"I think she would get trounced in a landslide by Trump," he continued. "I think people are sensing that. I also think she has a likability issue. I think her kind of high-school principal demeanor — this is not a gender thing, this is just kind of tone and manner thing. I think the American public, the more they see, the more they’re going: hmm... this is not the answer."

.@DonnyDeutsch: Unlikeable Elizabeth Warren would get "trounced in a landslide" by Trump.



#tcot#ElizabethWarren#2020election#DonnyDeutsch@Morning_Joe pic.twitter.com/zCK4Sr1XBc— Mark Finkelstein (@markfinkelstein) November 27, 2019

"Donny, the likability thing, it’s so problematic to hear. Because it is ... always connected to female candidates. Women candidates," Jean-Pierre, an NBC and MSNBC political analyst, replied.



"I think [Sen.] Bernie [Sanders] is equally as unlikable," Deutsch noted of the Vermont Independent, a 2020 presidential candidate and self-described democratic socialist.



"Bernie’s more unlikable," economist and former Obama auto task force head Steve Rattner injected.





"I have not heard it with any of the male candidates. You don’t hear that type of language," Jean-Pierre insisted.

Deutsch retorted that he had just included Sanders as an unlikable candidate, to which Jean-Pierre reiterated that "we need to be careful."

Warren's favorability rating in the RealClearPolitics index of polls in currently 39.6 percent.