of the polls as some of these other candidates have done. and the big thing you can t ignore, dana, is the resources bernie sanders has. he s raised more money from a wide range of donors. they believe that means they have more support than the polls are showing. there is more support for bernie this time around. i think there is a realistic shot that he could win the democratic nomination. there is a long way to go, but do not underestimate bernie sanders. ryan nobles, thank you so much for that reporting. here with me at the table, seung min kim with the washington post, oliver knox with sirius xm, and cnn s phil mattingly. i feel like we ve seen this movie before. oh, we did, four years ago. except the big difference is he was the only guy in his lane four years ago. now there are a lot of people who have taken up the bernie
impressive rebound from a heart attack two months ago, and also his consistent slow climb in the polls. but they also emphasize a concern that his quiet rise is being overlooked. a democratic chairman in iowa tells the new york times the following. sanders is definitely being underestimated in iowa. part of his durability is he has 15 to 20% of the caucus who are absolutely committed to voting for him no matter what. that counts for a whole heck of a lot. cnn s ryan nobles has been covering the sanders campaign. ryan, what are you hearing from inside about how they feel and people around the campaign who feel this is maybe the right time to be on the rise? i have a text stream with annie creag who are helping me cover the campaign, and we were texting each other saying, this is what we ve been saying for weeks, that the sanders campaign is a lot stronger than many people are giving them credit for. and what s interesting when you
particularly medicare for all, has tripped up lots of people. you talk to elizabeth warren, and i think her decrease in the polling and her stature coincided with how much she struggled to explain, for example, how she would pay for a medicare for all campaign. bernie sanders was very honest. he said, while costs may go down for american families by the day, cost for health care would go up. he s been very candid about that. also democrats are treating him like a frontrunner. we ve seen a lot of other candidates taking a turn at having the arrows pointed at them. we saw it with biden at the beginning of the campaign, elizabeth warren a few months later and now bernie sanders. let s look at some of the numbers. this is the latest national poll from reuters. if you look at bernie sanders here, he should be treated as a frontrunner given the numbers. he is within the margin of error
others attack each other while he s stayed with his specific issues being invoked. you were talking about his organization. everybody has to remember the last time he ran against hillary clinton in iowa, he came very, very close to winning iowa, and that organization and much of that support, while some of it has gone to elizabeth warren, has not gone away. there s something else i want to get to before we move on to a different topic, and that is the outrage the sanders campaign is doing to the latino community. this is a quote from the washington post on thursday. as complaints have mounted for other candidates in the democratic nomination, sanders has been, without fanfare, building a base of support in latino communities. sanders continues to probably have the best latino outreach so far. he also has the aoc who is helping him in the latino
sanders mantel for fighting progressive ideals, one who is very popular and has a lot of support also, elizabeth warren. what do you all hear from your sources about what is happening on the ground, why bernie sanders is having a quiet resurgence? i think there is two things. look, admittedly i ve been stuck in the capitol building with impeachment, but reading the headlines this morning, what changed? i feel like he s been in this place and for some reason people haven t been paying attention to it because another candidate was hotter and other people were getting more attention on the floor. the reason he is where he is right now is because of what that iowa democratic chairman said, and that is he has a floor that s not moving. he has 26% locked in. even when you have someone to share the same ideals and policy procedures that bernie sanders has been talking about for decades now, you re in a very good place. i think ryan hit it on the head on this point. he has money, lots of mon