Dan Pfeiffer

It makes no sense.

It seems crazy.

Maybe it's so crazy it'll work.

Yeah, it seems like things are not going to be perfect anytime soon at the airports.

Yeah, if I was a Coast Guard or FEMA worker, I'd be pretty pissed right now.

And how much magic money is there, John?

We're spending, how many billions have we spent in Iran already?

He's just, Scott Besson's going to turn on the presses and start printing those Donald Trump bucks.

Get those printed for some people.

The mistake here is the criteria included not just polling position, but also money.

So that led them to include Matt Mahan, the low polling, but mayor of San Jose, who also has a lot of money because people like Sergey Brin and a lot of tech people are funding his campaign.

And so once you put... I think you could have made a credible argument that you were going to stop at Tom Steyer, Eric Swalwell, Katie Porter.

They have been...

three, four, and five in the polls and bunched up together for a very long time with a decent-sized gap between them and everyone else.

But once you included Mahan in there, it seemed like a very... I understand why people would be upset about that.

Because you shouldn't be able to get on a debate stage just because Sergey Brin writes a massive check to your super PAC.

I think it's a mess.

It's a classic collective action problem, John.

Everyone's incentive is to keep things exactly as the way they are up until the exact moment where we nominate two Republicans to run for governor in the most democratic state in the country.

I think we're at 20 polls that all show the same thing.