>> Now that Super Tuesday is over, we felt that it was important to do a post mortem.
But also think of what the strategy should be moving forward for progressives, particularly
for Bernie Sanders.
Who still has a very good shot at winning the Democratic nomination.
So for all of you out there who are discouraged today, get over it, get over it quickly.
Because now is the time to fight and now is the time to do so aggressively.
First, lets go over what the results of last night were.
First off, we need to know what the total delegate count looks like thus far in the
race.
And Biden does have the lead, he is the front runner.
But the lead is isn't really that big, so he has 513 of the pledged delegates so far.
Bernie comes in at second with 461.
And then Warren comes in at third with 47.
Now there have been some rumors, some whispers, that Warren could be dropping out soon.
We'll see how that plays out, but for now she's still in the race.
>> Okay, I gotta jump in on that delegate count.
So first, the usual establishment Democrat and mainstream media hypocrisy.
When Bernie Sanders had the lead after the first three states, after the first four states,
they were like, not a front runner, no way.
Okay, can we really call him a front runner?
No, no, no, right?
The minute Biden takes the lead, a tiny lead as you just saw there in the delegate count,
they have to go all the way to 1,991.
So it's anybody's ball game.
We've got Florida, Michigan, New York, so many things coming up, right?
They're like, no, that's it.
I think Bernie should drop out.
I mean, why is he extending this?
He has no road to winning.
Are you serious?
And they say with a straight face, that's why I'm done with the mainstream media.
I'll go on and I'll talk to them, but we have to call them the brazen hypocrites that they
are.
>> You know how I feel about the mainstream media, I have very similar feelings.
However, I think that it's important to give credit where credit is due.
So while MSNBC has its regular anti-Bernie programming.
And while people like James Carville are urging everyone in the Democratic race to drop out,
including Bernie Sanders, of course.
I was just listening to the New York Times podcast, The Daily, and they were really honest.
They're like no, Bernie still has a really good shot at wining this.
>> Yeah, okay, well, then let me go further.
Okay, I'm glad you mentioned that because unlike the mainstream media, we're fair.
We give you what they do right and wrong.
So what is this talk of does Bernie have a chance?
Here, put up the delegate count again, it's nearly tied.
They have to get to 1991, all Bernie has to do is win one more state and he's back in
the lead.
What are you guys talking about?
They're making it sound like Bernie's at Klobuchar level at seven or something.
And by the way, another important point about that is all this talk about a brokered convention,
brokered convention.
All of a sudden Biden takes the lead ,no more talk of brokered convention.
Now that anybody asking on TV?
Well, I mean if Biden goes in with a lead, but he doesn't have 50%.
I guess, we should probably give it to, find a way to give it to Bernie.
No, that talk is ended immediately.
Second of all, what brokered convention?
Put up the graphic one more time, there is only two people in this race.
Warren is barely still in the race because she's talking to staff about maybe dropping
out.
She's 47, none of them are gonna have any delegates.
A brokered convention happens when there are not two major candidates, when there's a whole
bunch of candidates.
And that guy got 37, the other one got 38, and the other one got 12 and stuff.
No, the other candidates delegates are de minimis, they won't be relevant unless it's
razor thin.
So no, we got a two person race, it's anybody's ball game.
Last thing on that, hey, mainstream media.
We love to do things ahead of time, you love to be hypocrites.
So if Bernie retakes the lead, and mainly to establishment Democrats, James Carville
and all those guys, I'm talking to you.
If Bernie retakes the lead, will you have the same position?
Will you say, well now that Bernie is the front runner Biden should drop out?
>> We all know what the answer is, right.
Remember these are not winner-take-all races.
So even if the majority of voters in any given state prefer Joe Biden over Bernie, the fact
of the matter is Bernie will still win delegates in that state.
So let's get to some of those specifics.
So let's start with the states that Joe Biden did win.
Alabama, Arkansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas,
Virginia.
It's a lot of states, right?
>> It is, and that's why he's back in the ball game.
And again, unlike the rest of media, we're super fair.
The minute Joe Biden starts winning states that we didn't expect, we're like, he's having
a great night.
This is now a two person race.
By the end of the night we were saying, no, Biden won Super Tuesday.
He is now in the lead.
Let's keep it real, right?
Cuz we can do math.
And Emma reported that from Bernie's headquarters.
We all universally agreed because, again, it's not complicated.
But I gotta say one thing about Joe Biden's so-called strength.
Some of those states are very relevant, some will be blue no matter what like Massachusetts.
And some are more tossups like Virginia and very important in the general election, but
most of them are in the South.
And they're like, Joe Biden's strength's in Alabama, so I think maybe you could beat Trump
in Alabama >> No, Arkansas.
>> No, so Minnesota is relevant too, so keep it real.
It's across the board.
But most of those states are states that Joe Biden will have absolutely zero percent chance
of winning in the general elections.
>> Correct, when it comes to the states that Bernie Sanders won, California of course is
a huge state to win.
And luckily Bernie Sanders did win that state, then you have Colorado, Utah, and Vermont.
>> I mean, look, now Bernie wins the largest state in the union and does it by a good margin.
And all the people who said Bernie Sanders had no chance, laughed at him, mocked him,
etc., for the entirety of this campaign and the one before.
He wins California and they're like he didn't win it by enough, he didn't win it by enough.
That's not true, okay.
You have nothing but excuses, we're fair about how Biden had a great night last night, is
definitely back in it, we got a two person race.
Are they equally fair?
Sometimes, like Ana pointed out.
The New York Times did a good job with The Daily, and oftentimes not.
>> So let's go to a breakdown of each individual state, just to show you how much they won.
Now again, in Alabama, Joe Biden did win in that state.
He had a 63.37%, now that was a huge lead over Bernie Sanders.
So in Alabama Bernie unfortunately received 16.81%.
But to Cenk's point Alabama is a state in the general election that will go to Trump.
>> Yeah, so I'll go through the rest of them real quick.
So Alabama easy win for Biden, congrats to him but also easy win for the Republicans
in general.
Arkansas, same exact thing, not as big a margin but still a big margin, 40 to 22 basically,
for Biden.
California, Bernie wins 33.6 and 22.7.
So that's a healthy 11 point win in the biggest state, which means that is a lot more delegates
that you pick up with that size of a win in that big a state.
Colorado, Bernie wins 36, 23.
Maine, Biden squeaks out a victory there, went back and forth all night, 34, 33 basically.
Massachusetts, Biden at 33.5, Bernie at 27.
That one could have been closer.
Now a lot of people say, let's pause there.
Elizabeth Warren, if she had dropped out and endorsed Bernie, Bernie might have won Massachusetts.
I actually think that was way more relevant in 2016, cuz at that point, Massachusetts
would have made a big difference in momentum.
I think Bernie could have also maybe won Iowa, which was a squeaker in 2016.
Now if you made the argument that Bernie would have won Massachusetts if Warren had dropped
out, you have to be honest.
And say, yeah, but Biden probably would have won a lot of states or done better in a lot
of states if Bloomberg had dropped out earlier.
So be fair on both sides to them.
Minnesota, Biden winning a state he wasn't necessarily supposed to win a couple of days
ago with Klobuchar's endorsement, made a big difference there.
So 38.5 to 30, North Carolina, big win again for Biden, 43.7 to 24.5.
Oklahoma, a closer contest, interestingly but still a sizable win 38.6 and 25.4.
Tennessee another sizable win 41.8 to 25 for Biden.
And Texas, we wanted to win Texas, Texas was important, but we didn't.
Wait, let me do mainstream media and now that we lost Texas, Texas has always been irrelevant.
What's the big deal?
It was only the third largest state in the country, who cares?
No, it was important and Biden won it.
Beto O'Rourke might have helped them there, it was certainly all the momentum helped him,
so 34 to 30 basically.
Last couple here, Utah, Bernie wins comfortably 34 to 17.
Vermont, obviously he wins comfortably 50 to 22.
And then Virginia, also an important state, and Biden won big there by 30 points.
>> So I just wanna make one quick comment about Utah.
Remember Utah is a state that was dealing with homelessness, especially in Salt Lake
City.
And they just decided to give the homeless housing with no strings attached and the program
worked.
So I bring that up because, in the context of this race, there's a lot of religious people
living in Utah, a lot of Mormons living in Utah.
But they also understand that some of the progressive policies do in fact work.
They had the privilege to experience them first hand, so I think that's the reason why
you see such a huge margin for Bernie in Utah.
>> Yeah, and finally, guys, well, now we got trench warfare.
Two major candidates just like 2016, and we're gonna go state to state to state to state,
okay?
So next Tuesday, here we go again.
Don't miss a minute of it.
We're gonna do it right here on TYT.
Idaho, Michigan, which is gigantic, Mississippi, Missouri, really important, North Dakota,
the state of Washington.
The state of Washington is a large state, Bernie has nice leads in the west normally.
We'll see what kind of momentum they have going into March 10th.
And then next Tuesday after that, March 17th, top of the morning to ya, St. Patty’s day,
we're gonna do Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Ohio.
Gigantic, this race is nowhere near over.
Two enormous weeks left to go here, and then many more.
But those two weeks are really important, though.
Last thing on it, debates.
Now, we might have mano a mano, likely, Bernie versus Biden.
Can Biden finish a debate?
>> Well, you know how I feel about Biden's debate performance.
And it has nothing to do, well, it has a lot to do with substance, but it has more to do
with his inability to speak coherently, right?
So I think the big question is, will there be a debate that's compelling enough to make
an impact by March 17th, right?
>> Yeah, so we're gonna have to see.
And look, the debates sometimes make a giant difference.
When Elizabeth Warren eviscerated Mike Bloomberg, he lost his momentum in all those states,
and now he's dropped out.
So remember, the presidential race has more free media than anything else in the world.
So even Bloomberg with his whole fortune, he's having spent half a billion dollars on
ads, couldn't buy the race, because the debates were so important.
So now Bernie versus Biden, the whole country's gonna watch those debates.
And if Biden struggles to speak in complete sentences it's going to be a real issue.
And I can guarantee you that the online media is not going to let it go, no matter how much
the mainstream media covers up for Biden.
Those are not gaffes, those are significant issues with his mental faculties, that's just
a fact.
And Trump will eviscerate him on that stuff in the general election.
So let's go, game on.