That right now, that could be a real problem for the president. steve kornacki, your name is invok invoked. you get an automatic rebuttal. here s why i think these numbers do matter. a majority of voters say they think trump is getting reelected, and that is a substantial number of people who don t like trump and don t want to see him get reelected. that tells me how important that issue of electability will be to primary voters. how you define it is an inexact thing. but to the extent it matters particularly to democratic voters heading into 2020, if this becomes a trend when you take a poll in a state like texas and there is joe biden leading, and there is every democratic candidate trailing, when you look at that sort of culture on the democratic side right now that s valuing electability, if that s something we keep seeing biden underperforming in the democratic field, i think these
That tells me how important that issue of electability is going to be to democratic primary voters. we can go on and on with this debate about how do you measure electability? how do you define it? to the extent it matters particularly to democratic voters heading into 2020. if this becomes a trend where you take a poll in a state like texas and there s joe biden leading and every other democratic candidate trailing, when you look at that culture, if that s something we keep seeing, biden outperforming the rest of the field, the polls start mattering very much. both of these gentlemen have agreed to stay with us. more on what s motivating voters, a full 18 months ahead of this presidential election.
Tonight the democratic candidate trailing in the race is withdrawing his concession to republican mark harris. the announcement late tonight and a video posted on social media, that race still far from over. some of the democrats scoping out the rates were 2020 are running into pitfalls. kamala harris facing questions about the gender harassment issue in her office. daniel hartley claims when she reported, she was retaliated against. the ag s office as she failed to use proper procedures when reporting the alleged harassmen harassment. a spokesman for harris says that she didn t know anything about the claim. also, massachusetts democrat senator elizabeth warren is reportedly playing damage control after her much-hyped dna test, a lot of folks say backfired. the new york times reports her advisors believed she may have damaged her relationships with native american groups and race-based activists. former massachusetts governor deval patrick says he is out of the running altogether, c
When you got to election day the actual result moved in the republican direction from where the polls were. the polls overstated democratic support. that s the biggest concern for democrats. that s the biggest thing republicans are hoping for when they see their candidate trailing and i think that s the biggest reason you ve got barak obama coming there today. democrats want to fire up their base, get their voters excited and make sure there s no more election day surprise z like they ve had a couple times in the last few years. steve karnacki, always a pleasure to have you on, my friend. appreciate it. i want to get now to v s lieutenant governor. thank you for joining us here. we want to know right of off the batted that msnbc has extended an invitation to your opponent. that has not been accepted yet but if he wants to come on maybe he s yielded his time to me. let me jump off on then on that here. you were watching with me steve kornacki running through this