just seven candidates. this is happening as cnn has new polling among democrats. former vice president joe biden, senator bernie sanders and senator elizabeth warren holding on to the three top spots. cnn politics reporter editor at large, chris cillizza here with new power ranks. what do you have? every two weeks going through and rank the ten most likely candidates to become nominees. michael bloomberg not in this debate and probably won t qualify for any if dnc keeps criteria the way they are. he is on track to spend more than $1 billion on television. a few polls have him at 7%. remarkable given he s only been in the race a little while. everyone else clinging on. andrew yang will stay in. cory booker may not. steyer is rich, castro, maybe not. may slim down more.
closing arguments. the big question, though, will we see witnesses? any meat in that sandwich? chuck schumer is making the case woe need to hear from four key witnesses. most importantly, mick mulvaney and john bolton. mitch mcconnell said yesterday, zero interest in having any types of witnesses or real evidence in this proceeding. an ongoing political debate. okay. ultimately two-thirds. ultimately vote, need two-thirds to convict. 53 republicans. takes 20 of them flipping to voted to convict to have a conviction. you re the best. thank you for that. let s chat about the above. danny weiss, back with us today. doug hyde, political strategist for the republican national committee. doug good to see you again. danny, start with you. the speaker, chairman schiff, other top democrats, say they want proof that there will be a fair trial before affording these orals of impeachment over to the senate.
to his impeachment is attack. just want of his targets, the grieving widow of a distinguished congressman and world war ii veteran. talk about congresswoman debbie dingell s response after the president suggested her late husband had gone to hell. plus, speaker pelosi s surprise move. talk to her daughter about her mother s mind-set during this historic moment. and just hours away from the debate tonight. the latest rankings of the 2020 democratic presidential candidates. you re watch wering cnn. i m brooke baldwin, we ll be right back. yeah, and he wanted someone to help out with chores. so, we got jean-pierre. but one thing we could both agree on was getting geico to help with renters insurance. yeah, geico did make it easy to switch and save. oh no. there s a wall there now. that s too bad. visit geico.com and see how easy
that donald trump thinks he s going to stay in power after next year and beyond is that he ll use misogyny and the right wing media will back him up. they re trying to attack a woman for having done her job. they could have said, this is just politics. instead made a ghoulish reference. when you look at the gender gap on impeachment, the numbers are overwhelmingly high among women in support of impeachment. i think a mistake for them tow do that, crass, sexist and awful but the kind of behavior we ve come to expect unfortunately from some of the president s right wing allies, and unfortunately as the presidential candidates competing in the democratic debate tonight can tell you, this is what he does to powerful women, and hopefully it will not be successful. as he attested lat night, rally in michigan, dishwashers don t work as well as they used to, because women tell him.
in iowa, in new hampshire and his fund-raising, i thought a huge problem, less than $9 million in the bank end of september. now saying his fund-raising, raised more than $50 million. more than he raced in the previous three months. so tonight i expect one, two, to be really in the most prominent attacks. remember, seen elizabeth warren. got, center of it. buttigieg a pass in that last debate. i think biden and buttigieg the ones coming for the most scrutiny. warren a bounceback debate. mediocre in the last two. keep an eye on klobuchar. she s been a very solid debate performer. maybe with less candidates more time to talk and maybe more time to shine. brooke? everyone, find this debate this evening, pbs news hour politico democratic debate, live from los angeles. see it here on cnn and your local pbs station. coverage starts at 8:00 eastern. chris, thank you. as we ve said, battle lines drawn.