democrats beating president trump in a dead matchups. the president not cracking 40%. meantime, the president had plenty to say about his potential challengers last night as rally in battleground new hampshire. we will see what happens. whoever it is, i don t know that it matters. but whoever it is. different people. i think sleepy joe maybe able to limp across the finish line. dagen: chris stirewalt, the bernie bros and babes have gone bye-bye. [laughter] melissa: she s been waiting to say that! a chris: that is quality friday alliteration and i am here for it. elizabeth warren is cooking and cracking the bones of bernie sanders. she is grinding them down. we are finding what bernie s floor is. it s like 10%, it s down there. he doesn t ever go away. sanders doesn t ever disappear. and that s a problem for warren.
we re also hearing more this morning about what could ultimately motivate beto to throw his hat in the ring. noah, what s your take? bernie is the most interesting guy in this race. he is he jumped into this race in this sort of odd fashion announcing it on vermont public radio, which is kind of a downer of a release. but he did so with an explicit rejection. he said i m not running as an x or accept jennarian white jewish guy from vermont but a guy with ideas. you are running as a particular subset of a demographic trait. that s part of your appeal particularly among many of these candidates running as a woman, as a minority, as what have you. that s part of their appeal to a subset of the democratic electorate. and the democratic electorate responded with a lot of frustration saying to bernie that you and his supporters for example, the bernie bros who
i think he should show his love for his son, the kind of love that his son showed for him on that stand by having the courage to tell the truth and do something incredibly difficult. i think he should show his love for his son by saying i am by s withdrawing from this race. i m admitting wrongdoing and the mistakes that were made and the legal acts that were made and he should not be seated. he should not even be running for congress at this point. let s talk about those dems because as the 2020 democratic field grows, there s been a lot of talk about the three bs. bernie, biden and beto. the first jumped into the race. bernie raised 6 million bucks in his first 24 hours as a 2020 contender. joe biden appears to be one step closer to announcing a 2020 bid but still has a few concerns standing in his way. as he weighs a campaign to unseat president trump, biden is carefully considering a key question what happens when the president or his top allies try to make his family an issue?
were accused in the 2016 cycle of advance something sort of misogyny. so that is the dynamic that i m most interested in watching. is joe biden going to jump? ? should he? i think he s going to get in the race. biden does well in the polls. there s reality in these poll numbers. i don t think it s just name recognition. there s genuine warmth out there for him. i felt to win the democratic nomination you need to be a white candidate who can win black votes, and biden can do that, or a black candidate who can win white votes. i think cory booker and kamala harris can do that. i think biden will get in the race, and he will be a serious contender. far more serious than bernie sanders is going to be. megan, you brought up compassion earlier. and that takes me to joe biden s concern. the impact a campaign could have on a person s family. we know it s going to be brutal
democrats consistently are looking for, large field as you mentioned, democrats really care who is the most progressive or the generational changes, they want to know who will beat donald trump and the announcement speech today, she didn t address that at all. it was not very big, she had a pretty big election last time but it wasn t the biggest in the state in november and now people, democrats aren t bothered by the native american claims of ancestry but they are bothered what they consider tactical mistakes and what it means in run-up with donald trump. leland: democrats are worried about electability, at least the group of progressive democrats and i m thinking the younger organizing group, the bernie