 As Bernie Sanders continues to rise in the polls, his primary opponents are trying desperately to scramble to find some way to stay relevant and they're trying to throw Bernie Sanders under a bus in order to boost themselves and they're using electability as their primary case against Bernie Sanders. Now Joe Biden has been making an electability argument since he entered the race. I think that with time that argument is losing steam. But now two individuals who really don't have a leg to stand on when it comes to electability are trying to make the case for themselves and say that Bernie Sanders isn't as electable as they'd be, ironically giving their standing in the polls. But for more on this we go to Dan Merica and Jeff Zeleni of CNN who write, Private concern among moderate Democrats has steadily escalated into public alarm about whether Sanders becoming the party's standard bearer would make it easier for President Donald Trump to be reelected and complicate the party's chances of winning control of the Senate and holding its majority in the House. The heart of those concerns stem from Sanders' proud embrace of being a Democratic Socialist, a moniker that many worry would be a godsend for Trump and particularly hurt Democrats in swing districts the party won back in 2018. Bernie is surging and we're running out of time before the Iowa caucuses Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana wrote Sunday in a fundraising appeal to supporters, bluntly suggesting Sanders would be a risk as the party's nominee. Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar told reporters on Sunday that she believes Sanders would be bad for down ballot races in 2020 if he is the nominee. Quote, that's my argument. My argument is that I will make our tent bigger, our coalition wider, and my coattails are longer, I actually have receipts, she said, I don't come from a state as blue as Vermont. Now what's interesting to me is that Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar as they try to make the case for their electability, they don't have a leg to stand on. Joe Biden has been trying to make this case, now I argue substantively against his chances, but he at least has polls to point to. Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg have nothing. I mean Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg are running ideologically the same campaign as Hillary Clinton and she lost down ballot races were hurt by Hillary Clinton but yet they're saying someone who clearly excites younger voters is going to be bad for the party. And they're saying, you know what, I'm the one who is best positioned to not only excite the base and help down ticket races, but beat Donald Trump when that's nonsense. Let's look at the polls and see what they say. According to a recent survey USA poll, Bernie Sanders is the one who beats Trump by the widest margin, bigger than any 2020 Democrat with a nine point advantage. And in the same poll Amy Klobuchar actually loses to Donald Trump by two points and Pete Buttigieg, even though he does beat Trump in this poll, he beats him by three points which is six points behind Bernie. And let me remind you, we need the largest cushion possible assuming Donald Trump will be successful at driving down support for the eventual Democratic Party nominee. So basing it off of polls, you don't want to go with Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar, you want to go with Bernie Sanders. Now that's just one poll, let's look at aggregate polling data and see what it says. So currently overall Joe Biden does beat Donald Trump by the largest margin with four point three points overall. Although I've told you why I think that is a really soft lead that he has. But also Bernie Sanders does beat Trump by three points. I think that would increase in a general election. And Elizabeth Warren does beat Donald Trump, albeit by a small margin one point two points, but she does beat him nonetheless. Now Pete Buttigieg overall loses to Donald Trump. I repeat he loses to Donald Trump by zero point two points. And this has been a consistent finding in the polls. Sometimes aggregate polling data shows that Pete Buttigieg does beat Donald Trump. However, after I've been following this for months, consistently it shows that he's the weakest against Donald Trump. So the question is, what is Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar basing this off of? Like, why are you saying that you're the most electable when that's demonstrably false? He's going to make the case for himself and respond to this attack that he loved against Bernie Sanders after everyone was screaming unity. And he's basically going to explain that he's the most electable by lying about polling data. Mayor Pete, I'm wondering, I'm going to start out with a question about this fundraising email that I'm looking at right now that came from your campaign. It's actually from your deputy campaign manager, which says a lot of things, but also this, Bernie Sanders performs the worst against President Trump compared to all major candidates. So I guess my question to you is, how so? Well, we've seen polling data come back showing that I would be the best candidate to take on Donald Trump. And I think one of the things that many voters I have encountered on the trail have in common. By the way, not just true blue Democrats, but independents and a lot of Republicans who are sick of this president, the big thing that so many folks have in common is the importance of defeating this president. Now, that's not just about ideology. That's about a lot of things. What we know for sure is we're not going to be able to beat Donald Trump by recycling this same political mindset that brought us to this point. What I'm offering is something completely different. And I'm insisting that what it takes to govern is also what it's going to take to win. I'm the best candidate to do that, to turn the page, to move us into a different future. And that's such a priority right now, knowing that this is our one shot, our only shot to defeat this president. Shameless. Absolutely shameless. Quote, we have polling data coming back showing that I would be the best candidate to take on Donald Trump. In what universe? In what universe? You are the weakest candidate to take on Donald Trump. The weakest. Elizabeth Warren is more electable than you against Donald Trump. So I don't know what he's talking about. And again, ideologically speaking, we just tried running a moderate and that failed spectacularly. So you don't even make a substantive case that's very compelling. But I mean, for you to just outright lie and say that the polls show that you're better. I mean, it just shows how shameless and desperate Pete would a judge is. No, you're not the strongest to take on Donald Trump. You get your ass beat by Donald Trump. You would not beat Donald Trump because this thumb pointing rehearsed politician will be demolished by someone who has absolutely no filter, who shoots from the hip, who isn't afraid to, you know, hit below the belt. Donald Trump doesn't care about respectability politics. He's not going to play by the rules set out by the establishment. So we need someone with a large cushion who can take on Donald Trump and, you know, withstand a couple of blows and ultimately beat him. And the key to beating Donald Trump, as was demonstrated with Obama's victory, is turning out disaffected, namely young voters. Pete would a judge absolutely has no case to be made when it comes to that. Young voters do not like him. In fact, he's doing almost as bad with young voters as he is with black voters. So if anyone is going to make the case for electability, Pete would a judge is the one with the least amount of credibility here. Amy Klobuchar also has zero credibility. She loses to Donald Trump in that survey USA poll. These people are clowns, but understand they know that they don't have anything left. They're one appeal to Democratic Party primary voters to vote for them as, you know, unappealing and uninspiring as they are. Is to fear monger and concern troll about Bernie's electability. But guess what? Donald Trump will be difficult to defeat. That's true. But if anyone is going to beat him, it's going to be Bernie Sanders because nobody else has the huge grassroots movement that Bernie Sanders has built and nobody else even comes close when it comes to younger voters. So step aside and unite behind the eventual nominee because all of these attacks on Bernie only weaken him if he is the eventual front runner. Now, do I personally believe that? No, but I'm kind of giving them a little bit of a taste of their own medicine because whenever somebody else was ahead in the polls and we criticized them based on policy, we were told to shut up because that's going to weaken the eventual nominee and we need to unite behind them so we can beat Donald Trump. So I'm just turning that argument back on you. If you truly care about beating Donald Trump, then stop attacking Bernie Sanders because this is going to hurt him. And we all need to unite and vote blue for Bernie Sanders specifically because look, if you want to beat Trump, I've said it time and again. It is Bernie Sanders. Don't roll the dice with a centrist again. Vote for Bernie Sanders. Beat Donald Trump.