as you may know im a pharmacist the only one serving in congress is also important that everyone would agree with that. And i find it interesting that you start the premise that the Health Care System is broken. Almost 70 percent of america say it is broken. I do think it will be a domestic policy issue in the next president ial election in a recent poll that said 35 percent rate healthcare as extremely important and 53 percent of americans support a singlepayer now 65 percent supports the Government Insurance plan and i call that the steppingstone approach to medicare for all. The proof is in the pudding if you look at what happened the last election cycle two years ago, my party, one year ago, the Republican Party we were ousted as a Majority Party in the reason was healthcare that many of us campaigned on repeal and replace unfortunately we came close but did not get that done and
Democrats was a lot of them looked at the prospect of nominating Bernie Sanders, said you know what, thats a risk we dont want to take and they looked around and said, you know what, joe biden is the best alternative. We are going with him. Do you agree or not . I do. He had assist with that. It did help imthat you that folks like Pete Buttigieg and amy klobuchar. This is our guy, he has the best shot. The field is clear and he is the alternative to bernie. Paul so is that plausible to you, dan, do you think that that is my theory or Something Else . I guess he got an assist from Mike Bloomberg and that moved him out in the view of democrats as alternative. Yes, the Democrat Party is a big interconnected institution. There were significant endorsements, jim clyburn, congressman from south carolina. Susan rice, formerly Barack Obamas chief of staff. Harry reid, harry reid called chief of staff and told him im sorry its nothing personal, its like the godfather. Paul its strictly business
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