and the $80 million he s spent covers months of campaigning. bloomberg by contrast has blown through his in just two weeks and so far it s gotten to him 5% nationally. it s off the lead but also better than a bunch of candidates who have been running longer than bloomberg so bloomberg has bought himself a quick 5% in the polls. the question becomes will it be just as easy to buy another 5% and on and on or is there a ceiling for a candidate like bloomberg who has all the money in the world but who also isn t running in iowa, new hampshire and all the early states. bloomberg is trying to bypass those states and history says that s a losing strategy, when his name is missing from all those leader boards in february everyone is going to forget about him. then again no one has ever tried this kind of strategy with this kind of money before.
all right, welcome back to hardball. the count down is on. look at that 38 days to go now. 38 days and counting until the lead off iowa caucuses and once you have iowa they start coming fast and furious. let s take a look at the leader board. the average of all the polls in iowa, buttigieg narrowly leads and sanders and biden and warren. talk about a tight race all within about 6 points of each other. you go out to nevada, bidens got the lead, he s not exactly running away with it, though. and of course south carolina that s where biden has the big lead. you re familiar with these numbers. we ve been talking about these numbers. they set expectations. here s the only problem. how many polls are we actually talking about here? iowa, month of december.
there have only been two polls taken in the state of iowa. remember it s a pretty long list the dnc has a pretty long list of officially designated polls they use for inclusion in debates. they tend to be the more gold standard polls. there have been zero of those in iowa this month. so two polls, neither of them is a dnc qualifying debate poll. that s all we re going on in iowa. new hampshire, there s been one. there s been one poll in the entire state of new hampshire this month. that poll was not a dnc sanctioned debate qualifying poll. how about nevada? zero. no polls at all of any kind in nevada in december. one in south carolina. and again that poll in south carolina not a dnc sanctioned poll, and so the four key lead off states, the four crucial states. these are the states going to win on the field. they re probably going to create a front-runner, maybe a clear, maybe an overwhelming
no one can pronounce his last time. if he s in iowa, it s great to be in iowa tonight. what is wrong with this guy? that was president trump this month going on the attack against some of his potential 2020 rivals. the president will be entering next year s election as the first impeached president running for a second term. and as this year comes to an end there are still 15 democratic contenders vying to take on the president. we have a president who is a pathological liar. who is corrupt, who is a racist, a sexist. he is a complete failure, a complete failure as commander in chief. it is most reckless and incompetent commander in chief we have evl had. he doesn t respect his own presidency, and frankly at a deeper level i don t think he respects himself. i think he has created a sort of
and that allows him to keep together a relatively strong plurality, not majority but plurality that could potentially enable him to win again in 2020. all right, thank you both for joining us. up next i m going to head over to the big board. we re going to look at the lack of polling in early states. we talk all the time who s winning iowa, who s winning new hampshire, who s winning south carolina, a little tougher to tell right now than we re used to. you re watching hardball to you re watching hardball female anchor: how often should you clean your fridge? stay tuned to find out. male anchor: beats the odds at the box office to become a rare non-franchise hit. you can give help and hope to those in need.