Quick heads up here at the top. This episode is with Jordan Weisman. He pretty much always gets salty on this show, so you've been warned.

At this point in the Democratic primary, I got to tell you I was not expecting

more candidates. I was like, this clown car is full.

Nope. Nope.

I wanted to get Slate's Jordan Weisman into the studio to talk Democratic politics with me, because both of us were kind of baffled by this moment.

First on CBS this morning, the newest Democrat who wants to take on President Trump next fall.

All of a sudden we have Mike Bloomberg coming out of the woodwork. We've got to vault Patrick, former governor of Massachusetts.

I think what I've decided is you can't know if you can break through if you don't get out there and try.

Everyone's just rolling up in here. Yeah, just what the hell not.

The Democratic presidential field. It's simultaneously expanding and contracting.

Just yesterday, Montana governor Steve Bullock dropped out of the race.

Well, at the same time, former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg spent $31 million to jump into it, pumping out a flashy new ad campaign.

Mike Bloomberg for President, Jobs Creator, Leader, Problem Solver. It's going to take all three to build back a country.

$31 million is the most any candidate has spent on a single week of advertising ever, by the way.

And the weirdest part of all this on the whole if you look at pulling Democrats are pretty happy with their lineup.

But they, you know, they see the big floor, which is right now, Bernie Warren Biden and Buttigieg.

Yeah, that's a pretty good slate of candidates. That's that's that's where we're content.

But someone isn't really. Yeah, there's this there's this elite moderate sense that there's gap.

There's this gap among the candidates that there is no great moderate hope out there.

Maybe this is you looking from candidate to candidate thinking this one's too young. This one's too old.

That one over there, they're just too much. And if this is you, Jordan's got a very simple question for you.

When he can't stop asking himself, why why doesn't he want like Cory Booker?

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