Joe Biden's Front Runner Status

The Daily DC

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🗓️ 28 May 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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In his first month out campaigning, Joe Biden has been the clear front runner in the polls, securing endorsements from many Democratic office holders, and solidifying support with key constituencies across the party. CNN Political Director David Chalian reflects on one gnawing question that continues to surround his candidacy. Is Biden's frontrunner status rock solid or is there a soft underbelly to it that makes it truly vulnerable to a credible challenger?To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.4	Hey, everyone. I'm David Chalien, the CNN Political Director, and this is the Daily DC. Thanks so much for listening.
0:39.7	Today on the podcast, Joe Biden's frontrunner status. As you know, Joe Biden, in his first month out in this campaign, has proven to be the clear leader of the polls.
0:57.3	He is bringing in impressive amounts of money by all accounts, though we haven't seen a quarterly fundraising report for him yet. We will hopefully hear
1:03.6	from the campaign on that after June 30th when this second quarter ends. We will see the report
1:08.8	filed by July 15th. But we do have reports of how much
1:12.1	he raised in those first 24 hours, and we know his schedule has been full of these high dollar
1:18.6	fundraisers. Joe Biden, thankfully, is allowing a print pooler into his fundraisers to be able to record his words and what he's telling these donors.
1:30.9	So we are able to see when he's doing these high dollar fundraisers, if not on camera, at least what he's saying.
1:37.8	All of that is true. It is also true. He has more out-of-the-gate endorsements from Democratic office holders, members of Congress or others, than any of his competitors.
1:51.6	He is solidifying support with key constituencies.
1:57.9	There's no metric yet that exists where you would say Joe Biden is not the frontrunner of this race.
2:04.6	Hey, look at that.
2:05.6	There are a few anecdotal notes.
2:08.6	He's not been building massive crowds, right?
2:11.6	So his out of the gate performance on the stump is not drawing the kinds of crowds that Bernie Sanders was drawing in
2:18.2	2016, certainly not that Donald Trump was drawing back then, but that also is a bit by design.
2:24.3	Probably his team is not all that interested in trying to do something at some huge venue that
2:29.3	perhaps they can't fill up, but it does raise the question.
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