With the remarkably versatile Kate McKinnon at the helm, this weekend’s "Saturday Night Live" cold open took aim at Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s $52 trillion "Medicare-for-all" health care plan.
“I am in my natural habitat – a public school on a weekend,” McKinnon's excitable Warren quipped at an Iowa town hall, complete with fist pumps, some "whoos" and the senator’s signature raspy voice.
She also took a moment to give Beto O’Rourke a send off after he dropped out of the race last week.
“Let me know how my dust tastes,” she said.
After mentioning that she pays taxes in every state “out of principle,” she took questions from cast members playing ambivalent voters.
Asked why it took her so long to release her health care plan, McKinnon’s Warren answered, “When Bernie was talking 'Medicare-for-all', everybody was like, ‘Oh cool,’ and then they turned to me and said, ‘Fix it, Mom.’”
She added that her plan “compares favorably” to former Vice President Joe Biden’s “in that it exists.”
“No one asks how we’re going to pay for ‘Remember Obama,” she said, referring to Biden’s tendency to frequently cozy up to the former president.
She then answered a question about estimates of how much her plan would cost.
“We’re talking trillions,” she answered. “When the numbers are this big they’re just pretend.”
Warren has surged in polls recently as Biden has faded and is in the lead in a new Iowa poll.
-Justin Thyme- Two cents worth of opinion.
I take the poll in Iowa saying Warren is in the lead. But polls taken are quite of the 'flavor of the month' type reliable factors. Who ever visited last, often is flavor of the month.
I find it more reliable to go by composite polling if I must refer to polls. Real Clear Politics does composite polling. They conduct no polling of their own. So RCP isn't biased one way or another.
Here is the lasted composite polls from RCP.
Looks to me Elizabeth Warren Is NOT in the lead. Prior composite polls show that has made gains but is not taking the lead from Biden.
Polling Data
| Poll | Date |
Biden
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Warren
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Sanders
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Buttigieg
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Harris
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Yang
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Klobuchar
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Gabbard
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Booker
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O'Rourke
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Steyer
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Bennet
| Spread | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RCP Average | 10/21 - 10/31 | 29.5 | 19.8 | 16.8 | 7.3 | 3.8 | 2.7 | 2.2 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 1.8 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.5 | Biden +9.7 |
| ABC/WP | 10/27 - 10/30 | 28 | 23 | 17 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Biden +5 |
| FOX News | 10/27 - 10/30 | 31 | 21 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Biden +10 |
| Harris | 10/29 - 10/31 | 33 | 15 | 18 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | -- | 0 | Biden +15 |
| USA Today | 10/23 - 10/26 | 26 | 17 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Biden +9 |
| Economist | 10/27 - 10/29 | 27 | 23 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Biden +4 |
| Politico | 10/21 - 10/27 | 32 | 20 | 20 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Biden +12 |
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