‘Morning Joe’: Bloomberg Is Probably Not the Greatest Retail Politician

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PALMIERI: "Right. We have no way of knowing if people will actually turn out to vote for him. They’re seeing ads. He’s rising in the polls because of that, but will people actually turn out to vote for him? How will he do on the debate stage? How will he do interacting with voters? He’s probably not the greatest retail politician. And will this be the year that that doesn’t matter? I think it will still matter when you go to these individual states, they want you to show up and do well, but Super Tuesday is a very — a very different field."
ELROD: "They want to press the flesh. I think that something Mike Bloomberg is not always —"
BRZEZINSKI: "We don't know. We don’t know what it looks like."
PALMIERI: "Untested."
SCARBOROUGH: "But the thing is, James, the retail politicking, that takes place in Iowa and New Hampshire."