poll, he has the most comfortable lead in south carolina for more than 60% of the electorate and the democratic primary. black voters there, first place, 39%. second place, sanders, 17%. all the attacks have done nothing. leslie: and in his home state of delaware, african-americans have come out and said, he has done so much in our community over the years for affirmative action and civil rights. i have said it before and he has certainly set it, when you have the first african-american president pick the robin to his batman, it was joe biden he selected. he needs to go into the ring, if you will. fighting back. i don t think he was prepared. they re going to cover it. it s a smart lead. and he knows he s going to be attacked on these issues. but he has ways to attack, as well. kamala harris is very much not liked by african-americans, especially because of her record with incarceration in californi california. cory booker, when he was mayor,
test vote, democrats overwhelmingly said no. they wanted to table it and not go forward to impeachment. ed markey is not going to pull a lot with him. for those following closely, this is aoc senate partner in drafting the green new deal. he s on the extreme left. not an influential member in terms of moderates. harris: a salient reminder. leslie, your party is it really as divided as it looks to the rest of the nation? leslie: no, it isn t. [laughter] katie: are you sure? leslie: i m positive! we are 28 votes short right now. harris: of? leslie: of having democratic support. only two came on board after yesterday. nancy pelosi has always said two things it needs to be ironclad and it needs to be bipartisan. harris: was yesterday ironclad evidence? leslie: no. that s why she s not moving forward. member, what was in the report was in the report. harris: did you feel it was brought to life? leslie: leslie: no.
when you negotiate, the best negotiation, everybody leaves something of the table. harris: skin in the game. leslie: she needs to say, look, what s more important to you? what you want to make let me help you get it. katie: on the governing side, because you cortez was criticized by a lot of democrats voting against the aid package to help with emergency funding emergency funding. humanitarian crisis there. it has pelosi has downplayed the power, saying they are twitter, only four votes, a glass of water could have one her district. so how do they close this gap? especially as polling shows the squad is toxic to independent voters and mainstream democratic voters? james: for that reason, that toxicity to the average moderate voter, i think it s the reason that unity is not in the interest of your party. i think unity is what donald trump wants because he
look what happened there with crime and look what happened with incarceration among african-americans. of course, there are others. pete buttigieg. i think joe biden has a lot to fight back with. katie: to give cory booker a little bit of credit, we are hearing a lot about criminal justice reform, which is important. the vice president made it one of his top priorities and worked with democrats to get through. but i m not hearing a lot from democrats on fighting crime, as well. when joe biden criticizes cory booker for the way they were handling crime in newark, the question is, crime is out of control and the city was trying to handle it. so what is the democrat solution to crime going up in these urban areas? chicago, newark, los angeles, new york city s crime has been down as the result of a number of different policies that have been put in place. what is their solution to that side of the coin, as well? you have to balance them both out. you have to have criminal justice reform
are doubling down on their impeachment calls. watch. of the responsibility the congress of the united states of america, when a president breaks the law, is to bring impeachment charges against that president. that report is enough of an indication that the house of representatives should begin impeachment proceedings against this president. harris: james, i was reading democrats, republicans, yesterday that it was lacking in a moment. james: i think the impeachment dream is dead. i understand a lot of the democrats who have drafted remarks before the hearings went ahead and give them any way pretending that there was new momentum, perhaps. but you are not seeing new members of the house in any big numbers jump on board here. harris: union among the democrats. james: the app. a lot of the time, they had a