Transcript for 'Joe Biden's best day is before the campaign really starts': GOP strategist

Because paying 30% more is 100% wrong for New York. Beto, Beto, Biden, let's see what happens, but it really appears to be the democratic party has decided that the way to beat Donald Trump is a far left, socialistic agenda, that I think is a bad strategy. Not only for defeating trump, but worse than that, a terrible, terrible position to put the American people in, and I think the American people are going to reject it. And we're back with the round table right now. We'll get to that in a second, but I want to go to the latest poll from the Des Moines register CNN media com that shows Joe Biden in Iowa, 27%. Bernie Sanders just behind him at 25%, and then everyone falls off a cliff. Elizabeth Warren, kamala Harris. 1%. Kirsten Gillibrand didn't even get 1%. I know it's really, really early, but what does that tell you, cokie? Name recognition. They have heard of Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, and haven't heard of the others. At this point, that's what we're talking about. I think that's right. Joe Biden's best day is before the campaign really starts. Look. The worst thing is politics is when you are completely well known and you have no room to grow, and that's still not enough to put it away. I think Joe Biden's a parking lot where people are just sitting and waiting for a new, fresh, democratic face to come along and there are two primaries here. There's the old money primary. Go raise a bunch of money from big donors and then there is the online money primary, people like Beto and kamala Harris, and Bernie Sanders who raise money on the internet, watch out for them. They're going to zoom. Our democratic strategist here, how do you see this? Obviously it's early. Obviously everything changes, but for somebody like Biden and Sanders particularly, what does that say? Biden has carried a lot of -- Neighbors? He has not announced, but a lot of people like him. They believe him. They trust him. This goes across demographics, across geography. This showed me that the democratic field is strong. I actually believe that. I think it shows that we have breadth and depth of ideas and candidates who can represent all candidates. Just like the Republican field when we had 17 candidates. Yeah. You know, Julie, there were several Democrats this week who bowed out. Mike Bloomberg have all now -- Hillary Clinton. Yeah. Hillary Clinton. Why are so many bowing out? Well, for a couple of different reasons. For someone like Mike Bloomberg, it's a data-driven person and in talking to his team this week, they looked determined, and they looked at their polling and they determined that there was room in the field for a moderate to win the democratic nomination, but not if more than one moderate wins and Biden is going to get in, and they did not think that a moderate could pull out if both were winning. Bloomberg has a lot of money to be able to do a lot more in this race. For someone like brown, I think some of it is -- I think his heart wasn't in it, and running for president is really grueling on you personally, on your family. If you are not all in, and you don't think you can give pretty much everything you have, it's really not worth doing. I think for Joe Biden and looking at those numbers, his team knows those numbers are not real at this point. They are well aware that the second he gets in the race, some of the realities of Joe Biden, good and bad, will become clear and they are also worried about money. He has to grind this out in an old fashioned big donor way. He doesn't like it. He doesn't like it. What does Joe Biden become that he is not already now? Can he grow? That's going to be tough. No, but what he can be is the voice of the middle of the country and the working people, and that's the voice he has provided throughout his political career. Yeah. And that could be a very important voice for the democratic party. And the general election. What's also true -- Not in a primary. It's also true he has a lot of African-American support on the theory that Barack Obama turned to him when he was looking for a vice president, and that he -- Not when he was looking for a successor. Well, that's true. I want to go to you also about Howard Schultz and what he just said. We have been talking about this a lot this morning. Progressives versus moderates. It's a real problem because you look at that last "Wall Street journal" poll. 74% of both independents and moderates said that socialism was something that made them extremely uncomfortable, and -- That's why you are going to hear Donald Trump talking about it over and over. Every Republican is going to say socialist, socialist, socialist, and it's going to be a real problem for the Democrats. Who do to Democrats do? In my community, I don't know a lot of people that have been polled. That sounds very immature, but I believe at the end of the day, this is about the base of the democratic party coming out to support the candidate that they think will speak for them. I don't think people are looking at socialists and moderates. They are looking at it as can this person represent my interest and can they beat Donald Trump? Those are two different things. I think those two things resonate with the people that will come out to vote. They will actually move the democratic party forward and I think that's black people, Latino people -- Interests might mean they can't beat Donald Trump. Talking to the voters in early states, the desire to beat Donald Trump trumps whether you support the green new deal, medicare for all. People want to hear your views on those positions. Ultimately what a lot of voters I have talked to say, is they want to be able to look at someone and think, how will they stack up with trump on a debate stage? This is why Joe Biden continues. Taking a backseat. I want to end here with you, I Alex. Let's talk about the president's own re-election prospects which he staked a large part on a strong economy. We saw the trade deficit hitting a record $891 billion, and slow job growth. Will that hurt him? Well, every silver lining has a dark cloud, but overall, things are still going pretty well. More Americans are working than ever before. Wages are finally going up. Republicans are very happy, and even Independence about the supreme court. America's feared and respected in the world. If not, loved and by the way, a downturn in the economy may not hurt trump. It may make him more you don't change captains in stormy seas and Donald Trump is still the only alternative to what? Even worse management of Washington from a democratic party that is going rabid? '92, changed captains. Okay. We're going to have to end it much, much more to come over the coming months. Thanks to all of you. That's all for us today. 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