Democratic strategist kristen hahn, for blue dog democrats. so this looks like it was a long time coming and here it has. joe biden, he got along with the people that guy got alodng with the people that used to run the democratic party. they were all southern segregationists. even the food was all southern. you had to dig up, not kiss up but put up with guys like eastland and tallmadge. remember the guy who said i took the money in my rain coat. strom thurmond. how do we deal with the modern democratic party where there s no more segregationists. now we have modern people of color. i think there are reasonable takes here. i think to say he was celebrating segregationist is probably a bit strong. i don t think that s what the former vice president was doing. i think this reveals what the fear is about joe biden that a lot of democrats had when he started this race, that he has a propensity for dpgaffes and he
Disadvantage for democrats in one respect, and that is because all these candidates are going to have to fight for money, they re going to have to fight for name i.d. they re going to have to fight for delegates, whereas president trump has a huge fund-raising advantage. he s already raised $130 million in his first two years in office. he certainly, obviously, has name recognition. he has the infrastructure in place to run a successful re-election campaign. and i think that with bernie sanders entering the race, that s really going to hurt elizabeth warren, because those are the two leading progressives out there, and that s going to split the vote for both of them. kristen, this year the democratic party has changed the rules when it comes to superdelegates and what it takes to qualify for a debate. california isn t moving up on the primary calendar, so who do you think stands the most to gain from these changes we re seeing? you know, i think the party, these new rules are healt
States be the indicators of who s going to win, those are gone. so i mean, i think, actually, you know, the candidates do. i think that, you know, the process will be better overall for the candidates as they make their way through it. the 2020 contenders, they ve been making the rounds this weekend, including amy klobuchar with campaign stops in iowa and in wisconsin. listen to her talking about her approach to president trump. my view is that you just can t go down every rabbit hole with him, right? you just can t. you have to pick your battles. not follow him every place that he wants to go, because he just wants to change the topics, he wants to change the agenda, and we have to have our own optimistic economic agenda for america. kristen, how important will that decision about how to approach president trump, how important do you think that s going to be to voters? i think it s very important. i do agree with the senator, though, that if you follow him down every single ra
New this morning, bernie sanders set to join the 2020 race. he will announce an the next week. politico separately reported yesterday that sanders has recorded a campaign video announcing his presidential bid. joining me now is nationally syndicated columnist adreanna cohen, also a boston herald radio host, and democratic strategist kristen hahn, a former communications director for blue dog democrats. thank you both for joining us this morning. kristen, i want to start with you. the democratic field is already packed, and at least several more announcements are expected. is this a case of the more the merrier, or do too many candidates risk splintering the party to the benefit of president trump? i mean, i think that i m all for robust, healthy primaries, so i say the more the merrier. we need to have a discussion about where we are with the party, but i would also caution a lot of these candidates who are taking a hard left turn that we don t want to alienate a lot of those voters