day 1140 of the Trump administration
that leaves 244 days to go until the
2020 presidential election and speaking
from this studio if last night was Super
Tuesday this was exhaustion Wednesday it
was a late night not only here but
across the country we don't know all the
results yet but make no mistake this is
a whole new race for the White House oh
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I've been writing for months that
electability the case for electability
is really not so much about the
candidates as it is black voters the
person who black voters say is electable
is the person that makes the case for
electability and I think overwhelmingly
what we have seen in the last 72 hours
is that the candidate that most black
voters feel is electable is Joe Biden
and you know that's not just true of
last night Joe Biden has a fifty year
relationship with black voters black
voters are who got him into politics and
who sustained him in his in his
political career for you know four seven
times in the Senate and so he's long
been counting on black voters to deliver
for him and they did it again in South
Carolina and across Super Tuesday mainly
because you know as much as there were
certainly people who loved Joe Biden who
felt familiar with him who felt that
that like representative Cameron said
that that he knew them and they knew him
but but there's also a sense of
responsibility that is looming over this
election with the black voters that I
talked to for them you know with them
with the priority for them being to oust
President Donald Trump in November they
are squarely focused on on that goal and
for them at least at this point Joe
Biden is the person that they see as
being able to help them achieve that
goal you mean I'm going to jump over to
you first
because it does appear that the White
House is attempting to shape the race by
essentially trying to outrage Bernie
Sanders supporters in advance to try to
make sure that they don't coalesce with
Joe Biden should he be the nominee it
feels like they're running the 2016
playbook all over again
that's right and what it seems like is
that you have a president who is on his
heels he's facing a number of challenges
there's the corona virus that might have
all sorts of complications inside the
United States we're with the
administration scrambling to get out
more tests so that people can know
whether or not they even have the virus
then of course you have the stocks
markets that have seen gains today as a
response to Jill Biden doing well in the
Democratic primary and then of course
you have the rise of Jill Biden someone
who president Trump saw as his chief it
seems a person that he did not want to
face got himself impeached over trying
to get information on Joe Biden and his
son and what you see the problem with
this of course is that President Trump
is using language not only that it's
paralleling some of the Russian pots
that we're seeing but it's also
paralleling allies of Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders and people around him
have been saying that the Democratic
Party is trying to kiss trying to cheat
Bernie out of it I got an email from a
group associated with Bernie Sanders
saying that Democrats are trying to
steal the election from him so it's not
just that President Trump is saying
these things
it's that also Democrats are saying
these things which is feeding into this
atmosphere of people feeling aggrieved
appear a Bernie Sanders supporter one of
the most remarkable 72 hours in American
politics not just this election in a
long time so Joe Biden is now the
front-runner you'd rather be him than
anybody else and you know he's got some
good states coming up you talked about
them earlier Florida
we've got Georgia Mississippi Louisiana
so here's what I would say he was the
national frontrunner he was polling in
the 30s even so it's always easier in
politics to get back support or vote you
once had that never had it all so that
left him bad debates bad performance in
Iowa New Hampshire flirting with mayor
Pete flirting with Bloomberg Biden has a
great night in South Carolina clobberin
endorses Nair Pete Amy Beto all that
comes together and a lot of that vote
went back to one what really was
interesting last night though it wasn't
just the african-american vote which was
always a cornerstone he really ran up
big margins in suburban areas it
actually gives him real strength in the
upcoming primaries but actually have
strong electability case to make the
Democrats cuz that was what fueled our
great 2018 at the Congressional level
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