jeremy peters, maria theresa cue mar -- kumar and ken vogel.before trump not go the race it was a packed field with jeb bush, ben carson, scott walker and marco rubio toward the front of the pack, huckabee, tuesday, rand paul and chris christie were within shouting distance and trump wasn't even on the radar. today, though, trump is soaring, carson has shot up, too, jeb bush has gone nowhere and ted cruz is surviving by hitch ago ride with trump. rubio has fallen, walker support has imploded nationally. then there's the crowd of folks who have evaporated. rick perry has run out of money. rick santorum, lindsey graham, bobby jindal, jim gilmore, george pataki are polling at basically 0 if you throw rand paul, chris christie and john kasich into this group, the combined support for these nine candidates comes in at less than 9%. we have a couple minutes left here. i want to go around the horn and ask you a two-part question. the first is this, we'll start with you, ken. i want you to tell me, the biggest loser of the summer in the republican race

let's bring in msnbc reporter alex seitz-wald and politico's ken vogel. alex, you first here.h this new poll. but does it represent the overall trajectory of hillary clinton's numbers? >> yeah. as marc said, we'll have to wait and see if this poll is an outlier. there's a long way to go. but no doubt that hillary clinton isn't in the position that she was at the beginning of the summer. she's fallen back down to earth as just a run of the mill front-runner instead of the completely ahistorical indomitable candidate. she's looking more like al gore when bill bradley pulled ahead or john kerry didn't come up until december of 2003 in the 2004 democratic prior. this is definitely different from what we expected. we thought she might just have a clear path to the nomination. and she's facing a tough challenge from bernie sanders. but she has plenty of time to turn this around. >> ken, we have hillary clinton doing more interviews over this past week than during the entire presidential campaign thus far. she's going to be on "ellen" later today and apparently showing off her dancin

ken vogel, chief investigative reporter for politico. donald trump selling out a 2,000-seat arena.eople said this day would never come, that he would be long gone. he's here. is he here to stay? >> he's here to stay, jonathan. all the prog noft kators were wrong with trump. his numbers seem to be steady in the early goings of this particular campaign. it's funny to hear him say that no one talks about him being in the lead when that's all that everyone has been talking about since this campaign really got started. so that's a little bit strange. but listen, when we look at the numbers, even though they may not have a lot of depth to them, which is to say, we don't know if it's all new voters, are these the red meat base? there seems to be confusion about who is being polled and who makes the case for trump here. but at the end of the day he's leading now and we can't call this the early part of the campaign anymore. >> no, you can't. and ken, we've been watching donald trump rise in the polls with each sort of insult of the other candidates that he has lobbed, this seems to be work