Threat is she to joe biden for the democratic nomination lets talk about that with katrina vanden who will she is the editorial director and publisher of the nation and a Washington Post columnist shes in new york city welcome to the program thank you so theres a lot to discuss but 1st your publication the nation endorsed Bernie Sanders for president in 2016 are you expecting the nation to endorse him again. So early matthew what were endorsing is what we call the ideas primary and i think Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are winning that primary Elizabeth Warren has a plan for everything and i mean well thought through connected to her personal experience dealing with the true fundamental problems issues of this country Bernie Sanders ran a transformative campaign in 2016 and you got to give him credit that the issues he elevated medicare for all 15 minimum wage free Higher Education are now front and center in this debate medicare for all has several cosponsors were running in the
A plan every week. Driven her poll numbers up so i think she poses a real challenge both to joe biden and Bernie Sanders but for now the endorsement the nation is given as to the ideas primary and i love that the ideas primary thats a great way of looking at it and it exhausts me when we in the media just cover the horse race aspects so i want to do that however a little bit because of course its fascinating to look at the statistics and and where the polling is showing but lets also talk about some of the key differences what are the differences that you see between sanders and warren. I think did someone else put it quite well and shes a candidate who believes in regulating and taming capitalism shes kind of like Franklin Delano roosevelt 2. 0 in the sense that she wants to tame capitalisms excesses through regulation Bernie Sanders is the candidate of revolution of political change and i think he is known social democrat is a social democrat in a. Western european context but hes a
So early matthew what were endorsing is what we call the ideas primary and i think Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are winning that primary Elizabeth Warren has a plan for everything and i mean well thought through connected to her personal experience dealing with the true fundamental problems issues of this country Bernie Sanders ran a transformative campaign in 2016 and you got to give him credit that the issues he elevated medicare for all 15 minimum wage free Higher Education are now front and center in this debate medicare for all has several cosponsors were running in the democratic primary including Kirsten Gillibrand kamel harris so i think lets hope for a virtuous competition around the ideas primary Elizabeth Warren no question has through her tenacity through her persistence and through rolling out a plan every week. Driven her poll numbers up so i think she poses a real challenge both to joe biden and Bernie Sanders but for now the endorsement the nation is given as to
Sanders ran a transformative campaign in 2016 and you got to give him credit that the issues he elevated medicare for all 15 minimum wage free Higher Education are now front and center in this debate medicare for all has several cosponsors were running in the democratic primary including Kirsten Gillibrand kamel harris so i think lets hope for a virtuous competition around the ideas primary Elizabeth Warren no question has through her tenacity through her persistence and through rolling out a plan every week. Driven her poll numbers up so i think she poses a real challenge both to joe biden and Bernie Sanders but for now the endorsement the nation is given as to the ideas primary and i love that the ideas primary thats a great way of looking at it and it exhausts me when we in the media just cover the horse race aspects so i want to do that however a little bit because of course its fascinating to look at the statistics and and where the polling is showing but lets also talk about some
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