tolerate those who to. you are a liar. you are a cheater. i don t tolerate that. if you don t agree with behavior why are you tolerating and benefitting. i m not benefitting from anything. i haven t looked at it. i haven t used it. you are a liar and a cheater and i will not tolerate you. with respect to the negative ad if it is a low blow that s because that s where you live, senator. sometimes debates can be fun. joining us now dr. silas lee of xavier university of louisiana. political analyst for wgst-tv. i appreciate your time tonight. thank you very much. i have to ask your reaction to what you saw and heard at tonight s debate look at it. seems like a lot of fur flying in the governor s race.
the campaign, the career, saying i have never run a negative ad. i never will. does that still stand? absolutely. absolutely. no negative ads? 2006, he won a senate race against a self funder with $300 million in the bank. ran vicious, vicious, vicious negative ads against him. senior democrats in the u.s. senate said we never saw vicious ads like this. we won 2-1 without responding. i think you will see the same kind of thing here. jeff weaver, thank you for joining us. you can hear behind me, quiet in the auditorium and heating up outside. thank you. looking forward to tonight. joining me is former democratic governor of south carolina, a supporter of hillary clinton. governor jim hodges with us. thank you for being with us. hi, kate. good to be with you. let s talk about hillary clinton. she has a comfortable lead right now. what does she need to do at the forum tonight to continue that lead? she doesn t need to change a thing.
movement with you to give us a future to believe in. i say there was a shot there, that term, an honest leader. the sanders campaign will tell you we believe bernie sanders is honest. but hillary clinton s had trouble, we ve seen this in the polls, on that question of is she honest, is she trustworthy. we have it here. this is the latest nbc news/ wall street journal poll. this is just among democratic voters. is the candidate honest and trustworthy? hillary clinton does fine on that, 53% say honest, 16% saying she s not. look at bernie sanders. almost everyone on the democratic side says he s honest. almost no one says he isn t. so the idea there you would say if you re looking at this from the sort of political advertising perspective is they are trying to drive up that dishonest number on hillary clinton and take advantage of that honesty number that bernie sanders has. bernie sanders has been saying for years, that the one thing he takes pride in most in politics is that he s
those kind of settings. so the girl is beguiling, hillary is very natural in response and the message obviously goes to that core of the first woman president. now, her chief opponent for the democratic nomination, bernie sanders, is not running any ads right now. what would you advise him to do in his first big campaign ad buys? you know, jake, it s interesting. i had a conversation with him a few weeks ago on my podcast in which he we were talking about ads. he said i ve never run a negative ad. i said are you saying that you won t do it in this campaign? and he said, well, that s you know, that s the hope. when i pressed him, he just kept saying that s the hope. but i think you re going to see some tougher ads than perhaps he anticipated then. because he s in a different position. i don t think he s 41 points behind in iowa. i think iowa is a very close race. the des moines register had a poll at a six-point race.
running for office since 1973 and says he s never run a negative ad. it s worked for him. he went from a really small state to now leading solidly in new hampshire. so no chance that he abandoned that strategy. i view bernie like the beatles when they were coming to america. they had a huge fan base, but a lot of americans hadn t seen them yet. so they came over here and played i want to hold your hand and people loved it. people are antagonistic to someone who is a self subscribed social list. the one negative are those who say i could never vote for someone who is a slfr described social list and i ll say here is the way he describes the term. they don t want to hear that. he has explain to go do if he wants to go more mainstream. hillary should not attack bernie at all. but that s a valued lid point. why can t she point it out? because she needs to establish her connection with herself, her issue and her