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This year, they re coalescing around one goal and one goal only, to defeat donald j. trump. what we have now is a front-runner embracing that in spades. joe biden s campaign ad in iowa underscoring this bottom line. we know in our bones this election is different. the stakes are higher, the threat more serious. we have to beat donald trump. all the polls agree joe biden is the strongest democratic to do the job. candidate b, his buy, jill biden, what might seem spontaneous with the same moment. your candidate might be on healthcare than joe is. you have to look at who s going to win this election. maybe you have to swallow a little bit and say, i personally like so-and-so better, but your bottom line has to be that we have to beat trump. ....
Give you information on your would be opponent? steve: what do you if somebody said hey. [knocking] i have got some dirt on candidate b, would you take it? would you listen? would you call the fbi? this is what the president told george. your campaign this time foreigners, if russia, if china, if someone else offers you information on the opponent should you accept it or call the fbi. i think maybe you do both. i think you might want to listen. there is nothing wrong with listening. if somebody called from a country, norway, we have information on your opponent, oh, i think i would want to hear it. you want that kind of interference in the election? that s not interference. it s information. any thought there was something wrong i gold to the fbi. when somebody comes up with oppo research oh let s call the fbi. the fbi doesn t have enough agents to take care of it. did you go and talk honestly ....
20 possible candidates, right? you ll need it. exactly. these were huge reforms. tom perez, i condemned him for his leadership on this. there was obviously a lot of resistance. but this was a way to unify the party here and make it clear to all the democratic voters out there, even those who are not part of the democratic party but who were hoping to pull in, independents, college educated republican women, going into 2020 to say you know what, the party activists, the party stalwarts are not going to be the ones making this decision now. we know in 2016 superdelegates did not make the decision of course. but there was a perception out there. a misperception but still a perception out there that they had undue influence. this is completely ridding our party but if you got if you have a scenario here where candidate a has got 1600 delegates, candidate b s got 1550 and the magic number s 2,000 and nobody wins it on the first ballot and then suddenly now they introduce this fl ....
Message, takes it from party unity and it makes it a lot easier for democrats to make a case that this guy is unstable and republicans are getting anything done in washington. melissa: on the flip side of that because that is accurate but he was also battling steve bannon from the right and he was also battling people within his own party, and he has eliminated one of those threats. so as not like you re going to have steve bannon out there having something happen like what happened in alabama. i think that s right but you have to remember, these elections are going to come down to two names or multiple names on the ballot. right now, there s a lot of speculation in terms of generic ballots and general feelings. when it comes to candidate a who supports tax cuts and wants tougher security versus candidate b who wants higher taxes and slower growth in a weaker defense, those are very powerful positions to begin in the other thing that s really important to remember is that republica ....
She s led all along is small. impossible, no? but it s still a very small chance he could flip all of those states in less than a week. i tell you what, i m all about momentum. and right now to your point the electoral college map, north carolina, wisconsin, colorado let me put it this way. if i m choosing between candidate a and candidate b, structurally i rather be candidate a which hillary clinton is. candidate b, if i have the momentum and i m chasing somebody and it s bad story after bad story after bad story because we ve seen structurally how things have changed so quickly. i hate to say this, but i ve been saying that for three weeks. we were talking about georgia and texas last week. he s going to be humiliated. this is going to be worse he ....