>>> IN ORDER TO BEAT DONALD TRUMP WE WILL NEED LARGE VOTER
TURNOUT. >> IF HE IS THE CANDIDATE WE
WILL HAVE DONALD TRUMP FOR ANOTHER 4 YEARS.
>> DEMOCRATS TAKE A HUGE RISK IF WE JUST SUBSTITUTE ONE ARROGANT
BILLIONAIRE FOR ANOTHER
. >> THE REAL ISSUE IS, WHO CAN
BRING THE WHOLE PARTY TOGETHER AND REPRESENT ALL OF US AS A
PARTY?
>>> IT IS SUPER TUESDAY AND A PIVOTAL MOMENT IN THE FIGHT TO
BECOME THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT. WE ARE LOOKING AT
BURLINGTON, VERMONT. AND 13 OTHER STATES AND ONE TERRITORY
AND VOTERS WITH INTEREST TODAY. WELCOME TO LIVE COVERAGE FROM
THE WASHINGTON POST. I LIBBY CASEY. IT IS SUPER TUESDAY AND
THE MOST VOTERS WEIGH IN AND GO TO THE POLLS. AND MORE THAN A
THIRD OF DELEGATES ARE UP FOR GRABS. WE BREAKING NEWS ALREADY.
>>> AND "THE WASHINGTON POST" CAN PROTECT THE JOE BIDEN WILL
WIN THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA. THIS CALL IS BASED ON
EARLY NETWORK EXIT POLLING. AND "THE WASHINGTON POST" CAN
PROJECT THAT BERNIE SANDERS WILL WIN VERMONT. THIS CALL IS BASED
ON EARLY NETWORK EXIT POLLING. 16 DELEGATES AT STAKE THERE
TONIGHT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT UP UNTIL THIS POINT, ONLY
150 FORD DELEGATES HAVE BEEN DECIDED. 1357 DELEGATES ARE UP
FOR GRABS TONIGHT. WANT TO WELCOME MY GUESS THIS EVENING.
NATIONAL POLITICAL REPORTER, JAMES COLEMAN. AND AMBER
PHILLIPS, REPORTER. HOW DO WE GET THERE EARLY CALLS
? >> THEY ARE NOT SURPRISING FOR
THE EARLY CALLS, BUT THEY ARE SIGNIFICANT. OBVIOUSLY, VERMONT
IS SENATOR SANDERS HOME STATE. VIRGINIA IS A BATTLEGROUND. IT
IS IMPORTANT THAT DEMOCRATS WIN THE STATE. THE FACT THAT BIDEN
HAS WON BY A LARGE MARGIN SUGGESTS THAT HE WAS ABLE TO
CONTINUE THE MOMENTUM FROM SOUTH CAROLINA, WHERE HE
OVERWHELMINGLY RAN UP THE VOTE WITH AFRICAN-AMERICANS. VIRGINIA
IS A RICH PART OF THE STATE AND COASTAL AREAS. VIRGINIA FITS
WITH WHAT THE BITING COALITION LOOKS LIKE. IT IS GOOD NEWS FOR
HIM, THAT IT MAKES SENSE. >> AMBER?
>> EXIT POLLS ASK PEOPLE COMING OUT OF THE TOLLBOOTH. IT IS NO
SURPRISE WITH VERMONT. THEY SAID THERE WAS NO WAY ANYONE CAN MAKE
IT UP. IT IS GOOD NEWS FOR JOE BIDEN. VIRGINIA WAS AN OPEN
STATE. THE EXIT POLLS HAVE THE MEDIA GROUPS WHICH "THE
WASHINGTON POST" SUBSCRIBED TO. MORE THAN HALF SAY THEY VOTED
FOR SOMEONE THEY THOUGHT COULD EAT PRESIDENT TRUMP. THAT WOULD
TO JOE BIDEN.
MORE THAN HALF MADE UP THEIR MINDS IN THE LAST FEW DAYS.
SUGGESTING WHAT HAPPENED IN SOUTH CAROLINA AND MODERATES
DROPPING OUT BENEFITED HIM IN VIRGINIA.
>>
THROWING SUPPORT TO HIM. WE HAVE EXTENSIVE COVERAGE PLAN TO MEET
WITH A TEAM OF REPORTERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY COVERING THE
CANDIDATES. LET'S START WITH LOS ANGELES. SECOND DECISIVE WIN IN
SOUTH CAROLINA HAS BROUGHT JOE BIDEN BACK FROM THE BRINK. EVEN
FORMER RIVALS ARE RALLYING AROUND HIM. I WONDER COVEN IN
LOS ANGELES WHERE THE FORMER VICE PRESIDENT IS ENTERING SUPER
TUESDAY WITH A LOT OF MOMENTUM. >> BERNIE SANDERS HAS HIS EYES
SET ON CALIFORNIA AND TEXAS TONIGHT. WHERE HE HOPES TO WRAP
UP DELEGATES AND SHOW OFF THE REACH OF HIS GRASSROOTS MOMENT.
I'M JOYCE CO-IN VERMONT. >>
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG HAS SPENT HALF $1 MILLION ON HIS CAMPAIGN. IT
IS A FIRST TIME HE IS ON THE BALLOT. I LEE COWELL IN WEST
PALM BEACH, FLORIDA. >> ELIZABETH WARREN HAS NOT WON
A DELEGATE SINCE I WANT. HER CAMPAIGN SAYS SHE WILL BE
COMPETITIVE AND SHE WILL CARRY ON THROUGH THE CONVENTION. I AM
HANNAH JEWEL IN DETROIT MICHIGAN.
>> JAMES, WHAT STATE ARE YOU WATCHING CLOSELY?
>> WHAT IS INTERESTING AS IT IS SUPER TUESDAY. 14 STATES. THE
STATES IN THE SOUTH SHOULD BE GOOD FOR I DID. WE HAVE HEARD
FROM VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA AND ALABAMA. WE THINK
THOSE SHOULD BE AWARE JOE BIDEN IS STRONG. AND THE STATES WERE
SENATOR SANDERS OUR STRONGEST ARE IN THE WEST. WE WILL NOT SEE
THOSE RESULTS FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS. TEXAS AND CALIFORNIA. I
THINK TEXAS, THE SECOND BIGGEST
, IS WHERE WE WILL HAVE A GOOD SENSE OF. I SPENT THE WEEKEND
THERE. IT IS A STATE WHERE A MICROCOSM OF THE COUNTRY AND
DEMOCRATIC PARTY ARE. IT IS A TEST OF WHETHER SENATOR SANDERS
CAN BRING IN YOUNG LATINOS, WHO DO NOT TRADITIONALLY GETS
INVOLVED IN THE POLITICAL PROCESS. THEY DO NOT VOTE IN
PRIMARIES. IN POLLS, THEY SAY THEY SUPPORT CENTERS. DID THEY
SHOW UP TO VOTE TODAY?
IF THEY DID, A GOOD NIGHT FOR SANDERS. AND HE WILL OPEN UP A
DELEGATE LEAD. IF THEY DID NOT, IT IS A BIG WARNING SIGN FOR THE
COUNTRY. >> WHAT ARE YOUR IMPRESSIONS?
YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH NEVADA AND WERE PART OF THE PROCESS. WHAT
DID YOU LEARN FROM SANDERS PERFORMANCE THERE? WHAT ARE YOU
WATCHING FOR TONIGHT
? >> WE LEARNED THAT NEVADA DID
BETTER WITH VOTERS OF COLOR THAN WE THOUGHT. HE DID BETTER WITH
VOTERS OF COLOR WHO ARE SUPER IN TUNE WITH THE PARTY. SUPER
ORGANIZED AND MOTIVATED TO VOTE. BECAUSE IT WAS A CAUCUS SYSTEM.
EVEN WITH EARLY VOTING. IT TOOK A LOT MORE EFFORT THAN GOING TO
TEXAS TO VOTE IN PRIMARY. CAN HE REPLICATE THAT WHEN YOU HAVE A
WIDER
GROUP OF PEOPLE. LIKE JAMES SAID, A GROUP OF VOTERS, WHO DO
NOT TYPICALLY MAKE IT THERE MAIN STATE TO GO VOTE. LIKE NEVADA.
>> EARLY VOTING HAS BEEN SUCH A PUSH. PEOPLE CHOOSING TO LEAVE
VOTE. WITH MUCH CHANGE IN THE RACE, EVEN THE LAST 24 HOURS AND
48 HOURS, HOW DOES THAT FACTOR INTO WHAT WE ARE WATCHING
TONIGHT >> NORMALLY, 30s LIKE EARLY
VOTING. IT GETS PEOPLE OUT AND GIVES
SENSE OF
WHAT WILL HAPPEN. GETS PEOPLE TIME TO VOTE THIS TIME, THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY STACKED UP THERE EARLY BOARDS. WITH SUPER
TUESDAY, HOPING WHO WAS AHEAD WOULD SEAL THE DEAL. THAT COULD
BE JOE BIDEN. THEY HAD MOMENTUM AND HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO
BUILD OFF OF THAT IN SUPER TUESDAY STATES ACROSS THE
NATION. IN ADDITION --
>> EARLY VOTING FOR AMY KLOBUCHAR GOES
>> IT IS A LOT OF MONEY. THEY DECIDED SUPER TUESDAY WILL BE
HIS LAUNCH AND ENTRANCE INTO THE RACE. WHERE THE DELEGATES ARE
BEING ALLOCATED ON SUPER TUESDAY. WE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS
GOING TO HAPPEN. HE IS NOT BEEN ON THE BALLOT WE HAVE SEEN HIM
IN 2 BALLOTS. THE ALLEGED COMMENTS ABOUT WOMEN.
>> THE FIRST DEBATE PERFORMANCE REALLY HURT HIM A LOT
AND TOOK A LOT OF THE LUSTER OFF. AND HIS WHOLE PITCH WAS I
AM THE GUY WHO CAN BEAT TRUMP. I AM ELECTABLE. CLEAR THE, THERE
IS APPETITE FOR ELECTABILITY. POST CAROLINA, MAYBE MICHAEL
BLOOMBERG IS NOT THE MOST ELECTABLE CANDIDATE. HE SAYS HE
IS A CONFIDENT MANAGER. I CAN BEAT DONALD TRUMP. AND I THINK
JOE BIDEN MADE INROADS INTO THAT. LAST NIGHT HE DID A
TOWNHALL ON FOX NEWS IN VIRGINIA. HE WAS ASKED WHICH
SPECIFIC STATE HE WOULD WIN ON SUPER TUESDAY. HE SAID, IT IS
NOT ABOUT WINNING A STATE. IT IS ABOUT GETTING DELEGATES. WHICH
IS NOT A GOOD SIGN. I DO THINK
A LOT OF WIND CAME OUT OF HIS SALES.
>> WE WILL TALK ABOUT ELIZABETH WARREN. NEEDS TO WIN HER HOME
STATE. IT IS NOT A GIVEN AND THAT IS AN ISSUE FOR HER. SHE IS
A COME IN THE TOP 1 OR 2 IN A NUMBER OF STATES. SHOULD ANOTHER
DISAPPOINTING FINISH AFTER IOWA AND ONTO HAVE MORE DISAPPOINTING
FINISHES. SHE SENT OUT A MEMO SHE SAID IT IS A LONG RACE AND
WE WANT TO HIT IT HOME ON SUPER TUESDAY SHE NEEDS TO DO THAT
TONIGHT. >> AFTER JOE BIDEN'S LANDSLIDE
WIN AND SOUTH CAROLINA, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS CLOSED
RINGS AROUND HIM. IN DALLAS HE WAS ENDORSED BY 3 OF HIS FORMAL
RIVALS FOR NOMINATION. >> WHEN I RAN FOR PRESIDENT, WE
MADE IT CLEAR THAT THE IDEA WAS ABOUT BRINGING THE COUNTRY
TOGETHER. TO BEAT DONALD TRUMP AND WIN FOR THE VALUES THAT WE
SHARE. THAT WAS ALWAYS THE GOAL THAT WAS MUCH BIGGER THAN ME
BECOMING PRESIDENT. IT IS IN THE NAME OF THAT GOAL THAT I AM
DELIGHTED TO ENDORSE AND SUPPORT JOE BIDEN FOR PRESIDENT.
>> WE NEED SOMEBODY, WHO CAN EAT DONALD TRUMP
. THE MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY, POSES AN EXISTENTIAL
THREAT IN THIS COUNTRY TO OUR DEMOCRACY TO FREE AND FAIR
ELECTIONS. AND WE NEED SOMEBODY WHO CAN BEAT HIM. IN JOE BIDEN,
WE HAVE THAT MAN. WE HAVE SOMEONE, WHO IN FACT IS THE
ANTITHESIS THIS TO DONALD TRUMP. >> WE NEED TO UNITE OUR PARTY
AND OUR COUNTRY. AND TO DO IT, NOT JUST WITH OUR WORDS, BUT
WITH HER ACTIONS. IT IS UP TO US, ALL OF US, TO PUT OUR
COUNTRY BACK TOGETHER. TO HEAL THIS COUNTRY AND THEN, TO BUILD
SOMETHING GREATER. I BELIEVE WE CAN DO THIS, TOGETHER. AND THAT
IS WHY, TODAY, I AM ENDING MY CAMPAIGN AND ENDORSING JOE BIDEN
FOR PRESIDENT.
>> FOLKS, A FEW DAYS AGO, THE PRESS AND PENDANTS DECLARED THIS
CAMPAIGN DEAD.
BUT, SOUTH CAROLINA HAS COME TO SAVE US. AND TOMORROW, SECTIONS
OF MINNESOTA AND THE REST OF SUPER TUESDAY STATES, THEY WILL
HAVE A LOT TO SAY ABOUT IT. AND WHEN YOU DO, WE WILL BE ON OUR
WAY TO DEFEATING DONALD TRUMP IN HIS SECOND TERM. AND MY MESSAGE
TO EVERY PERSON, WHO HAS BEEN KNOCKED DOWN AND COUNTED OUT AND
LEFT BEHIND, THIS IS YOUR CAMPAIGN.
>> JOE BIDEN IS SAVORING THE ENDORSEMENTS THAT HE GOT.
ELIZABETH WARREN IS ADDRESSING HER SUPPORTERS IN DETROIT,
MICHIGAN.
>> THEY ARE PLAYING GAMES OF THE PREDICTION AND STRATEGY. GUESS
WHAT YOUR NEIGHBORS ARE UP TO HERE.
THE PENDANTS HAVE GOTTEN IT WRONG OVER AND OVER.
HERE IS MY ADVICE. I HAVE ADVICE THAT I WANT TO START WITH
TONIGHT. HERE IS MY ADVICE. CAST A VOTE THAT WILL MAKE YOU PROUD.
CAST A VOTE FROM YOUR HEART. AND VOTE FOR THE PERSON THAT YOU
THINK WILL MAKE THE BEST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA.
BECAUSE I WANT YOU TO THINK FOR A MINUTE ABOUT THIS DEMOCRACY.
YOU ARE THE ONES WHO GET TO PICK THE NEXT PRESIDENT. IT IS AN
AWESOME THING. YOU ARE GOING TO DO IT RIGHT HERE IN MICHIGAN
NEXT WEEK.
PEOPLE ARE DOING IT IN CALIFORNIA RIGHT NOW. THAT IS
WHAT IT MEANS TO HAVE A DEMOCRACY. I AM IN THIS RACE
BECAUSE I BELIEVE I WILL MAKE THE BEST PRESIDENT OF UNITED
STATES.
AND I WANT TO TELL YOU WHY. I WAS NOT BORN A POLITICIAN, BUT I
WAS BORN A FIGHTER.
AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW THIS.
I HAVE TO HAVE A LOUD VOICE HERE. I COME BY THIS HONEST. I
THINK THAT MAYBE THE REASON I THOUGHT ALL OF MY LIFE IS
BECAUSE I LEARNED THIS FROM MY MOTHER. I WANT TO TELL YOU A
STORY ABOUT ME. I GREW UP IN OKLAHOMA. WE HAVE A FEW OKIES
HERE. I GREW UP IN OKLAHOMA. I AM THE BABY. I HAVE THREE MUCH
OLDER BROTHERS. THE WIND OFTEN JOINED THE MILITARY. I WHAT USED
TO BE CALLED A BABY. I WAS CALLED THE SURPRISE. MY THREE
BROTHERS ARE ALL RETIRED AND ARE BACK IN OKLAHOMA. TO THE STATE
THEY ARE REFERRED TO AS THE BOYS. THAT IS TO DISTINGUISH
THEM FROM THE SURPRISE. WHEN I WAS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL, ALL THREE
OF THE BOYS WERE GONE BY THEN. IT WAS JUST MY MOM AND MY DADDY
AND ME. MY DADDY HAD A HEART ATTACK. HE PULLED THROUGH. BUT
HE COULD NOT WORK FOR A LONG TIME. AND I STILL REMEMBER THE
DAY WHEN WE LOST THE FAMILY STATION WAGON. I REMEMBER HOW MY
MOTHER USED TO TUCK ME IN AT NIGHT AND SHE WOULD ALWAYS KISS
ME AND GIVE ME A BIG SMILE. AND I KNEW WHAT WAS COMING NEXT. SHE
WOULD LEAVE MY ROOM AND CLOSE THE DOOR AND I WOULD HEAR HER
START TO CRY NEVER WANTED TO CRY IN FRONT OF ME. I KNEW THAT.
THIS IS WHEN I LEARNED WORDS LIKE MORTGAGE AND FORECLOSURE.
AND ONE DAY, I WALKED INTO MY FOLKS BEDROOM. AND I LAID ON THE
BED. AND LAID OUT ON THE BED WAS THE DRESS. SOME OF YOU IN THIS
ROOM WILL KNOW THE ADDRESS. IT IS THE ONE THAT ONLY COMES OUT
FOR WEDDINGS, FUNERALS AND GRADUATIONS. AND THERE AT THE
FOOT OF THE BED WAS MY MOTHER AND SHE HAD ON HER SLIT. SHE WAS
IN HER STOCKINGED FEET. SHE WAS PACING BACK AND FORTH. AND SHE
WAS SAYING, WE WILL NOT LOSE THIS HOUSE. WE WILL NOT LOSE
THIS HOUSE. WE WILL NOT LOSE THIS HOUSE. SHE WAS 50 YEARS OLD
. SHE HAD NEVER WORKED OUTSIDE OF THE HOME. AND SHE WAS
TERRIFIED.
SHE LOOKS UP AND SHE SEES ME STANDING IN THE DOORWAY. I AM
JUST A KID. AND SHE LOOKS AT ME AND SHE LOOKS AT THE ADDRESS.
AND SHE LOOKS BACK AT ME. AND SHE WALKS OVER AND SHE PULLS THE
DRESS ON. SHE PUTS ON HER HIGH HEELS AND SHE WALKS TO SEARS TO
GET A FULL-TIME MINIMUM WAGE JOB . IT SAVED OUR HOUSE AND IT
SAVED OUR FAMILY. THAT IS THE FIRST LESSON MY MOTHER TAUGHT
ME. AND THAT IS, NO MATTER HOW SCARED YOU ARE NO MATTER HOW
HARD IT LOOKS, YOU GET OUT THERE AND YOU FIGHT FOR THE PEOPLE
THAT YOU LOVE.
>> ELIZABETH WARREN DELIVERED A STUMP SPEECH ON SUPER TUESDAY.
YOU ARE WATCHING LIVE COVERAGE FROM "THE WASHINGTON POST". STAY
WITH US.
>>> THERE IS A LOT OF NEWS TO CATCH UP ON. IT IS THE FIRST BIG
TEST FOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG. AND CENTER ELIZABETH WARREN IS
TRYING TO GAIN TRACTION. THE BIG NEWS IS THE EARLY CALLS OF THE
NIGHT. THE WASHINGTON POST PROJECTS JOE BIDEN WILL WIN
VIRGINIA, BASED ON EARLY EXIT POLL RESULTS. AND
"THE WASHINGTON POST" IS PREDICTING BERNIE SANDERS WILL
WIN HIS HOME STATE OF VERMONT.
110 DELEGATES ARE UP FOR GRABS.
>> IN THE RUN-UP TO IOWA, WITH THE STRATEGIST WAS TELLING US IS
THE DESPERATELY WANTED A THREE-WAY RACE.
SHE WAS EAGER TO SIDELINE MICHAEL BLOOMBERG. SHE THOUGHT
SHE COULD BE THE LIBERAL ALTERNATIVE TO CENTER. SHE WAS
TRYING VERY HARD TO SALVAGE HER EFFORTS.
IF WARREN STICKS AROUND, SHE CAN STILL PLAY THE BRIDGE ROLE
ESPECIALLY IN THE UPCOMING MARIES. WHERE PEOPLE MAY NOT
LIKE JOE BIDEN OR BERNIE SANDERS AND THEY CAN GO WITH HER. IT IS
A BIG SHOT ULTIMATELY.
WHERE SHE GETS THE DELEGATES OUT RIGHT AT THE CONVENTION. SHE CAN
EXTRACT CONFESSIONS AND SHAPE THE CONVERSATION.
>> THIS IS FINALLY THE CHANCE
TO SEE IF MICHAEL BLOOMBERG'S FINANCIAL GAMBLE WILL PAY OFF.
THE NEW YORK BILLIONAIRE APPEARED IN HIS FIRST DEBATE.
HIS PERFORMANCES WERE A BIT SHAKY. LET'S TAKE A LOOK.
>> I WOULD LIKE TO TALK ABOUT WHO WE ARE RUNNING AGAINST A
BILLIONAIRE WHO CALLS WOMEN FAT BROADS AND HORSE FACED
LESBIANS. AND I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT DONALD TRUMP.
>> CONGRATULATIONS MR. BLOOMBERG
, BUT THE AVERAGE AMERICAN LAST YEAR SOUGHT LESS THAN A 1%
INCREASE IN HIS OR HER INCOME. THAT IS WRONG.
>> I CANNOT SPEAK FOR ALL ALIEN THERE'S. ALL I KNOW IS I HAVE
BEEN VERY LUCKY AND MADE A LOT OF MONEY AND I AM GIVING IT ALL
AWAY TO MAKE THIS COUNTRY BETTER. AND A GOOD CHUNK GOES TO
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. >> THE FACT
>>> THAT HE CANNOT BILLIONAIRES EARN SOUGHT 850 THE SOUGHT TRUST
OF THE CORE OF THE DEMOCRATIC 850 PARTY BILLION MEANS THAT IN
HE IS THE RISKIEST CANDIDATE STANDING ON THE STAGE. THEIR
WELL. >> MAYOR BLOOMBERG, WOULD YOU
LIKE TO RESPOND? >> I HAVE BEEN TRAINING FOR THIS
JOB SINCE I STEPPED >>> IN THE PILE THE WAS STILL
SMOLDERING ON 9/11. >> IT IS NOTABLE THAT MICHAEL
BLOOMBERG IS HOLDING HIS SUPER TUESDAY RALLY IN FLORIDA WHICH
DOES NOT HOLD A PRIMARY FOR 2 WEEKS.
LEE WAS AT THAT EVENT IN WEST PALM BEACH. WHAT IS THE
STRATEGY? >> GOOD MORNING FROM THE PALM
BEACH COUNTY CONVENTION CENTER WHERE THE PROGRAM HAS STARTED
HERE. WE HAVE SURROGATES OF THE BLOOMBERG CAMPAIGN ON THE STAGE
LEADING UP TO HIS ENTRANCE HERE, WHICH SHOULD BE ANY MOMENT NOW.
THE STRATEGY WITH MICHAEL BLOOMBERG IS SIMPLE. A NET WORTH
OF 60 BILLION DOLLARS AND HE COULD BE ANYWHERE. HE HAS SPENT
HALF $1 MILLION THAT BILLION DOLLARS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT.
AND HE HAS SPENT BIG ON TV ADS IN TEXAS. GETTING STAFF AND
SETTING UP OFFICES. IS IT'S MAKING A DIFFERENCE? WE WENT TO
THE LONE STAR STATE TO FIND OUT. >> HELLO HOUSTON.
>> WE OUT TO CELEBRATE PEOPLE LIKE MICHAEL BLOOMBERG, WHO
COMES FROM A MIDDLE-CLASS FAMILY
AND BECAME AN ENTREPRENEUR AND BECAME A BILLIONAIRE. WE OUGHT
TO CELEBRATE ENTREPRENEURS BECOMING MILLIONAIRES AND
BILLIONAIRES. >> HE UNDERSTANDS THE IMPORTANCE
OF WORKING TOGETHER AND NOT JUST MAKING IT HIS WAY OR NO WAY. AND
THAT HAS MADE HIM THE SUCCESS HE IS TODAY. I WANT HIM TO CARRY
THAT TO MAKE OUR COUNTRY A SUCCESS.
>> THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS TO STOP TRUMP.
THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THE WORLD. THAT IS WHAT YOU THINK,
ISN'T IT? THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS TO GET RID OF TRUMP
>> SOMEBODY WHO CARES ABOUT OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM AND OUR
HEALTHCARE. ABOUT GUN VIOLENCE. HE COVERS ALL OF THAT. WE HAD
SOMEBODY WHO DID NOT CARE ABOUT MY PEOPLE. I WOULD LIKE MICHAEL
BLOOMBERG TO REPLACE HIM.
>> REPLACING DONALD TRUMP WILL BE EXPENSIVE. LIKE TEXAS,
FLORIDA IS A BIG STATE. THE, MIAMI, TAMPA AND ORLANDO.
BLOOMBERG HAS SPENT $45 MILLION IN TELEVISION ADVERTISING. IS 14
FIELD OFFICE WITH A LARGE STAFF. THE MOST OF ANY CANDIDATE
RUNNING. IT IS A STATE WITH AN OLDER POPULATION. WHICH MAY BE
IN HIS FAVOR. A KEY GROUP OF VOTERS FOR HIM. THERE ARE A LOT
OF NEW YORK TRANSPLANTS. THOSE WHO HAVE RETIRED OR MOVED HERE.
THEY WE REMEMBER HIM AS A MAYOR. A FAVORABLE MEMORY. THEY COULD
BRING HIM VOTES IN FLORIDA. WE WILL SEND IT BACK TO YOU. WE ARE
AWAITING MICHAEL BLOOMBERG'S APPEARANCE ON STAGE.
>> AMBER, LET'S TALK ABOUT THE VOTERS THAT CAME OUT TO SUPPORT
JOE BIDEN IN SOUTH CAROLINA. AND WHERE THEY MAY GO IN THE SUPER
TUESDAY STATES. DOES MICHAEL BLOOMBERG HAVE A SHOT AT GETTING
AFRICAN-AMERICAN VOTERS? DOES BERNIE SANDERS MAKE ANY INROADS.
HOW DO YOU LOOK AT THE CRUCIAL VOTING BLOCS?
>> PARTICULARLY AMONG LACK VOTERS WHO MAKE UP THE CORE
TENANT OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. I AM LOOKING AT WHETHER SOUTH
CAROLINA, AS BLOOMBERG LIKED TO SAY, WAS AN ANOMALY FOR BIDEN.
AND WHETHER HIM HAVING SPENT MONTHS AND MILLIONS OF ADS
INTRODUCING HIMSELF TO BLACK VOTERS, WILL PRODUCE THINGS.
SPECIFICALLY, WE WILL SEE IT ON THE EAST COAST AND SOUTHERN
STATES WITH A HIGHER PROPORTION OF BLACK VOTERS ALABAMA, NORTH
CAROLINA AND TENNESSEE AND TEXAS. EVEN VIRGINIA, WHICH DID
GO FOR JOE BIDEN. I FEEL LIKE THE STRATEGY OF BLOOMBERG HAS
BEEN TO GO AFTER JOE BIDEN AND HIS MONOPOLY ON BLACK VOTERS.
AND TRY TO UNDERMINE THAT. WE WILL SEE IF HE CAN DO THAT. HE
IS SUCH A WILD-CARD. WE HAVE NEVER SEEN SOMEONE WITH
UNLIMITED BANK ACCOUNTS DUMP MONEY ON ELECTIONS.
>> HOW SIGNIFICANT IS THE INFUSION OF CASH?
>> MORE THAN HALF $1 BILLION. 2400 STAFF. SPREAD OUT ACROSS
EVERY STATE. 43 STATES. 400 AND HIS HEADQUARTERS IN MANHATTAN.
THEY ARE PAYING DOUBLE WHAT STAFF ON THE OTHER CAMPAIGNS GET
PAID. THEY BOUGHT UP EVERYONE. I WAS IN OKLAHOMA CITY YESTERDAY I
WENT TO THE BLOOMBERG FIELD OFFICE. THERE WAS ONE VOLUNTEER
MAKING A PHONE CALL. THERE WERE 4 PAID STAFFERS TO CHECK
VOLUNTEERS IN. AND SOMEONE TO HELP THE VOLUNTEERS. IT SHOWS
THAT MONEY CAN PURCHASE LOVE, YOU CANNOT NECESSARILY WIN
PRIMARIES. THE STORY WOULD BE DIFFERENT IF JOE BIDEN HAD
STUMBLED LAST WEEK AND SOMEHOW SANDERS HAD WON SOUTH CAROLINA.
>> OR IF BLOOMBERG HAD PERFORMED BETTER IN THE DEBATE.
>> TO AMBER'S POINT, THE COALITION OF LIMBURG BLOOMBERG
HAS BEEN HURT
BY THE STOP AND FRISK. IT IS HARD FOR HIM TO APPEAL TO THE
AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY. HE WAS MAYOR OF NEW YORK AND
INVESTED IN PROGRAMS TO CULTIVATE YOUNGER
AFRICAN-AMERICAN MAYORS. HE DID HAVE GOODWILL AMONG MAYORS AND
MIDSIZE CITIES. HE DOES HAVE BLACK SUPPORT. OUR
COLLEAGUE WORKED A PIECE TODAY ABOUT TALKING TO
AFRICAN-AMERICANS WHO ARE TRYING TO DECIDE BETWEEN JOE BIDEN AND
BLOOMBERG. AND THEY GRAVITATED TOWARD JOE BIDEN IN THE LAST 36
HOURS. WE WILL SEE. THE BLOOMBERG CAMPAIGN IS COUNTING
ON 15% AND GETTING VIABILITY IN COLLECTING DELEGATES. ARKANSAS
IS ANOTHER TO WATCH WITH A LARGE AFRICAN-AMERICAN POPULATION. AND
LITTLE ROCK, WHERE HE THINKS HE CAN DO WELL.
>> LET'S TALK ABOUT TOM STEYER. WHO BROUGHT MONEY TO THE
CAMPAIGN. SOUTH CAROLINA IS WHERE HE WANTED TO MAKE A STAND.
I SAW HIM AT A CAMPAIGN EVENT LAST WEEK. HE WAS TALKING ABOUT
REPARATIONS AND STAYING INVESTED IN SOUTH CAROLINA BEYOND THE
CAMPAIGN. HE SENSED THE WRITING WAS ON THE WALL. TALKING TO
VOTERS ABOUT HOW HE FELT HE WAS MAKING GENUINE CONNECTIONS. WHAT
HAVE YOU LEARNED ABOUT HOW HIS MONEY TRANSLATED?
>> IT WAS NOT ENOUGH, RIGHT? LISTEN, IT IS TOUGH TO BE A
WHITE GUY, A WEALTHY WHITE GUY, COMING DOWN AND TRY TO TALK TO
THE AVERAGE PERSON. THE AVERAGE VOTER, AND SAYING I DO NOT LIVE
IN YOUR STATE OR UNDERSTAND THE COMMUNITY YOU GO AROUND IN. HOW
CAN I COMMUNICATE WITH YOU AND SHOW I CARE ABOUT YOU AS
PRESIDENT? I HAVE HEARD DEMOCRATIC STRATEGISTS SAY,
BLOOMBERG IN PARTICULAR, HAS DONE A GOOD JOB AT TRYING TO
BRING TOGETHER COALITIONS. PARTICULARLY AMONG BLACK
AMENITIES HAVE NOT HEARD
AS MUCH ABOUT LATINO COMMUNITIES. AND TARGET HIS
ADVERTISING TO SAY, IN NORTH CAROLINA, THESE ISSUES MATTER TO
YOU. HERE ARE THE MAILERS ABOUT THAT. THAT SPEAKS TO HOW
STRATEGIC HE HAS BEEN. AND MONEY HELPS HIM DO THAT. I THINK YOUR
POINT ABOUT TOM STEYER, WHO TRIED TO DO SOMETHING SIMILAR,
AND I HAVE NOT ANYTHING NEGATIVE ABOUT TOM STEYER THE WAY I HEARD
ABOUT PETE BUTTIGIEG TRYING TO TALK TO VOTERS OF COLOR. IT WAS
NOT ENOUGH, RIGHT? YOU HAVE TO HAVE TIME AND BUILD UP SUPPORT
WITHIN ANY COMMUNITY. >> AFRICAN-AMERICAN VOTERS, LIKE
ALL DEMOCRATIC VOTERS ARE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO BE DONALD
TRUMP. THAT IS THE CORE QUESTION.
>> AND THEY ARE MORE MODERATE. THE REASON JOE BIDEN AND
BLOOMBERG ARE COMPETITIVE IS THAT AFRICAN-AMERICANS, THERE IS
A GENERATIONAL GAP THAT IS BIGGER THAN AMONG WHITE.
AFRICAN-AMERICANS OVER 44 TEND TO BE MUCH MORE MODERATE. THAT
HAS WORKED TO JOE BIDEN'S ADVANTAGE AND BLOOMBERG'S
ADVANTAGE. >> BACK TO ELIZABETH WARREN AT
HER CONTEST, SHE HAS NOT WON A DELEGATE SENSE AND ONE. WE ARE
AT HER
EVENT. WHAT DOES ONE HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH AT THIS POINT. SHANA
DISAPPOINTING FINISH AT SOUTH CAROLINA.
>> IT IS LOUD HERE. I MISSED THE QUESTION.
WE ARE IN DETROIT AT A TOWN HALL. ELIZABETH WARREN IS
SPEAKING BEHIND ME. YOU MENTIONED SHE IS GIVING HER
USUAL STUMP SPEECH.
I DO NOT WANT TO INTERRUPT THAT FOR THE PEOPLE HERE. I WILL GET
DIRTY LOOKS. WARREN IS HERE WITH NO TVS. WHEN SHE CAME OUT, SHE
MENTIONED THAT PEOPLE ARE VOTING TODAY.
SHE GAVE HER USUAL LIFE STORY. WHICH I BELIEVE YOU HEARD. WHEN
YOU CUT AWAY, SHE WENT INTO HER USUAL POLICY STORY.
TALKING ABOUT THE FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU. SHE GIVES HER
USUAL SPEECH TO A RAUCOUS CROWD. AS YOU MENTIONED, HER CAMPAIGN
IS PUSHING THE MESSAGE THAT WE ARE IN IT FOR THE LONG HAUL. WE
HAVE VOLUNTEERS IN EVERY STATE. WE RAISED $20 MILLION IN
FEBRUARY. MORE THAN ANY PREVIOUS QUARTER. THEY ARE MAKING IT
ABOUT MAKING IT TO CONVENTION. WE SPOKE TO A SUPPORTER IN
DETROIT. THEY VOTE NEXT WEEK. THEY AGREE THAT SHE SHOULD KEEP
ON. I ASKED EARLIER YESTERDAY, IF THEY THINK WARREN SHOULD DROP
OUT
? HERE IS WHAT THEY SAID. >> I THINK IT IS TOO SOON TO ASK
THAT. KNOW WHEN YOU HAVE THAT MUCH MONEY. WHEN YOU HAVE THAT
MANY, YOU CAN GO. AFTER SUPER TUESDAY, YOU HAVE THE CRITICAL
SWING STATES. THAT IS WHAT PEOPLE FORGET.
THAT MICHIGAN, OHIO, PENNSYLVANIA, WISCONSIN, THEY
WILL DETERMINE THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. LET'S SEE HOW SHE DOES
THERE, BEFORE WE START TALKING ABOUT DROPPING OUT. PEOPLE WILL
COME TO IT, ONCE A LOT OF THE EMOTIONS SETTLE DOWN. AND THEN,
WE WILL HAVE A CENTRIST CANDIDATE AND A PROGRESSIVE
CANDIDATE. WHAT DO WE DO? >> I HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING WARREN
SAID SHE WAS SENATOR IN MASSACHUSETTS I LOVED HER WHEN
SHE WENT AFTER THE BANKS. MY HUSBAND AND I HAD PROBLEMS IN
THE BEGINNING WITH OUR BANKS AND FINANCING. THE LOANS AND
MORTGAGES. WE ALMOST LOST OUR HOME. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT AS AN
ISSUE. THE OTHER CANDIDATES ARE NOT FOR THE PEOPLE. I REALLY DO
NOT FEEL IT. >> AS YOU JUST HEARD, WARREN'S
HARD-CORE SUPPORTERS ARE IN IT UNTIL THE END. I ASKED HOW THEY
FELT ABOUT THE FACT THAT ELIZABETH WARREN HAS A VERY
LARGE SUPER PAC BEHIND HER. THEY SAID, WHATEVER MAKES OUR
CANDIDATE WIN. AT A CERTAIN POINT, IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW
MUCH MONEY YOU HAVE. YOU HAVE TO WIN RACES. ONE CANDIDATE BUT
DROPPED OUT WAS SENATOR AMY KLOBUCHAR.
LET'S GO OVER TO NICOLE ELLIS IN HER HOME STATE.
>> I AM AT THE JIMMY LEE RECREATIONAL CENTER IN ST. PAUL,
MINNESOTA. VOTERS ARE CASTING THEIR BALLOTS. SOME ARE FORMER
AMY KLOBUCHAR SUPPORTERS.
SHE WAS FORECASTED TO WIN HER HOME STATE WITH BERNIE SANDERS
RIGHT BEHIND HER. WE WANTED TO KNOW WHO PEOPLE ARE VOTING FOR
AND NOW THAT SHE IS OUT OF THE RACE AND HAS ENDORSED JOE BIDEN.
>> I MEAN, I HAVE BEEN EXCITED TO VOTE FOR OUR NEXT PRESIDENT
SAYS THE LAST ELECTION. I THINK AMY KLOBUCHAR IS SPECTACULAR. I
THINK SHE DOES AMAZING THINGS FOR MINNESOTA. I WAS CONSIDERING
HER UNTIL THE END. I WENT FOR WARREN TODAY.
>> I UNDERSTAND THAT ELIZABETH WARREN MAY COME OFF AS THIRD
PLACE RIGHT NOW. I JUST WANT TO SUPPORT HER THROUGH SUPER
TUESDAY. SHE IS THE BEST CANDIDATE TO WIN. JOE BIDEN, I
LOVE THE GUY.
>> I'VE ALWAYS LIKED AMY KLOBUCHAR. I LIGHTER AS A UNITED
STATES SENATOR. I THOUGHT JOE BIDEN
HAS IS BEEN MY TOP CHOICE. AMY HAS DONE A GOOD JOB NATIONALLY.
I LIKE HER AS MY STATE SENATOR. THAT IS WHERE WANT HER TO STAY,
REALLY. >> VOTERS ARE STILL TRYING TO
DECIDE EXACTLY WHERE THEY STAND. I SPOKE TO A GRANDMOTHER AND
GRANDSON, WHO VOTED VERY DIFFERENTLY. THE GRANDMOTHER
VOTED FOR JOE BIDEN AND HER GRANDSON VOTED FOR SANDERS.
PEOPLE ARE TAKING THIS SERIOUSLY. MINNESOTA IS A REALLY
IMPORTANT STATE. IT IS A STATE THAT TRUMP LOST NARROWLY IN
2016. DEMOCRATS NEED TO WIN IT IN 2020 IN ORDER FOR THE GENERAL
ELECTION. WHILE MINNESOTA MAY NOT HAVE AS MANY DELEGATES AS
TEXAS OR CALIFORNIA
, WHOEVER WINS HERE, WILL GIVE US A GOOD INDICATION OF WHO WILL
WIN IN NOVEMBER. WHO WILL DO WELL IN NOVEMBER. WE WILL SEE
HOW THINGS TURN OUT HERE. >> I AM LIFE WITH JEREMY BOWERS.
WE HEAR SO MUCH ABOUT MOMENTUM AND VOTERS ARE ASKING ABOUT WHO
HAS MOMENTUM. THAT CAN BE A SOFT CONCEPT. WHAT IS THE DATA BEHIND
THIS? >> THIS IS A GOOD QUESTION. IT
IS SOMETHING WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME THINKING ABOUT. THE
SOFTWARE, IT IS THE MODEL THAT ALLOWS US TO LOOK AND SEE WHERE
WE EXPECT TO BE VOTES FOR OTHER CANDIDATES. ONE OF THE
BYPRODUCTS IT PRODUCES IS A FANTASTIC CHART
THAT SHOWS US THE FLOW OF VOTERS BETWEEN CANDIDATES IN 2016 AND
CANDIDATES IN 2020. IT IS THE THING I WOULD LIKE TO SHOW YOU
TONIGHT. HOW THE VOTER FLOWS ON THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
TAKE A LOOK HERE. YOU CAN SEE THIS CHART. IT IS THE 2016
CANDIDATES ON THE RIGHT. WITH HILLARY CLINTON IN DARK BLUE. WE
BERNIE SANDERS AND LIGHT BLUE. AND WE HAVE NOT VOTERS IN
ORANGE. THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO DID NOT VOTE IN THE SOUTH CAROLINA
PRIMARY FOR ANY REASON. OVER HERE ON THE FAR RIGHT SIDE, WE
HAVE OUR 2020 CANDIDATES. WE HAVE A TINY BIT OF NONVOTERS ON
THE TOP AND WE HAVE BERNIE SANDERS, JOE BIDEN, PETE
BUTTIGIEG, AMY KLOBUCHAR AND ELIZABETH WARREN DOWN HERE.
THERE ARE TRENDS THAT ARE IMMEDIATELY APPARENT THOSE
TRENDS ARE VERY INTERESTING. IF YOU LOOK, BERNIE SANDERS IS
PULLING A CHUNK OF HIS VOTES FROM 2016 TO 2020. IF YOU WOULD
PICK ONE CANDIDATE WHO COULD GET VOTES FROM 2016 UNTIL 2020, YOU
PICK BERNIE SANDERS. LOOK DOWN HERE AND YOU CAN SEE THAT PETE
BUTTIGIEG IS STEALING VOTES FROM HIM AND ELIZABETH WARREN AS
WELL. YOU LOOK AT THE CLINTON NUMBERS, WHICH BASICALLY ARE THE
ESTABLISHMENT LANE OF OUR CAMPAIGN. YOU HAVE A MASSIVE
SWING
AND ONTO AMY KLOBUCHAR. THIS IS WHY JOE BIDEN DID SO WELL IN
2020. >> THIS IS SOUTH CAROLINA AND WE
DO NOT HAVE PETE BUTTIGIEG OR AMY KLOBUCHAR IN ANYMORE. IT
WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE WHERE THE VOTES FROM 2016 MAY MIGRATE
TO. I WANT TO UNDERSTAND BETTER WHO THE NONVOTERS ARE.
>> THEY ARE FOLKS WHO DID NOT VOTE IN 2016.
MAYBE THEY WERE PEOPLE WHO WERE IN A DIFFERENT PARTY. THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY, FOR EXAMPLE. OR MAYBE THEY MOVED TO THE STATE
RECENTLY. OR MAYBE COLLEGE STUDENTS UNDER THE AGE OF 18 AND
CANNOT VOTE IN 2016. YOU CAN SEE THEY MAKE UP A PRETTY LARGE
CHUNK OF VOTERS, WHO VOTED IN 2020. YOU CAN SEE A BIG CHUNK OF
THEM ENDED UP GOING TO JOE BIDEN. BERNIE SANDERS GETS HIS
OWN PRETTY INTERESTING GROUP. YOU CAN SEE, IT IS ALMOST AS
LARGE AS THE NUMBER OF VOTERS THAT HE GOT FROM HIS OWN 2016
GROUP. IT IS PRETTY ASTONISHING TO US.
>> WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS MODEL OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND VOTER
FLOW, HOW DO YOU TAKE FROM THAT LEARN ABOUT TONIGHT?
>> ONE OF THE THINGS WE ARE CONSTANTLY WATCHING FOR IS TO
SEE HOW THE LANES IN THE CAMPAIGN ARE SET UP. I MENTIONED
EARLIER, WE HAVE AN ESTABLISHMENT LANE WERE
PRESENTED BY HILLARY CLINTON. WE HAVE A PROGRESSIVE LANE THAT IS
BERNIE SANDERS. SANDERS IS UNABLE TO CONVERT ON THE VOTES
ONE OF THE REASONS WHY HE IS UNABLE TO CONVERT ON THE VOTE IS
BECAUSE HE IS GIVING UP AND SOME TO ELIZABETH WARREN. THE LONGER
ELIZABETH WARREN STAYS ON THE CAMPAIGN, THE MORE AND THE
SANDERS VOTE SHE WILL EAT. WITH PETE BUTTIGIEG OUT, THERE IS
ALMOST NO ONE LEFT TO GRAB THE CENTRIST VOTES WERE GOING TO
HILLARY CLINTON. JOE BIDEN WILL GET ALMOST ALL OF THEM AND HE
ALSO GETS A BIG CHUNK OF NONVOTERS.
THAT IS A PRETTY INTERESTING RECIPE, IF YOU WANT TO DO WELL.
>> WE SEE HOW MICHAEL BLOOMBERG THROWS A WRENCH INTO THIS OR
NOT.
>> CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT WE LIKE TO SEE IN OTHER STATES, THAT ARE
A LOT LIKE VIRGINIA? DO WE SEE THIS IN VIRGINIA OR NORTH
CAROLINA? >> WE ARE SEEING SOMETHING VERY
SIMILAR THAT HAPPENED IN VIRGINIA THAT WE SAW IN SOUTH
CAROLINA. WE WILL CREATE SOMETHING SIMILAR.
WE WILL SEE WHERE VOTERS ARE GOING FROM THAT WENT FROM BERNIE
SANDERS TO PETE BUTTIGIEG AND AMY A MUCH ARE. IT LOOKS LIKE I
THAT IS GETTING THOSE. IT IS INTERESTING. AT THE MOMENT
, HE IS GETTING BETWEEN 7% AND A % OF THE VOTE THAT BERNIE
SANDERS HAD GOTTEN IN 2016. >> THAT IS OUTSTANDING. WE ARE
APPROACHING THE TOP OF THE HOUR. WE WILL HAVE MORE RESULTS, AS
THE NIGHT GOES ON. I WANT YOU TO KNOW AS RESULTS COME IN, WE WILL
GET YOU VOTE UPDATES AND RACE CALLS. WE WILL GET YOU MORE
STUFF FROM OUR MODEL IN PLACES WHERE THE POLLS HAVE NOT CLOSED.
LATER IN THE NIGHT, WE WILL HAVE OKLAHOMA AND MAYBE TEXAS VOTES
AS WELL. UNTIL THEN, I WOULD LIKE TO SEND YOU HOME. YOU ARE
WATCHING LIVE COVERAGE FROM "THE WASHINGTON POST" .
>> I'M EMILY CUNNINGHAM AND I HAVE WORKED AT "THE WASHINGTON
POST" FOR A DECADE AND CREATOR OF THE PRESIDENTIAL PODCAST. AS
GOVERNOR OF ARKANSAS 1988, BILL CLINTON WAS ONE OF THE
ARCHITECTS OF THE IDEA OF SUPER TUESDAY. WHEN A BUNCH OF STATES,
PARTICULARLY SOUTHERN STATES, ALL DECIDED TO HOLD THEIR
PRIMARIES ON THE SAME DAY IN ORDER TO INFLUENCE THE
NOMINATING PROCESS. IT DID NOT EXACTLY WORK IN 1988. AND DID
HAVE SUCCESS IN 1992, WHEN BILL CLINTON, HIMSELF, WAS RUNNING
FOR PRESIDENT. HE PERFORMED POORLY IN THE IOWA CAUCUSES. HE
DID A LOT BETTER IN THE NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY. IT WAS SUPER
TUESDAY, WHEN A BUNCH OF SOUTHERN STATES VOTED. WHEN BILL
CLINTON REALLY SORT OF EMERGED TO LEAD THE PACK. AND TO SUBMIT
HIS PATH TO THE NOMINATION BY SWEEPING UP A TON OF DELEGATES
EARLY ON FROM THE SOUTHERN STATES.
>>> YOU WERE LOOKING AT DOWNTOWN HOUSTON, TEXAS. PULLED HER
CLOSING WITH 2028 DELEGATES UP FOR PICKING. WELCOME TO "THE
WASHINGTON POST" COVERAGE I AM LIBBY CASEY. WE CAN MAKE 2 MORE
RACE CALLS.
THEY "THE WASHINGTON POST" IS PROJECTED THAT JOE BIDEN WILL
WIN NORTH CAROLINA. BASED ON EARLY EXIT POLL RESULTS. THE
"THE WASHINGTON POST" IS PROJECTING THAT JOE BIDEN WILL
WIN ALABAMA. AT THIS HOUR
IN ADDITION TO TEXAS, POLLS ARE CLOSING IN ALABAMA, MAINE,
MASSACHUSETTS, OKLAHOMA AND TENNESSEE. WE SHOULD GET MORE
RESULTS PRETTY SOON AND QUITE A FEW OF THOSE STATES. LET'S TAKE
A MOMENT TO RECAP SOME OF THE BIGGEST HEADLINES, SO FAR. THE
"THE WASHINGTON POST" IS PROJECTING JOE BIDEN TO WIN
VIRGINIA AND OTHER STATES THAT WE MENTIONED BERNIE SANDERS WILL
WIN VERMONT. IN TENNESSEE, VOTING WAS EXTENDED, DUE TO
TORNADO DAMAGE IN THE AREA.
FOR THE VERY LATEST ON WHERE THINGS STAND ON THE SUPER
TUESDAY, LET'S SEND IT BACK TO JEREMY BOWERS WITH THE ELECTION
INSIGHT TEAM. A GOOD NIGHT SO FAR FOR JOE BIDEN. YOU HAVE BEEN
DIGGING CLOSELY INTO THE NUMBERS.
>>
JOE BIDEN HAS BEEN DOING SURPRISINGLY WELL. IN PLACES
WHERE WE EXPECTED HIM TO DO WELL THE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING
WHERE WE EXPECTED HIM TO DO WELL, HE IS BUILDING BIG LEADS.
LEADS WE DID NOT EXPECT, EAST ON THINGS LIKE RECENT POLLS.
WE SEE THE EARLY EXIT POLL NUMBERS SHOWING OVERWHELMING
AMOUNT OF SUPPORT FOR JOE BIDEN. IN PLACES LIKE VIRGINIA AND IN
ALABAMA AND NORTH CAROLINA, WHERE WE WERE ABLE TO CALL THE
RACES EARLY. ONE OF THE REASONS WE COULD DO THAT IS BECAUSE OF
EARLY EXIT POLLS SHOWING HIM VERY STRONG. THERE ARE OTHER
PLACES WHERE BERNIE SANDERS HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW MORE
SUPPORT TONIGHT. IT HAPPENS TO BE THE CASE THAT A LOT OF THE
EARLY SOUTHERN STATES WERE GOING TO BE STRONG BY THEN AREAS. HE
WAS ALREADY PULLING WELL THERE. THE NARRATIVE OF THE NIGHT LOOKS
LIKE A BIG STRONG DESK HE IS DOING PRETTY WELL. THERE IS A
LOT OF ROOM FOR SANDERS TO DO WELL IN PLACES THE HAVE NOT
CLOSED WELL. RECENT POLLING SHOW THE NECK IN NECK IN TEXAS. OTHER
PLACES LIKE OKLAHOMA, WHERE THERE WILL BE SANDERS STRENGTH.
THOSE OF THE PLACES WE ARE WATCHING. WE WILL BRING THE LIVE
VOTE TO YOU. >> IT HAS BEEN FASCINATING TO
SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING. WHAT ELSE IS GRABBING YOUR ATTENTION,
LOOKING FORWARD? >> ONE OF THE THINGS WE ARE
WATCHING IS THE STATE OF TEXAS. IT IS REALLY BIG IT IS NOT THE
ONLY THING GREAT ABOUT TEXAS. IT HAS A TON OF DELEGATES. ON MY
CALIFORNIA, THEY WILL REPORT AN AWFUL LOT OF THOSE TONIGHT WHILE
WE ARE WATCHING. IT WILL BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO SEE IF ONE
OR TWO OF THE STRATEGIES THAT HAVE BEEN PLAYING OUT FOR THE 2
CANDIDATES, JOE BIDEN AND SANDERS, PLEASE OUT WELL IN
TEXAS. ANOTHER THING WE ARE WATCHING IS THE IMPACT OF
MICHAEL LIMBURG. AND HAS NOT AFFECTED JOE BIDEN IN THE
SOUTHERN STATES. IN TEXAS, THE BLOOMBERG PAINT MAY SIPHON
VOTES. GRABBING FROM THE ESTABLISHMENT LANE. WE WILL HAVE
OUR MODEL RUNNING AND WE WILL GET AS MUCH INSIGHT AS WE CAN.
WE WILL BRING IT TO YOUR. >> I WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME
NATIONAL POLITICAL REPORTER, JAMES AND ERIN BLAKE. THANK YOU
FOR BEING HERE. WHAT ARE YOUR TAKEAWAYS ON HOW JOE BIDEN IS
DOING SO FAR? >> IT IS VERY EARLY. AND CANNOT
HAVE STARTED MUCH BETTER FOR HIM. WE ARE WAITING FOR MANY OF
THE RESULTS TO COME IN FROM VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA. THE
FACT THAT THEY WERE CALLED IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE POLLS
CLOSED, VERY EARLY ON, THE MARGINS WILL BE BIG. THE MARGIN
MATTERS. THAT MEANS MORE DELEGATES OR JOE BIDEN. IT
SUGGESTS THAT WE WILL HAVE A LOT OF SOUTHERN STATES
CREEPING INTO THE PROCESS AS THE NIGHT GOES ON. IF HE IS DOING
WELL IN VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA, IT PREDICTS GOOD
THINGS FOR HIM. THE QUESTION FROM THERE IS, HOW MUCH DOES IT
TRANSFER TO THE REST OF THE COUNTRY. AS WE GET LATER INTO
THE NIGHT, WE WILL SEE IT IS GOOD FOR BERNIE SANDERS
. MINNESOTA, COLORADO AND UTAH. CALIFORNIA IS LOOKING LIKE A
GOOD STATE FOR HIM, ACCORDING TO THE MOST RECENT POLL EVEN IF JOE
BIDEN DOES HOLD AND EARLY DELICATELY TONIGHT, IT IS
POSSIBLE THAT IT WILL BE CHIPPED AWAY AT AT THE END OF THE NIGHT
BASED UPON THE KIND OF STATES THAT WILL BE CALLED LATER ON.
>> IF YOU GO TO BED AT 8:00 TONIGHT EASTERN YOU WILL HAVE A
FULL PICTURE OF SUPER TUESDAY? >> THAT IS CORRECT NORTH
CAROLINA IS A BIG WIN FOR JOE BIDEN. IT WAS A STATE THAT
BERNIE SANDERS THOUGHT HE COULD WIN. THE CROWD
DEFLATED AT HIS HEADQUARTERS WHEN THEY SAW IT DID NOT HAPPEN.
HE CAMPAIGNED HARD THERE OVER THE LAST 10 DAYS. IT IS A STATE
HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO BRING TOGETHER A COALITION.
>> NORTH CAROLINA IS ONE OF THE 10 LARGEST POPULATION IN THE
COUNTRY. THE RESEARCH TRIANGLE, THE AREA IN CHARLOTTE HAS
SUBURBS WHERE DEMOCRATS HAD THE MIDTERMS. AND HAS A SIZABLE
AFRICAN-AMERICAN POPULATION. THERE IS A BIG COASTAL AREA. IN
THE WEST, YOU HAVE ASHEVILLE. LIBERAL ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE.
THE ASHEVILLE AREA SHOULD BE STRONG FOR SANDERS OR WARREN.
THIS WAS THE STATE THAT IS SANDERS IS GOING TO EXPAND HIS
BASE AND SHOW THAT HE IS ON A PATH TO THE NOMINATION, HE NEEDS
TO BE MORE COMPETITIVE THAN HE IS RIGHT NOW. THAT IS WHY I
THINK IT IS IMPORTANT AND WE SAY THE CAVEATS LET'S SEE WHAT
COLORADO DOES. NORTH CAROLINA IS A BIG WIN FOR JOE BIDEN.
>> NORTH CAROLINA WAS CALLED EARLY. A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO
BERNIE SANDERS WAS KNOCKING AT THE DOOR IN BOTH STATES. THERE
WAS A POLE AFTER NEW HAMPSHIRE THAT SHOWED SANDERS TIED.
NORTH CAROLINA, AFTER THE NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY, SEVEN OF THE
NEXT A POLLS HAD BERNIE SANDERS TITLE WITH A SMALL LEAD IN NORTH
CAROLINA. THESE LOOKED LIKE STATES THAT MIGHT PUT BERNIE
SANDERS OVER THE TOP AND GIVE HIM AN INSURMOUNTABLE LEAD AFTER
SUPER TUESDAY.
THE FACT THAT THESE HAVE APPARENTLY SWUNG EXTREMELY HARD
FOR JOE BIDEN, EVEN HARDER THAN THE POLE WE SAW JUST LIKE IN
SOUTH CAROLINA. IS A JUST THERE HAS BEEN A SIGNIFICANT SHIFT IN
THE RACE IN THE LAST FEW DAYS. >> WE TALKED EARLIER ABOUT EARLY
VOTERS AND IF IT WOULD IMPACT STATES THAT HAVE MOMENTS OF. AND
WE COULD SEE MOVEMENT IN THE LAST HOUR WITH PETE BUTTIGIEG
AND AMY KLOBUCHAR DROPPING OUT. >> THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WILL
UNDOUBTEDLY HELP SANDERS TO SOME DEGREE. AT SOME TIME, ABOUT HALF
THE VOTERS
, IN VIRGINIA SAID THEY DECIDED IN THE LAST FEW DAYS. A SIMILAR
NUMBER TO WE SAW IN HAMPSHIRE IN THE HAMSTER, THE LAST-MINUTE
VOTERS CLEARLY SWUNG IN BERNIE SANDERS FAVOR. TO THE EXTENT
THAT PEOPLE DECIDED IN THE LAST FEW DAYS OF THIS RACE. IT WILL
BRING IN JOE BIDEN'S FAVOR. HE IS THE ONE COMING ON LATE IN THE
RACE.
HE WAS ESTABLISHED FRONT-RUNNER AT ONE POINT KEEP AN EYE ON
THOSE LATE DECIDERS. IT WILL BE BIG FOR BY THE END.
>> YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT MOMENTUM. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT
THE DATA PERSPECTIVE. HOW DOES MOMENTUM LOOK ON THE GROUND?
>> YOU FEEL IT. YOU FEEL IT AT THE RALLIES AND WHEN YOU ARE
TALKING TO VOTERS. PEOPLE ARE PAYING ATTENTION TO THIS STUFF.
THERE WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE, A LOT OF VOTERS, LET'S SAY IN A
STATE LIKE TEXAS. WHERE HE COULD GO EITHER WAY. THE NUMBER OF
VOTERS AND PEOPLE WHO CAME OUT ON SUNDAY, WHO WERE UNDECIDED,
WITH MORE THAN 1 AT THE 4. MOST OF THOSE, IT WAS NOT BECAUSE
THEY WERE NOT STUDYING ISSUES. IN MANY CASES, THEY WERE NOT
COMFORTABLE WITH SANDERS, BUT DID NOT KNOW WHO TO VOTE FOR
AFTERALL OF A SUDDEN, I THINK A LOT OF THOSE PEOPLE, THE LATE
DECIDERS, BROKE TOWARD AND. I TALKED TO A WOMAN AT A RALLY IN
HOUSTON ON SATURDAY. SHE SAID SHE WAS TEXTING ALL DAY WITH HER
FRIENDS. ALL OVER THE COUNTRY ABOUT WHAT THEY SHOULD DO. JOE
BIDEN WAS NOT HER FIRST CHOICE. SHE WAS WORRIED ABOUT SANDERS.
SHE IS A DEMOCRAT. SHE SAID MAYBE I HAVE TO VOTE FOR JOE
BIDEN. THAT IS HOW MOMENTUM WORKS.
>> THIS FRUSTRATES WARREN
AND HER SUPPORTERS. IF YOU VOTE FOR ME AND YOUR SISTER VOTES FOR
ME AND YOUR NEIGHBOR. DO NOT TAKE THE TEMPERATURE OF EVERYONE
ELSE. BUT WITH YOUR HEART AND VOTE FOR THE PERSON YOU WANT TO
SEE IT MOVE FORWARD. THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF TEMPERATURE TAKING
A PEOPLE AROUND YOU. >> SHE HAS A TOUGH TIME GETTING
OUT OF THIRD PLACE MODE.
SHE CAUGHT ON THE HAD GOOD DEBATES AND SEEMED TO BE ON THE
RADAR. AND THAT SHE FELL OFF AND HAS NOT RECAPTURED THE MAGIC.
ONE THING THAT IS INTERESTING FROM THE NATIONAL EXIT POLL,
ABOUT HALF OF THE PEOPLE SAID THEY THOUGHT JOE BIDEN IS THE
MOST ELECTABLE IN THE GENERAL ELECTION VERSUS 2 OUT OF 10 FOR
SANDERS. THAT NUMBER IS WHAT WAS EARLY IN THE RACE. WHEN JOE
BIDEN WAS THE FRONT RUNNER. PEOPLE SAID OVERWHELMINGLY A
MAJORITY OF PEOPLE SAID JOE BIDEN CAN BEAT DONALD TRUMP IN
THIS RACE. AS HE FELL OFF THAT NUMBER SHRUNK WITH THE TOTAL
VOTE SHARE. THEY SAID BERNIE SANDERS COULD BE ELECTABLE. THE
FACT THAT HE HAD SUCH A BIG ADVANTAGE ON THAT MEASURE AT
EXIT POLLS, SUGGEST THAT HE WILL GET A LOT OF THE VOTES. ALSO,
THAT THE NOTION OF ELECTABILITY MAY HAVE CHANGED
SIGNIFICANTLY IN THE LAST FEW DAYS.
>> LET'S HEAD OUT TO THE WEST COAST, TO CHECK OUT WITH ONE THE
COLEMAN. IT IS SO GOOD TO SEE YOU.
>> GOOD TO SEE YOU OR HEAR FROM YOU, RATHER. WE ARE IN LOS
ANGELES AT A RECREATION CENTER. IT IS OFF OF THE OBAMA HIGHWAY
IN LOS ANGELES. IT HAS NOT STARTED. THEY ARE DOING
MICROPHONE CHECKS. PEOPLE WILL ENTER SOON TO START THE PARTY.
THINGS ARE JUST BEGINNING. THE FACT THAT JOE BIDEN CHOSE
CALIFORNIA IS AN INTERESTING CHOICE. FOR SUPER TUESDAY NIGHT.
HE HAS NOT BEEN CAMPAIGNING HERE IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS. HE ONLY
HAS ONE FIELD OFFICE IN EAST LOS ANGELES. BERNIE SANDERS HAS 22
TO COVER THE STATE. HE IS NOT HAD A MAJOR PRESENCE. WE TALKED
TO VOTERS AT POLLING SITES. MANY SAID DURING THE LAST FEW DAYS,
THEY DECIDED TO GO WITH HIM. I WANT TO PLAY A CLIP OF 2 VOTERS.
ONE WAS A LIFELONG DEMOCRAT
. SHE SAYS, SHE OF THOSE BEEN A DEMOCRAT. THE OTHER PERSON WE
SPOKE TO WAS A MAN WHO SAID HE WAS REPUBLICAN, BUT THIS TIME
AROUND, HE WILL VOTE DEMOCRAT. WAS AND WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY.
>> WHEN I LOOK AT JOE BIDEN AND SOME OF THE THINGS THAT HE IS
SAYING, I AM MORE IN LINE WITH. AND SOME OF THE OTHER
CANDIDATES. I WAS INTERESTED IN ANOTHER CANDIDATE, BUT HE DID
NOT HAVE THE VOTES. YOU LOOK AT THE OTHER CHOICES OUT THERE, JOE
BIDEN IS MORE IN LINE WITH WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR. I WAS NEVER A
HUGE OBAMA FANNED WITH SOME OF HIS POLICIES, BUT I THINK JOE
BIDEN'S POLICIES, I AM MORE INTERESTED IN. EVEN THE WAY THE
U. S. IS GOING AND THE WORLD AND ALL OF THAT, SOMEONE WHO I FEEL
IS HONEST AND NOT LYING TO US. >> I AM NOT A BIG BERNIE SANDERS
SUPPORTER. TRUMP HAS SO MANY THINGS IN THE COUNTRY THAT IT
WILL TAKE TIME TO FIX ALL OF THAT.
I DO NOT WANT EVERYTHING FREE FOR EVERYBODY. I THINK WE NEED
TO FOCUS ON GETTING BACK TO WHERE WE WERE BEFORE TRUMP CAME
IN. >> WE ALWAYS A BIDEN SUPPORTER?
>> IT CAME UPON ME ABOUT 4 DAYS AGO I FELT COMFORTABLE.
>> THAT LAST WOMAN WE SPOKE TO, SHE TOLD US, SHE WAS GETTING
EMOTIONAL ACTUALLY. SHE SAID, THIS ELECTION IS SO IMPORTANT TO
HER THAT IS WHAT WE HAVE HEARD FROM A LOT OF VOTERS. THEY KNOW
THEIR ROLE IN SUPER TUESDAY I KNOW IT IS THE STATE WITH THE
MOST DELEGATES AND THE MOST AT STAKE. A LOT OF THEM IMPRESSED
THAT UPON US. AMONG THE TOPICS AND ISSUES PEOPLE TOLD US THEY
CARE ABOUT, IS HEALTHCARE. THEY KNOW JOE BIDEN
IS LINED WITH THE ACA. AND HIS HANDLING OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS. 'S
CAPABILITY TO HANDLE TRADE. A LOT OF PEOPLE WORK THINKING
ABOUT THAT. THAT IS WHAT WE HEAR ON THE GROUND IN CALIFORNIA.
>> YOU COVERED CAPITOL HILL. WHAT CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT JOE
BIDEN'S CONGRESSIONAL ENDORSEMENTS? AND WHAT THEY MAY
SIGNAL. >> JOE BIDEN HAS
60 IN TOTAL HOUSE AND SENATE MEMBERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AND
ENDORSED HIM. JUST LAST WEEK, WHEN I WAS ON THE HILL AND I
TALKED TO SOURCES, THEY SAID A LOT OF HOUSE DEMOCRATS DO NOT
WANT TO ENDORSE ANYONE. THEY WANT TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS. IN THE
LAST 48 HOURS, SEVERAL MORE HOUSE MEMBERS AND SENATORS HAVE
COME OUT FOR VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN. I SPOKE WITH MAJORITY
WHIP JIM CLYBURN. HE TOLD ME, THE REASON HE THINKS THAT IS IS
BECAUSE EVERYONE HAS HISTORY WITH JOE BIDEN. HIS NAME IS ON A
LOT OF SIGNIFICANT LEGISLATION. AND THEY FELT COMFORTABLE WITH
HIM. MEANWHILE, BERNIE SANDERS, WHO IS A SITTING MEMBER OF THE
SENATE, ONLY HAS LESS THAN 10 ENDORSEMENTS FROM CONGRESS. IT
IS IMPORTANT. AND MAY PLAY A ROLE
AT A BROKERED CONVENTION. MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WILL PLAY
SUPERDELEGATE ROLES. UNDECLARED SUPERDELEGATES. THEY HAVE HAD
BRIEFINGS ON THE HILL LAST WEEK. SENATOR PELOSI CALLED WENT TO
DISCUSS THEIR ROLE. SEEING THEM COALESCE AROUND JOE BIDEN MAY
TURN OUT TO BE IMPORTANT. >> FROM THE COLEMAN IS OUT IN
SUNNY LOS ANGELES AT THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN.
>> HOW POWERFUL WAS THE ENDORSEMENT? CONVENTIONAL WISDOM
HAS BEEN THAT ENDORSEMENTS DO NOT GO AS FAR AS ONE MIGHT HOPE.
IF YOU HAVE ENDORSEMENTS LINED UP.
>> WE ASKED IN OUR EXIT POLL HOW IMPORTANT WAS THAT CONGRESSIONAL
ENDORSEMENTS? HALF OF THE VOTERS SAID IT WAS IMPORTANT. THERE IS
AN OLD POLITICAL SAYING THAT THE PARTY DECIDES. FOR THE FIRST
COUPLE OF WEEKS IT SEEMED LIKE THE PARTY WAS NOT IN ROLE OF THE
PROCESS. THERE WAS A COLLECTIVE ACTION PROBLEM. MANY WERE
UNCOMFORTABLE WITH BERNIE SANDERS AND CANNOT AGREE.
ESPECIALLY WHEN JOE BIDEN STUMBLED THE STORY OF THE LAST
72 HOURS IS THE PARTY CAN DECIDE AN AWFUL LOT. YOU ASKED ABOUT
THE FEELING OF MOMENTUM. AT THE VOTER LEVEL WE TALKED ABOUT. IT
APPLIES TO THE POLITICIAN LEVEL. THERE ARE A LOT OF ELECTED
LEADERS OF CONGRESS. THEY ARE BUDDIES AND THEY HANG OUT WITH
EACH OTHER. THEY ARE ALL IN TOUCH. THEY RUN IN THE SAME
CIRCLE. IN THESE ELECTIONS, HISTORICALLY, THERE IS A
BANDWAGON EFFECT. YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE LATE TO THE PARTY. WE
SAW THAT YESTERDAY WHEN AMY KLOBUCHAR AND PETE BUTTIGIEG
WERE RACING TO FLY TO DALLAS TO ENDORSE JOE BIDEN FIRST. EVEN
MIKE VIRGINIA.
A CONGRESSWOMAN AND FORMER CIA OFFICER DEFEATED REPUBLIC ARE,
DAVE AT.
SHE HAS SPOKEN CRITICALLY
AND SANDERS HAS BEEN CAREFUL NOT TO ANTAGONIZE SUPPORTERS. SHE
FACES A TOUGH RACE. SHE TWEETED YESTERDAY AFTER AMY KLOBUCHAR
DROPPED OUT THAT SHE HAD VOTED EARLY FOR AMY KLOBUCHAR. AND
TONIGHT, AFTER VIRGINIA WAS CALLED FOR JOE BIDEN, SHE PUT
OUT A PRESS RELEASE ENDORSING JOE BIDEN. THAT IS WHAT MOMENTUM
FEELS LIKE. AND ABIGAIL'S BAMBERGER WOULD DENY SHE IS PART
OF THE PARTY ESTABLISHMENT. THAT IS A CROWD OF PEOPLE THAT SEE
BIDEN AS THE HOPE. THE KIND OF PEOPLE WHO WILL BE ON THE BALLOT
THEMSELVES WHO DO NOT WANT TO CAMPAIGN WITH BERNIE SANDERS.
>> I WOULD BE INTERESTED TO SEE IF THAT CLYBURN ENDORSEMENT
RESONATES WITH SOUTH CAROLINA. >> AT THE VERY LEAST, IT
DELIVERED OR AT LEAST HELP DELIVER AN IMPORTANT STATE THAT
GAVE THE APPEARANCE OF MOMENTUM IF NOT ACTUAL MOMENTUM. I DO NOT
KNOW HOW MANY VOTERS IN NORTH CAROLINA AND KNOW WHO JIM
CLYBURN IS. THEY SAW SATURDAY NIGHT IN SOUTH CAROLINA THEY
HAVE SEEN THE NEWS COVERAGE THAT SAYS JOE BIDEN ONCE LEFT FOR
DEAD, IS BACK IN THE RACE. AB THEY SUDDENLY SAY, I LIKED THAT
GUY BEFORE. AND NOW HE IS THE GUY WHO COULD WIN THE RACE. HE
IS NOT BERNIE SANDERS. AND THEN USE THE OTHER CANDIDATES GETTING
OUT OF THE RACE THAT ARE IN THE MOLD OF POTENTIAL JOE BIDEN
VOTERS. >> SOMETHING ELSE THAT HAPPENED
IN SOUTH CAROLINA IS JOE BIDEN SOUNDED MORE FOCUSED. HE SOUNDED
INTENTIONAL. HE SOUNDED MORE FIERCE. IT FELT LIKE IT WAS
COMING TOGETHER IN A WAY THAT IT HAD NOT BEEN PRIOR TO THAT. GIVE
US YOUR TAKE ON THAT. >> JOE BIDEN IS GOOD ON THE
STUMP. HE IS BETTER AT TOWN HALLS. IN SITUATIONS WHERE HE
CAN EMOTE. HE CAN FEEL YOUR PAIN, A CLINTON EXPRESSION. THE
MORE THAT HE CAN CRAFT HIS MESSAGE. DEBATES DO NOT SUIT JOE
BIDEN WELL.
HE IS PROBABLY LUCKY THE NEXT ONE IS NOT FOR A COUPLE OF
WEEKS. BECAUSE I COULD BE SOMETHING THAT WOULD GIVE PEOPLE
PAUSE ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING. I THINK HE HAS BEEN BETTER ON THE
STUMP. HE HAD STUMBLES, CERTAINLY THEY WILL KEEP
HAPPENING, BECAUSE THEY HAVE ALWAYS HAPPENED WITH JOE BIDEN.
I THINK THERE IS A PREMIUM ON KEEPING NOT GOING AND AVOIDING
ONE OF THE BAD MOMENTS. >> BERNIE SANDERS IS CONSISTENT
WITH HIS MESSAGE. IT IS SOMETHING THAT SUPPORTERS LIKE.
THE CONSISTENCY. THE SOLID TRACK RECORD OF STANDING BY HIS WORD.
HE HAS HAD CONTROVERSIAL REMARKS THAT HAVE RAISED EYEBROWS IN THE
PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS. VERY DIFFERENT STYLES AS THEY LOOK TO
THE NEXT STEP. >> DIFFERENT POLITICIANS WITH
DIFFERENT VIEWS OF WHAT POLITICS IS ABOUT. JOE BIDEN WANTS US TO
BE A STANDARD RACE. BOTH SIDES ARE YEARNING FOR THAT. EVERY
RALLY, PEOPLE DO NOT WANT A REVOLUTION. THEY WANT EVOLUTION
AND THINGS TO GET BETTER. THEY ARE NOT LOOKING FOR A
REVOLUTION. >> LET'S HEAR MORE ABOUT THAT
FROM JOYCE AT THE SANDERS CAMPAIGN.
>> BACK HERE AT THE SANDERS WATCH PARTY. I AM WITH TOM
SULLIVAN, A POLITICAL REPORTER FOR US. HE HAS BEEN COVERING
SANDERS SINCE DAY ONE. YOU UP IN TRAVELING WITH SANDERS A LOT.
WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF HIM BEING HOME IN VERMONT?
>> THIS IS WHERE HIS POLITICAL CAREER BEGAN, 39 YEARS AGO
TONIGHT, EXACTLY. HE WON AS AN UNDERDOG IN RACE FOR THE MAYOR.
COMING BACK TO THE STATE WHERE HE BUILT HIS POLITICAL CAREER
AND PROFILE. WE HAVE ALREADY SEEN HIM WIN THE STATE,
ACCORDING TO THE PROJECTIONS. HOW IS HE DOING ELSEWHERE ACROSS
THE COUNTRY? HE WANTED TO COME HERE TONIGHT AND PROJECT
CONFIDENCE FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE. AND HAVE VICTORIES. IT LOOKS
LIKE WE HAVE A LOT OF RACES LEFT TO GO. JOE BIDEN HAS THE EARLY
ADVANTAGE. >> WE SAW MOMENTUM FOR SANDERS
GOING INTO THE PRIMARY SOUTH CAROLINA HOW HAS ANYTHING
CHANGED FOR HIM IN TERMS OF HIS CAMPAIGN, AFTER THE SECOND-PLACE
FINISH? >> IT WAS A BIG VICTORY FOR JOE
BIDEN. HE WAS FAVORED TO WIN. I DO NOT THINK ANYBODY SAW THE
MARGIN
. SANDERS HAD MOMENTUM COMING OUT OF NEVADA. HE WON ACROSS
DEMOGRAPHIC
AREAS. HE CANNOT TRANSLATE THAT TO SOUTH CAROLINA. HE DID NOT DO
WELL AMONG AFRICAN-AMERICAN VOTERS. I WAS WITH SANDERS IN
SOUTH CAROLINA. HIS AUDIENCES WERE VERY WHITE. HE WAS NOT
ATTRACTING AFRICAN-AMERICAN VOTERS. AND NOW WE ARE SEEING
THE MOMENTUM AMONG SOUTHERN STATES CONTINUE FOR JOE BIDEN.
THE QUESTION FROM HERE IS WHAT CAN SANDERS DO TO WIN NON-WHITE
VOTERS?
>> WHAT HAVE THINGS BEEN LIKE AFTER THE AMY KLOBUCHAR AND PETE
BUTTIGIEG ENDORSEMENT OF JOE BIDEN DID THE CAMPAIGN GIVE A
REACTION AFTERWARDS? >> THE LAST EVENT IN MINNESOTA,
THE HOME STATE OF AMY KLOBUCHAR. YOU HEARD SANDERS SAY I WELCOME
THE SUPPORTERS OF AMY KLOBUCHAR AND PETE BUTTIGIEG INTO MY
CAMPAIGN. RIGHT AFTER THAT, HE CRITICIZED JOE BIDEN. THE
CANDIDATE THAT THEY ENDORSED. HE TRIED TO BALANCE THOSE THINGS.
WE WILL SEE TONIGHT, HOW MANY VOTERS FROM THE CAMPS ENDED UP
GOING TO SANDERS.
SANDERS TRIED TO MAKE AN EFFORT TO WIN SOME OF THEIR SUPPORTERS.
WE WILL SEE HOW MUCH LUCK HE HAD.
>> THANK YOU. WE WILL SEE AND CONTINUE TO BRING YOU UPDATES
FROM THE SANDERS HEADQUARTERS LAUNCH PARTY. THERE IS A LOUD
BAND PLAYING.
>> MUSIC AND ENERGY ARE HALLMARKS OF THE SANDERS
RALLIES. HE GATHERS THOUSAND TOGETHER. THERE IS THE ISSUE OF
WHO IS TURNING OUT IN RECENT WEEKS. LET'S
TALK ABOUT THE COALITION THAT BERNIE SANDERS HAS BEEN WORKING
SO HARD TO BUILD. >> HE REALLY HAS MADE AN EFFORT
WITH AFRICAN-AMERICAN VOTERS. HE HAS MADE PROGRESS, BUT NOT
ENOUGH. IN SOUTH CAROLINA, THERE WAS A TIME WHEN JOE BIDEN WAS
STUMBLING AFTER IOWA AND NEW HAMPSHIRE. THEY WERE CAREFUL
ABOUT SAYING IT, BUT THE RECEIPT MAYBE WE COULD WIN SOUTH
CAROLINA. BURNING WOOD HAVE BEEN UNSTOPPABLE AND IT WOULD HAVE
BEEN DIFFERENT TONIGHT. JOE BIDEN WOULD HAVE HAD TO DROP OUT
IF HE DID NOT WIN SOUTH CAROLINA. THIS HAS BEDEVILED HIM
IN 2016. HILLARY CLINTON ON SUPER TUESDAY CALLED IT THE
SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE IN FOOTBALL. THE PRIMARIES WERE
CONCENTRATED IN THE SOUTH. IT WAS HEAVILY AFRICAN-AMERICAN FOR
THE ELECTRIC THEY ALL WENT TO HILLARY CLINTON'S ADVANTAGE.
HE LOST BY 50 POINTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. HE CANNOT MAKE
INROADS. WE SPENT THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS TALKING ABOUT
PETE BUTTIGIEG AND AMY KLOBUCHAR AND ELIZABETH WARREN. AND HOW
THEY COULD NOT BUILD UP THEIR VOTERS.
THE FACT THAT BERNIE SANDERS CANNOT MAKE INROADS, SHOWS HOW
HARD IT IS TO EXPAND HIS COALITION. ESPECIALLY AMONG
OLDER AFRICAN-AMERICANS. HE IS GETTING DEMOLISH IN EXIT POLLS.
>> TO THAT POINT, IF YOU CHARTED THE BLACK POPULATION OF EACH
STATE AS IT VOTED IN 2016, YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO PREDICT THE
RESULTS OF THE PRIMARIES. CLINTON VERSUS SANDERS. THE
OTHER KEY DEMOGRAPHIC SPOTLIGHT, ACCORDING TO EXIT POLLS, ONLY 1
ACTIVE 8 VOTERS ARE BETWEEN THE AGES OF 18-29 YEARS OLD.
ALMOST 2/3, ACCORDING TO PRELIMINARY EXIT POLLS ARE 45+.
3 OUT OF 10 ARE 65+. THIS IS A SIGNIFICANT ELECTRIC. IT IS NOT
THE ELECTRIC THAT BERNIE SANDERS WANTS TO SEE. IT IS NOT THE
ELECTRIC THAT HE PROMISED. THIS IS HIM TALKING ABOUT GETTING
YOUNG PEOPLE INTO THE PROCESS. IT IS A DOUBLE BLOW TO THE
EXTENT THAT KEEPS ON GOING AND JOE BIDEN'S DIRECTION. NOT ONLY
IS BERNIE SANDERS GOING TO LOSE MANY OF THE STATES , ACCORDING
TO WHAT WE SEE NOW, BUT THE CENTRAL MESSAGE HERE THAT HE CAN
EXPAND THE DEMOCRATIC ELECTORATE AND BRING OUT NEW VOTERS, IS NOT
HAPPENING, ACCORDING TO THESE RESULTS.
>> HOW IMPORTANT ARE THE RESULTS THAT JOE BIDEN GOT YESTERDAY
FROM THE RIFLES. AMY KLOBUCHAR AND PETE BUTTIGIEG, YOU CANNOT
IMAGINE HAVING A COME BY GOT MOMENT. THERE THEY WERE BOTH
SUPPORTING THE SAME GUY. AND BETO O'ROURKE. GOING OUT TO
DINNER AFTERWARDS FOR A BROKER. WHAT DOES THAT SAY IN TERMS OF
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND ALSO, HOW CHANCES TO VOTERS.
>> AMY KLOBUCHAR DID NOT HAVE A HUGE SLICE OF THE NATIONAL POLL.
THE IDEA THAT HER ENDORSEMENT WILL NECESSARY HELP IN THE
STATES, WE WILL SEE. OBVIOUSLY, MINNESOTA IS ONE STATE WHERE
THAT COULD BE THE CASE. BERNIE SANDERS WAS THREATENING TO BEAT
HER IN MINNESOTA. IF JOE BINDER CAN LEAPFROG AND WIN MINNESOTA,
WHICH BERNIE SANDERS WON 4 YEARS AGO, THAT WOULD BE BIG. I'M NOT
SURE HOW MUCH BETO O'ROURKE'S ENDORSEMENT MEANS
TO VOTERS IN TEXAS. HE WAS A POPULAR SENATE CANDIDATE FOR
DEMOCRATS. A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO. IF JOE BIDEN SOMEHOW HAS A
REALLY GOOD NIGHT IN TEXAS AND HE CAN WIN THE STATE, WHICH
SANDERS HAS LED, I'M SURE BETO O'ROURKE WOULD BE HAPPY TO TAKE
CREDIT FOR THAT. MAYBE HE IS ENTITLED TO THAT. THESE THINGS
MADE MATTER ON THE MARGINS. OTHERWISE, I THINK WE GENERALLY
ARE SAYING THE SHIFTING MOMENTUM OF THE RACE RIGHT NOW.
>> AARON AND JAMES, THANK YOU SO MUCH. STICK WITH US, LIVE
COVERAGE OF SUPER TUESDAY FROM THE NEWSROOM OF "THE WASHINGTON
POST" CONTINUES.
>>> I DAVID BAUER I AM A POLITICAL COMMUNIST AND DATA
ANALYST WAS TALK ABOUT AFTER SUPER TUESDAY. UNLESS BERNIE
SANDERS SCORES
A TRULY SHOCKINGLY LARGE WIN TONIGHT, SOME OF THE COMPETITORS
ARE LIKELY TO TRUDGE ON AND TRY TO KEEP HIM FROM GETTING THE
NOMINATION. OR MAYBE EVEN FOR A DELEGATE LEAD AND WIN THE
NOMINATION THEMSELVES. THERE ARE 2 MAJOR PRIMARY DAYS LEFT IN THE
MONTH OF MARCH. THE FIRST IS MARCH 10. ON THAT DAY IN
MICHIGAN AND A SATURN OF OTHER STATES, THEY WILL VOTE IN A
TOTAL OF 152 DELEGATES THAT WILL BE ALLOTTED. ON MARCH 17,
THERE ARE POWERHOUSE STATES THAT ARE VOTING. OHIO, ILLINOIS,
ARIZONA AND FLORIDA. THOSE ARE THE 2 BIG ONES.
ASIDE FROM SUPER TUESDAY. THAT WILL TEST IF CAMPUS CAN SCALE UP
AND BIG A LARGE OPERATION. HELD A COALITION OF VOTERS. AND
RECRUIT THE DELEGATES THEY NEED. BY THE END OF MARCH, CANDIDATES
WILL HAVE COMPETED IN A WIDE ARRAY OF STATES ACROSS THE
COUNTRY. AND OVER 2500 DELEGATES WILL HAVE BEEN DIVIDED UP
BETWEEN THE VARIOUS CANDIDATES.
THAT IS A HUGE NUMBER. THERE ARE LESS THAN 4000 TOTAL DELEGATES
IN THE ENTIRE PRIMARY. IF A CANDIDATE BUILDS UP A BIG LEAD
IN MARCH, IT WILL BE VERY HARD FOR ANY OTHER CANDIDATE TO CATCH
UP WITH THEM AND GET A POLARITY OR EVEN A MAJORITY OF DELEGATES.
THE NEXT THING ON THE CALENDAR IS APRIL 28. ON THAT DAY,
CONNECTICUT, DELAWARE, MARYLAND, NEW YORK AND PENNSYLVANIA WILL
ALL VOTE. THERE IS A MIX OF STATES THAT THE BEFORE AND AFTER
THAT. MOST NOTABLY, NEW JERSEY ON JUNE 2. THE PRIMARY IS THE
LAST DAY THE CANDIDATES HAVE A REAL CHANCE TO ACCRUE A LOT OF
DELEGATES AT ONCE. AND BUILD MAJORITY. BEFORE THE CONVENTION
IN MILWAUKEE AND JULY.
>>> WELCOME BACK TO LIVE COVERAGE ON "THE WASHINGTON
POST". I LIBBY CASEY. MIKE BLOOMBERG IS SPEAKING.
>> ENTHUSIASM, THEY DO NOT LACK. ALL ACROSS AMERICA, I HAVE BEEN
TALKING WITH VOTERS. AND MY MESSAGE IS SIMPLE. I AM RUNNING
TO BEAT DONALD TRUMP.
AND TO START REBUILDING OUR COUNTRY AND TO START GETTING
THINGS DONE.
AND I MEAN BIG, IMPORTANT THINGS LIKE STOPPING GUN VIOLENCE. AND
FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE. AND FINALLY ACHIEVING AFFORDABLE
HEALTH COVERAGE FOR ALL AMERICANS. THIS IS A CAMPAIGN
FOR CHANGE. A CAMPAIGN FOR SANITY. FOR HONESTY. A CAMPAIGN
FOR INCLUSION, COMPASSION, CONFIDENCE AND A CAMPAIGN FOR
HUMAN DECENCY.
AND THIS IS A CAMPAIGN TO BRING OUR COUNTRY BACK TOGETHER AND
PUT THE UNITED BACK IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
THAT IS THE MESSAGE I HAVE BEEN DELIVERING, NOT ONLY TO
DEMOCRATS, BUT ALSO THE SWING VOTERS, WHO WILL DECIDE WHO WILL
BE OUR NEXT PRESIDENT. AND TONIGHT,
WE PROVED SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT. WE PROVED WE CAN WIN
THE VOTERS WHO WILL DECIDE THE GENERAL ELECTION. AND THAT IS IN
FACT WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT. NOW, MY FELLOW CANDIDATES SPENT
A WHOLE YEAR FOCUSING ON THE FIRST 4 STATES. I WAS OUT
CAMPAIGNING AGAINST DONALD TRUMP IN THE STATE WHERE THE ELECTION
WILL BE DECIDED. LIKE WISCONSIN, MICHIGAN, PITTSBURGH AND OHIO
AND NORTH CAROLINA. AND OF COURSE, FLORIDA. PRESIDENT OBAMA
PROVED THAT A DEMOCRAT CAN WIN ALL OF THOSE STATES. IN 2016, WE
LOST THEM ALL. WELL, I AM RUNNING TO WIN THEM BACK.
AND TOGETHER, WE ARE GOING TO GET IT DONE. NOW, WE ALL KNOW
TRUMPS STRATEGY ATTACK DEMOCRATS. MAKE THEIR PLANS LOOK
UNREALISTIC, UNAFFORDABLE AND UNDOABLE. THAT WILL NOT WORK
AGAINST US.
OUR PLANS ARE SENSIBLE, WORKABLE AND ACHIEVABLE AND WE HAVE THE
RECORD AND RESOURCES TO DEFEAT TRUMP IN SWING STATES. THAT THE
DEMOCRATS LOST IN 2016, LIKE FLORIDA.
I KNOW WE CAN DO IT. DO YOU KNOW WHO ELSE KNOWS IT? DONALD TRUMP.
AND THAT IS WHY HE KEEPS ATTACKING US ON TWITTER.
TODAY HE SENT OUT A TWEET URGING PEOPLE NOT TO VOTE FOR US. I
WONDER WHY? CLEARLY TRUMP IS SCARED STIFF OF FACING US AND
FOR GOOD REASON. IN EVERY CAMPAIGN I RAN FOR MAYOR, WE
BUILT A BROAD COALITION THAT BROUGHT DEMOCRATS AND
INDEPENDENTS AND MODERATE REPUBLICANS TOGETHER.
DONALD TRUMP THE OTHER DAY CALLED ME SHORT. I SAID DONALD,
WHERE I COME FROM, WE MEASURE PEOPLE FROM THE NECK UP.
THAT IS HOW WE WILL BEAT DONALD TRUMP. I BELIEVE WE NEED A
LEADER WHO IS READY TO BE COMMANDER IN CHIEF. NOT DEBATER
IN CHIEF. IF YOU WANT SOMEONE WHO TALKS TURKEY AND HAS A
RECORD OF ACCOMPLISHMENT ON ALL THE BIG ISSUES FACING OUR
COUNTRY AND HAS THE RESOURCES TO BEAT TRUMP, I AM YOUR GUY.
AND WHILE TRUMP TWEETS, I WILL BE A SPECTATOR WHO TELLS THE
TRUTH. MY WHOLE CAREER I'VE BEEN A DOER. I BELIEVE WE NEED LESS
TALK, LESS PARTISANSHIP, LESS DIVISION AND LESS TWEETING.
IN FACT, HOW ABOUT NO TWEETING FROM THE OVAL OFFICE EVER AGAIN?
YOU'VE ALL HEARD OUR CAMPAIGN SLOGAN, BLOOMBERG WILL GET IT
DONE.
IT MEANS SENDING DONALD TRUMP BACK TOMORROW LAGO PERMANENTLY.
THAT IS JUST THE BEGINNING. BECAUSE GETTING IT DONE MEANS
FINALLY PROVIDING HEALTH INSURANCE TO EVERY AMERICAN WHO
LACKS IT. GETTING IT DONE MEANS PASSING COMMON SENSE GUN SAFETY
LAWS THAT PROTECT OUR CHILDREN. GETTING IT DONE MEANS MAKING
AMERICA A GLOBAL LEADER IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE.
GETTING IT DONE MEANS CREATING GOOD JOBS WITH HIGHER WAGES.
GETTING IT DONE MEANS ADDRESSING DISCRIMINATION AND EQUALITY THAT
DOES NOT EXIST. GETTING IT DONE MEANS CREATING A PATH TO
CITIZENSHIP AND FINALLY FIXING OUR BROKEN IMMIGRATION SYSTEM.
AND GETTING IT DONE MEANS PROTECTING A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO
CHOOSE.
OUR CAMPAIGN IS A FIGHT FOR AMERICA'S IDEALS AND VALUES.
A FIGHT TO BUILD A BETTER FUTURE FOR EVERYONE. NOT UP HAVE TO
LEAVE SOMEBODY OUT. IF I WE CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE. I NEED
YOUR HELP AND YOUR HELP. WE TALKED YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY,
JUST TELL THEM IF YOU WANT QUALITY HEALTH INSURANCE FOR
EVERYONE AND NOT JUST EMPTY PROMISES TO COMBAT INEQUALITY
WITH BETTER TAXES AND BETTER JOBS AND IF YOU SUPPORT MY
COMMITMENT TO PUBLIC EDUCATION, THE MATTER WHAT THE COULD YOU
LIVE IN -- IF YOU SHARE MY BELIEF FOR OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL
NOT JUST FOR A FEW
. IF YOU'RE READY TO PROTECT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
. AND IF YOU ARE READY TO CLEAN OUT THE OVAL OFFICE AND GET
THINGS DONE. AND WELCOME TO BLOOMBERG 2020, THANK YOU.
>> MICHAEL BLOOMBERG ADDRESSING HIS SUPPORTERS.
>>> A LOT OF NEWS HAPPENING ON SUPER TUESDAY. INCLUDING STATES
ARE PROTECTED WINNERS. LET'S RUN THROUGH WHAT WE KNOW NOW WE
PROJECT THAT JOE BIDEN WILL WIN NORTH CAROLINA WITH 110
DELEGATES AT STAKE. BASED ON EXIT POLL RESULTS. WE CAN
PROJECT THAT JOE BIDEN WILL WIN ALABAMA WITH 52 DELEGATES AT
STAKE. ANOTHER CALL BASED ON EXIT POLL RESULTS. EARLIER
TONIGHT, WE PROJECTED JOE BIDEN WINNING VIRGINIA WITH 99
DELEGATES.
VERMONT HAS 16 DELEGATES AND BERNIE SANDERS IS PROJECTED TO
WIN POLLS IN ARKANSAS ARE CLOSE. IT HAS 31 PLEDGE DELEGATES UP
FOR GRABS. HOLES IN COLORADO AND DeSOTO WILL CLOSE IN UNDER HALF
HOUR. LET'S CHECK IN WITH ELECTION INSIGHT TEAM LED BY
JEREMY BOWERS. HOW COULD THE LATEST CAMPAIGN DROPOUT AND
MOVEMENT IMPACT TONIGHT? >> THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF
INTERESTING THINGS. A VERY BLUE BOARD A PRETTY GOOD NIGHT FOR
JOE BIDEN SO FAR. THE QUESTION YOU ASKED SPECIFICALLY
IS A GOOD QUESTION. YOU WILL SEE IT IN THE DELEGATE COUNT. THERE
ARE FOLKS THAT ARE OUT THERE, WHO ARE THIRD-PLACE IN
DELEGATES.
LIKE PETE BUTTIGIEG WHO WILL NOT SHOW UP ON THE MOUNT HE IS STILL
ONE OF OUR DELEGATE LEADERS TO PUT THEM IN THIRD-PLACE.
IT IS POSSIBLE THAT FOLKS LIKE AMY KLOBUCHAR WILL WIN IN
TELEPHONE OUR MINNESOTA. WHERE THERE WAS AN EARLY VOTE. IT IS
ONE OF THE THINGS WE ARE KEEPING AN EYE ON. WE HAVE REAL RESULTS
TO SHOW YOU.
WE ARE SEEING RESULTS IN PLACES LIKE MAINE. THIS IS A PLACE
WHERE WE EXPECTED TO SEE BERNIE SANDERS TO BALL. JOE BIDEN IN
BLUE IS WHERE WE EXPECTED TO SEE SANDERS TO BALL. THE RACE IS
STILL VERY CLOSE. WE ARE WATCHING AND SEEING WARREN BELOW
THE DELEGATE THRESHOLD. WE WILL NOT SEE FOLKS UP ADDITIONAL
DELEGATES. WE WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT ARKANSAS. THIS IS ONE
OF THE SOUTHERN STATES WILL BE EXPECTED JOE BIDEN TO DO WELL.
HE IS DOING WELL, EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE ONLY 10 VOTES IN THE
STATE. IT IS A PLACE WHERE WE WILL WATCH AND SEE HOW WELL JOE
BIDEN DOES AND LARGER AREAS. PLACES LIKE FORT SMITH, WE
EXPECT BERNIE SANDERS TO DO A LITTLE BIT BETTER. DROP TONIGHT,
WE WILL HAVE MORE OF THOSE. OTHER THINGS WE WILL HAVE OUR
INSIGHTS FROM LENNY BREMNER. YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING THE MODEL AND
GIVING US
UPDATES ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON UNDER THE HOOD. ANYTHING IN
NORTH CAROLINA OR VIRGINIA, NOW THAT WE HAVE ENOUGH VOTES FOR
THE MODEL TO DO ITS WORK? >> ONE OF THE THINGS ABOUT
VIRGINIA IS THE TURNOUT SEEMS HIGHER THAN 2016. IT LOOKS LIKE
JOE BIDEN DID WELL IN SUBURBAN COUNTIES. MORE TURNOUT THAN
HILLARY CLINTON AND SANDERS COMBINED IN 2016. I WOULDN'T PUT
TOO MUCH STOCK IN PREDICTIONS. >> IT IS A FASCINATING
DEVELOPMENT WE EXPECTED JOE BIDEN TO DO WELL WE DO NOT
EXPECT HIM TO DO AS WELL AS HE IS. THE MORE
VOTES THAT SOMEONE CAN PICK UP IN THE STATE, THE MORE DELEGATES
THEY CAN TAKE HOME. IN PLACES WHERE THEY CAN DENY COMPETITORS
GETTING ABOUT THE 50% THRESHOLD, IT IS A PLACE WHERE A COMPETITOR
DOES NOT TAKE A DELEGATE. AND THEY CAN SPLIT THE DELEGATE INTO
A SMALLER GROUP OF PEOPLE. THOSE ARE THE UPDATES WE HAVE FOR YOU
TONIGHT. >> I WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME MY
GUEST, NATIONAL POLITICAL REPORTER, JAMES HERMAN AND DAVE
WEIKEL. WHAT ARE YOU WATCHING TONIGHT?
>>
THE ONE CANDIDATE WE HAVE A BASELINE FOR IS BERNIE SANDERS.
FOR A LONG TIME, BERNIE WAS NOT GETTING THE NUMBERS HE HAD IN
2016. PEOPLE SAY, OF COURSE HE IS NOT, THERE MORE CANDIDATES.
WE ARE SEEING HE IS NOT ADDING ANYTHING AS CANDIDATES DROP OUT
OF THE RACE. THEY HAVE ALL MOVED TO OTHER CANDIDATES. I HAVE SEEN
SOME PEOPLE COMPLAINING ONLINE.
>> WHAT IS CLEAR IS THE SANDERS COALITION HAVE LIBERAL, ACTIVE
VOTERS WHO AGREED WITH HIM AND WANTED TO SEND A MESSAGE. ALL
PEOPLE WHO HATED CLINTON, IF THEY DO NOT LEAVE THE PARTY,
THEY ARE VOTING FOR SOMEONE ELSE. IN TERMS OF THE DELEGATE
COUNT, WATCHING WARREN HIT IN AFFLUENT AREAS, BUT NOWHERE
ELSE. THE RACE TO THE TOP, THE SANDERS PEOPLE WERE SO FOCUSED
ON CALIFORNIA.
UNWILLING TO BELIEVE THAT JOE BIDEN COULD PUT TOGETHER
HILLARY'S STYLE WITH BLACK VOTERS. THAT THEY MAY FALL INTO
THE SAME TRAP AS 2016. ACCEPT WORSE. A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO HATED
HILLARY IN THE DO NOT HATE JOE BIDEN.
>> REFLECT ON NOT, JAMES. >> HE IS CORRECT.
YOUNG PEOPLE ARE NOT SHOWING UP. THE ELECTORATE IS OLDER. HE HIT
A BRICK WALL IN 2016 WITH BLACK VOTERS. HE IS HITTING IT AGAIN.
THE ESTABLISHMENT IS STRIKING BACK. TO DAVE'S POINT, I JUST
CAME BACK FROM OKLAHOMA IT IS AN INTERESTING STATE. THE PEOPLE,
WHO BERNIE SANDERS WON BY 10 POINTS. THE DEMOCRATS HATED
HILLARY CLINTON IT WAS NOT BECAUSE THEY LOVED BERNIE
SANDERS. WHERE DO THEY GO NOW? DO THEY GO TO JOE BIDEN? WILL
BLOOMBERG MAKE INROADS WITH THAT GROUP? I THINK THE SANDERS
CAMPAIGN WAS FOCUSED ON 2 BIG PRICES. THEY INVESTED IN TEXAS
AND CALIFORNIA. IT COULD PAY OFF. THEY HAVE BEEN STRATEGIC
ABOUT IT. BERNIE HAD FUNDRAISING AND COULD AFFORD CHARTERS. EVERY
TIME HE WENT TO NEVADA, HE TAPPED ON AN EVENT IN
CALIFORNIA. A TARGETED AREA IN A WAY THAT JOE BIDEN WAS NOT. THE
NARRATIVE COULD SHIFT A LITTLE BIT. IF SANDERS DOES WELL IN
TEXAS AND CALIFORNIA. MINNESOTA IS ANOTHER ONE WILL YOU GET
ISN'T WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT THE FACT THAT SANDERS DOES NOT
DO WELL IN THE SOUTH IS A PROBLEM FOR HIM. THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS, HAS BEEN EVOLVING AS PART OF THE
REALIGNMENT. SANDERS COULD WIN IN THE INDUSTRIAL AND WEST. WE
WILL GET A TEST OF THAT NEXT WEEK IN MICHIGAN WHERE HE UPSET
CLINTON. THE STATES AND THE EMERGING AMERICAN ELECTORATE IS
A STRUGGLE. ONE OF THE THINGS WE ASKED TODAY AND EXIT POLLS WAS
ABOUT SOCIALISM. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORABLE OR UNFAVORABLE VIEW?
THE FAVORABLE NUMBERS WERE PRETTY HIGH IN THE NORTHEAST IN
MINNESOTA, EVEN. IN THE SOUTH, UNDERWATER. TOXIC VIEWS OF
DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM. >> WITH DEMOCRATIC VOTERS.
>> THAT, I THINK SPEAKS TO THE BROADER CHALLENGE FOR SENDERS OF
PUTTING TOGETHER A COALITION THAT CAN WIN THE DEMOCRATIC
NOMINATION. >> YOU WERE IN SOUTH CAROLINA
LAST WEEK. AND YOU HEADED OVER TO ARKANSAS WAS YOU READ THERE?
>> I HAVE A SIMILAR EXPERIENCE. YOUR CANDIDATES ARE DROPPING OUT
WHEN I WAS THERE. MICHAEL BLOOMBERG HAD THE BIGGEST
OPERATION
THREE CAMPAIGN OFFICES AND THREE LAUNCH CENTERS. JOE BIDEN HAD
BASICALLY NOTHING. ELIZABETH WARREN WAS PHYSICALLY THERE.
THERE WAS NOT MUCH EVIDENCE THAT THERE IS EVIDENCE THAT BLOOMBERG
HAD CONVERTED SOME VOTERS. NOT EVIDENCE THAT HE WAS
OVERWHELMING. THE REASON IT WAS ATTRACTIVE TO BLOOMBERG FOLKS IS
THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME A CLINTON WAS NOT RUNNING.
THERE WAS NO FAVORITE THIS TIME.
VERY EARLY, THERE WAS NOT EXIT POLLING. I DETECTED THERE WAS
NOT A GROUND SWELL FOR SENDERS.
BLOOMBERG HAD AN OFFICE IN DOWNTOWN LITTLE ROCK, 2 STORIES
TALL. SANDERS WORKED OUT OF A COMMUNITY CENTER A COUPLE BLOCKS
AWAY. THE DOORS DO NOT WORK. I WAS NOT LOCKED OUT, THE DOOR
JUST DID NOT WORK. HE DID NOT HAVE THE EXTENSIVE ORGANIZATION.
WITH JOE BIDEN STRENGTH, THERE STATES LIKE ALABAMA WHERE HE DID
NOT VISIT. OR LIKE OKLAHOMA, HE DID NOT VISIT OR HAVE A CAMPAIGN
OFFICE OR HISTORY OF WINNING. AND OFF DEMOCRATIC VOTERS CAME
OUT AND SAID, I HEARD HE COULD WIN. FINE, I WILL VOTE FOR HIM.
SO BEFORE WE MOVE ON, I WILL POINT OUT JAMES, YOUR REPORTING
FROM OKLAHOMA SHOWED THAT SANDERS VOLUNTEERS WERE POUNDING
THE PAVEMENT AS LOYAL SUPPORTERS. WE WILL SEE OF
LOYALTY AND MOMENTUM ARE BIG ENOUGH. LET'S CHECK IN WITH LEE
POWELL WITH THE BLOOMBERG
CAMPAIGN. I SEE YOU ARE JOINED BY MICHAEL SHEARER, OUR
COLLEAGUE. WHAT IS THE SCENE LIKE?
>> GOOD EVENING FROM WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA. I AM HERE WITH
MICHAEL SHEARER WITH "THE WASHINGTON POST". BLOOMBERG
FINISHED SPEAKING AND LEFT THE STAGE. MICHAEL HAS BEEN WITH THE
CAMPAIGN WITH MICHAEL BLOOMBERG FOR SOME TIME.
>> HE CAME DOWN TO FLORIDA LAST NIGHT FROM VIRGINIA. HE WENT TO
MIAMI, TO LITTLE HAVANA TO APPEAL TO THE CUBAN COMMUNITY.
THE IMPORTANT THING IS
FLORIDA DOES NOT VOTE FOR 2 WEEKS RICKY WAS TRYING TO LOOK
AHEAD. THEY SAW THE WRITING ON THE WALL THAT THEY WOULD NOT
PERFORM LIKE THEY WANTED TO, TONIGHT.
>> THE BIG QUESTION IN THE ROOM IS, WHERE DOES THE CAMPAIGN GO
FROM HERE? AFTER SUPER TUESDAY. >> WITH THE CAMPAIGN MANAGER
SAID, ABOUT AN HOUR AGO, AFTER ANY ELECTION, THEY WILL LOOK AT
THE RESULTS AND REASSESS WHERE THEY ARE IN THE RACE. A
DIFFERENT MESSAGE FROM WHAT YOU HEARD MICHAEL BLOOMBERG SAY ON
THE STAGE. AS HE TRAVELED AROUND FLORIDA. HE WAS VERY DETERMINED
TO SEND THE MESSAGE THAT HE WAS IN IT TO WIN IT. HE WAS NOT
GOING TO BE CALLED ON BY OTHER DEMOCRATS TO LEAVE THE RACE. YOU
WILL FACE A HARD TIME STAYING IN THE RACE. HIS OWN STAFF HAS SET
THE BAR WITH A MEMO THEY RELEASED A COUPLE WEEKS GO. IT
LAID OUT WHY IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE FOR MODERATES TO
PREVENT BERNIE SANDERS FROM GETTING A DELEGATE LEAD WITHOUT
SIGNIFICANT CONSOLIDATION. IT LOOKS LIKE TONIGHT HE WILL BE A
DISTANT SECOND IN THE MODERATE RACE TO JOE BIDEN. FROM THE
BEGINNING, GOING ALL THE WAY BACK TO 2019, THEY WERE SAYING
THEIR BIGGEST BARRIER WAS A VIABLE JOE BIDEN. WHEN BLOOMBERG
ENTERED WITH THE SURPRISING RACE HE HAS RUN, THE PREMISE WAS
THAT JOE BIDEN WAS LOOKING TERRIBLE AND IOWA AND NEW
HAMPSHIRE AND HE WOULD NOT RECOVER. WHAT WE HAVE SEEN IS A
HE DID TERRIBLE AND I WENT NEW HAMPSHIRE AND HE HAS RECOVERED.
THAT MEANS THE WHOLE STRATEGY IS A DIFFICULT PLACE
>> MICHAEL SCHERER WITH OUR STAFF AT "THE WASHINGTON POST",
GIVING US THE LOWDOWN ON THE MICHAEL BLOOMBERG CAMPAIGN. AND
WHERE IT STANDS TONIGHT, POSSIBLY GOING INTO THE FUTURE.
>> LET'S TALK ABOUT THE QUESTION OF MICHAEL BLOOMBERG AND WHAT
CALCULATION HE WILL MAKE. WE HAVE NOT SEEN HOW THE NIGHT WILL
GO YET. WHAT DOES HE NEED TO THINK ABOUT FOR NEXT STEPS? AND
HOW POWERFUL HIS MONEY COULD BE, IF HE WANTS TO STOP PRESIDENT
TRUMP >> AND IF HE WANTS TO STOP
BERNIE SANDERS, WHICH IS WHAT HE SAID. HIS CASE IS DEMOCRATS
CANNOT NOMINATE A SOCIALIST. IF WE DO,
DONALD TRUMP WILL GET 4 FOR YOUR >> IF YOU DO THE MATH AND YOU
SAY, MODERATES ARE NOT CONSOLIDATING.
AND THE POLLS SHOW, JOE BIDEN AND SANDERS ARE NECK IN NECK.
THEN, I THINK THERE WILL BE PRESSURE. WHEN YOU'RE ONE OF THE
RICHEST MEN IN THE WORLD, YOU ARE MORE IMPERVIOUS TO PRESSURE
THAN OTHER PEOPLE. SOMEONE LIKE PETE BUTTIGIEG, AT 38 YEARS OLD,
HAS A BRIGHT FUTURE IN POLITICS. THINKING ABOUT HOW HE IS
PERCEIVED. THE SAME THING WITH AMY KLOBUCHAR. BLOOMBERG WANTS
TO BE WELL-LIKED. HE DOES NOT CARE ABOUT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
HE IS NOT OF THE PARTY. I THINK HE WILL BE MORE RESISTANT TO
THAT. IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE
THE HIGH COMMAND, THESE ARE LOYALS WHO HAVE BEEN WITH HIM
FOR YEARS. A LOT OF PEOPLE IN HIS ORBITS ARE NOT FROM THE
BLOOMBERG WING OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. THEY DO IT FOR A
PAYCHECK. YOU PRIVATELY FOR SOME , THAT THEY DID NOT VOTE FOR HIM
TODAY. I THINK THAT DYNAMIC AND PRESSURE COULD END UP MOUNTING.
>> I THINK SO. NO ONE SAYS THEY WILL DROP OUT AND THEN THEY DROP
OUT
YOU HAVE TO GET IT, BUT IT DOES NOT MEAN A WHOLE LOT. PETE
BUTTIGIEG WAS NOT GOING TO DROP OUT. IF HE FOLLOWED HIS
SCHEDULE, HE WOULD BE IN SEATTLE. HE DODGED A BULLET.
THEY NEED
TO ROOT FOR MEDICAL UNTIL THERE IS NO MIRACLE. I WOULD BE VERY
SURPRISED WITH NO SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE IN THE CAMPAIGN,
LOOKING AT WHAT HIS GOALS ARE MORE THAN WHAT HE SAYS IN
PUBLIC. HIS GOAL IS FOR BERNIE SANDERS NOT TO BE THE NOMINEE
EVEN WHAT HAS HAPPENED TONIGHT, IT LOOKS LESS LIKELY IF
BLOOMBERG DROPPED OUT. DEPENDING ON ELIZABETH WARREN. MAYBE
BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM, I SEE THE SAME. IN TERMS OF WHERE THEY
GO FORWARD FROM HERE, JUST BECAUSE BLOOMBERG HAD RESOURCES
I DON'T KNOW HE WOULD USE THEM.
APART FROM SANDERS, SHE LED THE FIELD WAS NOT WINNING ANYTHING.
NEITHER OF THEM
HAS AN OBVIOUS ROUTE TO WIN. >> IN BLOOMBERG SPEECH HE SAID
WE ARE ELECTING A LEADER IN CHIEF, NOT A DEBATER IN CHIEF.
>> AND USE THE SKILLS TO EVISCERATE HIM ON STAGE.
>> LET'S CHECK IN WITH OUR COLLEAGUE RHONDA COLEMAN WHO IS
WITH THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN IN LOS ANGELES. THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF
TALK ABOUT HOW THAT BIDEN CAMPAIGN IS LOW ON CASH. HAS NO
MOMENTUM CHANGE SIGNIFICANTLY IN THE LAST WEEK. SELECTIVELY IN
THE LAST WEEK.
AFTER THE DEBATE LAST MONDAY, TUESDAY, THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN SAID
THEY HAD THE BEST FUNDRAISING DAY EVER. THERE IS OVER $1
MILLION IN ONE DAY. THERE IS FIVE MENDOZA NEXT DAY.
ALL YOU HEAR IS PRESIDENT OBAMA TALKING ABOUT THE DIFFERENT
ACOLYTES HE FELT ABOUT JOE BIDEN. THINGS ARE TAKING OFF AT
THAT WATCH PARTY. PEOPLE ARE COMING IN AND YOUR HEARING
CHANTING. PEOPLE ARE HOLDING UP SIGNS IT IS AN INTERESTING
CROWD. WE ARE SEEING A LOT OF YOUNG PEOPLE. THAT WAS MY
CONCERN WHEN I TALKED TO A VOTER.
A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE WORRIED ABOUT THE DYNAMIC BETWEEN BERNIE
SANDERS.
>> LET'S GO BACK TO THE ELECTION INSIGHT TEAM.
>> LET'S GO TO THE STATE OF TENNESSEE TENNESSEE HAD
DIFFICULTY
THERE WAS A TORNADO THAT RIPPED THROUGH NASHVILLE AND WAS ON THE
GROUND FOR ALMOST AN HOUR. WE ARE LOOKING AT THE VOTES
HAPPENING IN THE STATE. IT SEEMS TO BE PART OF THE OVERALL
NARRATIVE HAPPENING TONIGHT. THIS IS BEEN A PRETTY GOOD NIGHT
FOR JOE BIDEN. YOU CAN SEE IT HERE IN TENNESSEE. BERNIE
SANDERS ROUNDING OUT THE DELEGATE LEAD WITH MICHAEL
BLOOMBERG.
THEY WILL BE IN THE MONEY FOR DELEGATE OUT OF TENNESSEE. JOE
BIDEN IS A LITTLE AHEAD OF EVERYBODY. ELIZABETH WARREN A
DISTANT FOURTH PLACE IN THE STATE. THAT HAS UNFORTUNATELY
BEEN NOTHING FOR HER. ONE OTHER PLACE I WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE TO
SHOW YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT IS THE STATE OF VERMONT. THIS IS A
PLACE WHERE BERNIE SANDERS DID WELL. WE ARE READY CALLED THE
RACE FOR HIM. THE SHOULD BE A THING THAT IS UNAMBIGUOUS.
FOR BERNIE SANDERS. THERE ARE SIGNS OF WEAKNESS EVEN HERE IN
SANDERS HOME STATE. WHEN 50% OF THE VOTE SO FAR -- SANDERS
WELL UNPERFORMED HIMSELF IN 2016. WELL UNDERPERFORMING HIS
OWN POLLING HEADING INTO THE STATE IN 2020. TO JOE BIDEN A
24% OF THE VOTE. HE WILL PICK UP DELEGATES AND NOT AS ESSENTIAL
NUMBER. ARE OTHER PLACES IN THE STATE WHERE WE ARE GETTING MORE
UPDATES. AS WE GET MORE, WE WILL BRING THEM TO YOU.
>> A DISAPPOINTING STATE FOR ELIZABETH WARREN IN
MASSACHUSETTS. CAN YOU TELL US MORE ABOUT THAT?
>> WARREN HAS BEEN IN AND OUT. WE HAVE BEEN GETTING RESULTS FOR
HER AND MADE IT LOOK LIKE SHE WAS DOING WELL. OCCASIONALLY,
SHE WILL DROP BACK DOWN. WE ARE CURRENTLY IN THE STATE WHERE JOE
BIDEN IS EARNING 30% OF THE VOTE. WE HAVE BERNIE SANDERS
WITH 27 %.
AND WARREN WITH 27%. FOR MORE ON THE STATE, IT LOOKS LIKE WE MAY
HAVE MODEL UPDATES FROM LENNY BRONNER. DO WE HAVE ANYTHING
FROM THE MODEL? >> NOT QUITE YET. WE JUST HIT
THE THRESHOLD AND WE WERE ABLE TO RUN THE MODEL. IT DOES TAKE A
BIT OF TIME. WE ARE NOT QUITE THERE YET.
IF ONLY THERE WAS A DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING AROUND. ONE THINK I
WILL SHOW YOU ABOUT THIS HAPPENING IN MASSACHUSETTS AS WE
ARE SEEING AN INTERESTING SPLIT. WE HAVE ELIZABETH WARREN DOING
WELL IN THE BOSTON SUBURBS. AND WE HAVE SANDERS DOING REALLY
WELL IN THE FAR WEST STATE. GENERALLY IT HAS BEEN A BIG
BIDEN NIGHT. IF I LEAVE YOU WITH THE THEME, IT WILL BE BIDEN
DOING WELL TONIGHT. >> GREAT, JEREMY BOWERS, JOINING
US LIVE. WE WILL BE RIGHT BACK.
AND ALL DECIDED TO HOLD THE PRIMARIES ON THE SAME DAY IN
EARLY MARCH. BECAUSE THEY WERE GETTING TIRED OF THE LIBERAL
NORTHERN IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. AND
THEY THOUGHT IF WE ALL GET TOGETHER AND WE ALL HOLD OUR
PRIMARIES THE SAME DAY, REALLY EARLY ON IN THE PROCESS, WE WILL
CREATE A LOT OF MOMENTUM FOR A CANDIDATE WHO IS MORE
CONSERVATIVE, MORE MODERATE, TO SORT OF REPRESENT OUR INTERESTS.
WELL, THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN AT ALL. THE SOUTHERN BOATS GET
FRACTURED AMONG AL GORE, JESSE JACKSON, IN PART, THE GUY WHO
ENDS UP GETTING THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION THAT YEAR IS
MICHAEL DUKAKIS. A LIBERAL NORTHERNER WHO IS KIND OF THE
OPPOSITE OF WHO THEY WERE HELPING TO SUPPORT. SO IT TURNS
OUT, THAT SUPER TUESDAY DID PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE
IN INFLUENCING THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS, BUT NOT IN THE WAY
THE SOUTHERN STATES
HAD HOPED.
>> IN ORDER TO BE DONALD TRUMP, WE ARE GOING TO BE THE LARGEST
VOTER TURNOUT IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.
>> IF HE IS THE CANDIDATE, WE WILL HAVE DONALD TRUMP FOR
ANOTHER FOUR YEARS. >> DEMOCRATS TAKE A HUGE RISK IF
WE
JUST SUBSTITUTE ONE ARROGANT BILLIONAIRE FOR ANOTHER.
>> THE REAL ISSUE IS WHO CAN BRING THE WHOLE PARTY TOGETHER,
THAT REPRESENTS ALL OF
THE
PARTY. >> AS POLLS CLOSE IN COLORADO, A
LOOK AT LARIMER SQUARE IN DOWNTOWN DENVER, ON TO THE SHOPS
AND RESTAURANTS, 67 DELEGATES ARE UP
FOR GRABS IN THE STATE TONIGHT. WELCOME TO LIVE COVERAGE FROM
"THE WASHINGTON POST," I'M LYNN CASEY. IT IS NOW 9:00 P.M. HERE
ON THE EAST COAST, AS THE VOTES COMING FROM SUPER TUESDAY RACES
ACROSS THE COUNTRY. LET'S CATCH UP ON, LET'S GO THROUGH THEM
STATE-BY-STATE AND WE CAN PROJECT THAT JOE BIDEN WILL WIN
NORTH CAROLINA, WITH 110 DELEGATES AT STATE. THAT CALL IS
BASED ON EXIT POLL RESULTS. WE CAN ALSO PROJECT THAT JOE BIDEN
WILL WIN ALABAMA WITH 52 DELEGATES AT STAKE. THAT'S
ANOTHER CALL BASED ON THOSE EXIT POLLS. WE ARE ALSO ABLE TO
PROTECT JOE BIDEN WINNING VIRGINIA, 99 DELEGATES AT STAKE
THERE. IT'S ANOTHER SIGN OF SOUTHERN STRENGTH FOR THE FORMER
VICE PRESIDENT. BERNIE SANDERS IS PROJECTED TO WIN HIS HOME
STATE OF VERMONT WHICH HAS 16 DELEGATES AT STATE. ALTHOUGH JOE
BIDEN HAS SHOWN SOME
SURPRISING STRENGTH THAT WILL CONTINUE TO WATCH. LET'S GO NOW
TO THE POST'S JEREMY BOWERS WHO STANDING BY, JEREMY, LET'S LOOK
TO THE SOUTH. WE ARE GETTING SOME INTERESTING RESULTS FROM
SOUTHERN STATES. >> ABSOLUTELY. I AM REALLY
INTERESTED BECAUSE
IT TALKS TO US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA.
OKLAHOMA IS AN INTERESTING STATE. WE ARE LESS THAN 2%
REPORTING, BUT WE HAVE A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF BOTH.
ENOUGH WE CAN TALK ABOUT SEEMS WE ARE SEEING. 87 DELEGATES ARE
AVAILABLE, THE THING YOU CAN SEE ABOUT OKLAHOMA THAT IS SO
INTERESTING, IT'S AN ABSOLUTE PATCHWORK. WE GOT SOME SANDERS
VOTES, WE GOT SOME BLUEBIRD VOTES UP IN THE PANHANDLE, WE
EVEN HAVE SOME MORE IN BOTH, SHE'S WINNING A COUNTY
RIGHT NOW
IT IS REALLY INTRIGUING BECAUSE SHE'S NOT DOING ALL THAT WELL,
NATIONALLY SPEAKING, OR OTHER STATES WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT.
AGAIN, PART OF THE THEME OF THE NIGHT, IT'S A BIG NIGHT FOR JOE
BIDEN. IF YOU BLOW YOUR EYES AND TAKE A LOOK HERE, YOU ARE SEEING
A LOT OF BLUE HERE. THE NEWS IS WE HAVE AN AWFUL LOT OF BOTH
LEFT TO GO. OKLAHOMA IS ANOTHER STATE WHERE WE SEE A PRONOUNCED,
EARLY VOTE FROM THE MORE RURAL AREAS IN THE STATE. WE ARE GOING
TO EXPECT TO SEE MORE VOTES FROM THOSE URBAN AREAS LATER IN THE
NIGHT. WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING FROM PLACES LIKE NORMAN. WE HAVE
VERY YOU VOTES IN OKLAHOMA CITY AND TULSA. THOSE ARE PLACES WE
ARE GOING TO SEE MORE SUPPORT FOR BERNIE SANDERS. WE ARE GOING
TO SEE IF THAT JOE BIDEN LEAD REALLY HOLDS. THE ONLY
OTHER PLACE I'M INTERESTED TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT IS WE'VE GOT A
FEW BOATS AVAILABLE HERE IN ARKANSAS. THE STATE HAS 31
DELEGATES AVAILABLE, AND WE ARE SEEING A LOT OF STRONG BIDEN IN
EARLY VOTE. ALTHOUGH IN FAYETTEVILLE, WE ARE SEEING
SANDER STRENGTHS, I EXPECT IS GOING TO DO PRETTY WELL IN
PORTSMOUTH AS
WELL. INTERESTINGLY, ROUNDING OUT THE PLACE? MICHAEL
BLOOMBERG, HE'S DOING PRETTY WELL. EVEN WINNING HIMSELF A
COUNTY RIGHT NOW, A GREENE COUNTY, FAR NORTHEAST, NOT VERY
BIG, BUT HE'S DOING WELL THERE. AFTER WE GOT RIGHT NOW, LIBBY.
>> LET'S TALK ABOUT THE BIG STATE OF TEXAS, LOTS OF
DELEGATES UP FOR GRABS. WHAT'S
HAPPENING THERE? >> TEXAS IS A HUGE DATE, I DON'T
TO SAY THIS BECAUSE IT MAKES UP A LARGE MODE OF AREA. IT ALSO
HAS A TON OF DELEGATES.
WE HAVE VERY EARLY RESULTS IN TEXAS, MISSING A LOT OF BIG
PLACES IN THE STATE, BUT THERE ARE SOME INTERESTING PATTERNS
ALREADY EMERGING. SANDERS AND BIDEN WERE BASICALLY NECK AND
NECK IN
THE STATE. IT LOOKS LIKE SANDERS, IN THE EARLY BUT IS
DOING A LITTLE BIT BETTER THAN JOE BIDEN. WE ARE SEEING HIM AT
ABOUT 30% OF THE VOTE, HE'S DOING REALLY WELL AND OFTEN,
WHICH IS NOT AT ALL SURPRISING. HE'S DOING WELL IN THE SUBURBS
OF DALLAS. A THING I WOULD LIKE TO POINT
OUT, HERE, IS THAT WE'VE GOT THE JOE BIDEN STRENGTH IN AREAS LIKE
HOUSTON. THESE ARE THE PLACES THAT, IF DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO
RESTATE THE STATE OF TEXAS, THEY'RE GOING TO DO IT IN PLACES
LIKE THE HOUSTON SUBURBS, WHAT IS BEEN IN INFLUX OF LATIN
VOTERS AND ASIAN AMERICAN VOTERS WHO WOULD BE THE STRENGTH OF THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY IF THEY WERE TO TAKE A STATE LIKE TEXAS. WE HAVE
NOT HEARD ANYTHING FROM THE FAR WEST OF THE STATE INCLUDING
PLACES LIKE EL PASO OR CENTENNIAL, AND SO FOR THE REST
OF THE NIGHT WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL WE GET SOME
MORE RESULTS THERE. AS WE GET THEM, I WILL MAKE SURE WE BRING
THEM TO YOU AS QUICKLY AS WE GET THEM.
>> TAKE YOU SO MUCH. I WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME I GUESS FOR THIS
HOUR, NATIONAL POLITICAL REPORTER JAMES HELLMAN, SO GREAT
TO SEE YOU. NATIONAL REPORTER. SO GUYS, WHAT IS STANDING OUT TO
YOU RIGHT NOW, PHILIP, AS YOU ARE LOOKING AT THE DATA JEREMY
IS CRUNCHING, AND HOW THE RACE IS SHAPING UP AT THIS POINT IN
THE EVENING, WHAT STANDS OUT
TO YOU? >> IT'S HARD TO TALK ABOUT
ANYTHING BESIDES WHAT HAPPENED TO JOE BIDEN THE PASSIVELY TWO
HOURS. LAST WEEK AT THIS TIME, I THINK I LITERALLY WROTE A PIECE,
LAST WEDNESDAY ABOUT HOW BERNIE SANDERS IS POINT FOR A GOOD
NIGHT ON SUPER TUESDAY. THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN, WE HAVE THIS
MASSIVE RESULT IN SOUTH CAROLINA, AND THIS IMMEDIATE
SHIFT, YOU CAN
LOOK AT GRAPHS THAT SHOW THIS HUGE SHIFT IN POLLING, JUST
SINCE THE SOUTH CAROLINA PRIMARY, WHICH IS SANDERS GOING
DOWN AND BIDEN COMING UP. WE ARE SEEING THAT ACROSS THE MAP.
JEREMY POINTED TO THE MAP, EVEN IN VERMONT, VERMONT IN 2016, A
BIG BLOWOUT FOR BERNIE SANDERS. IT WAS
A GIMME. WE HAD BIDEN OVER THE THROTTLE, BIDEN WILL GET
DELEGATES IN VERMONT WHICH IS JUST A STAGGERING RESULT. WE'VE
ALSO CONTINUE TO SEE SOFTNESS FOR BERNIE SANDERS, ESPECIALLY
AROUND 2016 WHICH UNDERCUTS HIS VALUE PROPOSITION IN
THE PARTY. HE SUPPOSED TO INCREASE TURNOUT, AND GET THINGS
DONE IN WASHINGTON. WE ARE NOT SEEING THAT, WE HAVE NOT SEEN IN
THE PAST, WE'RE DEFTLY NOTHING THAT'S NOT WHAT WE ARE SEEING IS
JOE BIDEN RUNNING AWAY. >> YOU REPORTED ON THE SOUTH
CAROLINA RESULTS, THAT PIECE THAT LOOKED AT HOW BERNIE
SANDERS WASN'T
ABLE TO GET THE SUPPORT JOE BIDEN HAS WITH AFRICAN-AMERICAN
VOTERS. WHY WERE THOSE NUMBERS OUT OF SOUTH CAROLINA SO
SIGNIFICANT? >> ONE OF THE REASONS PEOPLE
ARGUE THAT BERNIE SANDERS WAS UNABLE TO DO AS WELL IN 2016 AS
HILLARY CLINTON WAS BECAUSE OF BLACK VOTERS. IN IF SANDERS
WANTED
TO REMAIN AS COMPETITIVE AND ESPECIALLY MORE COMPETITIVE HE
WAS GOING TO HAVE TO GROW IN THAT AREA AND HE JUST HAS NOT.
SEE THAT BEING THE CASE IN NORTH CAROLINA SO FAR IN VIRGINIA SO
FAR. THIS IS A CANDIDATE WHO HAS BEEN THE LAST FOUR YEARS TRYING
TO CONVINCE BLACK VOTERS HIS SOCIO-ECONOMIC PLANS ARE BETTER
THAN JOE BIDEN. HIS TEAM HAS DONE VERY SIGNIFICANT WORK IN
TRYING TO HOLD BIDEN ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS CRIME VOTE, SOME OTHER
ISSUES AND STATEMENTS HE HAS MADE THAT WOULD OFFEND BLACK
VOTERS, BUT THAT HAS NOT LED BLACK VOTERS TO WALK AWAY
SIGNIFICANTLY FROM JOE BIDEN AND TOWARD SANDERS. THAT IS FOR A
FEW REASONS, BUT ONE OF THEM IS THE REALITY THAT BIDEN HAS A
LONGER RELATIONSHIP WITH BLACK VOTERS. PEOPLE ARE LOOKING AT
ELECTABILITY AND WHO THEY BELIEVE HAS THE BEST CHANCE OF
DEFEATING TRUMP. THERE'S LOTS OF REASONS WHY A LOT OF BLACK
VOTERS ARE MORE CONFIDENT THAT BIDEN COULD DO THAT THAN BERNIE
SANDERS. THE GAMES THAT BERNIE SANDERS HAS NEEDED TO MAKE WITH
BLACK VOTERS, HE JUST HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO MAKE. I WILL SAY
WHAT IS WORTH NOTING, HE IS WINNING YOUNG LIKE VOTERS, BUT
YOUNG VOTERS ARE NOT TURNING OUT THE
WAY THAT THEY NEED TO. WE THOUGHT THEY WOULD BECAUSE IN
2018, THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS, WE SAW QUITE AS BIKE AND MILLENNIAL
VOTERS. MILLENNIAL VOTERS ARE NOW THE LARGEST VOTING BLOC,
EVEN BIGGER THAN BABY BOOMERS, THERE DOES NOT TURNING OUT
BEYOND BEING VERY ACTIVE ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND MAYBE PERHAPS
ATTENDING EVENTS. AT LEAST NOT, SO FAR. BUT THAT COULD CHANGE.
>> THERE ARE IMPORTANT METRICS TO MEASURE SUPPORT. ONE IS
FUNDRAISING. THE ABILITY THAT BERNIE SANDERS HAS BEEN ABLE TO
RAISE MONEY FROM SO MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE, THESE SMALL
DOLLAR AMOUNTS, BUT HIS CAMPAIGN WAS REALLY COUNTING ON
MOTIVATING, GETTING YOUNG PEOPLE
FIRED UP
YOUNG PEOPLE OUT TO THE POLLS, EUGENE.
>> THAT JUST HAS NOT HAPPENED YET. SOUTH CAROLINA IS A STATE
WITH LOTS OF COLLEGES, LOTS OF YOUNG ADULTS. COOLER CITIES LIKE
COLUMBIA AND CHARLESTON, I WENT DOWN THERE AND SPOKE WITH YOUNG
VOTERS AND DID POST REPORTS WITH THEM. THEY ARE STILL LARGELY
UNDECIDED, THEY KNOW THEY WANT SOMEONE OTHER THAN TRUMP, AND I
THINK THAT LACK OF CERTAINTY HAS LED SOME TO NOT SHOW UP
AT ALL. THAT COULD CHANGE MOVING FORWARD IN THE GENERAL, BUT AS
OF
THIS POINT, THESE COMPETITIONS MATTER, THESE CONTESTS COUNT.
THEY DETERMINE HOW YOU WILL FARE IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
NOMINATION. >> BIDEN HAS REALLY BENEFITED
FROM
NOT GETTING FOR A COUPLE MONTHS. HE DID NOT EVEN SPEAK OF TENANTS
INTO THE LAST DEBATE. THE
DEBATE BEFORE IN LAS VEGAS, EVERYONE WAS FOCUSED ON MIKE
BLOOMBERG WHO IS COMING IN AND HAVING HIS FIRST DEBATE, BERNIE
SANDERS GOT A LOT OF SCRUTINY IN THIS MOST RECENT DEBATE IN
CHARLESTON. IT IS INTERESTING, BERNIE SANDERS DID HOPE TO HIT
BIDEN ON THE CRIME BILL, AND ROADS WITH AFRICAN-AMERICANS.
BUT BIDEN'S RECORD REALLY HAS NOT BEEN GETTING SCRUTINY FOR
SOME TIME. THAT WILL VERY QUICKLY CHANGE STARTING
TOMORROW, YOU'LL START TO SEE SANDERS GO AFTER HIM MORE. THE
BIG TAKE AWAY FOR ME, HOW MUCH SANDERS IS STRUGGLING IN THE
PLACES THAT POWERED DEMOCRATIC VICTORIES IN THE
MIDTERM ELECTIONS. WHERE REPUBLICANS LOST HOUSES, FLIPPED
TWO DEMOCRATS, JENNIFER WEXTON, THE CONGRESSWOMAN WHO PICKED IT
UP. MY IS WINNING 2 TO 1 IN FLIGHT COUNTY, THAT'S
AN AREA IN A GENERAL ELECTION CONTEXT THAT IS REALLY
IMPORTANT. SANDERS IS JUST NOT ABLE TO MAKE INROADS WITH THOSE
KINDS OF VOTERS, AND I THINK WE ARE SEEING THAT ANOTHER SUBURBS,
WHERE RETURNS ARE COMING IN. THAT SUCH A LINCHPIN OF THE NEW
DEMOCRATIC COLLISION. MICHAEL SCOOTED VERMONT IN THE SANDERS
CAMPAIGN, WHERE OUR COLLEAGUE ROYCE CO. IS, REPORTING ON
SANDERS FOR ALL THESE MONTHS, LET'S SEE HOW THINGS ARE THERE,
JOYCE. >> LIBBY, THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF
PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM, IN THIS EXPO CENTER. THEY HAD TO SHUT
DOWN ANY MORE PEOPLE FROM COMING IN BECAUSE THEY ARE
AT CAPACITY. PEOPLE ARE JUST WAITING FOR SANDERS TO COME
ONSTAGE AND SPEAK. WE SOUGHT THE BACK WHICH IS
BEHIND ME BE FILLED BY SOME OF HIS SUPPORTERS, WHICH USUALLY
INDICATES THAT THE SENATOR WILL BE COMING OUT SHORTLY, HERE. ANY
MINUTE, WE ARE WAITING FOR HIM TO SPEAK. I JUST WANT TO TOUCH
ON SOMETHING THAT JEREMY MENTIONED DURING HIS ANALYSIS.
HE WAS SAYING THAT VERMONT IS A STATE THAT SANDERS WAS EXCITED
TO WIN, BUT HE HASN'T PERFORMED AS STRONGLY AS HE DID HERE IN
2016. AN INTERESTING THING IS THAT WHEN WE WERE OUT, TALKING
TO PEOPLE AT THE POLLING LOCATIONS, WE DID ASK PEOPLE WHO
THEY VOTED FOR, AND WE WERE SURPRISED TO FIND A LOT OF
PEOPLE, SEVERAL STUDENTS TALKING ABOUT VOTING FOR BIDEN, AFTER
BUTTIGIEG HAD DROPPED OUT OF THE RACE AND SUPPORTED AGAIN.
PERHAPS SOME OF THAT, THOSE NUMBERS WE ARE SEEING WITH
BERNIE IN VERMONT, THAT WE ARE SEEING, THAT HE, WINNING IN
2020, HE MIGHT'VE HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THOSE ENDORSEMENTS
FROM BUDDHA JUDGE AND CLUB CHAR, POTENTIALLY. WE DID ASK SOME OF
THOSE PEOPLE WHY NOT BERNIE, ISN'T THIS BERNIE TERRITORY?
WHAT IS THE RECEPTION LIKE FROM FELLOW FRIENDS AND FAMILY
MEMBERS ABOUT NOT VOTING FOR BERNIE? THEY SAID
THERE ISN'T NO PUSHBACK THEY GET BECAUSE SOCIALLY, A LOT OF
PEOPLE AROUND HERE DO VOTE FOR BERNIE. SO I JUST FOUND THAT
PRETTY INTERESTING, SOMETHING TO TAKE INTO CONTENT RATION AS WE
CONTINUE TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS TONIGHT, HERE.
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH, WE WILL KEEP WATCHING WHERE JOYCE IS IN
CASE BERNIE SANDERS DOES COME
OUT SOON. PHILIP, ONE QUESTION THAT HAS BEEN ON OUR MINDS, WHAT
HAPPENS TO THE DELEGATE COUNTS, THOSE DELEGATES THAT HAVE GONE
TO CANDIDATES WHO HAVE DROPPED OUT, YOU DUG INTO THAT TODAY AND
ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS FOR ME, SO PLEASE EXPLAIN.
>> LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE THAT HAS TO DO WITH DELEGATES, TOTALLY
COLLOCATED IN A MESS. WE HAVE TWO CANDIDATES WHO HAVE NOW LEFT
THE RACE, NOT ACTIVELY RUNNING. IT'S IMPORTANT THAT DISTINCTIVE
BETWEEN LEAVING THE RACE, DROPPING UNOFFICIALLY AND JUST
SUSPENDED, BOTH HAVE SUSPENDED THEIR CAMPAIGNS. THIS IS PETE
AND AMY, BOTH WHO
EARNED DELEGATES. P BUTTIGIEG EARNED DELEGATES IN THE FIRST
THREE STATES, I'M HAPPY TO GO DOWN
AS MANY, WE CAN DO THIS. ANYWAY, UPSHOT
IS THIS. ESSENTIALLY, AS THINGS STAND AT THIS MOMENT, THOSE
DELEGATES ARE GOING TO GO TO THE CONVENTION, AND THEY ARE GOING
TO
BE REPRESENTING THOSE CANDIDATES IN NAME ONLY, IN THE FIRST ROUND
OF VOTING, THEY CAN VOTE FOR WHOEVER THEY WANT TO VOTE FOR.
THAT'S THE UPSHOT. IF THEY ACTUALLY DROPPED OUT OF THE
RACE, IF >> AND CLUB CHAR SAID WE ARE NO
LONGER ACTIVE CANDIDATES IN THIS RACE, THEN ONE OF THE SIDE
EFFECTS OF THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THAT WHEN IOWA ACTUALLY PICKS
THE PEOPLE WHO SERVICE DELEGATES, THE ACTUAL HUMAN
BEINGS WHO GO TO THE CONVENTION, WHEN THEY MAKE THAT DECISION,
ESSENTIALLY WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IS I WOULD SAY OKAY, SINCE YOU TWO
ARE NO LONGER INDUSTRIES, READY SANDERS IS GOING TO GET ALL YOUR
DELEGATES BECAUSE OF HOW THE A REALLOCATED THEM. IN OTHER
WORDS, BY BUTTIGIEG STAYING IN THE RACE, HIS KEEPING SANDERS
FROM GETTING THOSE DELEGATES. IN ESSENCE WHAT HE CAN DO IS OPEN
THE DELEGATES AND CAN HAVE SOME SAY IN WHO THE DELEGATES
ACTUALLY GO TO. WHAT HE CAN DO IS ACTUALLY TRY AND IMPLORE THEM
TO CAST THEIR VOTES FOR JOE BIDEN. THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS TO
THEM IN THE SHORT-TERM, TALKING ABOUT VERY, VERY
FEW DELEGATES. NOT GOING TO HAVE MUCH OF AN EFFECT, IT IS
SOMETHING TO PLUG IN. >> WE ARE ALREADY LOOKING TO THE
CONVENTION AND WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN IF THERE IS SPLIT AMONG THE
DELEGATES. WHAT WILL YOU BE WATCHING OVER THE NEXT, NOT
TONIGHT, BUT NEXT TUESDAY WHEN WE SEE A LOT OF PEOPLE GO TO THE
POLL, THE FOLLOWING TUESDAY AFTER THAT? WHERE DO THINGS NEED
TO GO FOR ONE CANDIDATE TO LOOK LIKE THEIR PREVAILING?
>> THE WAY THE DEMOCRATS DO THE DELEGATE THE JEWISHNESS PEOPLE
ARE FAMILIAR BY NOW, IT IS ROUGHLY PROPORTIONAL. ANYONE WHO
HITS THE 50% FRESH OLD GET SOME SHARE OF THE DELEGATES. THE
CHALLENGE WITH THAT IS IT MAKES IT VERY DIFFICULT FOR SOMEONE TO
PULL AWAY BY A WIDE MARGIN. IN 2016, ONE OF THE WAYS HILLARY
CLINTON WAS ABLE TO WRAP UP THE RACE ESSENTIALLY BY EARLY MARCH
EVEN THOUGH SANDERS AND A LOT OF SUPPORTERS THE NONTECHNOLOGY
UNTIL JUNE AS SHE BUILT
UP A DAY, BIG-LEAGUE, PARTICULARLY IN SOUTHERN STATES
WHERE JOE BIDEN IS DOING WELL NOW. THERE WAS NO WAY FOR
SANDERS TO CLOSE THAT GAP BECAUSE EVERY TIME THERE'S A
CONTEST, ESPECIALLY IN THE SMALLER STATES, IF HE MANAGED TO
GET 60 IN THE BOOK, SHE WOULD GET 40% BECAUSE IT WAS ONLY THE
TWO OF THEM AND THAT MEANT SHE KEPT MOVING FORWARD AS HE COULD
MOVING FORWARD AS WELL. IN THIS PARTICULAR SCENARIO, YOU HAVE
ANOTHER OF CANDIDATES WHO HAVE A DECENT CHUNK OF DELEGATES, WE
WILL SEE WHAT HAPPENS WITH STIER, BLOOMBERG, AND WORN. THEY
NEED TO GET 100 DELEGATES, IT MAKES IT HARDER BECAUSE IN THE
SAME WAY IT'S HARD TO CLOSE THE GAP OR TO PULL AWAY, IT'S HARD
TO MAKE BIG STRIDES TOWARDS THE 1991 DELEGATES YOU NEED IF YOU
ARE LIMITED
BY THE FACT YOU CAN ONLY GET A PROPORTIONAL SHARE OF THE
DELEGATES. THERE'S A MASS MAKING IT HARD FOR THE CANDIDATES IN A
LOT OF WAYS. >> TO GET THE DELEGATES YOU'VE
GOT TO GET THE 15% THRESHOLD LET'S GO BACK TO LOS ANGELES AND
CHECK IN WITH OUR COLLIE, RHONDA COLEMAN WITH THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN.
RHONDA, WHAT HAVE SUPPORTERS THERE BEEN TALKING ABOUT, LOOKS
LIKE YOU'VE GOT OUR COLLIE CLEVE WHISTON WITH YOU.
>> Reporter: YEAH, WE'VE BEEN HEARING FROM SUPPORTERS HERE,
ONE VERY INTERESTING THINGS AS THEY ARE ADMITTING THEY ARE
REALLY HAPPY THAT THE TWO PEOPLE WHO HAVE DROPPED OUT IN THE LAST
48 HOURS, MAYOR BUDDHA JUDGE
AND ALSO AMY KLOBUCHAR, THEY ARE OUT. THAT HAS FREED UP SOME
SUPPORT FOR JOE BIDEN, THAT SOMETHING WE ARE HEARING AT THIS
PARTY IS NOT, I AM WITH MY COLLEAGUE
WHO FOLLOWED BY, YOU ARE AT THE OAKLAND EVENT HE HAD TODAY,
EARLIER TODAY. TELL US ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED THERE.
>> IT WAS REALLY INTERESTING BECAUSE INTEREST IN HIS CAMPAIGN
HAS SURGED SIGNIFICANTLY. THEY HAVE THE
SMALL, INTIMATE, VERY MUCH LIKE HE DID IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, BUT
THERE ARE COUPLE CUSTOMERS, BUT LIKE 40 MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA
SHOWED UP. ALL TRYING TO GET A PICTURE, AN IMAGE OF JOE BIDEN
OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. THEY HAD TO END UP PUSHING ALL OF THE
MEDIA OUT BECAUSE THERE WAS SO MUCH INTEREST
IN EVERYWHERE BIDEN HAS GONE OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS HAS
BEEN LIKE THAT. HE WAS IN DALLAS LAST, HAD LIKE 2100 PEOPLE, BUT
SEVERAL, A COUPLE HUNDRED GOT PUSHED, COULD NOT GET INTO THE
BUILDING, BECAUSE IT WAS TOO SMALL.
>> WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THIS
QUESTION, HOW LAST WEEK IT WAS A VERY DIFFERENT STORY THAN WHAT
WE ARE SEEING TODAY, WHAT ARE YOU SEEING AS YOU TRAVEL WITH
VICE PRESIDENT AGAIN AND HOW PEOPLE ARE APPROACHING HIM NOW?
>> I THINK A COUPLE OF THINGS. FIRST OF ALL, ONE OF THE
QUESTIONS FOR JOE BIDEN WHO HAS BEEN CRITICIZED BY HIS
ORGANIZATION, ABOUT HOW HE'S RUNNING HIS CAMPAIGN, TONIGHT WE
WILL SORT OF SEE WHETHER OR NOT THIS MOMENT TOM SUPERSEDES THAT.
WILL IT GET HIM PAST THAT NARRATIVE, THAT CRITIQUE. THE
OTHER THING IS CLUB CHAR
AND BUTTIGIEG ENDORSED RELATIVELY LATE IN THE CYCLE,
RIGHT? WAS EVERYBODY WATCHING LAST NIGHT, SINCE
THAT NEWS HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO INFILTRATE OR SEEP INTO THE
GENERAL CONSCIOUSNESS SO THAT EVERYBODY CAN SEE IT IN SORT OF
KNOW THE PEOPLE I WAS VOTING FOR STAN AND HOW I
SHOULD ACT. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH, AND
LIBBY, WE WILL SEND THINGS BACK TO YOU.
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH, I
APPRECIATE THAT. THE ENERGY AT CAMPAIGN EVENTS IS IMPORTANT.
SUPPORT FOR SUPPORTERS IN THE ROOM TO FEEL LIKE THEY ARE PART
OF A WINNING TEAM, BUT IT DOES TRANSLATE, IT POPS OFF THE
SCREEN AND WE DO SEE SO MUCH ENERGY AT BERNIE SANDERS EVENT.
WHAT DOES JOE BIDEN NEED TO CAPTURE TONIGHT? WHAT'S THE
LIGHTNING IN THE BOTTLE ENERGY HE NEEDS TO HAVE AS THE EYES OF
THE NATION ARE ON HIM AT A MOMENT LIKE THIS?
>> THE INJURY ENERGY HE HAD IN SOUTH CAROLINA, CRISP,
PUNCHING, UNIFYING, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE BERNIE LEVEL,
OVER-THE-TOP PERFORMING, BUT IF HE CAN DO WHAT HE DID IN SOUTH
CAROLINA, THAT LEVEL OF CONSISTENCY, BUT IF HE CAN DO
THAT, HE WILL BE IN GREAT SHAPE. >> AND HE PERFORMED THAT WAY IN
IOWA, EVEN BEFORE ALL OF THE RESULTS WERE IN. HE HAD THIS
VERY ENERGETIC OPTIMISTIC LOOK
AT THINGS, APPROACH TO THINGS WHICH WAS REALLY FASCINATING FOR
SOME OF US WHO HAD BEEN TO SOME OF HIS EVENT THROUGHOUT IOWA. HE
WAS READY CONSISTENT, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT DAY, WHAT YOU ARE
GOING TO GET ON THAT DAY. THE REASON WHY THIS MATTERS IS
BECAUSE THERE ARE VOTERS LOOKING AT THESE CANDIDATES, SO MUCH
TALK IS HAPPENING ABOUT THEIR AGE, THEIR ABILITY TO PERFORM
THE JOB, AND IF THEY WILL BE UP FOR IT. AND WHEN YOU HAVE EYES
ON YOU, AT MOMENTS LIKE THIS, YOU REALLY NEED
TO COMMUNICATE
THAT YOU HAVE THIS VITALITY THAT CAN TAKE ON DONALD TRUMP AND ALL
OF THE OTHER CHALLENGES OF THE WORLD.
>> WHAT IS HIS CAMPAIGN THING ABOUT AS THEY WATCH THE SUCCESS
OF HIS SOUTH CAROLINA PERFORMANCE, AT THE POLLS, BUT
ALSO HOW CRISP HE WAS IN THAT MOMENT? HOW FOCUSED ENERGETIC HE
SEEMED? THERE'S A LONG ROAD AHEAD HERE.
>> IS REALLY INTERESTING, ONE OF THE BIG QUESTIONS
IS WHAT BIDEN DO WE SEE GOING FORWARD? BECAUSE BIDEN HAS BEEN
AMONG THE MOST AND ACCESSIBLE CANDIDATES, ESPECIALLY
CLOISTERED, ALL OVER
THE PLACE. HIS TEAM HAS KEPT AWAY FROM REPORTERS, HE HASN'T
GIVEN VERY MANY INTERVIEWS. ON
SUNDAY, AFTER'S HIS SOUTH CAROLINA WHEN THEY PUT THEM ON
EVERY SUNDAY SHOW, AND HE DID WELL. SO, IT'S GOING TO BE
INTERESTING NOW THAT HE'S GOING TO BE CALLED THE FRONT RUNNER
COMING OUT OF TONIGHT. DOES THAT MEAN THEY SCALE BACK SOME OF THE
ACCESSIBILITY AND GO BACK TO CLOISTERED JOE? AND I'M NOT SURE
WHAT THE SMART POLITICAL STRATEGY IS. BUT I THINK HIS
TEAM'S IMPULSE WILL BE TO PULL HIM BACK, NOT TO MAKE THEM MORE
ACCESSIBLE. NOT GOING TO BE THE STRAIGHT
TALK EXPRESS.
I THINK THAT MAY MAKE SENSE POLITICALLY, BUT THAT'S GOING TO
BE SOMETHING TO WATCH IN THE COMING DAYS.
>> OKAY, LET'S GO RIGHT ON THE HEELS OF JOE BIDEN PERFORMING SO
WELL IN SOUTH CAROLINA, SENATE REPUBLICANS ARE PLANNING THE
FIRST SUBPOENA IN THE BREEZE NOT BIDEN PROBE, THE HEADLINE
WASHINGTON POST EDITOR RON JOHNSON REPUBLICAN WISCONSIN HIS
TEAM. >> I WANT TO GIVE JAMES A SHOUT
OUT FOR CLOISTERED JOE. YEAH. THIS WAS PERHAPS THE MOST
PREDICTABLE THING THAT HAPPENED AFTER SOUTH CAROLINA, EVERYTHING
ELSE WAS UNPRINTABLE. ACTUALLY WENT BACK AND LOOKED AT,
MENTIONED IN THE MEDIA, MENTIONED BY TRUMP OF HUNTER
BIDEN, JOE BIDEN SON WHO WAS THE CENTER OF THE IMPEACHMENT
INQUIRY. AT THE DRASTIC ADVANTAGE, OF COURSE THE
IMPEACHMENT
WRAPPED UP,
JOE BIDEN TANK IN THE POULTRY JOE BIDEN WENT TO SOUTH
CAROLINA, MAKES IT PRETTY CLEAR HE'S IN THE RACE TO STAY, ALL OF
A SUDDEN THIS EMERGES AGAIN. I DO WANT TO CAST ASPERSIONS ON
RON JOHNSON, IT CERTAINLY IS THE CASE RON JOHNSON WAS A VERY
INVOLVED AND WHAT HAPPENED, THIS FOLLOWS FROM HIS ACTIONS OF LAST
YEAR. BUT OBVIOUS AND THIS IS GOING TO BE THE SORT OF THING
THAT DONALD TRUMP IS GOING TO BE FOCUSED ON, WE'VE SEEN HIM OVER
THE PAST MONTH OR SO, REALLY TRYING HE'S NOT AT ALL SUBTLE
WITH BERNIE SANDERS AS A CANDIDATE. I GUESS YOU GOT IT
ALL SUBTLE AND SUGGESTING SENDER SUPPORTERS THEY ARE SOMEHOW
GETTING, I'M TRYING TO THINK OF AN APPROPRIATE WORD TO USE BUT
THE DNC IS NOT TREATING
THEM APPROPRIATELY.
HE IS BEING VERY DELIVERED DOING THAT BECAUSE HE WANTS TO FACE
SANDERS OR HE WANTS SENDER SUPPORTERS TO STAY HOME. BUT IF
BIDEN IS GOING TO BE THE GUY HE'S GOING TO RUN AGAINST HE'S
GOING TO START EARNING HIS FIRE ON BIDEN PERIOD IS TO PRESIDENT
TRUMP AND HIS ROLE IN ALL THIS. RIGHT NOW, PRESIDENT TRUMP ISN'T
SAYING MUCH BUT HE IS TROLLING ESSENTIALLY, THE DEMOCRATIC
CANDIDATES AS HE GOES TO THE STATES WHERE PRIMARIES OR
CAUCUSES ARE ABOUT TO HAPPEN, THE PRESIDENT GETTING BIG CROWD
SPEECHES ON THE EVE OF DEMOCRATIC VOTERS GOING TO THE
POLLS, AND HE IS TRYING TO STIR THE POT AND TELL SANDERS VOTERS
THAT THEY ARE NOT BEING APPRECIATED OR THEY ARE BEING
MANIPULATED BY THE DEMOCRATIC POWERS, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
POWERS THAT BE. WHAT DO YOU SEE THE ROLE OF PRESIDENT TRUMP
RIGHT NOW BEING? >> I THINK THE PRESIDENT IS
AWARE OF HOW TIGHT THIS RACE IS GOING TO BE. WE HAVE ALL THE
TERRA-COTTA CANDIDATES IN THE STATES TRYING TO GET VOTERS IN
TRUMP IS TRYING TO GIVE VOTERS AS WELL. ESPECIALLY THE MODERATE
CANDIDATES, PARTICULAR SOME OF THOSE WHO HAVE SUSPENDED THEIR
CAMPAIGNS, BUTTIGIEG AND CLUB WHICH ARE REALLY VOCAL IN TRYING
TO CONNECT WITH PREVIOUS
VOTERS WHO
ARE LOOKING FOR NEW OPTION AND SO I THINK WHAT TRUMP IS TRYING
TO SAY, HEY, DON'T LEAVE ME, COME BACK TO ME AND THIS IS WHAT
I THINK YOU SHOULD COME BACK TO ME. IF YOU'VE GONE TO ONE OF
THESE RALLIES, IN THE STATES, IT'S TRUMP'S GREATEST HITS. THIS
IS WHAT I'VE DONE, THIS IS WHAT I'VE DONE TO COUNTER WITH THE
DEMOCRATS ARE CONSTANTLY SAYING, THIS IS ACTUALLY NOT WHAT IS
HAPPENING, THIS IS WHAT WE COULD MOVE TOWARDS AS WE PUSH BACK
AGAINST TRUMP. WE SEE TRUMP INTENSELY CAMPAIGNING WHILE
TRYING
TO PERFORM HIS PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES BECAUSE HE IS
VERY AWARE THAT THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE AN EASY RACE FOR
HIM. >> YOUR POINT ABOUT HIM
TROLLING, IT'S NOT EVEN THAT HE'S ACTUALLY PULLING THE
DEMOCRATS, HE JUST WANTS TO SEEM LIKE YOU TROLLING THE DEMOCRATS.
IT IS THE VALUE
FOR HIM IN APPEARING TO GET ON THE DEMOCRATS CAN, FAR MORE THAN
I SEE GETTING UNDER THEIR SKIN, I DON'T SEE WHY THEY CARE. WHAT
DO THEY CARE, HE'S NOT AFFECTING THEIR VOTE. BUT HE WAS TO
PERFORM TO HIS BASE, LOOK IT, TOO SEE FIGHTING THE DEMOCRAT'S
IN THESE WEIRD AND CRAZY WAYS. >> EVERYONE PLAYS INTO THAT. I
WAS TALKING TO BERNIE SUPPORTERS IN TEXAS OVER THE WEEKEND,
I TALKED TO A MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT, AND HE WAS LIKE
WE'VE GOT TO, I'M BEHIND BERNIE, I LIKE THE OTHERS BUT WE'VE GOT
TO FIGHT FIRE
WITH FIRE. YOU HEAR JOE BIDEN IN HIS STUMPS SPEECH THING I'M
GOING TO BEAT HIM LIKE A DRUM. EVERYONE FOUR MONTHS HAS BEEN
TALKING ABOUT HOW THEY ARE GOING TO POST UP AGAINST TRUMP IN THE
DEBATE LIKE IT'S SOME KIND OF DEPTH CHART. THERE IS A WEIRD, I
THINK, TRUMP FEEDS THAT AND HE IS IN ALL OF THEIR HEADS. EVEN
IN MIKE BLOOMBERG, IN HIS SPEECH WE HEARD A FEW MINUTES AGO,
BOASTING ABOUT ALL THE TIMES TRUMP HAS ATTACKED HIM ON
TWITTER BY SAYING TRUMP HAS ATTACKED ME ON TWITTER MORE THAN
ANY OF THE OTHER DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES. BECAUSE HE'S AFRAID
OF ME. I THINK BIDEN CAN POINT TO THE BURISMA STUFF, BUT SHOW
THE PRESIDENT IS AFRAID OF ME. IN OUR EXIT POLLS TODAY, IT
SHOWED OVERWHELMINGLY MAJORITIES OF VOTERS IN EVERY STATE
PREFERRED THE ONE WHO IS ELECTABLE TO SOMEONE WHO SHARES
THEIR BELIEFS. IN BIDEN ONE AMONG THAT GROUP, I THINK
THAT'S, THAT'S FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS
RIGHT NOW.
I TALKED TO ONE WOMAN IN HOUSTON OVER THE WEEKEND HE WAS TRYING
TO DECIDE WHAT TO DO, DID NOT ONE SANDERS BECAUSE SHE DID NOT
THINK HE COULD WHEN THE GENERAL ELECTION. SHE SAID I'M TIRED OF
SCREAMING ON MY TELEVISION FOR THREE YEARS, I DON'T TO SCREEN
ON MY TELEVISION FOR MORE YEARS. I DON'T THINK BIDEN IS GREAT BUT
THAT'S THE GUY HAD TO GET UNDER SELECTIVE HAVE TO SPLIT MY TV,
THAT'S WHAT I WILL DO. SHE VOTED FOR BIDEN TONIGHT.
>> EUGENE, WHAT TICKET ARE YOU GOING TO BE WATCHING MOVING
FORWARD HERE, TALK TO US ABOUT THE ELECTORATE OF A PLACE LIKE
TEXAS, OF CALIFORNIA. THE CONSTITUENTS THAT BERNIE SANDERS
HAS ONE, THAT JOE BIDEN HAS TO WIN, OR MAKE INROADS WITH THAT
IS EITHER HOLD THE LINE OR REALLY PULLED VOTERS
TOWARDS THEM. >> I AM WATCHING TEXAS FOR ONE
REASON IN PARTICULAR, YOU DON'T DO ENOUGH TO TALK ABOUT THE
DIVERSITY OF THE LATINO VOTE. WE KNOW HOW SANDERS PERFORMED
IN NEVADA,
FLORIDA IS A MUCH MORE SOCIALLY CONSERVATIVE DEMOGRAPHIC BUT IN
TEXAS THERE IS MORE DIVERSITY WITHIN THE LATINO POPULACE AND
BESIDES HOW THEY SHAPE THE POLITICS. REGARDING SOCIALISM
AND WHAT THEY WOULD, WITH INTERMENT WOULD BE IN THE
COUNTRY, REMINISCENT
OF SOME BUT THEY ARE TRYING TO FLEE. I ACTUALLY SPENT THE PAST
WEEKEND IN UTAH, AND IT WAS REALLY FASCINATING, TALKING TO
MORE SOCIALLY CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRATS, WHO IN MANY WAYS
WOULD ALIGN WITH THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, DON'T ALIGN
WITH TRUMP. >> AND YOU LET A MOMENT, WE HAVE
A RACE TO CALL. WE ARE HEARING FROM OUR ELECTION AND SAFETY
THERE IS
AN UPDATE. WE ARE NOW READY TO CALL THE RACE IN TENNESSEE TO
THE WASHINGTON POST IS PROJECTING THAT JOE BIDEN
WILL WIN TENNESSEE. THE VOLUNTEER STATE, TENNESSEE HAS
64 DELEGATES AT STAKE TONIGHT. FOR MORE ON THAT, LET'S HEAD
BACK TO TERRY BOWERS AT THE ELECTION INSIDE TEAM. GIVE US
SOME INSIGHT INTO WHAT HAPPENING.
>> IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU
SAID, LIBBY.
YOU'VE GOT THAT STATE OF TENNESSEE FOR JOE BIDEN, I TOLD
YOU A LITTLE BIT EARLIER TONIGHT, IT WAS LOOKING LIKE
THIS AS PART OF THE OVERALL NARRATIVE. JOE BIDEN HAS BEEN
DOING REALLY WELL IN SOUTHERN STATES, HE WAS DOING REALLY WELL
IN TENNESSEE EARLIER TONIGHT. NOW, WITH ABOUT 53% OF THE VOTE
IN, WE VIEW FEEL CONFIDENT ENOUGH TO CALL THE STATE OF
TENNESSEE FOR JOE BIDEN. NOW, THERE ARE 64 DELEGATES AVAILABLE
IN
THE STATE,
AND ANYTHING I WOULD LIKE TO MENTION, BIDEN HAS 35% OF THE
VOTE, WHICH IS AN AWFUL LOT. HE'S GOING TO GET A LARGE NUMBER
OF DELEGATES HERE TONIGHT. HE WILL BE THE ONLY PERSON TO PULL
DELEGATES OUT OF THE STATE. WE'VE GOT BERNIE SANDERS HERE
REPRESENTED IN THIS BEAUTIFUL PINK AND PURPLE COLOR. HE'S
WINNING THE SUBURBS OF NASHVILLE, DOING REALLY WELL IN
KNOXVILLE, WHICH IS A UNIVERSITY TOWN. AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE MIKE
BLOOMBERG, WHO'S GOT WINS IN A HANDFUL OF PLACES HERE. HE SPENT
A LOT OF MONEY IN TENNESSEE, BOUGHT A LOT OF ADS, AND HE
SITTING AT 18% OF THE VOTE. IT WAS ELIZABETH WARREN WHO DOES
NOT HAVE A SINGLE COUNTY TO HER NAME HERE IN TENNESSEE. SHE IS
AT 9% OF THE VOTE. SHE IS SHORT OF THE THRESHOLD AND PROBABLY
WON'T PICK UP ANY DELEGATES IN THE STATE TONIGHT. THIS IS WHAT
WE GOT FROM TENNESSEE. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH JEREMY. I
WANT TO GET YOUR REACTION TO THE STATE OF TENNESSEE AND WHAT
HAPPENED TO YOU. >> THIS IS A STATE MIKE
BLOOMBERG THOUGHT HE MIGHT BE ABLE TO WIN. THIS IS ONE OF THE
STATES THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT. IT'S NOT SURPRISING, IT ISN'T
REALLY SANDERS COUNTRY. BUT IT'S NOT, THIS ISN'T A
DIVERSE STATE. IT JUST SHOWS WHAT A PROBLEM BERNIE SANDERS
HAS IN THE SOUTH. TENNESSEE REALLY UNDERSCORES THAT.
>> THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT. I AM JUST
SO STRUCK BETWEEN THE PARALLELS FROM THIS YEAR AND 2016, IN PART
BECAUSE REGISTERING TO SEE THE SOUTHERN STATES STICKING
WITH THE LARGE BLACK POPULATION STARTING TO VOTE. IT'S JUST
SHOCK, AND 2016, WHAT WE SAW AS BERNIE SANDERS AND HILLARY
CLINTON WENT HEAD TO HEAD IN THE FIRST EARLY CONTESTS AND HILLARY
CLINTON PULLED AWAY, THANKS TO SOUTHERN STATES. SANDERS COULD
NEVER CATCH UP, THAT DEFINED THAT RACE FOR THE REST OF THE
YEAR. I WAS NOT EXCITING TO SEE THAT SAME TREND PLAY OUT THIS
YEAR, SIBLEY BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY CANDIDATES,
WHO KNEW? >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. STAY WITH
US FOR MORE COVERAGE OF SUPER TUESDAY FROM THE NEWSROOM OF THE
WASHINGTON POST. THERE WILL BE MORE POLLS
CLOSING SOON.
>> THROUGH THE AT&T NETWORK, AND INTELLIGENCE GIVES YOU THE POWER
TO SEE EVERY CORNER OF YOUR GROWING BUSINESS.
>> IN ORDER TO BE DONALD TRUMP, WE WILL BE THE LARGEST VOTER
TURNOUT IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.
>> IF HE IS THE CANDIDATE, WE WILL HAVE DONALD TRUMP FOR
ANOTHER FOUR YEARS. >> DEMOCRATS TAKE A HUGE RISK IF
WE JUST SUBSTITUTE ONE ARROGANT BILLIONAIRE
FOR ANOTHER. >> THE REAL ISSUE IS WHO CAN
BRING THE WHOLE PARTY TOGETHER AND REPRESENTS ALL OF THE REST
OF
THE PARTY.
>> A LOOK AT MINNESOTA STATE CAPITOL BUILDING IN ST. PAUL.
ARCHITECTURE INSPIRED BY ST. PETER'S BASILICA IN ROME. POLLS
CLOSE THEIR IN MINNESOTA,
AND ABOUT 30 MINUTES. WELCOME TO LIVE COVERAGE FROM "THE
WASHINGTON POST," I'M LIBBY CASEY. IT'S NOW 9:30 ON THE EAST
COAST. WE ARE STARTING TO GET A CLEARER PICTURE OF HOW THIS
NIGHT IS DEVELOPING. LET'S RECAP THE BIG HEADLINES AT THIS HOUR.
JOE BIDEN IS HAVING A GOOD NIGHT. HE IS PREDICTED TO WIN
TENNESSEE, VIRGINIA,
NORTH CAROLINA, AND ALABAMA. A LOT OF SOUTHERN STATES DRINK.
BERNIE SANDERS IS PROJECTED TO WIN HIS HOME STATE OF VERMONT.
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG HAS PURCHASED ANOTHER $7 MILLION IN ADS TO RUN
THIS WEEK IN POST-SUPER TUESDAY STATES. LET'S LOOK AT THE
BIG PICTURE, THE POST'S JEREMY BAUER IS TRACKING THE NUMBERS
FOR US. JEREMY, TELL US MORE ABOUT THE STATE OF THE DELEGATE
RACE. >> WHAT WE'VE GOT
HERE IS REPRESENTATIVE OF WHAT YOU ARE SEEING ACROSS THAT MAP
ALL NIGHT LONG. JOE BIDEN, WHO WAS BEHIND BERNIE SANDERS COMING
INTO TONIGHT HAS WE'VE GOT AHEAD, HE'S GOT 135 DELEGATES
AND HE'S DOING EXTREMELY WELL FOR HIMSELF. BERNIE SANDERS IS
IN SECOND PLACE IN 94 DELEGATES, AND IT'S LOOKING A LITTLE BIT
LIKE A TWO CANDIDATE RACE. YOU
STILL HAVE PETE BUTTIGIEG IN THIRD PLACE WITH 26 DELEGATES,
I'D LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT WHEN THE RESULTS FROM CALIFORNIA COME
IN, WE ARE PROBABLY GOING TO SEE SOME
>> VOTES AND IT'S POSSIBLE HE'S EVEN GOING TO PICK UP A HANDFUL
OF DELEGATES. PERHAPS AN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT WHERE HE
DOES PARTICULARLY WELL, IN THE EARLY VOTE. TRAILING AT THE VERY
BOTTOM HERE, ELIZABETH WARREN AND
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG. MICHAEL BLOOMBERG IS BUYING A LOT OF
ADS, WAS HOPING TO DO WELL ON SUPER TUESDAY. HE HAS SHOWN UP
OCCASIONALLY ON OUR MAP, BUT HE'S NOT WINNING DELEGATES AS
WELL AS WE THOUGHT HE MIGHT BE. HE IS STAYING AHEAD OF THAT 50%
THRESHOLD AND A HANDFUL OF RACES WHICH MIGHT NET HIM A FEW
DELEGATES. THE VERY WORST ELIZABETH WARREN, WHO HAS HAD A
ROUGH NIGHT. SHE SITTING AT NINE DELEGATES, AND WE WERE REALLY
EXPECTING TO SEE MORE OUT OF THE CAMPAIGN TONIGHT, IF THEY WANTED
TO STAY AFLOAT. THEY JUST HAVEN'T BEEN MANY PLACES REALLY
STRENGTHS FOR HER TONIGHT. >> WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR
WARREN'S FUTURE IN THE RACE, JEREMY?
>> WARREN ISN'T DOING PARTICULARLY WELL, BUT A THING
THAT MEANS FOR OTHER CANDIDATES IS THAT
THE DELEGATES
, THE DELEGATE MATH GETS EASIER FOR THEM. THINK ABOUT IT THIS
WAY, IN PLACES WHERE WAS A THREE CANDIDATE RACE, MAYBE WARREN,
SANDERS, AND BIDEN, NOW IT'S GOING DOWN TO JUST THE TWO
CANDIDATE RACE. THE PLACES WHERE WAS A FOUR CANDIDATE RACE,
WARREN AND BLOOMBERG, AND SANDERS AND BIDEN, NOW JUST A
THREE CANDIDATE RACE. THIS MEANS THAT ENTIRE POT OF DELEGATES WAS
GOING TO GET SPLIT BETWEEN THREE OR FOUR DELEGATES IS NOW TWO OR
THREE CANDIDATES. THAT'S GOING TO MEET AN AWFUL LOT OF EXTRA
DELEGATES FOR FOLKS. THE OTHER REAL QUESTION THAT I HAVE IS
ABOUT WHERE THOSE DELEGATES ARE GOING TO GO. ELIZABETH WARREN
REPRESENTS THE MORE PROGRESSIVE WING OF THE PARTY, SHE COULD BE
PULLING DELEGATES AWAY FROM FOLKS LIKE BERNIE SANDERS. SHE'S
DEFINITELY PULLING AWAY FOLKS. FOR MORE ABOUT THOSE VOTES, AND
WHAT WARREN HAS
BEEN DOING IN HER HOME STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, LET'S TALK TO
LENNY BRONNER. LENNY, YOU HAVE ANY INSIGHTS FOR US TONIGHT?
>> WHAT I THINK IS QUITE INTERESTING IN MASSACHUSETTS,
ELIZABETH WARREN IS TAKING VOTES AWAY FROM BERNIE SANDERS. IF WE
COMPARE THE PLACES IN WHICH BERNIE SANDERS DID WELL IN 2016
AND COMPARE THOSE TWO PLACES IN WHICH ELIZABETH WARREN IS DOING
WELL IN MASSACHUSETTS THIS TIME AROUND, WE CAN APPROXIMATE
SHE'S GETTING MORE THAN 30% OF THE VOTE HE HAD GOTTEN.
>> THAT'S FASCINATING. ONE OF THE THINGS YOU MENTIONED TO ME
WHEN WE WERE TALKING EARLIER IS THAT EVEN THOUGH IT LOOKS LIKE
IT'S REALLY A BIDEN SANDERS RACE AT THE TOP, IT'S POSSIBLE THAT
ELIZABETH WARREN HAS MORE VOTES, WE JUST HAVE ACCOUNTED YET. IS
THAT ONE OF THE THINGS YOU ARE SEEING HERE.
>> WHAT DOES STRIKE US, IT SEEMS JOE BIDEN WILL BE DOING QUITE
WELL TONIGHT, WE CAN SEE THAT IN THE RESULTS GOING IN. I THINK
THE RACE FOR SECOND PLACE AS IN QUITE DECIDED YET. AT THE
MOMENT, LOOKS LIKE BERNIE SANDERS IS AHEAD,
IT SEEMS LIKE HE WILL KEEP THE LEAD BUT IT'S FAR FROM OVER
THERE. >> THESE ARE THE THINGS WE'RE
KEEPING AN EYE ON FOR YOU IN THE STUDIO, LIBBY.
>> I WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME NOW DAVID WEILER TO OUR SET, THANKS
FOR BEING HERE. LET'S STICK WITH HIS WORN QUESTION FOR
A SECOND.
WHAT ARE YOU READING, IN ADDITION, TALKING ABOUT TERMS OF
WAR AND NOT BEING ABLE TO HIT THE THRESHOLDS?
>> THE THRESHOLD FOR AN ALL-IMPORTANT PART OF THIS
PROCESS. IF WORN DOES NOT HAVE THE THRESHOLD, THEN SHE IS NOT
ABLE TO GET DELEGATES IN A CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT IN A
GIVEN STATE, AND HER PRE-ELECTION POLLS, USING HER
VOTERS
ARE MIXED AND VARIED FROM STATE TO STATE. SOMETIMES THEY ARE A
MIX OF PROGRESSIVES YOU MIGHT EXPECT IN SANDER'S CAMP, IN
TIMES ESTABLISHING FRIENDLY VOTERS WHO ARE FOR CLINTON
LAST TIME, IT'S AN INTERESTING THING BECAUSE SOME OF THOSE ARE
BEING CAPTURED AND AREN'T GOING TO SANDERS. IT'S NOT THIS CLEAN
OF A BREAK, AT LEAST IN THE PRE-ELECTION POLL AS ONE MIGHT
HAVE THOUGHT. >> WHAT ABOUT THESE EARLY
VOTERS, PEOPLE WHO ALREADY WEIGHED IN BEFORE AMY KLOBUCHAR
DROPPED OUT, BEFORE PETE BUTTIGIEG DROPPED OUT, WHAT DO
WE KNOW? BEFORE BIDEN HAD HIS BIG SURGE IN SOUTH CAROLINA,
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT HOW THEY ARE IMPACTING
TONIGHT'S RESULTS? >> WHAT YOU ARE GENERALLY SEEING
IS IN SOME STATES WHERE THERE IS MORE EARLY VOTING OR A TRADITION
OF THE EARLY VOTE, YOU'VE GOT A LITTLE BIT OF BETTER RESULTS,
POTENTIALLY FOR SANDERS COMING IN. WITH THAT LAST PART YOU SAID
AT THE END OF YOUR QUESTION, ABOUT HAVING THE GIANT BIDEN
SURGE IS REALLY
REALLY IMPORTANT. BIDEN HAS CONVERTED A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO
USED TO BE IN THE CAMPS OF CANDIDATES WHO HAVE DROPPED OUT.
AND WHO USED TO BE IN THE CAMP OF SOMEONE LIKE MICHAEL
BLOOMBERG. I THINK WHEN YOU SEE CALIFORNIA, WHEN YOU SEE SOME OF
THESE OTHER LARGER STATES, COLORADO HAD A LOT OF EARLY
VOTING, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE BETTER RESULTS FOR SANDERS. BUT
YOU CAN REALLY SEE IN THE PEOPLE WHO SAID THEY DECIDED RECENTLY
THAT TITAN
REALLY GOT THE SURGERY WAS HYPED UP TO HAVE.
>> YOU SAID BIDEN HAS
THIS HUGE SURGE IN SOUTH CAROLINA. AS A DATA PERSON, WHY
DO YOU CALL IT A HUGE SURGE? IT'S NOT ONE STATE, IT DOES NOT
HAVE A HUGE DELEGATE COUNT. >> FOR A COUPLE REASONS, ONE YOU
CAN BENCHMARK WHAT A NORMAL AMOUNT OF MOVEMENT IN THE POLLS,
IN THE COURSE OF SEVEN DAYS BETWEEN NEVADA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA TYPICALLY IS. I DID HAD AN ABNORMAL SURGE. HE GAVE A LOT
OF VOTERS, AND HE GAVE THEM FAST, HE GAINED THE SUPPORT OF
JIM CLYBURN, AND HE THEN WENT ON TO EAT HIS POLLS WHERE HE IT
ALREADY GAINED ON ELECTION NIGHT.
HE SNOWBALLED FASTER THAN I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE EXPECTED
HIM TO. >> LET'S CHECK IN NOW WITH THE
SANDERS CAMPAIGN.
HI JOYCE. >> HEY LIBBY, WE ARE BACK HERE
WAITING FOR SANDERS
TO SPEAK,
ABOUT 30 MINUTES WE HEARD OF CAMPAIGN MANAGER TO SAY. I'M
HERE WITH NATIONAL POLITICAL REPORTER BOB COSTA. THANKS SO
MUCH FOR BEING WITH US. >> IT TO BE WITH YOU.
>> WHAT YOU MAKE IT TONIGHT RIGHT NOW? THERE'S SORT OF THIS
MOMENTUM FROM SOUTH CAROLINA, WHAT YOU MAKE OF THAT?
>> I WAS HERE IN VERMONT FOUR YEARS AGO WHEN SENATOR SANDERS
LOST THE CALIFORNIA PRIMARY AND BEGIN TO REASSESS HIS CAMPAIGN.
MEMBER WHAT SANDERS DID THEN, HE DECIDED TO CARRY ON THE FIGHT
THROUGH EVERY PRIMARY. BASED ON MY REPORTING, THE GODDESS OF
WHAT HAPPENS TONIGHT, EVEN IF ICE PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS A STRONG
EVENING,
MY GUESS FOR THE SANDERS CAMPAIGN THAT HE WILL CARRY ON
TO MICHIGAN, MISSOURI, AND LOOKING AT CALIFORNIA AS THE
PRICE TONIGHT FOR THEM. THAT'S THE STATE THEY ALWAYS TRIED TO
WIN AFTER LOSING IT IN 2016. >> ANOTHER HUGE STATE OTHER THAN
CALIFORNIA IS TEXAS, HE'S
HAD QUITE
A NIGHT IN TEXAS, TELL US ABOUT THAT.
>> SANDERS AND HIS CAMPAIGN OF TRYING TO LOOK AT TEXAS AS PART
OF A KNOCKOUT POND. IF HE CAN WITH CALIFORNIA AND TEXAS ON
SUPER TUESDAY, THAT WOULD BE A CRITICAL HOLD A MASSIVE
DELEGATES. TONIGHT, TO BE THE NOMINEE. BIDEN
WINS TAXES, THAT'S AND IF AT THIS POINT, WE ARE STILL
WATCHING RETURNS COME IN, THAT WOULD BE A PRETTY TOUGH TO BEAT
FOR 10 SENATOR SANDERS. BECAUSE SANDERS HAS PUT AN EMPHASIS ON
WINNING OVER LATINO VOTERS, RALLYING YOUNG VOTERS, BUT YOU
ARE SEEING SO MANY MODERATE DEMOCRATS NOW BECAUSE OF THE
WITHDRAWAL
OF BUTTIGIEG TO GET BEHIND BIDEN. SO FOR NOW, THE SANDERS
VIEW TALKING TONIGHT IS THAT THIS IS GOING TO BECOME A
STANDARD BIDEN RACE, IT'S GOING TO BE A LONG RACE, GO DEEP INTO
THE SPRING AND MAYBE EVEN THE SUMMER.
>> WHAT WOULD THE CONVENTION LOOK LIKE IF THAT'S THE CASE?
>> OF VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN IS ABLE TO RECORD MORE VICTORIES
LIKE HE DID TONIGHT IN PLACES LIKE NORTH CAROLINA AND
VIRGINIA, HE MAY HAVE A PLAUSIBLE SHOT AT GETTING THOSE
1991 DELEGATES HE NEEDS TO COME INTO THE CONVENTION AS A
NOMINEE. BUT IF SANDERS CAN WIN STATES LIKE WISCONSIN, WE ARE
LOOKING AT POTENTIALLY A CONTESTED CONVENTION, A
CONVENTION OR YOU HAVE
MULTIPLE BALLOTS. BUT THAT'S A LONG WAY AWAY, SANDERS SEEMED A
BIT STRONGER COMING OUT OF NEVADA CAUCUSES
LAST WEEK.
THAT WAS BACK, NOW IT'S MUCH MORE COLLOCATED WITH A
REVITALIZED JOE BIDEN. >> NOT ONLY DID JOE BIDEN DO
WELL IN SOUTH CAROLINA, BUT SHORTLY AFTER THAT WE SAW
BUTTIGIEG AND AMY KLOBUCHAR DROP OUT AND ENDORSE THEM, WHAT WERE
YOU HEARING FROM INSIDE THE SANDERS CAMP ABOUT THOSE
ENDORSEMENTS AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR HIS CANDIDACY?
>> THEY WERE SHOCKED AT THE CONSOLIDATION ON THE MODERATE
SIDE THAT CAME SO QUICKLY. THEY THOUGHT MAYBE BIDEN WOULD TAKE
THE TIME, THAT THEY WOULD WAIT UNTIL AFTER SUPER TUESDAY TO
DROP OUT. SO BECAUSE THEY DID IT BEFORE, THAT GAVE BIDEN ON
ENORMOUS
BOUNCE TONIGHT,
AND THE BIDEN PEOPLE AND SANDERS PEOPLE THOUGHT THERE WOULD BE
MUCH MORE HAPPENING AFTER SUPER TUESDAY. THE WHOLE CALENDAR WAS
MOVED UP POLITICALLY BECAUSE OF THOSE DECISIONS MADE BY THE
SENATOR, AND THE MAYOR. WHEN YOU'RE HERE IN THE SANDERS
RALLY, AS SOMEONE WHO IS COVERED BERNIE SANDERS FOR OVER 10
YEARS, USING WHAT THE MOVEMENT LEFT IN THIS COUNTRY, DESPITE
BEING DISAPPOINTED IN MANY CONTEST TONIGHT, THERE IS A
CERTAIN WING OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, A WING LED BY NOT ONLY
SENATOR SANDERS FOR REPRESENTATIVE ALEXANDER
OCASIO-CORTEZ, IF YOU LIKE YOU ARE GETTING A BIGGER FOOTHOLD IN
DEMOCRATIC POLITICS BY PUSHING FOR ISSUES LIKE MEDICARE FOR
ALL, LIKE IF YOU RECALL FOUR YEARS AGO, WHEN SENATOR SANDERS
STARTED TO RISE, ISSUES LIKE TO CARE FOR ALL, THE WORDS
DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM WERE SEEN AS
FRINGE IDEAS.
HIS CAMPAIGN, BOTH IN 2015 AND 2020 HAVE BROUGHT THOSE IDEAS
INTO THE DEMOCRATIC MAINSTREAM. SO WHEN OR LOSE BIG TONIGHT, ON
SUPER TUESDAY, WHEN OR LOSE THE NOMINATION, SANDERS IS GOING TO
BE REMEMBERED AS A FIGURE IN AMERICAN POLITICS WHO BROUGHT
HIS PARTY IN A NEW DIRECTION. ANYWAY, HE REMINDED ME,
HISTORICALLY, A BARRY GOLDWATER, WHO RAN IN 1964, DID NOT WIN THE
PRESIDENCY THE ONE THE NOMINATION OF HIS PARTY, MAKING
CONSERVATISM MUCH MORE OF THE CENTER OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
YOU SEE SANDERS REALLY MAKING A CASE TO DEMOCRATS
TO BRING HIS ISSUE TO THE FRONT, NOT JUST TO THINK ABOUT
ELECTABILITY. >> IN COVERING SANDERS FOR SO
MANY YEARS, HAVE
YOU SEEN A LEVEL OF CONFIDENCE CHANGE IN HIS IDEAS? HAS HE
ALWAYS FELT THIS WAY PRESENTED HIS IDEAS IN A WAY THAT A CROWD
HAS SUBMITTED TO OR AGREED WITH? >> YOU BECOME MORE CONFIDENT.
SOME OF THOSE BIG STATES, THE PARTY IN
HISTORY MOVED TO HIM. IF YOU THINK BACK, 39 YEARS AGO
TONIGHT, SANDERS WAS ELECTED MAYOR OF BURLINGTON, VERMONT BY
10 VOTES. HE WAS
AN OUTSIDER IN VERMONT POLITICS, HE COMES INTO THE OFFICE, HERE
IN BURLINGTON, HIS POLITICAL HOME. HE BECOMES THE DEMOCRATIC
SOCIALIST MAYOR, IT GETS ATTENTION
NATIONALLY. BUT
IN THE HOUSE AS AN INDEPENDENT, THEN IN THE SENATE, HE REALLY
HAS NOT BEEN TAKEN SERIOUSLY BY HIS OWN PARTY, BY THE UPPER
LEVEL OF AMERICAN POLITICS. BUT BECAUSE OF GLOBALIZATION, THE
IRAQ WAR, THE FRACTURING OF AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES, THE
FRACTURING OF AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES, YOU
SEE SANDERS THROUGH THOSE CRACKS, WALK THROUGH
IN 2016, GAIN NOTORIETY, GAIN RECOGNITION, AND NOW IN 2020,
HIS BUILDING ON WHAT HE STARTED IN 2016. BUT THE QUESTION IS
ALWAYS HOVERING OVER HIM, IS IT ENOUGH? HE HAS A MOVEMENT, NO
QUESTION THAT THIS IS A
MOVEMENT HERE OF WORKING PEOPLE, BUT IS THAT ENOUGH OF A
COALITION TO WIN THE NOMINATION OR THE WHITE HOUSE? THAT'S AN
OPEN QUESTION. >> WE WERE LOOKING AT HOW
SANDERS, CLUES TO HOW HE WOULD GOVERN AS AN EXECUTIVE, THE ONE
ROLE WE WOULD LOOK AT IS AS MALE ROLE IN BURLINGTON. I WAS HERE A
YEAR AGO TALKING TO PEOPLE THAT HAD SEEN HIS POLITICAL RISE AND
THEY SAID WHEN HE WAS ELECTED AS A SOCIALIST AS MAYOR OF
BURLINGTON, HE DID NOT GOVERN RADICALLY. IS THAT WHAT YOU SEEN
AS WELL WHAT YOU'VE HEARD FROM OTHERS TALKING TO THEM?
>> IF YOU TAKE A WALK AROUND CHURCH STREET, DOWNTOWN
BURLINGTON YOU SEE THIS IS NOT MOSCOW. IT SOMETIMES CALLED THE
DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC
OF BURLINGTON. YOU SEE, BURLINGTON HAS L.L. BEAN HERE.
IT HAS CORPORATE
OFFICES. SANDERS WAS THE ONE WHO ADVOCATED FOR SOCIALISM AS
MAYOR. HE WORKED WITHIN THE CONFINES OF
CAPITALISM AND DEMOCRATIC POLITICS. HE'S NO LONGER ALWAYS
TRYING TO GO TO THE EDGE IN HIS ADVOCACY, BUT AS A SENATOR, HE
IS WORKING WITH THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AS MAYOR. HE WORKED WITHIN
THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY IN BURLINGTON. HIS SUPPORT WHEN HE
WAS
FIRST ELECTED, WAS BY UNION MEMBERS. HE WOULD FIGHT FOR THEM
TO HAVE HIGHER WAGES. BUT WHAT'S SO FASCINATING, I WROTE ABOUT
THIS IN
THE POST,
IF SANDERS IS A MOVING POPULACE, VERY, VERY DIFFERENT FROM TRUMP.
I'M NOT TRYING TO SAY THEIR OVERLAPPING IDEAS, BUT MY POINT
IS
THEY HAVE PREACHED AGAINST THE ESTABLISHMENT POLITICALLY,
FINANCIALLY, CULTURALLY AT TIMES. IF YOU LIKE THEIR
OUTSIDERS THAT REPRESENT OUTSIDERS, AND THEY ARE BOTH
SPEAKING TO THIS REAL FRUSTRATION IN THE COUNTRY, SO
WHEN PEOPLE SAY SANDERS COULD NOT WIN, I NEVER PREDICTED THAT.
YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT COULD HAPPEN IN
AMERICAN POLITICS. >> BOB COSTA, TAKE YOU SO MUCH
FOR YOUR EXPERTISE. >> VICKI FOR TOLERATING ME
HAVING COFFEE. >> LIBBY, I WILL SEND THINGS
BACK TO YOU. >> THANKS SO MUCH JOYCE. WE GOT
OUR OWN COFFEE
HERE, OKAY. LET'S TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE REFLECTIONS WE HEARD
FROM ON THE GROUND AT THE SANDERS CAMP. YOU BEEN TRAVELING
SO MUCH AND
CATCHING SANDERS AND TALKING TO PEOPLE WHO ARE SUPPORTING HIM,
WHO ARE THINKING ABOUT WHETHER TO SUPPORT THEM AT THE POLLS. I
WANT YOU TO REFLECT ON WHAT HE HAD TO SHARE.
>> THE PARTIES ABSOLUTELY MOVED SANDERS WAY OVER THE LAST FOUR
YEARS. EARLIER WHEN HE WAS TALKING ABOUT HOW MUCH OF BERNIE
SUPPORT FOUR YEARS AGO CAME
FROM PEOPLE WHO DID NOT LIKE HILLARY CLINTON, THAT'S
ABSOLUTELY TRUE. REGISTERING THEIR OBJECTIONS TO HILLARY BY
VOTING FOR SANDERS WHO THEY DID NOT NECESSARILY AGREE WITH, BUT
IN A WAY, DONALD TRUMP IS RADICALIZED THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY. I WAS TALKING TO A TEXAN POLLSTER
YESTERDAY, THE ELECTORATE IN TEXAS HAVE BECOME MORE LIBERAL
SINCE TRUMP TOOK OFFICE ON A HOST OF ISSUES. IT'S IN RESPONSE
TO DONALD TRUMP. IN
MANY WAYS, YOU ACTUALLY DO RUN INTO VOTERS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY
WHO SUPPORTED CLINTON FOUR YEARS AGO WHO NOW SUPPORT SANDERS. FOR
SURE, TO THE PEOPLE WHO SUPPORTED SANDERS NOW SUPPORT
OTHER PEOPLE. BUT IT SPEAKS TO HOW EVEN IF HE'S NOT THE
NOMINEE, HE REALLY HAS TRANSFORMED THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY, THE FACT THAT IN TEXAS, OUR
EXIT POLLS
SHOW A MAJORITY OF VOTERS, A MAJORITY OF DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY
VOTERS IN TEXAS HAD A FAVORABLE IMPRESSION SOCIALISM, NOT
DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM, SOCIALISM. BIG GENERATIONAL GAP, UNDER 45
VERSES OVER 45. BUT THAT'S AMAZING, YOU WOULD NOT HAVE SEEN
THAT FOUR
YEARS AGO. THAT REMARKABLE SHIFT THAT HAS BEEN SPURRED BY SANDERS
WHO IN MANY WAYS HAS MAINSTREAMED IN MOBILIZED A LOT
OF CONCEPTS. >> I JUST WANT TO SAY
BERNIE SANDERS, THEY BEEN SPENDING THE LAST TWO YEARS
EDUCATING AMERICANS ABOUT THEIR IDEA OF SOCIALISM
LOOKS LIKE. THAT'S WHY I THINK WE ARE SEEING SOME PEOPLE SAY,
ACTUALLY, THIS LOOKS MORE LIKE THE AMERICA I WANT. WHAT'S BEEN
REALLY INTERESTING WE WERE TALKING EARLIER ABOUT, THE
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BACKING SOMEONE WHO SHARES HER IDEOLOGY,
VERSUS USING
A SELECTABLE. WE ARE SEEING SOME OF THE STATES WERE DEMOCRATS WHO
ARE SELF IDENTIFYING AS VERY LIBERAL STILL BACKING BIDEN,
BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE THAT BIDEN ULTIMATELY CAN BE TRUMP. IN THE
END, MORE SO THAN SANDERS. IT'S REALLY INTERESTING, I WOULD BE
FASCINATED TO SEE IN THE GENERAL, WHAT TYPE OF PLATFORM
BIDEN PUTS FORWARD THAT COULD APPEASE THESE VOTERS A
BIT MORE WHILE KEEPING SOME OF THE CONSERVATIVE, MORE MODERATE
VOTERS. >> WOMEN LOOK AT NEVADA AND THE
TURNOUT THERE, THE SYNERGY THAT BERNIE SANDERS WAS ABLE TO HAVE
THERE, WHAT DO YOU PARSE THROUGH THERE THAT MIGHT TIE INTO WHAT
YOU ARE
HEARING TONIGHT? >> I WAS IN THE RESULTS IN
NEVADA SHOWED BERNIE SANDERS HAD A LOT OF ENERGY WITH THE
ACTIVISTS. BUT THE ACTIVIST BASE IS NOT THE ENTIRETY OF THE
PARTY. THAT'S WHAT WE ARE SEEING IN THE RESULTS TONIGHT, A LOT OF
RANK-AND-FILE VOTERS CARE ABOUT ELECTABILITY, LIKE EUGENE AND
JAMES WERE SAYING. ANOTHER INTERESTING WRINKLE
IN THAT IS THAT IF YOU LOOK AT POLLING, YOU CAN ASK THE
QUESTION A COUPLE DIFFERENT WAYS, IT'S HARD TO PIN AN EXACT
NUMBER ON IT. A LOT OF DEMOCRATS, WHEN GIVEN THE CHOICE
BETWEEN GOING BACK TO THE POLICIES APPROACHING THE OBAMA
ERA OR MOVING TO THE LEFT, A LOT OF DEMOCRATS DO STILL CHOOSE THE
OBAMA ERA, IT'S OFTEN TIMES BLOOD. A LOT OF PEOPLE IN BOTH
CAMPS. I'M THINKING BIDEN IS PROBABLY ALSO BENEFITING FROM
THAT AS MUCH AS SANDERS HAS MOVED THE PARTY IN HIS
DIRECTION. >> WE'VE HEARD ABOUT BERNIE
BROSE OF COURSE, HERE AT "THE WASHINGTON POST" WE CAUGHT UP
WITH BERNIE
SANDERS ACTUAL BROKE, LARRY SANDERS. HE VOTED TODAY AND
THE DEMOCRATS A BROAD GLOBAL PRIMARY. LISTEN TO THAT THE
THING THE VOICE OF HIS, AS HE TALKED TO OUR COLLEAGUE, CARL
ADAM IN LONDON. >> THE RISK OF WAR, EITHER FROM
A JERK LIKE TRUMP OR FROM SOMEBODY LIKE BIDEN, CAUGHT UP
IN THIS WHOLE AMERICAN POLICE THE WORLD THING. I THINK THAT
BERNARD IS OUTSIDE
OF THAT,
HE'S PRACTICAL. WE DON'T NEED THOSE.
>> BERNIE SANDERS BROTHER WHO
VOTED TODAY. >> IT'S AMAZING, WITHOUT
REFLECT, IF JOE BIDEN BECOMES A NOMINEE, IF HE EMERGES OUT
OF THIS, WE KIND OF DO IT REFLECTIVELY NOW, JOE BIDEN IS
RUNNING ON A MORE LIBERAL PLATFORM THAT HILLARY CLINTON
DID. BECAUSE BERNIE SANDERS IS MOVE THE WINDOW, NOW WE ARE
TALKING ABOUT BIDEN AS IS MODERATE,
HEARING FROM SANDERS BROTHER IN LONDON, THAT'S GOING TO BE HARD
FOR APOLOGIES TO UNDO IN A GENERAL
ELECTION CONTEXT. BIDEN IS MORE TO THE MIDDLE THAN SANDERS. THAT
COULD WORK TO HIS ADVANTAGE. >> WE DO SEE THIS OPENING PERIOD
FOR PEOPLE
TO VOTE.
AS WE WATCH THAT HAPPEN OVER THE NEXT DAYS. LET'S GO BACK TO OUR
COLLEAGUE, JEREMY, AND THE ELECTION INSIGHTS TEAM. WE ARE
GETTING SOME FRESH RESULTS. IT'S HAPPENING IN AMY KLOBUCHAR'S
HOME STATE OF MINNESOTA? >> THAT'S A REALLY GOOD
QUESTION. ONE OF THOSE PLACES WE'VE BEEN WATCHING TONIGHT. AS
SHE DROPPED OUT OF THE LACE AND GAVE HER SUPPORT TO BIDEN, WE'VE
BEEN LOOKING TO
SEE MAYBE
MINNESOTA IS ONE OF THE PLACES WHERE WE CAN SEE THAT CONCRETE
ACTION START TO TAKE PLACE. WE ARE SEEING THAT LITTLE BIT IN
THE STATE OF MINNESOTA. THIS IS ONE OF THOSE PLACES WHERE BIDEN
IS HAVING A PRETTY GOOD NIGHT. HE'S GOT ABOUT 35% OF THE VOTE.
WITH ABOUT 21% OF THE VOTE IN, WE ARE LOOKING AT 75 DELEGATES
IN THE STATE OF MINNESOTA. BIDEN IS NOT GOING TO WIN ALL OF
THOSE, HE IS GOING TO GIVE UP A HANDFUL TO BERNIE SANDERS. MORE
THAN A HANDFUL, REALLY. THE
TRUTH IS THIS IS LOOKING MORE AND MORE LIKE A TWO CANDIDATE
RACE. ALTHOUGH WE DO HAVE ELIZABETH WORN DOWN HERE AT 70%.
SHE'S GOING TO BE ABOUT THE DELEGATE THRESHOLD WHICH MEANS
SHE WILL GET SOMETHING OUT OF MINNESOTA. THE THING THAT LITTLE
MORE DIFFICULT TO SAY ABOUT
THIS IS EVEN IF BIDEN HOLDS ON TO A WIN IN THE STATE, DOESN'T
MATTER IN THE CASE WHERE HE WAS 35% OF THE VOTE IN BERNIE
SANDERS WINS 33? THAT MIGHT BE ONE DELICATE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
THE TWO OF THEM. THAT'S JUST NOT THAT MUCH. THAT'S ONE OF THE
CASES WHERE WINNING A STATE DOESN'T REALLY MEAN THAT MUCH IN
TERM OF THE DELEGATE MATH. >> I WOULD LOVE TO GET THE
RESPONSE OR OF JAMES ON THAT POINT THAT YOU ARE MAKING,
JEREMY. JAMES, EVEN IF THE DELEGATES ARE SPLIT, THAT STATE
MIGHT GET A BIG CHECKMARK FOR WHOEVER GETS THE MOST DELEGATES,
SO EVEN IF IT'S LIKE VERY CLOSE CALL, THEY BOTH WALK AWAY WITH A
NICE DELEGATE HALL, THAT BIG CHECKMARK, SO-AND-SO IS
THE WINNER, THAT HELPS WITH MOMENTUM, RIGHT?
>> IT DOES HELP WITH THE CONVERSATION. ULTIMATELY, WHAT
MATTERS
THE MOST
IN 2008 THERE WERE A BUNCH OF NIGHTS WE CALLED HILLARY CLINTON
THE WINNER AND SHE WON. BUT THE OBAMA FOLKS WERE MORE
SOPHISTICATED ABOUT PULLING DELEGATES. ON ELECTION NIGHT IN
2008, HILLARY CLINTON DID WHEN TEXAS BUT BARACK OBAMA ENDED UP
GETTING THE MOST DELEGATES OUT OF TEXAS. THAT MATTERED BECAUSE
IT WAS CLOSE GOING INTO THE CONVENTION IN DENVER THAT YEAR.
THIS YEAR, IF NO
ONE GETS A MAJORITY, THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT OF MESSAGING
AROUND WHO DESERVES TO BE THE NOMINEE, AND BEING ABLE TO SAY I
WON 27 STATES IS GOING TO MATTER. WHO GETS THAT CHECKMARK
IS
DEFINITELY SIGNIFICANT. >> EUGENE.
>> WE SEE THAT HAPPENING NOW IN THIS RACE IN WAYS WE DID IN
2016, BECAUSE THERE ARE MORE THAN TWO PEOPLE INVOLVED. SO
THAT CONVERSATION, THAT DEBATE IS GOING TO BE A LITTLE MORE
COMPLEX AND INTERESTING THAN IT WOULD HAVE BEEN JUST FOUR YEARS
AGO, WHEN PEOPLE HAD
THE CANDIDATES, RUNNING HAD AN EASIER ARGUMENT TO MAKE FOR WHY
THEY BELIEVE THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN CHOSEN AS A NOMINEE.
>> AS A DATA ANALYST, HOW DOES IT TRANSLATE TO BEING ABLE TO
SAY I WON THAT'S IT, WHETHER YOU GET TO TAKE HOME A CLEAN SWEEP
OF DELEGATES? >> IT MATTERS IN TERMS OF SMALL
DEMOCRATIC LEGITIMACY, LIKE EUGENE WAS SAYING, IN TERMS OF
MAKING SURE
YOU HAVE THE RIGHT IN THE EYES OF THE VOTERS TO TAKE THE
NOMINATION. IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE MAJORITY. THE THING I WOULD
SAY ABOUT MINNESOTA, THERE MAY ONLY BE ONE DELEGATE GAP, BUT
THE THING THAT STANDS OUT TO ME AS TIGHTNESS COMPETING AT ALL.
THIS IS NOT ONE OF THE MOST RACIALLY DIVERSE STATES ON THE
MAP, IT'S A STATE OR YOU WOULD THINK SOMEONE LIKE WARREN OR
SANDERS WOULD PUT IT AWAY EARLIER, THE FACT THAT HE'S
COMPETITIVE IS A VERY GOOD SIGN THAT HE IS REACHING OUT AND
BROADENING A COALITION, AND MAY HAVE AN
EASIER TIME GETTING THAT LEGITIMACY THAN WE THOUGHT A
WEEK AGO. >> WE HAVE ANOTHER RACE TO CALL,
HEARING FROM OUR ELECTIONS INSIGHTS TEAM THAT THERE IS
A DEVELOPMENT. WE ARE NOW READY TO CALL THE RACE IN COLORADO PER
"THE WASHINGTON POST" IS PROJECTING THAT BERNIE SANDERS
WILL WIN COLORADO. THE CENTENNIAL STATE, COLORADO HAS
67 DELEGATES AT STAKE TONIGHT. LET'S HEAD TO JEREMY BOWERS WITH
THE ELECTION INSIGHTS TEAM. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN, HOW DID WE
GET HERE?
>> TAKES A LOT FOR THAT. COLORADO IS ONE OF THE STATES
WHERE WE EXPECTED BERNIE SANDERS TO DO PRETTY WELL. I CAN TELL
YOU, THE THING ABOUT THIS DATE IS NOT THE BERNIE SANDERS IS
GOING TO WIN IT. HE IS, CONGRATULATIONS TO SENATOR
SANDERS, WITH LESS THAN 10% OF 40, WE ARE READY TO CALL IT. THE
THING IS, IT SHOWS WE HAVE FOR CANDIDATES ABOVE THE DELEGATE
THRESHOLD IN THE STATE. WE HAVE THREE DIFFERENT CANDIDATES WHO
ARE AHEAD IN ONE COUNTY. YOU ARE SEEING SANDERS HERE IN THE
PURPLE, YOU CAN SEE HE'S GOT WINDS ALL OVER THE STATE. HE'S
WINNING IN COUNTIES THAT ARE CITIES, SOME COUNTY FEDERAL,
HE'S DOING QUITE WELL. IN SURPRISE SECOND PLACE, RIGHT NOW
WE HAVE MAYOR MIKE BLOOMBERG WHO WAS WINNING A PAIR OF SMALLER
COUNTIES OFF TO THE SIDE. WE ARE ALSO LOOKING AT JOE BIDEN, WE
KEEP TAKING HIM TO DO A LITTLE BIT BETTER IN SOME OF THESE
URBAN AREAS. THERE ARE STILL A LOT OF VOTES OUTSTANDING FOR
HIM. DOWN AT
THE BOTTOM AND FOURTH PLACE WE HAVE ELIZABETH WORN. THAT
FOURTH-PLACE IS NOT GREAT, BUT IT IS ABOUT THE DELEGATE
THRESHOLD WHICH MEANS SHE WILL PICK UP AT LEAST A HANDFUL OF
THE 67 DELEGATES THAT ARE AVAILABLE IN THE STATE TONIGHT.
THAT'S WHAT I'VE GOT FOR YOU FROM
COLORADO. >>
THANK YOU SO MUCH. COLORADO, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR BERNIE
SANDERS, JAMES? >> IS BAD NEWS FOR ELIZABETH
WORN, THIS WAS THE QUINTESSENTIAL WARREN STATE, SHE
WITH THE RIGHT AFTER NEVADA. SHE HAD A HUGE RALLY IN DENVER. SHE
WENT TO DENVER SEVERAL TIMES. IT'S GOOD NEWS FOR SANDERS, HE
HAS TO WIN THE STATE TO STAY IN THE HUNT. THIS IS HIS
DEMOGRAPHIC. WE TALKED ABOUT HIS STRUGGLES WITH AFRICAN-AMERICANS
IN THE SOUTH, BUT SANDERS IS IMPROVING HIS 2016 MARGINS WITH
LATINOS. THAT
IS SIGNIFICANT. IN TEXAS, CLINTON BLEW HIM OUT IN 2016
WITH LATINOS. SANDERS, WINNING AMONG LATINOS TONIGHT, ACCORDING
TO THE EXIT POLLS IN COLORADO, THAT'S MAKING PART OF HIS
COALITION, SO IT
IS WELL AS THE NIGHT GOES ON, AND WE MOVED TO SOME OF THE
WESTERN STATES, AND ALSO WE HAVE UPCOMING PRIMARIES, THAT AFTER
NEXT WEEK IN MICHIGAN, THE NEXT
BIG PRIMARY IS THE FOLLOWING TUESDAY, I MIGHT BE GETTING THE
WEEKS CONFUSED. ARIZONA IS COMING UP. ARIZONA IS A BIG
STATE. IT'S ONE THAT SANDERS IS
COUNTING ON, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE A LOT OF THE CANDIDATES SPENDING
TIME THERE. GOOD NEWS
FOR SANDERS. >> IT DOES HAVE, WE DO SEE THE
CANDIDATES SPREAD OUT ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO HIT SOMEBODY STATES
BUT WHEN THEY HAD THE CHANCE TO BE ABLE TO REALLY HIT
THE GROUND IN ONE PLACE, IT CAN BE VERY REVEALING. EUGENE, WHAT
YOU MAKE OF
THE SANDERS TEAM ABILITY TO MOBILIZE THE VOTE, SOMETHING WE
HAVE BEEN WORKING ON OVER THE LAST YEARS, WHAT'S YOUR TAKE
AWAY? >> THERE WAS AN EFFORT TO
IMPROVE THEIR STANDING WITH THE BLACK VOTERS. I THINK THE
SANDERS TEAM SAW THAT THERE WOULD BE MUCH MORE PROGRESS,
THEY HAD A BETTER CHANCE
AT IMPROVING IF THEY HAD TARGETED LATINO VOTERS WITH MORE
EMPHASIS, AND THEY HAVE. GETTING HIGH-PROFILE SURROGATES LIKE
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ, WHO IS REALLY POPULAR WITH THE LATINO
VOTERS. AND TALK TO YOUNG VOTERS, VOTERS WHO ARE REALLY
CONCERNED ABOUT ISSUES RELATED TO
IMMIGRATION STATUS,
HEALTH CARE, AFFORDABLE EDUCATION, HOUSING, HE REALLY
CONNECTED WITH LATINO VOTERS ON THE AREAS THAT REALLY MATTERED
THE MOST TO THEM. AND WE SEE A TURNOUT, WE SELECT TO
BE VERY EFFECTIVE, I THINK THAT SOMETHING IS GOING TO KEEP
TRYING TO DO. IT'S GOING TO BE REALLY INTERESTING TO SEE HOW
EFFECTIVE THAT IS, BEYOND THE STATES WE HAVE
ALREADY SEEN, BECAUSE SINCE IS NOT POPULAR WITH LATINOS, WE
KNOW IT'S A VERY
DIVERSE GROUP. EVERYONE IS GOING TO BE WATCHING FLORIDA TO SEE
WHAT HAPPENS. >> DAVID, WHAT DO YOU READ FROM
THE DATA OUT OF COLORADO SO FAR? >> NOTHING YOU WOULDN'T EXPECT.
THAT'S THE QUICK SUMMARY. THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A GOOD CENTER
STATE HIS MAP GETS BETTER AS YOU
MOVE WEST, WE ARE SEEING ABOUT WHAT WE WOULD EXPECT AHEAD OF
TIME. >> THANK YOU, NEXT TO ALL OF MY
GUESTS AT THE TABLE. NATIONAL POLITICAL REPORTER JAMES
HELLMAN, EUGENE SCOTT, AND DATA ANALYSTS, GREAT TO BE WITH ALL
OF YOU. MORE RESULTS TO, AS COUNSELING, SO STAY WITH "THE
WASHINGTON POST," LIVE COVERAGE OF
SUPER TUESDAY.
>> I'M LILLIAN CUNNINGHAM, I'VE WORKED IN THE POST FROM THE
DECADE AND
>>>
IT WAS PURE COINCIDENCE THAT THE 3 STATES WERE ALL HAVING THE
PRIMARIES ON THAT SAME DAY. >> THE REPORTER REFERRED TO IT
AS SUPER TUESDAY BECAUSE GERALD FORD AND RONALD REAGAN WERE KIND
OF NECK AND NECK FOR THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION AND THIS
WAS THE LAST DAY WHERE IT FELT LIKE THESE BIG DELICATE RICH
STATES WERE GOING TO CAST THERE VOTES AND HELP FIGURE OUT WHO
THE NOMINEE WOULD BE. SO IT WAS A SUPER IMPORTANT TUESDAY.
>>> POLLS ARE CLOSING AT THIS HOUR IN UTAH. 29 DELEGATES ARE
AT STAKE AND WE ARE LOOKING AT THE SALT LAKE CITY GUIDELINES.
WELCOME TO LIVE COVERAGE'S FROM THE THE WASHINGTON POST.
IT IS NOW 10 PM ON THE EAST COAST AND SUPER TUESDAY IS
SHAPING UP SO FAR TO BE A BIG NIGHT FOR JOE BIDEN. FIRST, A
WESTERN WIN FOR BERNIE SANDERS WHO WE ARE PROJECTING WILL WIN
COLORADO. WE CAN NOW PROJECT THAT JOE BIDEN WILL WIN A HOST
OF SOUTHERN STATES INCLUDING TENNESSEE, THE 64 DELEGATES AND
THAT STAYS ON EXIT POLL RESULTS. WE CAN ALSO PROTECT JOE BIDEN
WILL WIN NORTH CAROLINA WITH 110 DELEGATES AT STAKE. JOE BIDEN
ALSO PROJECTED TO WIN ALABAMA WITH 52 DELEGATES AT STAKE THERE
AND BIDEN WILL WIN VIRGINIA, 99 DELEGATES IN PLAY IN VIRGINIA.
TO BREAK DOWN THE NUMBERS FURTHER, LET'S GO TO ELECTION
INSIGHT TEAM AND THE
POST'S JEREMY BOWERS. WE ARE APPROACHING THE HALFWAY POINT IN
THE EVENING. IS IT SHAPING UP AS
PREDICTED? >> THEY ARE SHAPING UP A LITTLE
LIKE WE EXPECTED. THE EAST COAST AND THE SOUTH HAVE BEEN VERY
STRONG FOR JOE BIDEN TONIGHT AS YOU MENTIONED AND YOU CAN SEE IT
IN THOSE RACE CALLS. HE HAS BEEN REALLY GOOD IN PLACES LIKE
VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA. HE HAS SHOWN STRENGTH IN PLACES
LIKE TENNESSEE AND ALABAMA BUT NONE OF THESE PLACES WERE PLACES
WE DID NOT THINK HE WOULD DO WELL. ADDITIONALLY, WE HAVE BEEN
SEEING SOME SANDERS STRENGTH IN PLACES LIKE OUT HERE AND
COLORADO WHERE HE IS WINNING, WE HAVE ALREADY PROJECTED THEM TO
WIN THE STATE BUT ADDITIONALLY WE HAVE SEEN HIM DO WELL IN
PLACES LIKE TEXAS. NOW TEXAS IS A REALLY INTERESTING PLACE THAT
HAS A LOT OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF VOTERS. LET'S TALK TO LENNY
BRONNER, OUR SENIOR DATA SCIENTIST. IS THERE ANYPLACE
THAT JUMPS OUT AT YOU IN THIS STATE WHERE SANDERS IS ALREADY
DOING WELL? >> TARRANT COUNTY WHERE WE
ACTUALLY JUST WROTE A STORY ON AND THE THING THAT IS
INTERESTING THERE IS THE
REGISTRATION OF HISPANICS IS PARTICULARLY HIGH. NEW
REGISTRATION HAS GOING UP ACROSS THE STATE, 5% ACROSS THE STATE
WHICH IS 2% HIGHER THAN THE NEW REGISTRATION AMONGST AMERICANS
AS A WHOLE BUT HISTORY MANIC HISPANIC REGISTRATION IN TARRANT
COUNTY IS 6 1/2% WHICH IS PARTICULARLY HIGH. MAKE THESE
ARE THE INSIGHTS WE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO KEEP AN EYE ON. AS
MORE AND MORE RACES, AND WE WILL BRING YOU THE INSIDE INFORMATION
AS WE CAN. FOR NOW, LIBBY? >> LET'S TALK ABOUT MICHAEL
BLOOMBERG. HE SPENT A LOT OF MONEY RUNNING UP
TO TONIGHT. IS THAT BEING REFLECTED ON THE BOARD TONIGHT?
>> THERE ARE A LOT OF PLACES WHERE BLOOMBERG IS DOING
SURPRISINGLY WELL. IT'S A GOOD THING I HAD TEXAS ON THE MAP
ALREADY. EVEN THOUGH BLOOMBERG IS NOT WINNING THIS STAKE HIM HE
IS IN THIRD PLACE WHICH MEANS HE IS IN LINE TO GET SOME DELEGATES
AND THIS IS THE SANDERS STATE IN WHICH BLOOMBERG IS DOING
PARTICULARLY WELL BUT IT'S NOT LIKE HE'S DOING WELL ONLY WHERE
PLACES WHERE BERNIE SANDERS IS DOING WELL. PLACES LIKE
TENNESSEE, HE IS IN THIRD PLACE AND HAS 17% OF THE VOTES THERE
WHICH MEANS IS GOING TO GET SOME DELEGATES AND AGAIN, IN ANOTHER
SANDERS STRONGHOLD IN COLORADO, WE ARE SEEING THAT HE HAS SECOND
PLACE WITH 23% OF THE VOTE AND THAT'S GOING TO BE A SIGNIFICANT
NUMBER OF THE 67 DELEGATES THAT GO TO HIM. THIS IS THE PATTERN
WE ARE SEEING OUT OF BLOOMBERG TONIGHT. HE IS NEVER REALLY IN
FIRST PLACE WITH THE EXCEPTION OF AMERICAN SAMOA WHERE HE DID
QUITE WELL. IT IS THAT HE IS CONSTANTLY COMING IN SECOND AND
THIRD AND THAT IS GOING TO MAKE REALLY DIFFICULT DELICATE MATTER
-- DELEGATE MAP RELATER. HE IS DEFTLY PULLING VOTES AWAY FROM
OTHER CANDIDATES? >> I WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME BACK
MY DEATH JUST IN THE STUDIO, NATIONAL REPORTER JAMES HOMAN
AND DAVE RIVAL, THE NEWSLETTERS I VALLEY MY VALUE MY MOST, LET'S
TALK ABOUT THE ROLE THAT MICHAEL BLOOMBERG IS PLAYING RIGHT NOW.
IT IS OBVIOUS HE WOULD BE PULLING VOTES AWAY FROM JOE
BIDEN BUT WHAT YOU THINK? >> THEY WERE DEFINITELY
COMPETING FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN THE SOUTH AND IT SEEMS LIKE
BIDEN WON THAT ARGUMENT. THEN I THINK THEY WERE COMPETING FOR
KIND OF THE COLLEGE-EDUCATED MODERATE SUBURBAN WHITE THAT
WERE SO
IMPORTANT TO THE PARTIES GAINS IN 2017. IF JOE BIDEN HAD LOST
IN SOUTH CAROLINA THIS WOULD BE A DIFFERENT NIGHT. LAST WEEK IT
PLAY OUT DIFFERENTLY. I THINK BLOOMBERG WOULD BE GETTING A LOT
OF THESE VOTES THAT ARE KIND OF BREAKING BIDEN'S WAY IN THE TWIN
CITIES SUBURBS OR THE DENVER SUBURBS OR THE HOUSTON AND
DALLAS SUBURBS LIKE TARRANT COUNTY THAT WE WERE JUST HEARING
ABOUT . >> SO WE HAVE ANOTHER RACE TO
ALSO HOLD THAT THOUGHT. OUR ELECTIONS INSIDE TEAM HAS AN
UPDATE. >>> WE ARE NOW READY TO CALL THE
RACE IN OKLAHOMA. THE WASHINGTON POST IS PROJECTING JOE BIDEN
WILL WIN OKLAHOMA. THE SOONER STATE. THE STATE HAS 37
DELEGATES
AT STAKE. JEREMY BOWERS, THE ELECTIONS INSIDE TEAM CAN GIVE
US MORE ON WHAT IS HAPPENING. JEREMY?
>> HEY, LIBBY, GOOD TO TALK TO YOU AGAIN. WE HAVE THE STATE OF
OKLAHOMA AND LIKE YOU MENTIONED, WE HAVE 37 DELEGATES AND WE
PROJECT NOW THAT THE WINNER OF THE STATE IS GOING TO BE JOE
BIDEN. HE HAS BEEN DOING WELL IN SOUTHERN STATES LIKE I MENTIONED
BEFORE. HE DID WELL ON THE EAST COAST. THIS IS A DIFFERENT KIND
OF STATE FOR HIM AND YOU CAN SEE IT IS A LITTLE MORE OF A
PATCHWORK INSTEAD OF THE BIG BLOCK OF WHITE AND BLUE. WE ARE
SEEING A LITTLE BIT OF SANDERS, A LITTLE BIT OF BLOOMBERG BUT
THAT IS WHAT WE HAVE FOR NOW, LIBBY. AS WE GET MORE WE WILL
BRING IT TO YOU. >> GREAT, THANKS SO MUCH,
JEREMY. BERNIE SANDERS IS TAKING THE STAGE IN VERMONT IN FRONT OF
HIS SUPPORTERS SO LET'S GO LIVE TO BERNIE SANDERS.
>> THANK YOU, VERMONT! >> YAY!
>> YOU KNOW, IT IS A FUNNY THING. 31 YEARS AGO, TODAY, WE
WON THE MAYORAL RACE IN BURLINGTON, VERMONT.
>> -- >> AND WE WON THAT RACE AGAINST
ALL OF THE ODDS. EVERYBODY SAID IT COULDN'T BE DONE!
>> -- >> AND WHEN WE BEGIN THIS RACE
FOR THE PRESIDENCY, EVERYBODY SAID IT COULDN'T BE DONE.
BUT TONIGHT, I TELL YOU WITH ABSOLUTE CONFIDENCE, WE ARE
GOING TO WIN THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION!
AND WE ARE GOING TO DEFEAT THE MOST DANGEROUS PRESIDENT IN THE
HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY!
WE ARE GOING TO WIN
>> BERNIE! BERNIE! BERNIE! BERNIE!
>> WE ARE GOING TO WIN
. WE ARE GOING TO DEFEAT TRUMP BECAUSE WE ARE PUTTING TOGETHER
AN UNPRECEDENTED GRASSROOTS MULTIGENERATIONAL MULTIRACIAL
MOVEMENT.
IT IS A MOVEMENT WITH SPEAKS TO THE WORKING FAMILIES OF THIS
COUNTRY WHO ARE SICK AND TIRED OF WORKING LONGER HOURS FOR LOW
WAGES AND SEEING ALL NEW INCOME AND WEALTH GOING TO THE TOP 1%.
IT IS A MOVEMENT WHICH SAYS THE UNITED STATES WILL HAVE
HEALTHCARE FOR ALL AS A HUMAN RIGHT.
IT IS A MOVEMENT THAT SAYS WE WILL BRING MAJOR REFORMS IN
EDUCATION, MAKING SURE THAT ALL OF OUR KIDS CAN GO TO COLLEGE
WITHOUT COMING OUT IN DEBT!
NOW, WHAT MAKES THIS MOVEMENT UNIQUE IS WE ARE TAKING ON THE
CORPORATE ESTABLISHMENT.
WE ARE TAKING ON THE GREED OF WALL STREET.
THE GREED OF THE DRUG COMPANIES WHO CHARGE US THE HIGHEST PRICES
IN THE WORLD.
THE GREED OF THE INSURANCE COMPANIES. AND GIVEN THE
EXISTENTIAL CRISIS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, WE ARE SAYING TO THE
FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY,
WE ARE SAYING TO THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY, THERE SHORT-TERM
PROFITS ARE NOT MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRY
IN THE WORLD.
BUT WE ARE NOT ONLY TAKING ON THE CORPORATE ESTABLISHMENT, WE
ARE TAKING ON THE POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT.
BUT WE ARE GOING TO WIN BECAUSE THE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND IT IS OUR
CAMPAIGN, OUR MOVEMENT, WHICH IS BEST POSITIONED TO DEFEAT TRUMP.
YOU CANNOT BEAT TRUMP WITH THE SAME OLD SAME OLD KIND OF
POLITICS.
WHAT WE NEED IS A NEW POLITICS THAT BRINGS WORKING-CLASS PEOPLE
INTO OUR POLITICAL MOVEMENT.
WHICH BRINGS YOUNG PEOPLE INTO OUR POLITICAL MOVEMENT.
AND WHICH, IN NOVEMBER, WILL CREATE THE HIGHEST VOTER TURNOUT
IN AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY.
WE ARE GOING TO BE TRUMP BECAUSE THIS WILL BECOME A CONTRAST AND
IDEAS. ONE OF US IN THIS RACE LED THE OPPOSITION TO THE WAR IN
IRAQ. YOU ARE LOOKING AT HIM!
ANOTHER CANDIDATE VOTED FOR THE WAR IN IRAQ.
ONE OF US HAS SPENT HIS ENTIRE LIFE FIGHTING AGAINST CUTS IN
SOCIAL SECURITY, AND WANTING TO EXPAND SOCIAL SECURITY. ANOTHER
CANDIDATE HAS BEEN ON THE FLOOR OF THE SENATE, CALLING FOR CUTS
TO SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE, MEDICAID, AND VETERANS PROGRAMS.
ONE OF US LEAD THE OPPOSITION TO DISASTROUS TRADE AGREEMENTS
WHICH COST US MILLIONS OF GOOD PAYING JOBS. AND THAT IS ME.
AND ANOTHER CANDIDATE VOTED FOR DISASTROUS TRADE AGREEMENTS.
ONE OF US STOOD UP FOR CONSUMERS AND SAID WE WILL NOT SUPPORT A
DISASTROUS BANKRUPTCY BILL.
AND ANOTHER CANDIDATE REPRESENTED THE CREDIT CARD
COMPANIES AND VOTED FOR THAT DISASTROUS BILL. SO HERE WE ARE.
WE HAVE TWO MAJOR GOALS IN FRONT OF US. AND THEY ARE DIRECTLY
RELATED. FIRST, WE MUST BEAT A PRESIDENT WHO APPARENTLY HAS
NEVER READ THE CONSTITUTION. -- OF THE UNITED STATES.
A PRESIDENT WHO THINKS WE SHOULD BE AN AUTOCRACY, NOT A DEMOCRACY
BUT SECOND OF ALL, WE NEED A MOVEMENT
AND ARE DEVELOPING A MOVEMENT OF BLACK, WHITE LATINO NATIVE
AMERICAN ASIAN AMERICANAND STRAIGHT .
OF PEOPLE WHO ARE MAKING IT CLEAR EVERY DAY. THEY WILL NOT
TOLERATE THE GROTESQUE LEVEL OF INCOME AND WEALTH AND EQUALITY
WE ARE EXPERIENCING. WE WILL NOT
GIVE TAX BREAKS TO BILLIONAIRES ONE HALF 1 MILLION AMERICANS
SLEEP OUT ON THE STREETS. WE WILL NOT ALLOW 49% OF ALL NEW
AND
NEW INCOME TO GO TO THE ONE PERSON ONE HALF OF OUR PEOPLE
LIVING PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN LATER TONIGHT. WE ARE
DOING WELL IN TEXAS RIGHT NOW. WE WON COLORADO.
AND I AM CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC THAT LATER IN THE EVENING WE CAN
WIN THE LARGEST STATE IN THE COUNTRY, THE STATE OF
CALIFORNIA.
BUT NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS, IF THIS CAMPAIGN AND I DON'T KNOW
WHAT WILL HAPPEN, BUT IF IT COMES OUT TO BE A CAMPAIGN IN
WHICH WE HAVE 1
CANDIDATE WHO IS STANDING UP FOR THE WORKING CLASS AND THE MIDDLE
CLASS, WE ARE GOING TO WIN THAT ELECTION. AND IF WE HAVE ANOTHER
CANDIDATE WHO HAS RECEIVED CONTRIBUTIONS FROM AT LEAST
60 BILLIONAIRES, WE ARE GOING TO WIN THAT ELECTION. AND IF THERE
IS ANOTHER CANDIDATE IN THE RACE WHO IS SPENDING HUNDREDS AND
HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, WE ARE GOING TO TELL HIM, IN
AMERICA, YOU CANNOT BUY ELECTIONS.
SO I AM EXCITED ABOUT WHERE WE ARE. WE HAVE COME A LONG WAY.
AND I WANT TO, ONCE AGAIN, THANK THE GREAT STATE OF VERMONT AND
ALL OF THE PEOPLE IN THIS STATE.
NOT ONLY FOR THE VICTORY GAVE OUR MOVEMENT TONIGHT BUT FOR THE
YEARS AND YEARS OF LOVE AND SUPPORT YOU HAVE GIVEN ME AND MY
FAMILY.
SO VERMONT, VERMONT, BUM FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEARTS, THANK
YOU ALL VERY MUCH. LET'S GO ON TO THE WHITE HOUSE. THANK YOU!
>>
BERNIE SANDERS PROJECTING CONFIDENCE AS HE TALKS TO
SUPPORTERS OF VERMONT. LET'S GO BACK TO MY ELECTION TEAM. WHAT
MESSAGE
DOES BERNIE SANDERS NEED TO HEAD HOME TO SUPPORTERS AND PEOPLE
WHO MIGHT BE CONSIDERING VOTING FOR HIM?
>> HE SAID IT IS A TWO MAN RACE AND HE LAID OUT KIND OF A DOZEN
DIFFERENT CONTRASTS BETWEEN HIM AND JOE BIDEN. I THINK THEY
THINK THAT THE FIELD WILL 10 DOWN TOMORROW AND THEY EXPECT
PEOPLE TO DROP AND ALL OF A SUDDEN IT WILL BE ON TRADE ON
THE IRAQ WAR, ON SOCIAL SECURITY, ON THE BANKRUPTCY BILL
AND CREDIT CARD INDUSTRY AND THAT THAT SETS UP KIND OF A
LIBERAL VERSUS MODERATE CONTRAST . THAT, I THINK, IS WHAT SANDERS
WANTS TO COME AWAY WITH FROM HIS SPEECH.
>> DAVE? >> THAT IS CORRECT AND HE WAS
ATTACKING
BIDEN A MONTH AGO ON SOCIAL SECURITY. THEY DROPPED THAT.
THEY WERE VERY UNFOCUSED IN SOUTH CAROLINA AND DID NOT KNOW
QUITE WHAT TO DO AND FRANKLY UNDERESTIMATED BIDEN. THEY ARE
BACK TO THAT MESSAGE. I THINK THE STRUCTURAL PROBLEM FOR
SANDERS TONIGHT AS HE KEEPS OVERRATING HIS OWN POPULARITY. I
DON'T BLAME HIM, I MIGHT DO THE SAME THING BUT HE, FOR EXAMPLE,
IN OKLAHOMA, VOTES ARE STILL COMING IN THE EXIT POLLS AND
THAT WAS MEALS SO MUCH OF THE SANDERS TEAM WITH WERE PEOPLE
THAT JUST DIDN'T LIKE HILLARY CENTER HILLARY CLINTON. ONE
VOTED
SAID THEY WERE MODERATE CONSERVATIVES AND TONIGHT HE
LOST THEM TO JOE BIDEN BY 28 POINTS. NOT JUST THAT HE RAN
BEHIND MIKE BLOOMBERG AMONG VOTERS THAT SAID THEY ARE
MODERATE AND CONSERVATIVE. VIRGINIA, ANOTHER GREAT EXAMPLE,
THAT IS MOSTLY DONE, TURNOUT WILL PROBABLY DOUBLE BUT IT DID
IN 2016 AND ONE REFRAIN YOU HEARD FROM SANDERS THAT YOU
ALWAYS HERE IS IF THERE IS A HIGH VOTER TURNOUT, MORE PEOPLE
ARE EXCITED HE WILL WIN. THAT HAS NOT BEEN THE CASE. WHAT
YOU'RE SEEING IS A COLLECTION OF ELECTED DEMOCRATS IN 2018 OF
SUBURBANITES AND FRANKLY NOT ALL OF THEM ARE NEW. THESE ARE
PEOPLE WHO VOTE IN EVERY ELECTION BUT DON'T USUALLY VOTE
IN THE MIDTERM OF THE PRIMARY. THEY ARE COMING OUT AND NOT
VOTING FOR HIMSELF THE WORRY FROM HIM COMING OUT TONIGHT, I
LIKE WHEN HE REALLY COULD NOT HAVE HAD A BETTER START UP IN
TEXAS OR CALIFORNIA WITH MORE THAN 1 MILLION VOTES IN EACH
STATE EARLY, HE LOST LATE TO SANDERS BADLY AND AND THOSE WHO
TRICKED HIM AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO HILLARY CLINTON LAST TIME .
>> EVEN THOUGH BERNIE SANDERS IS DOING BETTER AS HE MOVEDS WEST,
PEOPLE ARE TUNING IN AND WATCHING AND OBSERVING THE
WINNERS AND LOSERS AND MOMENT IN AND JOE BIDEN, JOE BIDEN, JOE
BIDEN, WILL SOME STRONG BERNIE SANDERS PERFORMANCES COME AFTER
PEOPLE ARE SORT OF TUNING OUT, MOVING ON, GOING TO BEEN AND
WHAT DOES THAT ACTUALLY MEAN, NOT FOR DELEGATE COUNTS BUT IF
EVERYBODY GOES TO BED BUT IT DOES AFFECT THE MOMENTUM.
>> IT DOES IN THE BEST EXAMPLE IS 2018 BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE
WENT TO BED AT MIDNIGHT THAT NIGHT THINKING DEMOCRATS HAD NO
-- AND IT TOOK A COUPLE OF WEEKS TO REALIZE THEY HAD A 40 SEAT
GAIN IN THE HOUSE. THEY WERE ON THE NICE EDGE LIKE THE ARIZONA
SENATE RACE SO THAT IT AFFECTED DEMOCRAT PSYCHOLOGY FOR MONTHS.
THIS IS MORE
-- DIFFERENT AND MORE ATTENTION ON THIS RACE. THE COALITION
SANDERS PUT TOGETHER THE LAST TIME GOT HIM A WIN IN MICHIGAN
BY 1 POINT, MICHIGAN IS ALREADY EARLY VOTING, GOING TO VOTE IN A
WEEK, WASHINGTON, WHERE HE DID VERY WELL IN A CAUCUS, THERE ARE
SEVERAL STATES TONIGHT WHERE A CAUCUS HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A
PRIMARY AND IN MAINE HE WENT BY A LANDSLIDE TO A TIE AND IN
MINNESOTA HE WENT FROM A 22 TO 24 POINT WIN TO LOSING TO JOE
BIDEN TONIGHT. SO THE TWO BIGGEST STATES NEXT WEEK'S WHERE
HE DID VERY WELL, HE MIGHT DO WORSE AND I THINK THAT IS MORE
OF A PROBLEM BECAUSE THERE IS NOT A CLEAR STATE WHERE HE COULD
TURN THIS THING AROUND ON THE MAP MAYBE UNTIL WISCONSIN AND
NOW IDAHO, A COUPLE OF SMALLER STATES, HE MIGHT DO VERY WELL
BUT THE KIND OF RHYTHM THAT SANDERS
HAD LAST TIME IS NOT THERE FOR THEM. I DON'T WANT TO SPELL THE
END OF IT RIGHT NOW, THINGS ARE BREAKING AWAY FOR BIDEN AND A
LESS THOSE VOTERS CHANGE THE MINDS AGAIN AND REDISCOVER
BERNIE SANDERS, HE IS NOT PUTTING TOGETHER THE KIND OF
VOTE THAT CAN WIN THEM NOMINATION.
>> LET'S TALK ABOUT GROUND GAME AND MONEY SPENT ON THE GROUNDS.
JOE BIDEN IS DOING VERY WELL IN STATES WHERE HE DID NOT HAVE BIG
INVESTMENTS. IN FACT HE HAD MINIMAL INVESTMENTS.
>> LET'S TALK ABOUT OKLAHOMA. HE DID NOT VISITED, DID NOT HAVE A
FIELD OFFICE, DIDN'T SPEND MONEY ON TELEVISION AND HE WON THAT
STATE. IT IS A REMINDER THAT MOMENTUM MATTERS MORE THAN
MONEY. BLOOMBERG HAD LIKE 25 STAFFERS IN OKLAHOMA. HE IS
GOING TO GET SOME DELEGATES AND ELIZABETH WARREN WHO IS FROM
OKLAHOMA WENT THERE AND INVESTED IN THE STATE, SHE, VOTES ARE
STILL BEING COUNTED UNDER THE VIABILITY SPECIAL BUT SHE WILL
NOT GET ANY DELEGATES IN HER HOME STATE AND THAT IS A
REMINDER THAT IN THESE BIG NATIONAL CONTEST, UNLIKE THE
FIRST 4 STATES WHERE EVERYONE WAS THERE AND ORGANIZATIONS DID
MATTER, ESPECIALLY IN THE CAUCUSES, THESE ARE CAUCUSES.
THESE ARE PRIMARIES. SO THAT MEANS IT IS NOT JUST THE
HARD-CORE DEVOTED PEOPLE SHOWING UP. IT ALSO MEANS THAT IN A
NATIONAL PRIMARY, YOU CAN GET BY WITHOUT MONEY.
>> JOE BIDEN HAS JUST TAKEN THE STAGE AT HIS EVENT IN LOS
ANGELES. LET'S GO LIVE TO JOE BIDEN AND HIS SUPPORTERS IN
CALIFORNIA. >> -- THIS IS MY WIFE. THIS IS
MY SISTER. THEY SWITCHED ON ME. FOLKS! IT IS STILL EARLY BUT
THINGS ARE LOOKING AWFUL, AWFUL GOOD.
FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN KNOCKED DOWN, COUNTED OUT, LEFT BEHIND,
THIS IS YOUR CAMPAIGN!
JUST A FEW DAYS AGO,
THE PUNDITS DECLARED THE CAMPAIGN DEAD AND THEN CAME
SOUTH CAROLINA.
IT WENT SO WELL
, WE THOUGHT WE GOT TO SUPER TUESDAY, IT MIGHT BE OVER BUT IT
MIGHT BE OVER FOR THE OTHER GUY. TELL THAT TO THE FOLKS OF
VIRGINIA! NORTH CAROLINA! ALABAMA! TENNESSEE! OKLAHOMA!
ARKANSAS! MINNESOTA!!
AND MAYBE EVEN MASSACHUSETTS. IT IS TO CLOSE A CALL.
WE ARE STILL WAITING FOR TEXAS, CALIFORNIA AND A FEW OTHER SMALL
STATES TO COMMENT. SO IT'S LOOKING GOOD. I'M HERE TO REPORT
WE ARE VERY MUCH ALIVE!! AND MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT. THIS
CAMPAIGN WILL SEND DONALD TRUMP PACKING
. THIS CAMPAIGN IS TAKING OFF. JOIN US! FOR THOSE FOLKS
LISTENING,
GO TO JOE BIDEN .COM, SIGN-UP, VOLUNTEER, CONTRIBUTE IF YOU
CAN. WE NEED YOU. WE WANT YOU AND THERE IS A PLACE FOR YOU IN
THIS CAMPAIGN. PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT A REVOLUTION. WE
STARTED A MOVEMENT. THE TURNOUT TURNED OUT FOR US! THAT CAN
DELIVER US TO A LEVEL WHERE WE CAN DO EXTRAORDINARY,
EXTRAORDINARY THINGS. LOOK
, ALL RIGHT, OUR AGENDA IS BOLD, PROGRESSIVE, A VISION.
HEALTHCARE IS AFFORDABLE AND AVAILABLE TO EVERYBODY IN
AMERICA. WHERE BIG DRUG PRICES ARE DOWN UNDER CONTROL AND NO
MORE SURPRISE BILLING. ACCESS TO HOSPITALS IN RURAL AREAS AS WELL
AS URBAN AREAS. ACCESS TO CARE. A FULL VISION AND I PROMISE YOU,
CURES FOR CANCER! ALZHEIMER'S AND DIABETES! STANDING UP TO THE
IRA AND GUN MANUFACTURERS.
AND MEETING THE WORLD AND TAKING ON THE EXTRA STEPS IN CLIMATE
CHANGE. I WILL STOP BY REJOINING AND WE WILL PUT TOGETHER THE
POWERS, CLIMATE OF COURSE AND WE WILL MOVE IT ALONG WAY. A
COUNTRY WHERE EQUALITY OF EDUCATION WILL NOT DEPEND ON
YOUR ZIP CODE! TRIPLE FUNDING FOR
LOW INCOME SCHOOL DISTRICTS, PROVIDING RAISES FOR TEACHERS,
FULL-TIME SCHOOL FOR 3, 4 AND 5 YEARS OLD. AND INCREASING
EXPONENTIALLY THE PROSPECTS OF THE SUCCESS. FREE COMMUNITY
COLLEGE PROVIDED AN SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION IN THE COST OF GOING
TO COLLEGE. IF YOU VOLUNTEER, YOU PAY NOTHING. FOLKS, WE CAN
DO THIS! LET'S GET SOMETHING STRAIGHT, WALL STREET DIDN'T
BUILD THIS COUNTRY. YOU BUILT THIS COUNTRY!! THE MIDDLE CLASS
BUILT THIS COUNTRY! AND UNIONS BUILT THE MIDDLE CLASS!!
AND WHERE WE COME FROM -- >> --
>>
LET'S GO JOE! LET'S GO JOE! LET'S GO JOE.
>> WE ARE GOING TO GO! >> LET'S GO JOE, LET'S GO JOE .
>> GLUCK, THE MIDDLE CLASS AGAINST -- BEEN THE MIDDLE CLASS
IS GETTING CLOBBERED. TOO MANY PEOPLE'S -- THE TOWN THAT I GREW
UP IN. IT LOOKS LIKE THEY ARE GETTING HER. THEY ARE BADLY
HURT. GUESS WHAT, THE PLACE WE COME FROM, MANY OF YOU COME
FROM, IT IS WHERE WE ARE RAISED. THE PEOPLE. THEY ARE THE REASON
WHY I AM RUNNING. THEY ARE THE REASON WHY I AM A DEMOCRAT IN
THE FIRST PLACE. THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO BUILD OUR BRIDGES,
REPAIR OUR ROADS, KEEP OUR WATER SAFE, TEACH OUR KIDS. LOOK, THEY
RATION THE BURNING BUILDINGS TO PROTECT OTHER PEOPLE. THEY GROW
OUR FOOD, BUILD OUR CARS,. PICK UP OUR GARBAGE, CLEAN OUR
STREETS, VETERANS, DREAMERS AND BY THE WAY EVERY DREAMER, YOU
ARE NOT GOING EVERYWHERE!
WE ARE GOING TO PROVIDE A PATHWAY, A PATHWAY FOR 11
MILLION CITIZENS. IT TO THE OTHER GUYS VOTED FOR -- I DON'T
SHOULDN'T GET INTO THAT, I DON'T WANT TO GET GOING. LOOK, THE
IRON WORKERS, STILL WORKERS, BOILERMAKERS, PLUMBERS,
ELECTRICIANS, THESE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN FORGOTTEN.
I AGREE WITH YOU, MAN. LOOK, THE PEOPLE TRUMP FORGOT, THE PEOPLE
I WILL NEVER FORGET. I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER. FOLKS, THAT IS
WHY WE NEED AN ECONOMY WHERE AWARDS WORK. REESTABLISH THE
MIDDLE-CLASS AND THIS TIME BRING EVERYONE ALONG! EVERYBODY!
REGARDLESS OF THE RACE, THERE AT THE CITY, WHETHER THEY ARE
GENDER, THERE ECONOMICS, DEMOCRATS, REPUBLICANS,
INDEPENDENTS,
EVERYONE! LOOK, LIKE WE DID IN SOUTH CAROLINA, LIKE WE DID
ACROSS AMERICA TODAY, LIKE WE WILL DO ON OUR ALL THE WAY TO
THE WHITE HOUSE. LOOK, THAT IS WHY I WAS SO PROUD YESTERDAY
BEING EMBRACED BY AMY KLOBUCHAR. WE WON MINNESOTA BECAUSE OF AMY
KLOBUCHAR!
AND WE ARE DOING WELL IN TEXAS BECAUSE OF BETO O'ROURKE. AND
THAT'S WHY, THAT'S WHY I WAS SO PROUD, SO INCREDIBLY PROUD THAT
MAYOR PETE'S ENDORSEMENT ENDORSED ME AS WELL. THERE IS A
MAN OF CHARACTER AND COURAGE. AND BY THE WAY, I WAS PROUD TO
BE ENDORSED BY JIM CLYBURN. MAN, HE IS SOMETHING ELSE! LOOK! OUR
CAMPAIGN
REFLECTS THE DIVERSITY OF THIS PARTY AND THIS NATION. AND THAT
IS HOW IT SHOULD BE. BECAUSE WE NEED TO BRING EVERYBODY ALONG.
EVERYBODY. WE WANT TO HAVE A NOMINEE WHO WILL BEAT DONALD
TRUMP BUT ALSO, ALSO, KEEP NANCY PELOSI THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE!
WIN BACK THE UNITED STATES SENATE. IF THAT IS WHAT YOU
WANT, JOIN US! AND IF YOU WANT A NOMINEE WHO IS A DEMOCRAT, A
LIFELONG DEMOCRAT, A PROUD DEMOCRAT, AN OBAMA-BIDEN
DEMOCRAT, JOIN US! LOOK, THIS ALL STARTS WITH THE REVIVAL OF
DECENCY, HONOR AND CHARACTER. TRUMP HAS FANNED THE FLAMES OF
HATE AND
SOUGHT TO DIVIDE US. HE HAS INSULTED, DEMONIZED, AND
ACTUALLY JUST, THE WAY HE TALKS ABOUT PEOPLE, HE HAS NOT A
SINGLE SENSE OF EMPATHY. HE DOESN'T HAVE ANY COMPASSION. NO
REGARD FOR THE VALUES THAT MADE THIS COUNTRY WHO WE ARE. NOT THE
WAY YOU WERE RAISED BY YOUR MOMS AND DADS.
HE LOOKS AT HONESTY, DECENCY AND RESPECT AND VIEWS IT AS A SIGN
OF WEAKNESS. HE DOESN'T BELIEVE WE ARE THE BEACONS OF THE WORLD.
HE DOESN'T BELIEVE WE ARE ALL PART OF SOMETHING BIGGER THAN
OURSELVES. THAT'S WHY I HAVE SAID FROM THE MOMENT I ANNOUNCED
THAT THIS CANDIDACY, WE ARE LIVING IN A BATTLE FOR THE SOUL
OF AMERICA. FOLKS, WINNING MEANS UNITING AMERICA. NOT SOWING
SEEDS OF DIVISION AND ANGER AND HATE. WE'VE GOT TO BEAT DONALD
TRUMP AND WE WILL BUT WE CAN'T BECOME LIKE HIM. WE CAN'T HAVE A
NEVER-ENDING WAR BETWEEN THE PARTIES. WE'VE GOT A PRESIDENT
WHO CAN FIGHT BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT, I CAN FIGHT
BUT WE NEED THIS BADLY, AS BADLY, SOMEONE WHO CAN HEAL.
LOOK,
JUST AS WE DID WHEN WE PASSED OBAMACARE, WHAT PRESIDENT OBAMA
AND I DID SAVING THE AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY AND
PASSING THE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT. BUT IT'S NOT ENOUGH.
IT'S JUST A START. WE NEED A PRESIDENT WHO CAN HEAL THE
COUNTRY AS WELL. AND THAT IS WHAT I WILL DO AS YOUR
PRESIDENT, I PROMISE YOU. IT'S ABOUT DELIVERING RESULTS FOR
YOU, YOUR FAMILY AND THE COMMUNITY. IT'S NOT ABOUT ME,
JILL OR VALERIE. IT'S ABOUT YOU. IT'S ABOUT OUR FAMILIES. TO
PARAPHRASE, ROBERT BROWN WHEN HE SAID, I WILL REACH SHOULD EXCEED
OUR GRASP
AND MY REACH DOES EXCEED OUR GRASP BECAUSE THERE IS NO DOUBT
IN MY MIND WE CAN GRASP WHATEVER WE REACH FOR. LADIES AND
GENTLEMAN, I QUOTE AN ENGLISH POET BUT LET ME QUOTE A REPORT
NOW. AN IRISH POET. -- WHO WROTE A POEM CALLED THE CURATOR
AND HERE'S WHAT HE SAID. I BELIEVE IT'S FROM THE BOTTOM
ABOUT MY BEING HE SAID, "HISTORY SAYS DON'T HOPE ON THIS SIDE OF
THE GRAVE BUT THEN ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME, THE LAW
LONGED FOR TIDAL WAVE OF JUSTICE RISES UP AND HOPE AND HISTORY
RHYME." WE CAN MAKE HOPE AND HISTORY RHYME. THERE IS NOTHING
WE CAN'T DO. THIS IS ABOUT THE FUTURE.
IT IS NOT ABOUT THE PAST. IT'S ABOUT OUR CHILDREN AND OUR
GRANDCHILDREN. IT'S ABOUT LEADING THIS COUNTRY AND LEADING
THE WORLD ONCE AGAIN. FOLKS, WE JUST HAVE TO REMEMBER WHO WE
ARE. MY LORD, THIS IS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! AND IT'S TIME
FOR AMERICA TO GET BACK UP! AND ONCE AGAIN, FIGHT FOR THE
PROPOSITION THAT WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT THAT
ALL MEN AND WOMEN ARE CREATED EQUAL AND
ENDOWED BY THE CREATOR WITH CERTAIN INALIENABLE RIGHTS. WE
SAY SO OFTEN IN SCHOOL AND DON'T REALIZE HOW PROFOUND IT IS. WE
HAVE NEVER LIVED UP TO THOSE WORDS BUT UNTIL THIS PRESIDENT,
WE HAVE NEVER WALKED AWAY FROM IT. LADIES AND GENTLEMAN, I
BELIEVE WITH EVERY FIBER IN MY BEING THAT IS WHO WE ARE SO
LET'S GET BACK UP. WE ARE A DECENT, BRAVE, RESILIENT PEOPLE.
WE CAN BELIEVE AGAIN. WE ARE BETTER THAN THIS MOMENT. WE ARE
BETTER THAN THIS PRESIDENT. SO GET BACK UP AND TAKE BACK THIS
COUNTRY! THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! THERE IS NOT A SINGLE
THING WE CAN'T DO! GOD BLESS YOU AND MAY GOD PROTECT OUR TROOPS!!
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. THANK YOU! THANK YOU.
>> LET'S GO JOE! LET'S GO JOE! LET'S GO JOE! LET'S GO JOE!
>> THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!
>>
LET'S GO JOE! LET'S GO JOE! LET'S GO JOE! LET'S GO JOE!
>> WE ARE GOING TO DO THIS, FOLKS!
3 JOE BIDEN ADDRESSING SUPPORTERS IN LOS ANGELES. A
GOOD NIGHT FOR THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN BECAUSE HE SAID IT IS A
SUPER, SUPER TUESDAY BASICALLY FOR HIM. LET'S TALK FOR A
MOMENT, WE ARE HEARING FROM OUR ELECTION INSIDE TEAM. THERE ARE
MORE RACE CALLS TO MAKE.
WE ARE NOW READY TO CALL THE RACE AND YOU TOPIC THE
WASHINGTON POST IS PROTECTING SANDERS WILL WIN UTAH. UTAH HAS
29 DELEGATES AT STAKE. WE CAN ALSO PREDICT THAT JOE BIDEN WILL
WIN MINNESOTA, 75 DELEGATES ON THE LINE THERE. LET'S GO TO OUR
CALLING, JEREMY BOWERS, THE ELECTIONS INSIDE TEAM FOR MORE
DETAILS. >> THANKS FOR THAT. WE DO HAVE
TWO MORE RACE CALLS FOR YOU TONIGHT. LOOK AT THAT. THE FIRST
WE ARE GOING TO START WITH THE STATE OF UTAH. WE ARE READY TO
PROJECT THAT IS A WIN FOR BERNIE SANDERS. YOU CAN SEE WE HAVE
LESS THAN 10% REPORTING WHICH MEANS THIS RACE FOR SECOND PLACE
IS NOT OUT OF THE RUNNING JUST YET SO WE ARE NOT 100% SURE WHAT
THE EXTRA DELEGATE IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE FOR THESE OTHER
CANDIDATES LATER TONIGHT BUT WE DO KNOW THAT UP FRONT, SANDERS
IS SITTING AT ABOUT
21% OF THE VOTE AND YOU CAN SEE HE IS DOING VERY WELL IN AREAS
WHERE THERE ARE A LOT OF VOTERS. UTAH IS ONE OF THOSE STATES
WHERE VOTERS ARE SPREAD OUT ACROSS THE STATE. THE VAST
MAJORITY HERE IN SALT LAKE CITY AND PROVO AND A HANDFUL STILL
LEFT IN OGDEN BUT WE EXPECT THOSE WILL PROBABLY END UP WITH
SANDERS AS WELL. WE HAD ONE OF THE RACE CALLED
AND THAT IS THE STATE OF MINNESOTA. AMY KLOBUCHAR DROPPED
OUT OF THE RACE AND BACKED JOE BIDEN ANDERSON TONIGHT, JOE
BIDEN HAS A BIG WIN IN THE STATE WITH 49% REPORTING. WE ARE READY
TO GO AHEAD AND CALL IT. THERE ARE 75 DELEGATES THERE. BIDEN
HAS 37% OF THE VOTE AND SANDERS IS SITTING AT 30% AND WARREN IS
STILL ABOVE THE DELEGATE THRESHOLD AT 16%. THAT IS REALLY
WHAT WE HAVE FOR YOU HERE IN THESE TWO STATES, LIBBY.
>>> THANKS SO MUCH, JEREMY BOWERS, OUR ELECTION INSIDE
TEAM. YOU'RE WATCHING LIVE COVERAGE THIS SUPER TUESDAY FROM
THE WASHINGTON POST.
>>> YOU LOOKING AT DOWNTOWN SALT LAKE CITY WHERE THE POLLS CLOSED
WHILE AGO. LIVE COVERAGE FROM THE WASHINGTON POST. IT IS
10:30 HERE ON THE
EAST COAST AND AFTER THE 10:30 BLOCK AND IF YOU'RE WONDERING IF
THE CHOCOLATE BIDEN SURGE WAS REAL, WE NOW HAVE AN ANSWER THAT
THE FORMER VICE PRESIDENT IS INDEED HAVING A SUPER TUESDAY.
JOE BIDEN IS SWEEPING THE SOUTH, WINNING ARKANSAS, OKLAHOMA,
TENNESSEE, NORTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA, ALABAMA AND ALSO
MINNESOTA. BERNIE SANDERS IS ADDING DELEGATES IN HIS FIGHT AS
WELL. BERNIE SANDERS IS PROJECTING TO WIN COLORADO, UTAH
AND HIS HOME STATE OF VERMONT. THE BIGGEST
PRIZES OF THE NIGHT ARE STILL UP FOR GRABS, TEXAS AND UTAH. LET'S
CHECK IN WITH JEREMY BOWERS WITH OUR ELECTION INSIDE TEAM. JEREMY
WE HAVE HAD A LOT OF RACE CALLS AT THIS POINT. HOW ARE THINGS
LOOKING IN STATES THAT ARE STILL OUTSTANDING?
>> IF I COULD SEND A LETTER TO THE STATE OF MAINE AND GET THEM
TO CLEAR THINGS UP FOR US, BUT THAT IS ONE OF THE TWO STATES WE
ARE STILL WAITING ON RESULTS AND IT'S TOO CLOSE TO CALL. WE HAVE
ABOUT 33% IN THE STATE OF MAINE AND SANDERS AND BIDEN ARE LOCKED
IN IT RIGHT AT ABOUT 1/3 OF THE VOTE EACH. WE ALSO HAVE
ELIZABETH WARREN HERE AT ABOUT 16%. IF IT TRENDS LIKE THIS AND
HOPE SHE WILL BE IN THE MONEY FOR DELEGATES FROM THIS STATE
BUT THERE AREN'T THAT MANY TO GIVE. IT IS JUST 24 DELEGATES.
IT'S A PRETTY SMALL STATE AND IT'S NOT GOING TO MAKE A HUGE
DIFFERENCE. WE ALSO HAVE INTERESTING STUFF HAPPENING IN
TEXAS. TEXAS IS ENORMOUS. WE HAVE 215 DELEGATES IN THE STATE
AND BERNIE SANDERS HAS A PRETTY SIZABLE LEAD RIGHT NOW. YOU CAN
SEE THERE IS STILL BIDEN SUPPORT IN CERTAIN AREAS OF THE STATE.
THE SUBURBS OF HOUSTON, FOR EXAMPLE ARE A PRETTY STRONG AREA
FOR HIM WHERE WE ARE SEEING FOLKS LIKE BERNIE SANDERS DO
PARTICULARLY WELL IN PLACES LIKE CITY CENTER AND SAN ANTONIO,
DOWNTOWN AUSTIN AND SOME OF THE SUBURBS OF DALLAS WHERE WE SEE
HIGH RATES OF
VOTER REGISTRATION FOR HISPANIC AMERICANS. I WOULD LIKE TO POINT
OUT THAT HERE IN TEXAS IT IS NOT JUST A 2% RAISE. WE ALSO HAVE
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG IN THE HUNT FOR DELEGATES IN THE STATE. HE
SPENT AN AWFUL LOT OF MONEY HERE AND IT APPEARS TO BE GETTING HIM
AT LEAST A LITTLE BIT OF SOMETHING. HE IS GOING TO BE
ABLE TO TAKE OUT A HANDFUL OF 228 DELEGATES THAT TEXAS IS
GOING TO ASSIGN. THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE FOR YOU AT THE MOMENT. I
THINK THAT WE WILL HAVE SOME MORE RACE CALLS FOR YOU LATER
TONIGHT, LIBBY. >> THANK YOU JEREMY. JOINING ME
IN THE STUDIO, NATIONAL POLITICAL REPORTERS, JAMES HOMAN
AND DAVE WHITE AND ALSO JOINED BY -- JOE BIDEN IT SOUNDED LIKE
SOUTH CAROLINA SPEECH JAMES, TELL US ABOUT THE TONE HE IS
TRYING TO STRIKE HERE TONIGHT AND WHAT HE NEEDS TO DO?
>> OTHER THAN CONFUSING HIS SISTER AND WIFE BEHIND THEM AT
THE BEGINNING? >> HE WENT TO THE
PODIUM JUST AS IT WAS HAPPENING AND HE TURNED TO ONE AND THEN
THE OTHER AND IT WAS A CLASSIC JOE BIDEN MOMENT.
>> THOSE CLASSIC BIDEN MOMENTS WHICH ARE FUNNY WILL START TO
GET A LOT MORE ATTENTION NOW THAT HE IS THE FRONT RUNNER. BUT
THEN, THE REST OF THE SPEECH WAS DELIVERED FOR MY TELEPROMPTER
AND IN FACT EVEN WHEN THERE WERE PROTESTERS WHO DEVOTE DISRUPTED
THE SPEECH, HE WENT BACK TO RATING FROM THE TELEPROMPTER AND
PROBABLY 85% OF THAT SPEECH WAS A IDENTICAL TO THE IDENTICAL TO
THE SPEECH HE DELIVERED IN SOUTH CAROLINA. THAT IS A GOOD SIGN
FOR BIDEN BEING DISCIPLINED AND ON MESSAGE WHICH WAS ONE OF THE
BIG CONCERNS DEMOCRATS FEEL ABOUT HIM. THAT HE CAN DRIVE
THIS MESSAGE AND IT WAS INTERESTING BECAUSE HE FOCUSED
ON DONALD TRUMP, NOT BERNIE SANDERS A BERNIE SANDERS'S
SPEECH OF VERMONT WAS ABOUT A TWO MAN RACE BETWEEN ME AND
BIDEN HERE ARE A DOZEN CONTRASTS. BIDEN'S SPEECH WAS I
CAN BEAT TRUMP AND I WILL PROSECUTE THE CASE AGAINST TRUMP
AND SOME OF THAT IS MESSAGING AND STRATEGY AND HE ASKED TO
HOLD OFF SANDERS BUT THAT WAS BIDEN PROCESS BIDEN'S STRATEGY
ALL ALONG, WANTING TO AVOID GETTING BOGGED DOWN IN THIS
INTERPARTY WARFARE. >>> WHEN HE TOOK THE STAGE, HE
WAS LIKE I KNOW THOSE ARE. THAT WAS ANTI-DAIRY INDUSTRY
PROTESTERS WHO HAVE BEEN GOING AFTER A LOT OF CONTESTS. THEY
DID NOT HAVE ONE A BERNIE SANDERS TONIGHT BECAUSE I WANT
TO SEE JOE BIDEN'S REACTION TO THAT BUT THEY ARE VERY ACTIVE IN
CALIFORNIA AND THE WEST AND THEY WANT PEOPLE TO STOP GIVING
SUBSIDIES TO THE DAIRY INDUSTRY SO POINT MADE. --
>> YES, SO
IT DID LOOK LIKE JOE BIDEN'S SISTER WAS SHAKEN UP BY THAT.
SHE WAS CROSSING HER ARMS AND CERTAINLY IT IS SHOCKING THEY
WERE ABLE TO NOT JUST RAISE A RUCKUS IN THE CROWD BUT GET ON
THE STAGE? >> I WAS JUST SAYING, IT'S NOT
SOMETHING WE TALK A LOT ABOUT BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO GIVE
FLAGS TO BE "THIS IS A LONGER PERIOD THAN MANY YEARS OF
CANDIDATES NOT HAVING PROTECTIONS. VICE PRESIDENTS
DON'T GET OF HER LIFE. THEY GET IT FOR SIX MONTHS AFTER THEY
LEAVE OFFICE SO THE WHOLE TIME, JOE BIDEN HAS BEEN
GOING AROUND WITHOUT SECURITY. YOU CAN GO UP AND TALK TO HIM,
THE EVENTS ARE NOT BLOCKED FROM REPORTERS. THE POINT I WOULD
MAKE ABOUT HIS MESSAGES YOU ARE MAKING THE POINT ABOUT IT
EARLIER THAT HE DID NOT GO TO OKLAHOMA AND HE WON. THE PERIOD
OF CANDIDATES WALKING AROUND STATES TAKING TONS OF TOWNHALL
QUESTIONS IS COMING TO AN END. IN SOME WAYS WHAT HE HAS BEEN
VERY EFFECTIVE AT AND VERY BAD AT, HE WAS LOSING VOTES IN IOWA
AND NEW HAMPSHIRE BECAUSE HE SEEMED UNFOCUSED AND WOULD TAKE
20 MINUTES TO ANSWER. THIS SPEECH IS WHAT SOME OF HIS
RIVALS MIGHT HAVE ACCUSED OF BEING PAUL TESTED, LOTS OF ROBBY
LYONS THAT HAVE NOT CHANGED SINCE LAST YEAR BUT THAT IS
BETTER THAN THE WORST DAYS OF HIS CAMPAIGN IN IOWA WHERE IT
SOMETIMES SOUNDED LIKE HE WAS GOING OFF INTO A TANGENT ABOUT A
COMPLICATED TAX BENEFIT THAT NOBODY WAS INTERESTED IN.
>> DAVID, AS YOU LOOK AT THE DATA ON THE MOST RECENT STATES
THAT WE ARE SEEING RESULTS FROM, WHAT ARE YOU LEARNING?
>> THE BIGGEST STORY THAT WE SEE IN MOST RECENT RACE CALLED IS
MINNESOTA. I DON'T WANT TO SOUND LIKE A BROKEN RECORD BUT THAT IS
REALLY A BIG DEAL. MINNESOTA IS NOT DEMOGRAPHICALLY SEATED FOR
THE COALITION THAT BIDEN HAD IN THE FIRST 4 EARLY STATES. IT IS
A SIGN HE IS EXPANDING OUTWARD AND A LOT OF THIS -- STATES ARE
NOT VOTING TONIGHT AND THIS MAY BE ONE OF THE CLOSER
APPROXIMATIONS TO WHAT SOME VOTERS IN THE RURAL AREAS OF
THOSE STATES MIGHT DO. IT IS JUST A REALLY GOOD RESULT FOR
HIM TO WIN IN A STATE THAT
IS, YOU KNOW, NOT AS DIVERSE RACIALLY, WHERE SANDERS AND
WARREN SEEM LIKE THEY ARE MORE NATURAL FITS FOR THE POLITICS,
IT SEEMS LIKE IT REALLY VALIDATES A LOT OF THESE SORT OF
BIDEN NARRATIVES. >> WHAT ABOUT BLOOMBERG AND
WARREN? TALK ABOUT THE NUMBERS AND WHAT THEY MAY SAY ABOUT THE
BIGGER PICTURE AT STAKE? >> I'M READING OFF THE LIVE
RESULTS HERE. WARREN AND BLOOMBERG ARE ON THE BOARD AND
WARREN HAS A LITTLE BIT OVER THE 15% THRESHOLD. LIMBURG HAS 8.3%
WHICH ISN'T SO GREAT.
YOU NEED 15% STATEWIDE TO GET THE STATEWIDE DELEGATES AND IF
YOU DROP BELOW THAT YOU START DROPPING IN SOME OF THE
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS AS WELL SO YOU HAVE A SCENARIO WHERE
WARREN AND BLOOMBERG ARE SCRAPPING DELEGATES HERE, THERE
AND EVERYWHERE. BLOOMBERG DID GREAT IN AMERICAN SAMOA IF I
RECALL CORRECTLY. BUT REALLY THIS LOOKS A LOT LIKE
PRIMARILY BIDEN AND SANDERS RIGHT NOW. WE WILL HAVE TO SEE
HOW IT CHANGES AS CALIFORNIA COMES IN BUT YOU KNOW, BIDEN IS
DOING VERY WELL TONIGHT. LET'S CHECK IN WITH OUR COLLEAGUES,
JOYCE, WHO HAS BEEN WITH THE SANDERS CAMPAIGN IN VERMONT
TONIGHT. JOYCE? >> Reporter: HEY, LIBBY, THE
EXPO CENTER HERE HAS ALMOST COMPLETELY CLEARED OUT BUT
MOMENTS AGO WE WERE FILLED WITH THOUSANDS OF SANDERS SUPPORTERS
WAITING FOR ABOUT 4 HOURS TO HEAR THE SENATOR'S SPEECH AND
ONCE HE CAME OUT, THEY WERE INCREDIBLY ENERGIZED. HE STARTED
OFF HIS SPEECH BY SAYING THAT 39 YEARS AGO TODAY, HE WAS ELECTED
AS ARLINGTON'S MAYOR JUST BY 10 VOTES AND THAT WAS HIS OPENING
LINE. TODAY MARKS AN INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT TIME IN HIS POLITICAL
TIMELINE. I HAVE BEEN TO A LOT OF SANDERS
' RALLIES AND THIS ONE FELT SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT BUT OF
COURSE A LOT OF THESE RALLIES ARE VERY LOUD.'S SUPPORTERS ARE
KNOWN TO CHEER SORT OF AT EVERY SENTENCE THAT HE SAYS BUT
TONIGHT, HIS CROWD FELT MORE CONNECTED. IT ALMOST FELT MORE
INTIMATE. THE CROWD WAS PHYSICALLY CLOSER TO HIM TONIGHT
AND THIS SORT OF GHOST WHAT I HEARD TODAY WHILE OUT AT POLLING
LOCATIONS TALKING TO VOTERS. THEY SAID THAT SANDERS HAS GIVEN
HIMSELF TO, SHARE AND
SHARED HIMSELF WITH THE REST OF THE COUNTRY AND TONIGHT HE IS
GIVING HIMSELF TO US VERMONTERS SO IN TALKING TO VOTERS AND
TALKING TO PEOPLE THAT I KNOW WERE HERE TODAY, THEY FEEL
CONNECTED TO HIM PERSONALLY AND THAT FEELING IN THE ROOM WAS
DEFINITELY THERE. AND WE DID ALSO HEAR THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE
IN THE ROOM HERE TONIGHT WHO HAVE THESE PERSONAL CONNECTIONS.
ONE-WOMAN WE SPOKE TO TODAY SAID THAT SANDERS WOULD ASK HER HOW
HER NIECE WAS DOING WHENEVER HE CAME INTO THE VIDEO SHOP TO GET
VIDEOS FROM THE VIDEO STORE DOWNTOWN. ANOTHER MAN SAID THAT
SANDERS WOULD COME INTO THE MOVIE THEATER DOWNTOWN WHEN HE
WAS FIRST ELECTED
MAYOR AND WOULD COME IN NOT KNOWING WHAT TO WATCH AND ASK
HIM, WHAT SHOULD WE SEE TODAY
. SO THESE ARE PEOPLE THAT HAVE PERSONAL CONNECTIONS TO HIM
UNLIKE MAY BE OTHER PLACES IN THE COUNTRY WHERE WE HAVE SEEN
THESE HUGE SANDERS RALLIES. WE DID HERE THE SENATOR TONIGHT
TAKE AIM AT
JOE BIDEN. HE SAID ONE OF US IN THIS RACE LED THE OPPOSITION TO
THE WAR IN IRAQ GOING AFTER JOE BIDEN'S RECORD, VOTING RECORD ON
THE WAR IN IRAQ AND THAT IS THE ONLY TIME TONIGHT WE HEARD
INCREDIBLY LOUD CHEERS AND THEN BOEING FOR JOE BIDEN ON THE
VOTING. THAT IS THE POINT THAT SANDERS MAKES PRETTY
CONSISTENTLY THROUGHOUT THE LAST YEAR AND TONIGHT HE DID NOT SHY
AWAY FROM
HIS COMPETITOR TONIGHT. ONE OF THE THING TO MENTION IS THAT
SANDERS DID NOT SEEM SHAKEN AT ALL. HE CAME OUT HERE WITH HIS
AND FIRE THE ENTIRE FAMILY, EXTREMELY CONFIDENT, SIMILAR TO
A CONFIDENCE WE SAW ON THE OTHER SIDE WATCHING JOE BIDEN'S SPEECH
TONIGHT SO HE IS CONFIDENT THAT HE -- HE SAYS HE WILL WIN THE
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION SO, IT LOOKS LIKE IT COULD BE WHAT
ANYONE'S RACE AND THAT IS ALL I HAVE HERE AT BERNIE CAMPAIGN
HEADQUARTERS TONIGHT. >>> THANKS SO MUCH, JOYCE CO-WHO
HAS BEEN LIVE WITH THAT SANDERS CAMPAIGN. LET'S GO HERE ABOUT
THE OPPONENT THAT BERNIE SANDERS WAS REFERENCING A LOT IN HIS
SPEECH LET'S GO TO THE
JOE BIDEN CAMP IN CALIFORNIA WHERE RHONDA COLEMAN IS STANDING
BY. AS WE SAW HIM WRAP UP HIS SPEECH, WHAT IS THE ATMOSPHERE
LIKE THERE? >> Reporter: THE ENERGY IS STILL
PRETTY HIGH HERE. THE VICE PRESIDENT BEHIND ME, SHAKING
HANDS AND HUGGING SUPPORTERS RIGHT NOW.
THEY SEEM IS STILL VERY MUCH STILL ENERGIZED RIGHT NOW. HE
CAME OUT WITH ONE OF THE INTERESTING THINGS THAT I SAW
WAS USUALLY AT THESE PARTIES, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE SOMEONE COME
INTRODUCE THE VICE PRESIDENT OR A CANDIDATE THERE IS A LITTLE
BIT OF A PREAMBLE AND THEN THEY COME ONSTAGE AND JOE BIDEN CAME
ON STAGE ALL OF A SUDDEN AND YOU COULD TELL THE SPEECH WAS NOT
VERY LONG BUT HE HIT A LOT OF NOTES THAT I THINK RESONATED
WITH THE CROWD. THE HE SAID HE IS VERY MUCH ADVISED OF WHAT
MEDIA REPORTERS AND
POLLSTERS ARE SAYING. HE ALSO TALKED ABOUT THE CLIMATE
AGREEMENT AND HOW THAT WILL GET BACK ON TRACK IF HE IS PRESIDENT
AND THAT IS SOMETHING WE HEARD FROM VOTERS TODAY THAT THEY ARE
REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE, THE ENVIRONMENT. SO HE
STRUCK A CHORD WITH THAT AS WELL. HE ALSO TALKED ABOUT
DREAMERS AND SAYING THAT HE IS ON THE WAY TO HELP THEM AND HE
WILL CREATE A PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP. ANOTHER THING HE
MENTIONED THAT WE HEARD A LOT OF FROM VOTERS TODAY IS DECENCY.
THAT WE NEED DECENCY BACK IN THE WHITE HOUSE. THERE WERE LIKE 3
VOTERS I TALKED TO TODAY BACK TO BACK TO MENTION THE STRUGGLES BY
PRESIDENT TRUMP'S CHARACTER. THAT IS SOMETHING IN CALIFORNIA
THAT VOTERS ARE CONCERNED ABOUT AND THEY DO TALK ABOUT THAT AND
HE ALSO MENTIONED SPEAKER PELOSI THAT HE WILL MAKE SURE SHE STAYS
AS SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE. SHE IS FROM THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA SO
THAT ALSO GAINED A LOT OF TEARS. RIGHT NOW PEOPLE ARE STILL
MILLING AROUND, STILL REALLY EXCITED AND ENTHUSED WITH WHAT
THEY SAW TONIGHT. BACK TO YOU. >> RONNIE COBURN, THANK YOU SO
MUCH AT THE BITING CAMPAIGN AND CALIFORNIA, JOE BIDEN ALREADY
SPEAKING TONIGHT. BERNIE SANDERS GOES TO HIS HOME TERRITORY, JOE
BIDEN HAS WEST TO CALIFORNIA
, A STATE WE ARE WATCHING CLOSELY. WHAT IS THE
SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS EVENT? >> IT IS INTERESTING BECAUSE
BIDEN DID SKIP AHEAD FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE TO SOUTH CAROLINA,
STUCK AROUND AND I THINK SOME OF IT WAS THAT THEY DID NOT WANT
HIM TRAVELING TOO MUCH. HE IS 77. HE GETS TIRED AND SO
IT IS NOTABLE THAT THEY DID NOT SEND HIM TO MICHIGAN TO KIND OF
BE LIKE THIS IS WHAT IS NEXT. I THINK IT IS BECAUSE THEY
EXPECTED HE WOULD HAVE A GOOD NIGHT ON SUPER TUESDAY. THEY DID
NOT TRY TO SEND HIM BACK ACROSS THE COUNTRY. PARTLY I THINK FOR
FATIGUE PURPOSES. >> DAVID?
>> I THINK IN CALIFORNIA, A PLACE WHERE HE IN MANY POLLS WAS
NOT VIABLE FOR DELEGATES EVEN A WEEK AGO WHERE WE ARE GOING TO
FIND OUT IN A LITTLE WHILE AT LEAST ON THE EXIT POLL WHERE HE
IS DOING BUT WHERE HE WILL DO MUCH BETTER AND IF THINGS KEEP
TRENDING IN THIS DIRECTION, HE'S GOING TO HAVE A DELEGATE LEAD IN
THE NIGHTS AND IT WISHES BY KNOWN MEANS WHAT SANDERS OR HIS
COMPONENTS OPPONENT START. NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS, SANDERS
HAVE A PLEDGE DELICATELY GOING TO THE DIMENSION AND CONVENTION
AND MIGHT NOT HAVE ONE AFTER THE FIRST MONTH OF CONTEST WHICH IS
ENORMOUS. >> AND WHAT WOULD IT TAKE TO GO
INTO THE CONVENTION DELEGATE LEAD, FOR HOW MUCH YOU HAD TO
REALLY LOCK DOWN BY THE TIME THE CONVENTION'S ROLLED AROUND. HOW
DID THE RANCHERS
SIT WITH WHAT IS GOING ON RIGHT NOW?
>> SO THIS IS, SANDERS AND 2016 ARGUED THAT
BY THE END OF THE RACE, THE MOST ELECTABLE CANDIDATE SHOULD GET
SUPERDELEGATES TO VOTE FOR HIM EVEN IF HE DID NOT WIN THE
POPULAR VOTE, THE CANDIDATES POINTED OUT THIS TIME. THIS TIME
HE HAS BEEN SAYING AND ARGUING THAT THE PLEDGE DELEGATE LEADER,
I WAS JUST TALKING TO SANDERS' COCHAIRMAN TONIGHT, THE GUY WITH
THE MOST DELEGATES SHOULD WIN THE FIRST DELEGATE VICTORY AND
THAT IS A HARD POSITION TO WALK AWAY FROM. I DON'T THINK IT IS
TERRIBLY POSSIBLE. HE IS -- MORE CONSISTENT THAN ANY POLITICIAN
EVEN THOUGH HE SHIFTED TO THAT PARTICULAR ARGUMENT. IF HE HAD
TO BE, IF HE IS BATTLING LOSING IN THE DELEGATE
CHASE, IT IS HARD TO WIN EVEN THOUGH HE DID AND 2016 EVEN
THOUGH HE WAS BEHIND THE METRICS, WITH A LOT OF STATES IN
THE LEFT HALF OF THE PRIMARY THAT HE DID NOT WIN ANY DOES IT
BECAUSE OF THE SHIFT OF THE POCKETS TO PRIMARY.
>> HAS PUT HIMSELF IN THE CALIFORNIA --? TOUGH SPOT?
>> AND THE LAST POINT THAT'S IMPORTANT IS WHEN YOU LOOK AHEAD
ON THE CALENDAR, THE LAST TIME -- THERE WAS SORT OF AN
ANTI-CLINTON "AS MUCH AS A PERSON'S VOTE. IN CALIFORNIA, IT
WAS THE FINAL PRIMARY. IN JUNE LAST TIME. SANDERS COULD SORT OF
HOLD THAT OUT OF THIS BIG MEGA PRICE. HE ENDED UP FINISHING
JUST SHORT THAT THAT WAS, YOU KNOW, HE COULD KIND OF POINT TO
THAT. IN THIS CASE HE DOESN'T HAVE THE CAUCUSES. THERE ARE A
BUNCH OF STATES HE COULD STILL WIN EVEN IF BIDEN CONTINUES
CONSOLIDATING
SUPPORT AMONG MODERATES BUT HE HAS BOXED HIMSELF INTO A CORNER
BECAUSE THEY DID NOT ANTICIPATE THIS SCENARIO. THAT DR. WOULD BE
EMERGING TONIGHT WITH A FEW HUNDRED
LEAD AMONG DELEGATES NEXT YOU'RE NODDING YOUR HEAD, YES. YEAH, I
THINK THIS IS A SCENARIO THAT LOOKS RIGHT NOT TO BE WITHIN THE
REALISTIC RANGE OF EXPECTED OUTCOMES THAT WE HAD COMING INTO
THE NIGHT BUT ON THE BAD END FOR SANDERS, SOME OF THE STATES THAT
JAMES AND DAVE TALKED ABOUT ARE NOT PLACES THAT ARE A GREAT FIT
FOR HIM AND THEN THERE IS THE PRIMARY ON APRIL 28 WHICH IS
GOOD TO REMEMBER BECAUSE THAT IS THE LAST PRIMARY DATE THAT HAS
STATES LIKE NEW JERSEY, NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA, RHODE
ISLAND, PLACES WHERE YOU COULD SEE SANDERS DOING WELL IN SOME
BUT IT IN SOME OF THEM YOU HAVE A SUBURBANITE EXODUS AWAY FROM
CANDIDATES WHO DROPPED OUT AND TOWARDS BIDEN THAT COULD END UP
PRETTY BAD FOR SANDERS YOU FORGOT DELAWARE THAT DAY AND
THAT IS LARGELY DONE BUT I HAVE TO BE --
>> LET'S TURN NOW TO OUR ELECTION EVENTS TEAM, JEREMY
BOWERS. TWO HUGE DELEGATE HAULS ARE UP FOR GRABS TONIGHT. WE ARE
LOOKING AT TEXAS AND MASSACHUSETTS. TELL US MORE
ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THOSE STATES.
>> Reporter: TEXAS AND MASSACHUSETTS ARE DEFINITELY IN
OUR RADAR AND BEFORE I BEGIN THOSE, I WANT TO MENTION WE HAVE
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA IS LIKE THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM OR
MAYBE IN THIS CASE, REALLY THE DONKEY. IT HAS AN AWFUL LOT OF
DELEGATES AND WE DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT JUST YET
BECAUSE WE HAVE A COUPLE OF MORE MINUTES UNTIL POLLS CLOSE AND WE
DON'T HAVE EARLY EXIT RESULTS.
BACK TO THOSE TWO STATES YOU MENTIONED, WE HAVE GOT A LITTLE
BIT GOING ON IN MASSACHUSETTS. MASSACHUSETTS IS A PLACE WHERE
JOE BIDEN HAS HAD ANOTHER STRONG NIGHT AND THE REAL STORY
MASSACHUSETTS IS NOT JOE BIDEN OR BERNIE SANDERS, BOTH OF WHOM
ARE DOING WELL. IT IS ELIZABETH WARREN WHO REALLY HAS KIND OF
TRADED PLACES WITH JOE BIDEN IN THIS STATE IF YOU BELIEVE THE
EARLY POLLING COMING INTO THE NIGHT. ELIZABETH WARREN IN MANY
OF THE POLLS WAS DOING VERY WELL IN THIS STATE AND WAS GOING BACK
AND FORTH WITH BENNY BERNIE. INSTEAD SHE HAS FALLEN INTO
THIRD PLACE. SHE WILL STILL GET DELEGATES FROM THE STATE IF THE
CURRENT TRENDS HOLD. THERE ARE 91 TO SPLIT UP. IT IS CERTAINLY
A LONG SHOT FROM HAVING WON THE STATE AND GOING HOME WITH A
HANDFUL OF DELEGATES FROM A. ADDITIONALLY ABOUT THE STATE OF
TEXAS, RIGHT NOW WE ARE SHOWING BERNIE SANDERS IN THE LEAD IN
THE STATE OF TEXAS. IS 29% OF THE VOTE BUT THERE IS ONLY ABOUT
25% REPORTING. FOR A LITTLE BIT MORE ON THAT, I WOULD LIKE TO
TURN TO MY COLLEAGUE, LENNY BRONNER. HE IS A SENIOR DATA
SCIENTIST ON OUR TEAM. LENNY, TELL ME A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT
OUR MODEL IS SHOWING. WHAT IS GOING ON BEHIND THE SCENES IN
TEXAS TONIGHT? YOU JUST MENTIONED THERE WERE ARE 25%
REPORTING AND THAT IS WHERE WE SEE THE MODEL CONVERGE AND GIVE
US NUMBERS WE CAN USE. IT LOOKS AS IF SANDERS IS AHEAD AS YOU
SAID BUT JOE BIDEN DOES HAVE IT SEEMS LIKE WE THINK JOE BIDEN
MIGHT HAVE MORE OUTSTANDING VOTES.
>> ABSOLUTELY. THESE ARE THE KINDS OF INSIGHTS THAT WE ARE
KEEPING AN EYE ON FOR YOU AND FOR THE FOLKS LOOKING AT US BACK
HOME. FOR NOW WE WILL SEND IT BACK TO IN STUDIO.
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH, JEREMY. I WANT TO TALK ABOUT TULSI GABBARD
TONIGHT. WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT HER TONIGHT. WHERE SHE HAD?
>> SHE HAS AT LEAST 1 DELEGATE BECAUSE OF THE CAUCUSES IN
AMERICAN SAMOA WHICH WAS THE FIRST TO END THE SEASON, LESS
THAN 500 PEOPLE VOTED TOTAL AND A TALK TO THE TERRITORIAL PARTY
EARLY IN THE NIGHT AND SHE GOT A DELEGATE THAT WAS ENOUGH OF A
STORY FOR THE DNC TO SAY EARLIER TODAY THAT THEY WILL REVISIT THE
RULES ABOUT THE DEBATE BECAUSE UNDER THE RULES THAT WE HAVE IN
THE LAST DEBATE, ONE DELEGATE GETS YOU IN AND UNDER THESE
RULES THEY WILL SAY THERE HAVE BEEN MORE THAN 2000 DELEGATES
CHOSEN >> THEY ARE MOVING THE MARK.
>> WE ARE NOT SURE BUT ANOTHER WAY TO LOOK AT THIS AS SHE IS
THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WITH SAMOA HISTORY AND SHE LOST
TWO BLOOMBERG IN SAMOA. >> YOU ARE ALSO WATCHING PART OF
, REPORTING INSIDE THE TRAILER, HOW MANY OTHER RACES ACROSS THE
COUNTRY AND THIS IS A BIG PRIMARY DAY.
>> TOO MANY. AND
YOU ARE EXTENDED. WHAT ELSE ARE YOU WATCHING THAT IS HAPPENING
ON THE PRIMARY LEVEL IN SOME OF THE KEY AREAS?
>> UNFORTUNATELY THESE ARE RACES THAT ARE TAKING A LONG TIME TO
COME. WE ARE NOT IN A HURRY OBVIOUSLY BUT I AM LOOKING AT
PRIMARIES IN TEXAS AND CALIFORNIA MOSTLY. NORTH
CAROLINA, WE ALREADY SAW EARLIER IN THE NIGHT, REPUBLICANS ARE
TRYING TO EMBARRASS DEMOCRATS AND GET A WEAK CANDIDATE FOR THE
SENATE PRIMARY, FAILED IN A BIG WAY SO CUNNING OUT THE
NOMINATION. WE ARE LOOKING IN TEXAS AT THE 20th DISTRICT WHICH
GOES FROM LAREDO UP TO SAN ANTONIO, HENRY CUELLAR HAS HELD
THE SEAT SINCE 2004.
DEMOCRATS, CORTEZ, BERNIE SANDERS, ELIZABETH WARREN, THE
LEFT ME THAT A BIG PRIORITY TO KNOCK THIS DEMOCRAT OUT BECAUSE
IT IS A SAFE DEMOCRATIC SEAT. REPUBLICANS BARELY TRIED TO
RECRUIT ANY CANDIDATES. THEY HAVE A YOUNG IMMIGRATION
ATTORNEY RUNNING IN THAT RACE. IT IS VERY CLOSE. THERE IS SOME
ERROR IN REPORTING EARLY IN THE NIGHT ABOUT CLAIRE WINNING, IT
IS ACTUALLY A CLOSE RACE AND I THINK THE SCENARIO IS BEING
HELPED BECAUSE SANDERS SUPPORT FROM LATINO
VOTERS IS MANIFESTING IN A WAY THAT WAS NOT NECESSARILY OBVIOUS
IT WAS GOING TO BECAUSE THOSE ARE MORE CONSERVATIVE LATINO
VOTERS THAN WE SAW IN NEVADA OR CALIFORNIA. WE ARE LOOKING AT
PRIMARIES REPLACING A LOT OF RETIRING REPUBLICANS, 6 IN
TEXAS, ONE AGAINST KAY GRANGER WHO IS ONE OF THE
, THE ONLY ONE IN THE TEXAS DELEGATION FOR REPUBLICANS THAT
HAS A CONSERVATIVE PRIMARY CHALLENGE UP WE ARE LOOKING AT
THE 22nd DISTRICT, THE WESTERN SUBURBS OF HOUSTON, YOUR SBORZ,
THE GRANDSON OF GEORGE H. W. BUSH IS RUNNING AND DOING BADLY
IN EARLY RETURNS BUT NOT A GOOD NIGHT FOR THE BUSH DYNASTY IF
THAT IS SO. IN CALIFORNIA WE ARE LOOKING AT A LOT OF RACES BUT
MOST OF THE 25th DISTRICT, KATIE HILL RESIGNED, HAS BEEN ON MEDIA
TOUR SINCE THEN BECAUSE OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT RESIGNATION,
THERE IS A SPECIAL ELECTION TONIGHT THAT IS UNLIKELY 1
PERSON WILL WIN BUT -- RAN THAT RACE IS A PROGRESSIVE FIBRIN TO
PROVE ANY PROGRESSIVE COULD WIN
INCH OF SEAT, HE IS NOT LIKELY TO WIN TONIGHT. WE WILL KEEP
WATCHING THOSE AS RESULTS COMMAND. THANK YOU SO MUCH. WE
HAVE DAVE WATTEL, JIM TOOMEY, AND STAY WITH US, WE WILL STAY
WITH U.S. ACCOUNTS COME IN. THIS IS LIVE COVERAGE OF SUPER
TUESDAY FROM THE WASHINGTON POST.
THE SUN HAS SET ON THE BOARDWALK IN VENICE BEAST AND POLLS ARE
CLOSED IN CALIFORNIA. WE ARE A WHOPPING 415 DELEGATES ON THE
LINE. WELCOME TO LIVE COVERAGE FROM THE WASHINGTON POST.
I'M LIBBY CASEY. IT NOW 11 PM ON THE EAST COAST ON SUPER TUESDAY
IS LIVING UP TO ITS BILLING FOR THE FORMER VICE PRESIDENT, JOE
BIDEN , SWEEPING THE SOUTH AND HAS A KEY GAME IN THE UPPER
MIDWEST, WINNING ARKANSAS, OKLAHOMA, TENNESSEE, NORTH
CAROLINA, VIRGINIA, ALABAMA AND MINNESOTA. BERNIE SANDERS IS
ALSO ADDING DELEGATES IN HIS FIGHT, BERNIE SANDERS IS
PROJECTED TO WIN COLORADO, UTAH AND HIS HOME STATE OF VERMONT.
WE ARE STILL WAITING FOR TWO OF THE BIGGEST PRIZES OF THE NIGHT,
TEXAS AND CALIFORNIA. SO IN CALIFORNIA, BASED ON EXIT
POLLING
IN A SURVEY OF ABSENTEE VOTERS CONDUCTED BY EDISON RESEARCH,
BERNIE SANDERS IS IN THE LEAD. ELECTION INSIDE TEAM IS REALLY
GOOD AT THIS SO LET'S GO BACK TO THE TEAM NOW AND JEREMY BOWERS,
SO JEREMY, SO FAR A GOOD NIGHT FOR BIDEN. WHAT ARE THE NUMBERS
AND WHAT DID THEY TELL US ABOUT THE SHAPE OF HIS SUPPORT?
>> JOE BIDEN HAS DONE REALLY WELL IN THE EAST COAST AND
GEOGRAPHICALLY, THAT IS NOT SURPRISING. A LOT OF THESE EARLY
STATES HAVE THE KIND OF PEOPLE WHO HAD GOTTEN, HAVE GIVEN HIM
SUPPORT EARLY ON IN THE PRIMARIES. THINK ABOUT SOUTH
CAROLINA WHERE JOE BIDEN DID REALLY WELL AND
IN GATHERING SUPPORT FROM HILLARY CLINTON VOTERS. A STATE
THAT CLINTON WON IN 2016. HE DID VERY WELL THERE IN 2020. WE ARE
LOOKING AT TWO STATES WHERE HE DID BASICALLY SUBSTANTIALLY
SIMILAR. WE ARE LOOKING AT THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, A FAIRLY
CLEAN SWEEP FOR HIM, EVEN A HIGHER RATE THAN
WHAT HE HAD IN VOTES IN SOUTH CAROLINA. YOU DID WELL IN NORTH
CAROLINA WHERE HE WAS ABLE TO CAPTURE AN AWFUL LOT OF THOSE
HILLARY CLINTON VOTES AND KEEP BERNIE SANDERS FROM GATHERING A
WHOLE LOT OF DELEGATES BECAUSE HE WAS EATING HIS OWN VOTE. FOR
MORE ON HOW THAT 2016 TO 2020 FLOW WORKS, I WOULD LIKE TO
BRING BACK IN LENNY BRONNER. LENNY YOU HAVE BEEN WORKING ON A
LITTLE SOFTWARE THAT HELPS US UNDERSTAND. TELL ME LITTLE BIT
ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON UNDER THE HOOD? WHAT ARE WE SEEING IN
NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA THAT IS SIMILAR TO HOW SOUTH CAROLINA
WORKED FOR JOE BIDEN? >> SO THAT THING WE ARE SEEING A
MONTH ALL THESE 3 STATES HIS JOE BIDEN IS GETTING A LOT OF --
VOTE AS YOU JUST SAID. IF WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE PRECINCT ON
ALL THREE STATES IT LOOKS SIMILAR THAT JOE BIDEN IS
GETTING SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 60 AND 70% OF VOTERS
THAT HILLARY WON . >> WHAT ABOUT BERNIE SANDERS.
IT'S CLEAR HE'S GETTING A LOT OF HIS OWN VOTE BUT IS ANY OF THAT
VOTE GOING TO OTHER CANDIDATES THIS TIME AROUND?
>> SO SANDERS IS GETTING BETWEEN 40 AND MAYBE 55% OF HIS VOTE
FROM 2016. THE ISSUE IS THAT IT SEEMS THERE IS A BIT OF AN ISSUE
IN MAKING INFERENCES BUT IT LOOKS LIKE ELIZABETH WARREN IS
EATING QUITE SUBSTANTIALLY INTO HIS SUPPORT.
>> THAT GIVES YOU THE SHAPE OF THE RACE TONIGHT LIBBY ON THESE
ARE THE KINDS OF THINGS WE WILL KEEP AN EYE ON FOR YOU IN THE
STUDIO BUT WE ARE HEARING ABOUT HIGH TURNOUT IN SOME OF THE
SUPER TUESDAY STATES. HOW DOES THAT PLAY OUT FOR LEADING
CANDIDATES? >> LENNY AND I HAD JUST BEEN
TALKING ABOUT THAT AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IS APPARENT FROM
TAKING A LOOK AT THESE VOTE FLOW DIAGRAMS IS THERE ARE A TON OF
PEOPLE TURNING OUT TONIGHT WHO DID NOT VOTE IN THE 2016 VERSION
OF THE PRIMARIES. BOTH IN NORTH CAROLINA WHICH YOU CAN SEE HERE
AND IN VIRGINIA. THESE ARE PLACES WHERE JOE BIDEN DID VERY
WELL. IT APPEARS THAT ONE OF THE REASONS WHY HE DID SO WELL IS
THAT HE IS PULLING IN A LOT OF THIS NEW VOTE. THESE ARE VOTERS
WHO HAD NOT PREVIOUSLY VOTED IN 2016 AND ARE VOTING IN 2020. A
BIT OF THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM WAS THAT IF THERE WAS A HIGH
VOTER TURNOUT, THERE WOULD BE VOTERS VOTING FOR BERNIE SANDERS
SO THIS HAS ACTUALLY BEEN A LITTLE BIT OF A CHANGE FROM WHAT
WE EXPECTED AND HAS BEEN AN UNEXPECTED AREA OF BIDEN'S
STRENGTH NEXT BACK TO YOU. I WOULD LIKE TO WHAT WILL MY
GUESTS FOR THIS HOUR AND WELCOME IN JAMES HOLMAN AND EUGEN SCOTT,
IT IS INTERESTING TO HEAR WHAT JEREMY WAS TELLING US, EUGENE
BECAUSE IT WAS NOT JUST THE THOUGHT THAT BERNIE SANDERS
MIGHT BE ABLE TO EXPAND THE COALITION AND BRINGING THOSE
PHOTOS. IT WAS A GOAL OF THE CAMPAIGN, SOMETHING THEY HAVE
BELIEVED THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO DO AND IT COULD BE KEY TO
BUILDING THE BERNIE SANDERS OF THE FUTURE, THE BERNIE SANDERS
TEAM OF THE FUTURE. MAKE ABSOLUTELY, NUMBER 1 IT IS
ALWAYS FASCINATING TO HEAR THERE WERE PEOPLE NOT INVOLVED IN THE
2016 ELECTION BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE ALMOST EVERYBODY WE TALKED
TO HAVE AN OPINION BUT THE REALITY IS THERE WAS VOTERS WHO
WERE NOT YET VOTERS ON THE SIDELINES LOOKING IN AT THE
BERNIE SANDERS CAMPAIGN MADE IT VERY CLEAR THEY WERE GOING TO
TRY TO GET THOSE PEOPLE TO TURN OUT. THOSE NUMBERS HAVEN'T
REALLY WORKED IN THERE FAVOR AS MUCH AS THEY THOUGHT THEY WOULD
HAVE AND IT HAS BEEN FASCINATING TO HEAR THAT THEY HAVE WORKED IN
BIDEN'S. THAT IS NOT SOMETHING I WAS EXPECTING BUT I THINK WHAT
WE DO SEE WHAT THOSE NEW VOTERS IS THAT THEY OVERWHELMINGLY
DON'T WANT TRUMP TO MOVE FORWARD AND WANT TO GET SOMEONE TO THE
WHITE HOUSE WHO THEY BELIEVE CAN DEFEAT HIM AND WHEN THEY'RE
LOOKING AT THE LANDSCAPE, THEY THINK THAT THE FORMER VICE
PRESIDENT HAS A BETTER CHANCE OF DEFEATING THE CURRENT PRESIDENT
SO THAT IS WHO THEY TURNED OUT FOR.
>> JAMES? >> YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT VIRGINIA
WHICH PUTS THESE IDEAS INTO STARK RELIEF AND BIDEN DID NOT
HAVE A GROUND GAME. HE DID NOT HAVE THE MONEY TO RUN ADS, THIS
IS JUST
LIKE FOR DONALD TRUMP TO WE HAVE SEEN IT SINCE THE 2017 ELECTIONS
IN VIRGINIA WHERE THERE WAS A START TURNOUT IN THE GOVERNORS
RACE IN THE 2018 MIDTERM SOON DEMOCRATS PICKED UP 3
CONGRESSIONAL SEATS IN VIRGINIA AND TONIGHT, MASSIVE INCREASES
IN SORT OF THE SUBURBAN COUNTIES WHERE THE BACKLASH TO TRUMP HAS
BEEN STRONGEST, SUBURBAN, COLLEGE-EDUCATED, WOMEN SHOWING
UP WHO WERE NOT PARTICULARLY ACTIVE OR MOTIVATED IN 2016 BUT
REALLY WANTED
TO DEFEAT TRUMP AND FOR THEM, OUR EXIT POLLS SHOW ELECTABILITY
WAS THE TOP CONCERN. THEY WANT TO BEAT TRUMP SO IF THEY CARE
MORE ABOUT ELECTABILITY THAN SOMEBODY WHO AGREES WITH THEM ON
ALL THE ISSUE THEY WERE VASTLY MORE LIKE TO THE SUPPORT BY DID
NOT NECESSARILY BECAUSE THEY LOVE JOE BIDEN BUT BECAUSE THEY
HATE DONALD TRUMP. THEY WERE GOING TO EXPAND THE -- IF AS
BIDEN PUT IT IN A CLASSIC BIDEN -ISM, IT TURNS OUT AND IT TURNED
OUT FOR ME. I THINK WAS THE QUOTE. I THINK IT WAS ESPECIALLY
TRUE. IT IS THE STORY OF THE NIGHT. THAT HE WAS ABLE TO KIND
OF RIDE THIS WAVE NOT BECAUSE OF HIS OWN CAMPAIGN OR, YOU KNOW,
HALF $1 BILLION GROUND GAME BUT BECAUSE OF A REALLY ORGANIC
BACKLASH TO THE PRESIDENT.
WHICH IS MANIFESTING ITSELF. WHAT COULD THIS MEAN FOR
FUNDRAISING FOR JOE BIDEN? >> IT'S GOING TO BE, HE RAISED
$10 MILLION OVER THE WEEKEND. GEORGE CONWAY, NOT THAT HE IS A
REPRESENTATIVE BUT THE HUSBAND OF THE COUNSELOR OF THE
PRESIDENT, KELLYANNE CONWAY, HE TWEETED A SCREEN GRAB OF HIMSELF
MAXING OUT THE BIDEN. I HAVE HEARD FROM VARIOUS DEMOCRATS WHO
KIND OF WON, TEXTING ME SAYING BIDEN IS LAZARUS, BACK FROM THE
DEAD AND SAYING HE WAS GIVING MONEY SO YOU ARE GOING TO ALL OF
A SUDDEN SEEING THAT AND ON THE SUPER PACK SIDE YOU WILL SEE THE
MONEY COME IN, YOU KNOW HE WILL START GETTING BIG CHECKS AND --
MAKE IT SEEMS KIND OF OBVIOUS, GO AHEAD.
>> AFTER
PETE BUTIGIEG DROPPED OUT, HE WAS DOING REALLY WELL ON MONEY,
FUNDRAISING A LOT AND A LOT OF HIS BUTLERS AFTER SOUTH CAROLINA
WILL REALLY WORRIED ABOUT HIS ABILITY TO GO THE DISTANCE OF
THE CONVERSATIONS AROUND WALL STREET ON SUNDAY MONDAY ABOUT
OKAY, LET'S GO TO JOE BIDEN AND SOME OF
PETE BUTIGIEG'S BUNDLES TRY TO GET PEOPLE ON BOARD WITH BIDEN
AND PEOPLE FEELING LIKE, I TALKED TO A BUNDLER WHO HAD SORT
OF LIKED BLOOMBERG, BLOOMBERG NOT TAKING CONTRIBUTIONS BUT WAS
SORT OF LIKE INTO THE IDEA OF BLOOMBERG BUT NOW IS GOING TO
UNDER FOUR BIDEN SO I THINK THAT IS DEFTLY, WE TALKED A COUPLE OF
HOURS AGO ABOUT MOMENTUM, MOMENTUM MANIFESTS AND AMONG THE
DONOR CLASS AS WELL. NOW YOU SEE THE TWEETS ABOUT THIS. AS YOU
MENTIONED, THE SOUTH OF A TRUMP EMPLOYEE AND LOYAL SUPPORTER
TWEETING ABOUT MAXIMIZING HIS CONTRIBUTION, OKAY, IT MAY SOUND
OBVIOUS, MONEY IS IMPORTANT BUT EUGENE, WE ARE SEEING MONEY NOT
WORK OUT FOR TOM STEYER, NOT WORK OUT FOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG
AND EVEN NOT NECESSARILY HURT SOMEONE LIKE JOE BIDEN WHO
DIDN'T HAVE THE MONEY AND DIDN'T HAVE AN EXPENSIVE AND RICHLY
NETWORKED GROUND GAME AND PUT IN STATES HE IS MANAGING TO WIN SO
WHAT COULD AN INFUSION OF MONEY MEAN FOR JOE BIDEN? I THINK IT
WOULD ALLOW HIM TO GET HIS MESSAGE TO PEOPLE THAT HE
PERHAPS WASN'T ABLE TO AND WHEN I SAY HIS MESSAGE I MEAN HIS
PERSON, HIS BODY. WE HAVE SEEN HIM HAVE IMPACT WHEN HE CONNECTS
WITH VOTERS. THERE IS A FAMILIARITY THAT PEOPLE SENSE
THAT REMINDS THEM OF A TIME WHEN THINGS WERE JUST LESS HOSTILE
COMING OUT OF WASHINGTON AND THAT IS WHEN SOME. WE SAW IT
REALLY BE THAT CASE FOR BUTIGIEG IN IOWA AND IN THE PAST, HIS
ABILITY TO HIT THE GROUND GOING EVERYWHERE CONNECTING WITH
PEOPLE REALLY WORKED OUT FOR HIM. I IMAGINE HIM DOING THAT
FOR BUT I KNOW COULD WORK OUT FOR BIDEN WHEN YOU EXPAND YOUR
SURROGATES. YOU HAVE MORE PEOPLE TAKING HER MESSAGE TO PLACES
LIKE WHERE YOU MIGHT NOT BE AS EFFECTIVE IN AND THAT'S WHAT IS
GOING TO TRY TO DO BECAUSE WHILE HE WAS DOING WELL IN THE STATE
S HE HAS WON THERE ARE STILL PLACES HE IS NOT REALLY GOING TO
BE ABLE TO SWEEP THINGS AS EASILY AND I THINK HE IS GOING
TO TRY TO PUT A DENT IN THAT. >> SO WE ARE SO FOCUSED ON SUPER
TUESDAY BUT THERE ARE SO MANY MORE BIG DAYS ON THE CALENDAR
COMING UP. JAMES, HOW DO THE CANDIDATES NEED TO TAKE WHAT
HAPPENED TONIGHT, WE ARE WAITING FOR MORE RETURNS TO MINUTE RACES
TO BE CALLED IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE COUNTRY AS WE MOVE WEST BUT
HOW DO WE TAKE WHAT WE HAVE TONIGHT AND USE THERE TIME AND
THE SMARTEST WAY BEFORE THE NEXT GROUP OF STATES VOTE NEXT
TUESDAY AND THEN ANOTHER GROUP OF STATES VOTE THE FOLLOWING
TUESDAY AFTER THAT? >> SO 30 MORE STATES STILL ARE
GOING TO VOTE AND 31 STATES STILL HAVE TO VOTE. IT'S
IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT 2/3 OF DELEGATES STILL HAVE TO BE
AWARDED. THERE IS GOING TO BE A TON OF
PLEASURE ON MIKE BLOOMBERG AND ELIZABETH WARREN TO GET OUT OF
THE RACE. WARREN WILL END UP WITH VERY FEW DELEGATES,
FINISHING THIRD IN HER HOME STATE, SHE HAS ENOUGH MONEY TO
CONTINUE, ACTUALLY HAS ENOUGH MONEY TO FUND AN ORGANIZATION
AND A LOT OF THESE STATES BUT HAVING FIELD ORGANIZERS IS NOT
TRANSLATING INTO SUPPORT SO THERE IS GOING TO BE, SHE
DOESN'T HAVE BUNDLERS AND MAJOR DONORS SO SHE IS GOING TO SEE
PRESSURE TO DEAF ASIDE. SOME OF HER SUPPORTERS WILL GO BOTH
DIRECTIONS AND MIKE BLOOMBERG, A DISAPPOINTING TO PUT IT MILDLY
NIGHT FOR HIM SO I THINK HE IS GOING TO FACE A LOT OF PRESSURE
TO GET OUT AND SO IF EITHER OF THEM GET OUT YOU WILL SEE MORE
CONSOLIDATION IN SORT OF SPLITTING UP AND I THINK
EVERYONE IS GOING TO SORT OF PICK THE STATES THAT WORK WELL
FOR THEM AND SORT OF TRY TO CULTIVATE THEM SO SANDERS IS
BUILDING A SUN BELT COALITION OF YOUNG LATINOS AND YOUNGER VOTERS
AND THEN THE MIDWEST IS GOING TO END UP BEING A INTERESTING
BATTLEGROUND. SO WORKING-CLASS WHITES ARE KIND OF THE CORE OF
SANDERS
' COALITION. THAT IS WHAT POWERED HIM IN 2016. HE DID NOT
DO WELL WITH COMMUNITIES OF COLOR. THAT IS WHY HE BEAT
HILLARY CLINTON IN MICHIGAN 4 YEARS AGO WHICH OF WAS A HUGE
UPSET THAT THE POLLS DID NOT SHOW COMING. THIS TIME, THE
NORTH CAROLINA EXIT POLLS SHOW BIDEN'S LEADING AMONG WORKING
CLASS WHITES MEANING NON-EDUCATED COLLEGE-EDUCATED
WHITE
PEOPLE ESPECIALLY MEN. THAT IS SANDERS' BREAD-AND-BUTTER AND IN
TERMS OF YOUR QUESTION ABOUT THE NEXT STATES PEOPLE WILL LOOK AT,
WISCONSIN IS NOT COMING UP FOR A WHILE BUT THAT WOULD BE KIND OF
A, COULD END UP BEING THE DECISIVE PRIMARY OF THE SEASON.
WISCONSIN, MICHIGAN, INDIANA, AND BECAUSE, IF BIDEN IS ABLE TO
WIN IN THOSE PLACES OVER SANDERS, SANDERS REALLY DOESN'T
HAVE
A PATH FORWARD. HE MAY STAY AROUND UNTIL JUNE BUT HE DOESN'T
HAVE A CREDIBLE PATH TO THE NOMINATION BASEMENT IF YOU WERE
THOSE CANDIDATES, WHAT WOULD YOU BE CONSIDERING? SMITH WILL
CERTAINLY, TRYING TO ON THE NARRATIVE WITH THE DEMOGRAPHICS
HERE MOST AT RISK OF LOSING. IT IS NOT A SURPRISE TO ME THAT
DESPITE WHITE WORKING-CLASS VOTERS BEING SANDERS' BASE OR
BIG PART OF HIS
BASE THAT HE LOST THEM TO HILLARY CLINTON RIGHT BECAUSE
HILLARY CLINTON WAS NOT PERCEIVED AS BEING VERY
CONNECTED TO WHITE WORKING-CLASS AMERICA. THAT IS PART OF JOE
BIDEN'S NARRATIVE SO HE WAS NOT ABLE TO ALLOW, SANDERS WAS NOT
ABLE TO DOMINATE THE GROUP THE WAY HE HAD IN 2016 AND SO I
THINK WHAT BIDEN IS GOING TO DO NOW IS
AS MUCH EMPHASIS AS HE HAS PLACED ON WINNING VOTERS OF
COLOR AND SPECIFICALLY BLACK VOTERS, I THINK HE IS NOW GOING
TO SAY, SEE THAT HE CAN BE COMPETITIVE AND OTHER GROUPS
THAT HE ACTUALLY NEEDS TO EXPAND HIS COALITION ON TO WIN SUCH
THAT HE SHOWED STRENGTH WITH VERY LIBERAL VOTERS AND WILL
PROBABLY SPEND TIME CLEARING OUT WHAT IS IT ABOUT MY MESSAGE THAT
REALLY RESONATED WITH THAT GROUP THAT I CAN HONE IN ON AND
PERHAPS TO EVEN BETTER WITH THEM IN THE FUTURE BECAUSE I THINK
WHAT HAPPENS A LOT OF TIMES, WE SAW THIS IN 2016, CANDIDATES
ASSUME, I REALLY PROBABLY CAN'T MAKE ANY PROGRESS WITH THAT
GROUP SO I WILL SPEND MY ENERGY FOCUSED ON THIS GROUP AND I
THINK WHAT IS GOING TO PROBABLY END UP HAPPENING IS BIDEN IS
GOING TO SAY ACTUALLY I CAN PROBABLY DO A LITTLE BETTER WITH
THESE GROUPS THAT I THOUGHT I COULD.
>> ONE OF BIDEN'S MESSAGES IS IT CAN MOVE BACKWARDS. WITH BARACK
OBAMA, HIS GOOD FRIEND BARACK, HOW DOES HE GET PEOPLE
TO TAP INTO EXACTLY WHAT YOU GUYS WERE TALKING ABOUT THROUGH
THIS FRUSTRATION OF THE TONE OF THE POLITICAL CLIMATE, THE
DISLIKE OF TRUMP, WANTING TO GO BACK TO A MOMENT THAT JUST
SEEMED LIKE IT HAD MORE POSITIVITY TO IT AND YET HAVE A
FORWARD-LOOKING MESSAGE TO TAP INTO. THE ANGLE, THE FRUSTRATION
OF PEOPLE WHO DON'T FEEL LIKE THEY ARE BEING INCLUDED IN THIS
NATIONAL CONVERSATION AND WHAT BERNIE SANDERS HAS BEEN ABLE TO
SO CLEARLY GET BEHIND HIM? >> THAT IS THE BALANCING ACT
THAT BIDEN WILL FACE. WE DON'T WANT A REVOLUTION, WE WANT TO GO
BACK TO THE WAY THINGS WORK AND YOU KNOW, EVEN PEOPLE TO JUDGE
IS NOW ENDORSING HIM AND SAID WE DON'T WANT TO JUST GO BACK TO
THE WAY THINGS WERE. WE HAVE DONALD TRUMP BECAUSE PEOPLE WERE
NOT HAPPY WITH THE WAY THINGS WERE. THAT IS GOING TO BE A
DELICATE BALANCING BALANCING ACT. HE DOESN'T JUST TALK ABOUT
BARACK OBAMA BUT
TALKING ABOUT SENATORS WHO DIED 40 YEARS AGO AND IT'S LIKE ALL
MY GOOD FRIEND, -- HE DIED IN 1982 NEXT AND IT HAS GOTTEN HIM
IN TROUBLE. MAKE IT HAS BEEN HE TALKED ABOUT EIGHT
SEGREGATIONIST AND WAYS OF ABOUT TALKING ABOUT BRIDGING DIVISIONS
AND STUFF LIKE THAT THAT REMINDED PEOPLE OF HIS LONG
RECORD. I WANT TO PAUSE BECAUSE WE DO HAVE A RACE TO CALL. WE
ARE HEARING FROM OUR ELECTIONS INSIDE TEAM THAT THERE IS
ANOTHER RACE ON THE BOARD.
WE ARE NOW READY TO CALL THE RACE IN MASSACHUSETTS. THE
WASHINGTON POST IS PROJECTING JOE BIDEN WILL WIN THE BAYSTATE.
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS AS 91 DELEGATES AT
STAKE TONIGHT AND THAT MEANS ELIZABETH WARREN HAS LOST HER
HOME STATE. LET'S GO TO JEREMY BOWERS, THE ELECTION INSIDE
TEAM. WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT MASSACHUSETTS AND WHAT TO THE
NUMBERS TELL YOU? SMITH A LOOK AT THE FACT THAT ELIZABETH
WARREN DIDN'T JUST LOSE HER HOME STATE BUT FINISHED THIRD IN HER
HOME STATE. JOE BIDEN PROJECTING TO WIN THE STATE OF
MASSACHUSETTS WHEN ABOUT 60% TO 65%
REPORTING. THERE ARE 91 DELEGATES AND IT LOOKS LIKE
BIDEN AND SANDERS WILL SPLIT THOSE PRETTY WELL ALTHOUGH
ELIZABETH WARREN WITH 22% WILL GET SOME DELEGATES OUT OF THE
STATE. THIS IS CERTAINLY A LONG WAY OFF OF WHAT WE EXPECTED
EARLIER TONIGHT. BEFORE THE POLLS CLOSE IN THE STATE, THIS
WOULD HAVE BEEN AN EASY GIVING WENT FOR ELIZABETH WARREN
. SHE MIGHT'VE BEEN DUKING IT OUT WITH BERNIE SANDERS BUT I
DON'T THINK ANYBODY HAD ANY IDEA JOE BIDEN WOULD COME OUT AHEAD
IN THIS STATE. IT'S A BIG DEAL FOR JOE BIDEN BECAUSE HE ALREADY
HAS A WINNING COALITION IN THE SOUTH, DOING VERY WELL IN STATES
WITH HIGH AFRICAN-AMERICAN TURNOUT, DOING WELL IN PLACES
WHERE HE WAS EXPECTED TO DO WELL BUT THIS IS NOT ONE OF THOSE
STATES. SO THIS IS FOR US A PRETTY BIG DEAL AND SOMETHING WE
WILL WATCH LATER AS WE GO TO ASSEMBLE THE DELEGATE MATH AND
FIGURE OUT WHO IS LEADING IN THE RACE UP TO THE CONVENTION THIS
SUMMER. UNTIL THEN WE WILL KEEP OUR EYES PEELED FOR ANY
ADDITIONAL RACE CALLS, LIBBY BUT FOR NOW, BACK TO YOU.
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH, JEREMY BOWERS, APPRECIATE THAT.
>>> LET'S TALK ABOUT MASSACHUSETTS AND WHAT IT MEANS
FOR ELIZABETH WARREN . >> FINISHING THIRD PLACE IN YOUR
HOME STATE IS DEVASTATING. I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT YOUR
RATIONALE IS FOR CONTINUING YOUR CAMPAIGN. WE THOUGHT THERE WAS A
CHANCE SHE WOULD LOSE TO BERNIE SANDERS PITCH LOSS TO BERNIE AND
LOST A JOE BIDEN AND DID NOT JUST LOSE THEM A JOE BIDEN WITH
"STILL BEING COUNTED HAS MORE THAN 100,000 MORE VOTES THAN SHE
DOES. BIDEN DID NOT CAMPAIGN THERE A SINGLE TIME. AND SO THIS
IS, I MEAN IT IS VERY HARD FOR WARREN TO CONTINUE HER CAMPAIGN
AFTER FINISHING THIRD IN HER HOME STATE AND IT DOES SHOW
MASSACHUSETTS DEMOCRATS ARE DIFFERENT
DIFFERENT THAN A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK. THERE IS A STEREOTYPE OF
LIKE TAXA TO SETS AND MASSACHUSETTS IS NOT ALL
CAMBRIDGE LIBERALS. THAT IS PART OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS,
IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS, IT IS VERY WORKING-CLASS, EVEN IN
BOSTON AND THAT'S NOT NECESSARILY WARREN'S CROWD BUT
IT ALSO SHOWS AND YOU CAN WEIGH IN ON THIS, EUGENE BUT THE
CHALLENGES SHE FACED RUNNING A POPULIST MESSAGE BUT VERY MUCH
TARGETING SORT OF AN ELITE AUDIENCE SO HER SPEECH, HER SOME
SPEECHES FULL OF LIKE PITCHFORK, YOUNG CROWDS CHANT TWO CENTS,
TWO CENTS FOR HER WEALTH TAX BUT HER SUPPORTERS ARE KIND OF LIKE
WELL-TO-DO SUBURBANITES, THEY ARE NOT THE KIND OF PEOPLE THAT
SUPPORT SANDERS WHO ACTUALLY HAVE BEEN REALLY KIND OF HURT BY
THE SYSTEM AND LEFT BEHIND. SO THAT I THINK WAS HER FUNDAMENTAL
CHALLENGE WAS THAT
, AND I ALSO THINK SHE SAID A LOT OF PURITY TESTS FOR HERSELF
THAT SHE WAS NOT ABLE TO ME, FLIP-FLOPPED ON THE SUPER PACK,
THE RACE MOVED AWAY FROM HER BUT I FOLLOWED ELIZABETH WARREN
INCREDIBLY CLOSELY AND GONE TO SO MANY OF HER EVENTS AND SO TO
HAVE HER FINISHED THIRD IN HER OWN STATUS KIND OF, IT SEEMS
LIKE A
DOOM FOR HER CAMPAIGN . >> IT IS NOT THAT SURPRISING
WHEN YOU LOOK AT DEMOGRAPHICS. SO I SAW A STAT EARLIER TODAY.
YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT HOW POPULAR ELIZABETH WARREN IS WITH
HIGHLY EDUCATED WHITE LIBERALS AND IN URBAN AREAS. I SAW A STAT
EARLIER TODAY THAT SAID THERE ARE MORE COLLEGE, MORE HIGH
SCHOOL DROPOUTS IN OUR COUNTRY THAN PEOPLE WITH MASTERS
DEGREES. SO THE REALITY IS IF THAT IS HER LANE, AND EVEN IN
MASSACHUSETTS, NOT EVERYTHING IN MASSACHUSETTS IS CAMBRIDGE. AND
SHE HAS TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO EXPAND HER MESSAGE BEYOND THAT
AND SHE JUST HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO. THERE IS A REPORT THAT EVEN
THOUGH SHE HAS BEEN POPULAR WITH BLACK ACTIVISTS, SHE HAS NOT
BEEN POPULAR WITH THE BASE WHO ARE LOOKING MORE TO SOME
POLITICIANS FOR GUIDANCE AS JIM CLYBURN SHOWED US. SHE HAS MADE
IT CLEAR SHE WOULD WANT TO STAY IN THE RACE TO HELP INFLUENCE
SOMEHOW THE PARTY PLATFORM. I THINK THERE MAY BE SOME PUSH TO
SEE IF SHE CAN STILL INFLUENCE THE PARTY PLATFORM BY GETTING
OUT OF THE RACE AND IN THE EVENT THAT SHE IS TAKING AWAY VOTES
FROM SOME
-- THE LAST TWO BECAUSE I KNOW A LOT OF WARNED SUPPORTERS WERE
STILL GOING TO VOTE FOR HER AS LONG AS SHE IS IN THE RACE.
>> THAT IS A GOOD POINT AND WHAT I SHOULD SAY IS ALSO WARREN'S
FAVORABILITY IS STILL PRETTY HIGH. IT DOESN'T MEAN PEOPLE
HATE HER. A REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST TESTED ME AND
TEXTED ME AND SAID THAT THIS MEANS YOU WILL GET A PRIMARY
CHALLENGE IN 2024? NO, PEOPLE LIKE HER BUT DECIDED NOT TO VOTE
FOR HER AND I THINK THAT IS A REFLECTION OF THE FACT THAT
PEOPLE HAVE SORT OF DECIDED THIS IS A TWO PERSON RACE AND THE
MAJORITY OF DEMOCRATS DECIDED THIS IS A TWO PERSON RACE. THIS,
EVERYONE IS IN UNTIL THEY NOT IN AND I THINK WARREN COULD TRY TO
-- THE OXYGEN IS GOING TO DISAPPEAR.
>> EVEN IN IOWA, WE ARE SEEING CAUCUS SITES WHERE WARREN JUST
WASN'T JUST MAKING THE THRESHOLD, NOT QUITE AND IT WAS
SO CLOSE LIKE A FEW VOTES HERE AND THERE.
THESE WERE ANECDOTAL STORIES BUT IT JUST WASN'T QUITE ROBUST
ENOUGH TO GET HER INTO THAT COMPETITIVE LANE WHERE THEY
COULD DRAW IN SOME FOLLOWERS AND GET SOME NUMBERS ON THE BOARD
AND ADVANCE IN A WAY THAT MADE SENSE.
WHO HAS SHE ALIGNED HERSELF WITH AT THIS POINT? WHO HAS SHE
ALIENATED? SHE HAS BEEN FIERCE IN HER TAX OF MICHAEL BLOOMBERG.
NOT SOMEONE SHE RISKS A LOT BY GOING ON THE ATTACK BY SHOWING
THAT DEBATE PROWESS THAT SHE HAS BUT WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP IN
THE BACKGROUND WITH BERNIE SANDERS, SOMEBODY SHE TALKS A
LOT ABOUT, HOW THEY ARE ALIGNED AND A LOT OF EVERY POINTS BUT
HAVE DIFFERENT SORT OF TRACK RECORDS I GUESS YOU COULD SAY,
WINS, LEGISLATIVELY. WHAT ABOUT JOE BIDEN? CAN YOU TALK ABOUT
THAT A LITTLE BIT? >> SHE HAS TRIED TO ESTABLISH
YOURSELF AS A BRIDGE BETWEEN SANDERS AND BIDEN. SHE DID HAVE
A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH SANDERS AND THEN SHE SORT OF CONTRASTED
HERSELF WITH HIM SAYING I AM A CAPITALIST, HE IS A SOCIALIST.
BUT THEN THERE WAS A SIGNIFICANT PERSONAL FALLING OUT OVER THE
DINNER WHEN SHE SAYS THAT HE TOLD HER A WOMAN CAN'T GET
ELECTED PRESIDENT, CANNOT WIN THE NOMINATION, CANNOT BEAT
TRUMP. HE DENIES IT AND HE FELT LIKE A CONFIDENCE WAS BETRAYED,
IT WAS THE TWO OF THEM AT DINNER AND IN HER CONDO IN CHINATOWN .
>> YOU SAID A TENSE MOMENT WITH TOM STEYER AWKWARDLY LOOKING ON
AT BOTH OF THEM. >> THAT REALLY DID CAUSE
PERSONAL FRICTION BETWEEN THEM AND I DO THINK SANDERS
, TO SOME DEGREE, UNFAIRLY AND ACTUALLY TO A GREAT DEGREE,
UNFAIRLY BLAMES WARREN FOR
SORT OF HIS FAILURE TO CONSOLIDATE THE LIBERAL SUPPORT
BECAUSE WARREN DOESN'T REALLY JUST DRAW FROM SANDERS VOTERS. A
LOT OF PEOPLE THAT SUPPORT WARREN WOULD NEVER SUPPORT THAT
SANDERS AND SIMILARLY HER RELATIONSHIP WITH BIDEN IS
ACTUALLY MORE FRAUD BECAUSE THERE IS A LONG HISTORY SO
WARREN WAS ALLIES WITH
SANDERS WHEN SHE WAS A HARVARD LAW PROFESSOR, SHE USED TO GO TO
VERMONT AND DO EVENTS WITH HIM WHEN HE WAS IN CONGRESS. WHERE
IS WARREN WHEN SHE WAS A LOT PROCESS OR LAW PROFESSOR WENT
BACK AND FORTH WITH BIDEN WHEN HE WAS ON THE FINANCE COMMITTEE
AND SO --
>> ALL THE HISTORY SHE HAS THERE WITH THAT AND BIDEN TRIED TO
TAKE SOME CREDIT FOR THAT. McGEE WILL BE REALLY INTERESTING.
WARREN HAD TO RUN A CAMPAIGN THAT IS
RICH AND DEEP IN IDEOLOGY. SHE HAS A WORLDVIEW THAT SHE
BELIEVES WOULD BE BEST FOR AMERICA THAT OBVIOUSLY,
CONFLICTS WITH THAT OF TRUMPS BUT IN MANY WAYS GOES AGAINST
BIDEN'S AS WELL SO THAT WILL DEFINITELY SHAPE, I IMAGINE, HOW
SHE WAS FORWARD IN TERMS OF WHO SHE WILL ALIGN HERSELF WITH BUT
PART OF WHAT SHE IS LIKELY PROBABLY GOING TO DO OR AT LEAST
THE CONVERSATION WILL TRY TO PUSH HER IN THE DIRECTION IS WHO
DO YOU THINK CAN WIN. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO HAPPEN ULTIMATELY
AND DON'T -- IN NOVEMBER AND DEFEATING TRUMP AS PART OF THAT
AND I DON'T IMAGINE SHE WOULD COME OUT IN SUPPORT OF EITHER OF
THEM WITHOUT THEM SOMEHOW COMMUNICATING THAT THERE VISION
FOR AMERICA WILL BORROW SOME WHAT FROM WHAT SHE HAS WORKED
REALLY HARD TO PUT OUT THERE. >> WHILE THIS IS SUPER TUESDAY
AND THIS YEAR IT IS MORE SUPER THAN BEFORE BECAUSE CALIFORNIA
MOVED UP ITS PRIMARY FROM JUNE. JOINING US NOW FOR MORE ON WHAT
EXACTLY THAT MEANS TONIGHT IS JEREMY BOWERS. JEREMY, HOW IS
THIS IMPACTING THE NOMINATION PROCESS
>> YOU KNOW, HAVING CALIFORNIA AND SUPER TUESDAY IS A BIG DEAL.
PREVIOUSLY, CALIFORNIA'S PRIMARY WAS IN JUNE SO ALL 415 OF THOSE
DELEGATES WERE HANGING OUT AFTER AN AWFUL LOT OF THE OTHER
PRIMARIES HAD GONE DOWN. THIS YEAR THEY HAVE MOVED THEMSELVES
ALL THE WE HAPPEN TO SUPER TUESDAY WHICH MEANS CALIFORNIANS
HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY DOWN TO HELP MAKE A DECISION ABOUT WHO IS
GOING TO BE THE NOMINEE FOR THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE. I WOULD LIKE TO
SHOW YOU A BIT OF A MAP THAT WE PUT TOGETHER ABOUT THE STATE OF
CALIFORNIA. ONE OF THE THINGS WE THINK IS INTERESTING IS THAT
CALIFORNIA HAS A REALLY INTERESTING BREAKDOWN OF ETHNIC
DISTRIBUTION. LET'S TAKE A LOOK. YOU CAN SEE THE STATE OF
CALIFORNIA HAS EVEN ON THE VERY FIRST GLANCE, A MUCH LARGER
HISPANIC OR LOT NEXT UP POPULATION ESPECIALLY FOR
VOTERS. THIS IS SIMILAR TO SAY NEVADA WHERE BERNIE SANDERS DID
REALLY WELL IN 2020 AND
WHERE WE WOULD NOT EXPECT BIDEN TO DO PARTICULARLY WELL.
TONIGHT, IN CALIFORNIA, WE ARE GOING TO WATCH NOT ONLY THAT
BERNIE SANDERS NUMBER WHERE HE MIGHT DO REALLY WELL IN THE
HISPANIC VOTING POPULATION. WE ARE ALSO GOING TO WATCHING MIKE
BLOOMBERG WHO HAS SPENT A LOT OF MONEY IN THE STATE AND HAS BEEN
PULLING REALLY WELL THERE. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IS REALLY
INTERESTING TO US HERE AS WE ARE WATCHING DELEGATE MATH SO WHAT
WE ARE WATCHING IS WHETHER OR NOT BLOOMBERG CAN CONTINUE TO
PRY VOTES OFF OF JOE BIDEN IN THE STATE. IF HE'S ABLE TO DO
THIS IT MIGHT MAKE RINGS MORE DIFFICULT FOR BIDEN TO WRAP UP
THE NOMINATION EARLY. ANOTHER THING THAT MIGHT BE THE CASE IS
IF ELIZABETH WARREN IS ABLE TO PULL VOTES AWAY FROM BERNIE
SANDERS IT MIGHT MAKE IT EASIER FOR BIDEN TO RISE UP IN THE
FINAL TALLY AS WELL. ONE THING IS 100% CERTAIN ABOUT THE STATE
OF CALIFORNIA. NO MATTER HOW MUCH WE ARE GOING TO TALK ABOUT
IT TONIGHT, WE ARE NOT GOING TO FIND OUT ANYTHING FOR AT LEAST A
COUPLE MORE DAYS. CALIFORNIA TAKES AN EXCEEDINGLY LONG TIME
TO COUNT IT'S VOTES. ONE OF THE REASONS WHY, IN THE STATE OF
CALIFORNIA, AS LONG AS YOU HAVE POSTMARKED YOUR BALLOT BY TODAY,
ELECTION DAY, YOUR VOTE WILL BE COUNTED AND IN A COUPLE OF
PLACES, THAT'S GOING TO BE THE REAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHETHER
OR NOT WE HAVE A JOE BIDEN PICKING UP A HANDFUL OF
DELEGATES, WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE SOMEONE LIKE MIKE BLOOMBERG
PICKING UP A HANDLED OF DELEGATES BUT THAT IS
ESSENTIALLY THE THINGS WE WILL BE WATCHING IN CALIFORNIA. UNTIL
THEN I WILL KICK IT BACK TO YOU, LIBBY.
>>> THANK YOU SO MUCH, JEREMY. EUGENE, LOOKING UP CALIFORNIA
AND THE DEMOGRAPHICS IN CALIFORNIA, IT'S GOING TO BE
SUCH AN IMPORTANT STATE TO WATCH NOT IN TERMS OF THE DELEGATE
COUNT ONLY BUT TO GET THE CHECKMARK TO WIN BUT ALSO TO SEE
HOW THE TURNOUT IS. AND TO REALLY TRACK WHY PEOPLE ARE
VOTING THE WAY THAT THEY ARE. WHAT WILL YOU BE WATCHING FOR?
>> LOOKING AT TURNOUT TO SEE HOW SIGNIFICANT IT IS AT ALL AND
WHERE IT GOES. SO THE ASSUMPTION HAS BEEN THAT IT WOULD BE A
STATE THAT GOES FOR SANDERS AND OVERWHELMINGLY SO. IF THAT IS
NOT THE CASE, THAT SHOULD COMMUNICATE SOMETHING
, I THINK, NOT JUST TO BOTH INDIVIDUALS BUT AT LEAST BOTH
LEADERS AND OTHER PEOPLE RUNNING IN TERMS OF WHAT VOTERS WANT,
WHAT DIRECTION THEY ARE LOOKING TOWARDS AND WHAT WOULD BE THE
LAST BEST WAY TO DEFEAT TRUMP IN NOVEMBER.
>> WOMAN LOOK AT THE ROLE OF MONEY IN THE RACE, ADVERTISING
IN THE RACE, HOW DOES THAT CHANGE
IF WE GET DEEPER INTO THIS PROCESS. DOES ADVERTISING PLAY
AN ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT ROLE WHEN PEOPLE ARE STILL SHOPPING
AROUND AND ASKING QUESTIONS AND TRYING TO LEARN ABOUT THE
CANDIDATES, TRYING TO GET A SENSE OF THE ARK IF YOU ARE
SOMEONE TRYING TO MAKE YOUR MARK BUT IF YOU ARE PETE BUTIGIEG OR
JOE BIDEN, WHEN IS THE TIME TO HIT?
>> ADVERTISING MATTERS WHEN THERE IS KIND OF PARITY. SO
BLOOMBERG HAS THESE STATES TO HIMSELF AND IT WAS SO MUCH MONEY
PEOPLE WERE DILUTED WITH IT BUT IT DID HELP HIM GET DOUBLE
DIGITS IN A LOT OF STATES, 20% IN A PLACE LIKE COLORADO AND
THAT'S BECAUSE HE SPENT TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ON ADS THAT
PEOPLE DID NOT SEE ANYONE ELSE WITH ADS. IT DOES MOVE THE
NEEDLE. PEOPLE LOVE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT NEGATIVE ADS BUT THEY KIND
OF WORK. I THINK AND END UP HAVING MORE OF AN IMPACT IN
PLACES LIKE IOWA. PETE BUTIGIEG RAISED ENOUGH MONEY TO DOMINATE
ON THE AIRWAVES IN IOWA. SO WHEN YOU COME TO SOME OF THESE STATES
COMING UP LIKE ARIZONA SORT OF HAS A DAY TO ITSELF, ADVERTISING
WILL MATTER BUT EVERYONE WILL BE ON THE AIRWAVES.
>> STAY WITH US, EUGENE, JAMES AS WE ARE STILL WATCHING
DELEGATES RACE HEAT UP AND WE ARE WATCHING MORE OF THE VOTE
TALLIES COMMITTED WHILE WE HAVE YOU HERE, PLEASE HIT THE
SUBSCRIBE BUTTON EITHER ON THE HOME PAGE OR WATCHING YOUTUBE,
TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT OF THE NEWSROOM AT THAT THE WASHINGTON
POST. LIVE COVERAGE CONTINUES IN 30 SECONDS.
>>> A LOOK AT LOS ANGELES WITH
HOLLYWOOD'S GOLDEN AGE, 1926. THE POLLS CLOSE IN A HALF AN
HOUR IN THE GOLDEN STATE. WELCOME BACK. I'M
LIBBY CASEY BIG IT HAS BEEN A MONUMENTAL NIGHT IN AMERICAN
POLITICS AND THE MAP TELLS THE STORY OF THE NATIONAL DARE
PRIMARY. JOE BIDEN PROJECTED WIN MASSACHUSETTS, ARKANSAS,
OKLAHOMA, TENNESSEE, NORTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA, ALABAMA AND
MINNESOTA. BERNIE SANDERS PROJECTED TO WIN UTAH, COLORADO
AND VERMONT AND ACCORDING TO EXIT POLLS, BY EDISON, THE
VERMONT SENATOR IS TAKING THE EARLY LEAD IN CALIFORNIA. STOP
WHAT YOU'RE DOING A LOOK AT THE CURRENT STATE OF THE DELEGATE
RACE, BIDEN HAS ONE DELEGATE LEAD OVER BERNIE SANDERS.
LET'S GO NOT TO THE POST, JEREMY BOWERS WITH THE LATEST WITH HOW
THIS 90s SHAPING UP. JEREMY, LET'S GO TO TEXAS. HOW IS THIS
LOOKING AT THIS POINT? >> THAT IS A REALLY GOOD
QUESTION. WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING THE STATE OF TEXAS BECAUSE IT
HAS SO MANY DELEGATES BUT IT IS ALSO AN INTERESTING STATE
BECAUSE IT IS A BIT OF A DIFFERENT SHAPE IN TERMS OF THE
ELECTRIC. LET'S LOOK AT SEE WHAT IS BEEN GOING ON IN THIS HOUR.
WE HAVE BERNIE SANDERS WHO HAS A PRETTY COMMANDING LEAD IN THE
STATE, 20% OF THE VOTE BUT EARLIER TONIGHT, HE HAD MUCH
MORE OF THE VOTE OR AT LEAST CERTAINLY JOE BIDEN DID NOT HAVE
AS MUCH AS HE HAD
SO THE TWO CANDIDATES APPEAR TO BE DRAWING REALLY CLOSE
TOGETHER. FOR A LITTLE BIT MORE INSIGHT ON WHAT IS GOING ON IN
TEXAS, I WOULD LIKE TO BRING BACK LENNY BRONNER. MONEY YU
HAVE BEEN WATCHING THIS PIECE OF SOFTWARE THAT HELPS US SEE WHERE
WE THINK THERE ARE VOTES OUTSTANDING. WHAT DOES IT TELL
US WHAT IS GOING ON WITH SANDERS AND BIDEN HERE IN TEXAS TONIGHT?
I AM RUNNING THE SOFTWARE AS WE SPEAK SO I DON'T HAVE THE MOST
UP-TO-DATE NUMBERS BUT WHAT I CAN SAY IS THE RACE IS STILL
RELATIVELY WIDE OPEN. I MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY THAT THE
MODEL SHOWED BIDEN HAD A LOT OF VOTES OUTSTANDING IN THAT STILL
SEEMS TO BE TRUE, SANDERS SAYS, TOO. THE PROBLEM WE ARE HAVING
AT THE MOMENT WITH MAKING MORE CONCRETE ESTIMATES IS THAT THOSE
COUNTIES THAT HAVE REPORTED SO FAR ARE RELATIVELY SMALL. TEXAS
HAS A LOT OF COUNTIES, 250, THE MOST IN THE COUNTRY BUT A LOT
HAVE VERY FEW REGISTERED VOTERS AND THOSE OTHER ONES THAT REPORT
EARLY BECAUSE THERE ARE NOT THAT MANY VOTES TO COUNSEL THOSE ARE
THE ONES WITH THE CURRENTLY. 100 REPORTING SO THE MODEL GIVES
PRETTY LARGE UNCERTAINTY IN TERMS OF THE ESTIMATES.
>> THAT'S TRUE IN THESE ARE THE KINDS OF THINGS WE ARE TO
ATTEMPTING TO GIVE YOU MORE INSIGHT THAT YOU WERE NOT JUST
GET FROM THE RAW VOTE IN A STATE LIKE THAT SO GIVEN ALL THAT, WE
CAN STILL SAY THAT TEXAS LOOKS LIKE A PLACE WHERE EITHER
SANDERS OR BIDEN COULD COME OUT PRETTY FAR AHEAD AS LONG AS
THERE ARE VOTES WAITING FOR THEM SOMEWHERE IN THE CITIES THAT
HAVE NOT GOTTEN THE CHANCE TO COUNT OR COUNTIES THAT ARE LARGE
THAT ARE NOT 100% REPORTING YET. >> I SAID EARLIER IT WAS A 1
DELEGATE LEAD WHICH WOULD BE A SWEET BUT AN 11 DELEGATE LEAD BY
JOE BIDEN RIGHT NOW BUT STILL, REALLY CLOSE GIVEN HOW THINGS
LOOKED JUST A WEEK AGO AND HOW JOE BIDEN IS STRUGGLING. WHAT DO
YOU READ FROM THE DELEGATE LEAD? McGEE NO, I DON'T THINK ANYBODY
THOUGHT THAT COMING IN TO TONIGHT WE WOULD SEE JOE BIDEN
WITH MORE DELEGATES THAN BERNIE SANDERS, CERTAINLY NOT IN THE
AKRON AND MAYBE NOT EVEN TONIGHT. THERE ARE STILL A LOT
OF
DELEGATES OUTSTANDING TO WANT TO BE CLEAR WE HAVE THE STATE OF
TEXAS THAT STILL HAS A BUNCH OF DELEGATES TO GIVE US AND WE
BARELY TALKED ABOUT CALIFORNIA AND THERE IS A TON THERE BUT
IT'S REALLY CLEAR THAT JOE BIDEN HAS HAD A PRETTY GOOD NIGHT. HE
HAS WON AN AWFUL LOT OF PLACES WHERE HE WAS NOT EXPECTED TO DO
THAT WELL. HE IS PULLING IN VOTERS, WHICH IS ONE OF THE
THINGS WE WERE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND OUR MODEL AND MORRIS
SETTING UP TWO MORE DELEGATES FOR HIM THAN WE EXPECTED. THE
BIG DELEGATE MATH QUESTION WE WILL TRY TO ANSWER, HOW MUCH OF
THE MICHAEL BLOOMBERG VOTE IS PULLING AWAY FROM JOE BIDEN AND
HOW MUCH OF ELIZABETH WARREN'S VOTE WILL PULL AWAY FROM BERNIE
SANDERS TONIGHT. >> JEREMY, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
>>> LET'S GO TO TEXAS BECAUSE WE ARE SEEING SOME OUTSTANDING
NUMBERS AT THIS HOUR . >> IT IS SUPERTYPE. THAT MATCHES
WITH POLLS. THE POLLS SHOWED WOULD BE CLOSE. LAST YEAR ALL
THE EARLY SHOWS POLLS SHOWED BIDEN IN THE LEAD. IT IS A
MEGA-STATE BUT ALSO IS A VERY DIVERSE STATE AND IT ALSO HAS A
LOT OF ITS SUBURBAN AREAS, DEMOCRATS, KIND OF CHANGING,
PART OF THE FUTURE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, DEMOCRATS
PICKED UP SEVERAL SUBURBAN HOUSE SEATS IN 2018. THOSE ARE PLACES
WHERE SANDERS IS NOT VERY POPULAR. I SPENT THE WEEKEND, I
SPENT SATURDAY AND SUNDAY INTERVIEWING VOTERS IN TEXAS IS
SEVENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT WHICH USED TO BE REPRESENTED BY
GEORGE H. W. BUSH AND IT WAS A BIG PICKUP OPPORTUNITY, A
WEALTHY AFFLUENT DISTRICT
. I TALKED TO DEMOCRATS WERE TERRIFIED ABOUT BERNIE SANDERS
BEING THE NOMINEE, TERRIFIED ABOUT MEDICARE FOR ALL, DID NOT
PARTICULARLY LOVE JOE BIDEN BUT WERE GETTING BEHIND HIM LATE
BECAUSE THEY FELT LIKE HE IS SOMEONE WHO COULD WIN AND I
THINK THAT IS THE STORY OF TEXAS AT THE
WERE THESE PEOPLE WHO BROKE LATE. USED IN WHICH IS SORT OF
THE BATTLEGROUND WITHIN THE BATTLEGROUND, EVERYONE WENT TO
HOUSTON WITHIN THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS, AND THAT IS WHERE
SANDERS CELEBRATED HIS WOMEN IN THE NEVADA CAUCUSES, WARREN WAS
THERE SATURDAY NIGHT, BIDEN WAS THERE MONDAY, BLOOMBERG WAS
THERE LAST THURSDAY SO THEY ALL WERE CAMPAIGNING HARD AND IT
SEEMS BASED ON WHAT WE ARE SEEING FROM THOSE RESULTS IN
HARRIS COUNTY, WHICH IT SHOULD BE NOTED IS BIGGER THAN 26
STATES IN TERMS OF POPULATION, THOSE PEOPLE BROKE TOWARD BIDEN,
NOT TOWARD BLOOMBERG OR WARNING WARRING -- WARREN. THIS IS A TWO
PERSON RACE FOR THE NOMINATION BETWEEN SANDERS AND BIDEN
PIGMENT THAT IS IN PART BY THE ENFORCEMENT -- ENDORSEMENT FROM
BETO O'ROURKE WAS SO IMPORTANT TO
>> HE IS PART OF A TRIO OF SOME RECENT CANDIDATES WHO BROUGHT
HIM BACK ENDORSING JOE BIDEN . >> THERE WERE SOME PEOPLE WHO
THOUGHT WHY DOES BETA WORKS
ENDORSEMENT MATTER PICKY WAS THE NOMINEE FOR THE SENATE IN THE
STATE IN 2018 SO HE DOES HAVE POPULARITY WITH VOTERS ON THE
LEFT AND I THINK THAT HELPED SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO WERE
LOOKING TO HIM TO CARRY HIS IDEA TO WASHINGTON EARLIER IN THE
RACE AND SAY LET ME GIVE CONSIDERATION TOWARDS BIDEN. WE
DO KNOW SANDERS AND GROUPS LIKE LATINO HAVE BEEN ON THE GROUND
IN TEXAS LIKE THEY WERE IN NEVADA HOPING TO TURN OUT NOT
JUST LATINO VOTERS BUT YOUNGER LATINO VOTERS AND THAT COULD BE
WORKING FOR SANDERS OR AT LEAST IN SOME AREAS, LOTS OF COLLEGES,
LOTS OF POPULAR CITIES IN TEXAS LIKE AUSTIN WITH THE VOTERS THAT
SANDERS POSE MOST WELL WITH BUT THERE'S A LOT OF WATER THERE IS
ALSO A LOT OF WHITE WORKING-CLASS PEOPLE. ALMOST
EVERY
DEMOGRAPHIC THE LEFT NEEDS TO WIN IS WELL REPRESENTED SO WE
WILL KEEP SEEING THOSE TWO CANDIDATES AT LEAST AND MAYBE
MORE COMPETING FOR THOSE VOTERS. >> IF YOU ARE THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY AND YOU ARE SOMEONE AT THE TOP OF THAT THINKING ABOUT
STRATEGIES FOR THE FUTURE OR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, ON THE OTHER
SIDE OF THINGS, HOW DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE PRIMARY CONTEST MOVING
FORWARD IN TERMS OF HOW POWERFUL VARIOUS STATES ARE, AND THERE
HAS BEEN NO QUESTION OF SHOULD I, NEW HAMPSHIRE
AT THE FOREFRONT, AND VOTERS TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY
SERIOUSLY BUT IT IS NOT DEMOGRAPHICALLY REPRESENTATIVE
OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SO WHAT DO THE PARTIES NEED TO CONSIDER?
I THINK A LOT OF VOTERS ARE ASKING RIGHT NOW TO ABOUT THE
ORDER AND WONDERING, WE ARE HEARING EVERYTHING FROM SHOULD I
GO FIRST OR WHY CAN'T EVERY PRIMARY BE ON THE SAME DAY. I
CAN'T IMAGINE ANYTHING LIKE THAT HAPPENING ANYTIME SOON. BUT I
THINK IT WILL FORCE LEADERS OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL
CONVENTION TO SAY, SHOULD WE CHANGE THIS BECAUSE WOULD THIS
HAVE LOOKED DIFFERENTLY IF, JUST SIMPLY A MORE DIVERSE STATE OR
MORE CULTURAL STATE HAD GONE FIRST, WHAT SIGNAL WOULD THAT
HAVE SEEN
OR SENT TO VOTERS ABOUT THE DIRECTION OF THE PARTY AND WHERE
PEOPLE PARTICIPATING IN THESE PRIMARIES, WHAT THEY WANTED THE
NEXT LEADER TO LOOK LIKE . >> GUESS.
>> AND IT IS BAD FOR IOWA THAT PEOPLE TO JUDGE WHO WON THE
STATE, GOT THE MOST DELEGATES OUT OF THE STATE, THAT HE DID
NOT EVEN MAKE IT TO TO SUPER TUESDAY AND THAT AMY KLOBUCHAR
WHO WAS KIND OF THE BIG WINNER IN SOME WAYS
BY FINISHING THIRD IN NEW HAMPSHIRE BEHIND PETE BUTIGIEG,
NEITHER OF THEM MADE IT TO SUPER TUESDAY AND IT'S BECAUSE NEITHER
OF THEM COULD MAKE ANY INROADS WITH COMMUNITIES OF COLOR AT
ALL. AMY KLOBUCHAR, IN THE EXIT POLLS LITERALLY ROUNDED UP TO 0%
FOR SUPPORT AMONG AFRICAN-AMERICAN VOTERS IN SOUTH
CAROLINA WHICH IS ONE OF THE REASONS SHE FELT LIKE SHE HAD TO
DROP OUT AND YOU CANNOT BE THAT DEMOCRATIC NATALIE NOMINEE IF
YOU -- IT IS EASY TO TALK ABOUT THE PROBLEM HE GETS HARDER TO
CHANGE A. THERE IS KIND OF, EVERY CANDIDATE WHO WANTS TO RUN
NEXT TIME IS GOING TO GO TO IOWA BECAUSE
-- AND WE ARE GOING TO GO BACK TO IOWA EASY EVEN AS WE
CRITICIZE IT EVERY 4 YEARS SO THAT'S THE CHALLENGE FOR WHO
WOULD KIND OF COME IN AND SAY NO, VIRGINIA WILL BE ONE OF THE
EARLY STATES. VIRGINIA MAKES A GOOD ARGUMENT FOR GOING EARLY.
ONE THAT DEVOTES FAST AND WE WERE ABLE TO GET RETURNS IN
QUICK AND VIRGINIA DOES DEMOGRAPHICALLY LOOK LIKE THE
COUNTRY. IT HAS A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING. IT IS A BIG STATE
BUT NOT A MEGA-STATE. HARRY REID WANTS NEVADA TO GO FIRST BUT
NEVADA, BERNIE SANDERS GOT 50% IN NEVADA CAUCUSES AND THE OTHER
PROBLEM IT IS NOT JUST THE STATES THAT ARE DEMOGRAPHICALLY
REPRESENTED BUT ALSO CAUCUSES VIRUS
VERSUS PRIMARIES. THE CAUCUSES ALSO BRING OUT THE MOST HARD
BACKERS SO YOU HAVE TO SHOW UP ON A WINTER NIGHT, WAIT A COUPLE
HOURS, WALK AROUND TO GYMNASIUMS, BARGAIN WITH YOUR
NEIGHBORS, -- >> IT'S ALSO, SUCH AN EXTERNAL
PROCESS LIKE YOU HAVE TO BE LITERALLY WILLING TO STAND UP TO
CANDIDATE AND SOUNDS OBVIOUS BUT IF YOU THINK ABOUT THE PRESSURE
THAT, FROM UNION MEMBERS, SOUTH NEVADA, BERNIE SANDERS, HOW
THERE WERE QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW DO I STAND UP IN FRONT OF MY,
THE POTENTIALLY WORK COLLEAGUES OR FAMILY, IF I DO HAVE A VOTE
THAT I WOULD RATHER KEEP PRIVATE. IT IS A LOT TO THINK
ABOUT WITH THE CAUCUSES AND
JUSTIN NEVADA AND THIS PUT THIS YEAR OF DOING SOME OF THAT EARLY
VOTE THAT COULD BE SOMETHING IN A MORE PERSONAL WAY VERSUS DOING
IT IN THE, SORT OF THE CLARITY OF HERE IS WHO I WILL SUPPORT I
WILL LITERALLY STAND WITH SUPPORTERS OF THIS CANDIDATE. IF
DEMOCRATS LEARN ANYTHING FROM THAT GOING FORWARD?
>> IT WILL DEPEND ON WHAT THE GREATER OUTCOME OF THE ELECTION
IS, RIGHT? THEY ARE GOING TO ASSESS JUST ALL OF THE CONTESTS
AND FIGURE OUT WHAT WORKS REALLY WELL. WHAT LED TO INCREASED
TURNOUT, WHICH VOTERS FELT LIKE THERE VOICES WERE HEARD, WHICH
WAS MUCH MORE INDICATIVE OF WHERE VOTERS WOULD ULTIMATELY
END AND WHAT WAS EFFECTIVE AND WHAT WAS NOT, WHAT PERHAPS
SHOULD BE TOSSED ASIDE AND WHAT SHOULD THEY DOUBLED DOWN AND TRY
TO EXPAND BEYOND THE STATES THAT PERHAPS HAD VERY EFFECTIVE
PROCESS RIGHT NOW BUT I THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE SOMETHING,
THE BIG REFLECTION PIECE THAT HAPPENS AT THE END BUT I CAN'T
IMAGINE ANYBODY LOOKING AT IT RIGHT NOW REALLY CERTAIN ABOUT
THIS WAS WHAT WE NEED TO REPLICATE THERE NEEDS TO BE A
LOT MORE CLARITY LATER ON. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT NOT MAKING
SORT OF QUICK JUDGMENT OR QUICK DECISIONS, WE ARE REALIZING THAT
IT WILL BE SOMETIME BEFORE WE HAVE A CONCLUSIVE RESULT FROM
CALIFORNIA.
OUR JEREMY BOWERS HAS BEEN DIVING INTO THE INITIAL NUMBERS
FOR US. JEREMY, WHAT CAN YOU TELL US SO FAR ABOUT CALIFORNIA?
>> A, B, WE DO HAVE INITIAL RESULTS IN CALIFORNIA. WE ARE
LOOKING AT ABOUT 30%, MAYBE 14% OF THE VOTE IS IN AND YOU CAN
SEE THE EARLY PATTERN
APPEARS TO BE BASICALLY WHAT WE THOUGHT. BERNIE SANDERS IS DOING
PRETTY WELL HERE AND HIS SUPPORTERS SPREAD OUT. A LOT OF
THESE ARE SMALLER COUNTIES, CALIFORNIA IS RELATIVELY LARGE
BUT ONLY HAS 58 COUNTIES AND SOME OF THOSE COUNTIES LIKE HERE
IN LOS ANGELES ARE 10 MILLION PEOPLE IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY
ALONE BUT IN SMALLER ALPINE COUNTY UP HERE WE ARE TALKING
ABOUT 1100 PEOPLE SO SEEING THAT LIKE WE HAVE SOME NUMBER OF 58
COUNTIES IN IN CALIFORNIA, IT'S A DIFFICULT THING TO SAY BECAUSE
THERE IS SO MUCH DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM BUT I CAN TELL YOU
THIS, ONE THING THAT STANDS OUT TO ME IS THAT
MAYOR BLOOMBERG HAS SPENT AN AWFUL LOT OF MONEY HERE IN THIS
STATE. THERE WERE OTHER EARLY STATES WERE HE ALSO SPENT A LOT
AND COULD NOT FINISH ABOUT MAYBE SECOND OR THIRD AND IN SOME
CASES HE WAS EVEN FORTH. HERE IN CALIFORNIA RIGHT NOW, HE IS IN
SECOND PLACE AND HAS ALREADY WON A COUNTY. THAT COUNTY, NAPA
COUNTY WHERE HE
WAS DOING PRETTY WELL AND WITH 100% REPORTING HE HAS A TINY
LEAD OVER BERNIE SANDERS BUT THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE FOR
HIM, BEING ABLE TO PULL OFF A COUNTY IN CALIFORNIA, BEING ABLE
TO STAY OVER THE DELEGATE THRESHOLD IN CALIFORNIA IS A BIG
DEAL BECAUSE UNLIKE OTHER STATES WERE BEING OVER THE DELEGATE
THRESHOLD MY. YOU UP 3, 4, 5 DELEGATES, IN CALIFORNIA YOU ARE
OVER THE DELEGATE THRESHOLD AND YOU PICK UP 100 SO THIS COULD BE
A BIG DEAL FOR HIM TONIGHT AND SOMETHING WE WILL BE WATCHING.
WE ARE CLOSER WATCHING TWO OTHER THINGS ON THIS MAP. FIRST, NO
PEOPLE TO JUDGE IS NOT HERE. HE DROPPED OUT OF THE RACE EARLIER
THIS WEEK. CALIFORNIA HAS A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF EARLY
VOTE. PEOPLE WERE VOTING AS FAR AWAY AS 3 WEEKS AGO SO THE JUDGE
COULD CONCEIVABLY GET OVER THAT DELEGATE THRESHOLD IN CALIFORNIA
WHICH MEANS HE WOULD BE STEALING FROM OTHER CANDIDATES WOULD BE
MORE LIKELY TO WANT TO THE NOMINATION. FINALLY WE ARE
WATCHING JOE BIDEN. BIDEN DID REALLY WELL ON THE EAST COAST,
PICKED UP A LOT OF SOUTHERN STATES BUT HERE IN CALIFORNIA HE
IS KIND OF A DISTANT THIRD BEHIND SANDERS AND EVEN MAYOR
BLOOMBERG. WE ARE GOING TO WATCH TO MAKE SURE HE STAYS OVER THE
DELEGATE THRESHOLD BECAUSE OF HE DROPS BELOW EVEN A LITTLE IT
COULD BE DISASTROUS FOR HIM AND COULD MEAN BERNIE SANDERS IS
SPLITTING A MUCH LARGER PART OF DELEGATES WITH BLOOMBERG. THAT
IS WHAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW, B. BEFORE WE LET YOU GO TONIGHT
FIRST OF ALL I ASSUME YOU DON'T GET TO GO TO SLEEP UNTIL ALL THE
NUMBERS ARE IN? SO WE WILL CHECK IN WITH YOU IN A FEW DAYS AND
SEE HOW YOU ARE HOLDING UP IN THE SLEEPLESS ZONE BUT WHILE I
STILL HAVE YOU WHILE YOU ARE FRESH AND ALERT, WHAT ARE THE
BIG SURPRISES OF THE NIGHT FOR YOU SO FAR?
>> I THINK THE BIGGEST SURPRISES ONE OF THE THINGS WE SAW IN JOE
BIDEN'S VOTING SUPPORT EARLY TONIGHT. WE WERE ALL A LITTLE
SHOCKED IN SOUTH CAROLINA. NOT THAT HE WON BUT IN THE WAY HE
WON BY PICKING UP NONVOTERS WHO HAD SHOWN UP AND SUDDENLY TURNED
OUT FOR HIM IN THAT STATE. YES HE WON AFRICAN-AMERICAN VOTERS
BUT HE WAS ALSO WINNING NONVOTERS AND HE WAS WINNING
WHITE WORKING-CLASS VOTERS WHO DON'T HAVE A COLLEGE DEGREE. SO
KIND OF A BIGGER DEGREE TONIGHT, THAT PATTERN HAS HELD TRUE. IT
HAS SERVED HIM WELL IN STATES LIKE ALABAMA, NORTH CAROLINA AND
VIRGINIA. THAT DOESN'T REALLY HELP THEM IN CALIFORNIA AND
CERTAINLY WILL NOT BE THE WAY HE PICKS UP DELEGATES IN TEXAS BUT
THAT IS A REALLY INTERESTING PATTERN AND WON THAT COULD SHINE
FOR THAT CAMPAIGN GOING FORWARD IF HE CAN KEEP THAT GOING. THAT
IS GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT WILL BE REALLY INTERESTING FOR
US TO WATCH. >> JEREMY BOWERS, THANKS SO MUCH
TO YOU AND OUR ELECTION INSIGHTS TEAM. WHAT ARE YOU GUYS READING
FROM WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT CALIFORNIA SO FAR AS YOU LOOK AT
THOSE NUMBERS? SURPRISES, THINGS THAT ARE NOT SURPRISING?
>> SANDERS DOING WELL WAS EXPECTED. HE WAS FAVORED AND IT
DOES SHOW THAT WE KIND OF SAID AT THE BEGINNING OF THE NIGHT,
THE NARRATIVE IS GOING TO BE VERY FAVORABLE FOR BIDEN FROM
THE SOUTH AND IT BECOMES MORE FAVORABLE FOR SANDERS AS WE GO
WEST AND INDEED SANDERS WON COLORADO AND YOU CALL UTAH AND
IS WANING IN CALIFORNIA. IT DOES COMPLEX IF I THINGS AND IT DOES
SHOW THAT WHILE IT IS A 2% RAISE, IT IS NOT OVER AND
SANDERS COULD WIND UP WITH A SIGNIFICANT DELEGATE LEAD FROM
CALIFORNIA. IT ALSO SHOWS THAT BLOOMBERG WILL END UP WITH A
CHUNK OF DELEGATES COME HOW MANY COME AWAY LESS THAN HE NEEDED
BUT THAT COULD KEEP SOMEONE, COULD MAKE IT HARDER FOR SOMEONE
TO GET AN OUTRIGHT MAJORITY OF DELEGATES BUT IT DOES SHOW
SANDERS IS DOING WELL IN THE SUNBELT AND IN THE WEST AND THAT
DOES BODE WELL FOR, HE WON NEVADA, BODES WELL FOR HIM IN
ARIZONA, WASHINGTON STATE IS COMING UP AND THEY WILL STILL
HAVE THERE PRIMARY WITH THE CORONAVIRUS EVEN BEING KIND OF
AN EPICENTER THERE SO I THINK THAT WITH THE BIDEN FOLKS WILL
SAY IS THAT THE FACT THAT HE IS UNDERPERFORMING THERE IS THAT HE
IS IN THIRD IS A REFLECTION OF THE EARLY VOTES BEING LOCKED IN
BUT IT ALSO -- >> OBVIOUSLY PEOPLE TO JUDGE
DOING, NOT BEING THERE. >> BUT IT DOES SHOW
THAT JOE BIDEN HAS PROBLEMS WITH PROGRESSIVES AND HE HAS SORT OF
WORK CUT OUT FOR HIM SO TO YOUR QUESTION EARLIER LIKE BIDEN
TALKS SO MUCH ABOUT THE PAST, THAT IS A PROBLEM BUT HE'S ALSO
GOING TO HAVE TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO PREVENT SOMEWHAT AND SORT
OF APPEAL, REASSURE THE LEFT BEFORE HE CAN PIVOT BACK TO
DONALD TRUMP. >> YES.
>> AS A REMINDER, OF THE BROADNESS AND DIVERSITY OF THE
LEFT IN TERMS OF THERE VISION FOR AMERICA, WE TALKED A LOT
ABOUT DIVERSITY IN TERMS OF AGE AND RACE BUT WHAT THIS HAS SHOWN
US SO FAR ON SUPER TUESDAY IS THE GEOGRAPHIC DIVERSITY. WE
KNOW THAT NEVADA, THAT UTAH, CALIFORNIA, WASHINGTON, THESE
STATES EITHER HAVE ALREADY GONE FOR SANDERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO
GO FOR SANDERS AND THE DEMOGRAPHICS ARE DIFFERENT FROM
THE SOUTHERN STATES AND MAYBE THE ISSUES AFFECTING THESE
VOTERS MOST DEEPLY ARE NOT ALWAYS THE SAME AS THE VOTERS
THAT HAVE GOTTEN BEHIND BIDEN AND I THINK WHAT WE MAY SEE IS
THESE CANDIDATES TRYING TO SPEAK TO, YOU KNOW, THESE ISSUES IN
THE STATES THAT ARE STILL YET TO BE DECIDED WHILE KEEPING THE
SUPPORT OF THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE ALREADY BACKED THEM WHILE
RECOGNIZING THAT
THEY MAY BE SPEAKING TO AUDIENCES THAT ARE VERY
DIFFERENT FROM THOSE THAT ARE ALREADY ON THERE SIDE.
>> WHAT WOULD BE A SUCCESSFUL NIGHT FOR JOE BIDEN IN TEXAS AND
CALIFORNIA? IS THERE A NUMBER HE HAS TO HIT?
WHAT WILL YOU BE WATCHING FOR? >> I THINK HE HAS HAD A
SUCCESSFUL NIGHT NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS.
>> OKAY . >> KEY WILL BE ABOVE VIABILITY
IN TEXAS AND CALIFORNIA. HE WILL BE SO HE IS GOING TO END UP WITH
DELEGATES, YOU KNOW, I THINK IF TEXAS IS STILL TOO CLOSE TO
CALL, FOR SOME REASON, BIDEN WINS TEXAS, WHICH IS A HUGE
VICTORY, BUT NO MATTER WHAT, I THINK BIDEN GETS THE TWO PERSON
RACE HE WANTED OUT OF TONIGHT. >> YEAH I DEFINITELY THINK THE
NARRATIVE THAT HE GETS TO CLAIM AND NO ONE CAN DENY INCLUDING
HIS CRITICS IS THAT HIS CAMPAIGN IS IN DEBT.
>> WAS ALSO INTERESTED BLOOMBERG AT THE MOMENT BASED ON SOME
POLLING FOLLOWING BIDEN'S
PERFORMANCE AND PEOPLE WERE WALKING AWAY FROM HIM AND HE WAS
VERY VOCAL AND WENT TO SOUTH CAROLINA EARLY AND SAID THE RACE
IS NOT OVER AND A LOT OF PEOPLE DID NOT BELIEVE HIM AND NOT ONLY
WAS THAT CLEARLY TRUE AFTER SOUTH CAROLINA, IT IS EVEN MORE
SO NOW TONIGHT. >> I WANT TO TALK ABOUT ALL
THESE MAYORS THAT ENDORSED MICHAEL BLOOMBERG AND WHAT
HAPPENS NEXT. MIKE BLOOMBERG WAS ABLE TO GAIN A LOT OF LOYALTIES,
HAS PUT A LOT OF MONEY INTO LOCAL RACES, A FELLOW MAYOR, SO
IF YOU ARE SOMEONE WHO HAS ENDORSED MICHAEL BLOOMBERG OR
YOU ARE ON THE TEAM, WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT?
YOU HAVEN'T NECESSARILY ALIENATED YOURSELF TO THESE
OTHER CANDIDATES. SO MANY MAYORS HAVE POLITICAL FUTURES. WITH SAW
IT WITH PEOPLE TO JUDGE BUT THERE ARE SO MANY, THAT IS A
NETWORK THAT DEMOCRATS WILL BE LOOKING TOWARD AS THEY LOOK AT
RISING STARS AND FIGURING OUT WHO THEY SHOULD BE WATCHING.
WHAT HAPPENS TO THOSE FOLKS?
>> FOR NOW THEY STAY ON THE SIDELINES AND KEEP THERE HEADS
DOWN ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE IN A STATE THAT ALREADY VOTED, YOU
WAIT FOR BLOOMBERG TO -- POTENTIALLY SUSPEND HIS
CAMPAIGN, YOU KNOW, IN SOME OF THE UPCOMING STATES, I THINK THE
MAYORS COULD HAVE AN IMPACT AND YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT, THEY
ARE THE RISING STARS BUT WE HAVE SEEN ENDORSEMENTS
DO MATTER. ONE OF THE REASONS BLOOMBERG WAS ABLE TO GET IN
DOUBLE DIGITS IN SOME OF THESE STATES WAS THAT HE DID GET THE
MAYORS THAT HE HAD CULTIVATED RELATIONSHIPS WITH AND THAT DID
HELP HIM, NOT AS MUCH IS JIM CLYBURN'S ENDORSEMENT IN SOUTH
CAROLINA DID BUT ONE OF THE STORIES OF TODAY WAS THAT THE
ESTABLISHMENT DID STRIKE BACK THAT THE PARTIES STILL GET TO
CHOOSE. >> EUGENE?
>> IT WILL BE EASY -- INTERESTING TO SEE MOVING
FORWARD HOW MUCH ANY OF THESE ENDORSEMENTS MATTER TO VOTERS
WHEN YOU BECOME SO CLEAR TO VOTERS THAT IT IS A TWO PERSON
RACE AND SO SOME OF THEM WILL SAY YEAH, I KNOW MY MAYOR IS
BACKING BLOOMBERG BUT IT DOESN'T APPEAR THAT ANYBODY ELSE MAY BE
AND THEREFORE, I'M GOING TO GO FOR SOMEONE WHO I THINK ACTUALLY
HAS A SHOT. AND THAT DOESN'T REALLY HARM THE ENDORSER. IT
DOESN'T PUT THEM IN A POSITION WHERE THEY HAVE TO WALK AWAY
FROM WHATEVER. THEY MAY -- BUT IT DOES ALLOW VOTERS TO KNOW
WHAT TO MAKE A GENUINE ASSESSMENT ABOUT WHAT IS REALLY
GOING ON REGARDLESS OF WHAT PEOPLE CLOSE TO THEM ON THE
GROUND MAY THINK IS BEST FOR THE COUNTRY.
>> JAMES I LISTEN TO YOUR DAILY PODCAST ON THE REGULAR AND YOU
KNOW SO MUCH ABOUT POLITICS BUT A LOT OF IT LATELY HAS BEEN
ABOUT CORONAVIRUS. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO BE WATCHING FOR IN THE
COMING DAYS AND WEEKS FOR HOW THAT ISSUE AFFECTS VOTERS AND
VOTING? VOTERS IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF JUST FEELING LIKE
A VERY SERIOUS MOMENT OF RECOGNIZING HOW IMPORTANT IT IS
TO HAVE STRONG LEADERSHIP FROM THE WHITE HOUSE AND ALSO JUST
THE REALITY OF VOTING? AND CAMPAIGNING?
>> AND IT'S FUNNY, NOT FUNNY, THERE'S NOTHING FUNNY ABOUT IT.
ISRAEL VOTED YESTERDAY AND THEY HAVE A COUPLE OF HUNDRED PEOPLE
UNDER QUARANTINE BEING MONITORED AND THEY HAD TO GO TO SPECIAL
POLLING PLACES WHERE THE ELECTION OFFICIALS ARE WEARING
HAZMAT SUITS AND -- >> WOW .
>> IT DOES ADD SOME COMPLEXITY. WASHINGTON STATE IS COMING UP
AND THAT --
IN WASHINGTON IS THE EPICENTER OF THE OUTBREAK AND IT CREATES
CHALLENGES FOR THE CANDIDATES. WHEN WE SAW THE THAT BERNIE
SANDERS AND JOE BIDEN WILL GET SECRET SERVICE AFTER TONIGHT
. THAT WAS DEFINITELY SCARY WHEN PEOPLE WERE STORMING THE STAGE.
WE GIVE YOU DID NOT SEE IT EARLIER, REALLY JOYFUL
ATMOSPHERE AND CELEBRATORY AND PROTESTERS STORMED THE STAGE,
SOME OF HIS OWN CAMPAIGN WORKERS, YOU CAN SEE SOMEONE
TACKLED AND DRAGGED OFF THOSE PEOPLE BUT THOSE ARE, THAT IS A
SPOKESPERSON. THAT IS NOT -- THAT IS NOT --
>>
AND ALSO BOBBY KENNEDY WHO WAS ASSASSINATED THE NIGHT OF THE
CALIFORNIA PRIMARY IN 1968 BUT MY POINT, THE REASON I BRING
THAT UP IS YOU OBVIOUSLY HAVE THESE KIND OF SECURITIES
CONCERNS BUT NOW YOU HAVE HEALTH CONCERNS AND THE CANDIDATES ARE
77 AND 78 YEARS OLD AND THEY ARE TRAVELING ALL AROUND THE
COUNTRY, GOING TO PLACES, TALKING TO LARGE CROWDS, YOU
KNOW, THE CDC -- >> RIGHT UP NEXT TO THE MEN'S
SHAKING HANDS. >> YEAH, THE CDC RECOMMENDS
KEEPING 6 FEET OF DISTANCE FROM PEOPLE AND, YOU KNOW, IN OUR
NEWSROOM, WE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE, NONESSENTIAL TRAVEL RIGHT
NOW AND IT'S KIND OF LIKE OKAY, YOU HAVE TO KIND OF THINK ABOUT
THESE THINGS AND I DO THINK IT WILL HAVE AN IMPACT ON SOME OF
THE CAMPAIGNING WHERE PEOPLE WILL BE LESS INCLINED TO GO TO
RALLIES AND I THINK THAT WE ARE TRANSITIONING OUT OF THE PHASE
OF THE CAMPAIGN WHERE YOU HAVE KIND OF THESE SMALL EVENTS WITH
TOWN HALL STYLE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. YOU'RE GOING TO BE
MOVING TO BIGGER RALLIES BUT I DO THINK YOU WILL SEE PEOPLE WHO
ARE AFRAID TO GO TO A BIG RALLY AND ALSO I THINK THERE IS SOME
MECHANICS FOR SURE THAT THAT IS GOING TO IMPACT THE CAMPAIGN AND
THE COVERAGE OF A BUT THEN YOU ALSO HAVE THE ISSUE SETS AND
IT'S INTERESTING BECAUSE THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS, EVERYBODY
HAS BEEN ADJUSTING THERE MESSAGE TO REFLECT THE CORONAVIRUS.
BLOOMBERG LEANED HARD, I RAN TO NEW YORK AFTER SEPTEMBER 11, I
KNOW HOW TO RESPOND TO THESE CRISIS, I AM A BIG SUPPORTER OF
PUBLIC HEALTH AND ALL OF THIS STUFF. BERNIE SANDERS CAN
ACTUALLY CREDIBLY SAY THIS IS AN ARGUMENT FOR MEDICARE FOR ALL. A
LOT OF INSURANCE PLANS, ONE OF THE THINGS THE AFFORDABLE CARE
ACT MANDATES IS THAT INSURANCE COVERS VACCINES, AND YOU WILL
SEE THE SUPREME COURT WILL HEAR A CHALLENGE TO THAT THIS FALL
BUT ALSO PEOPLE, ONE OF THE CONCERNS PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIALS
HAVE IS BECAUSE THERE IS NO PAID SICK LEAVE, PEOPLE WHO MAY FEEL
SICK AND MAY BE INFECTED WITH CORONAVIRUS ARE GOING TO GO TO
WORK AND INFECT THERE CALLINGS BECAUSE THEY ARE AFRAID TO STAY
HOME. >> I THINK SOMEBODY WHO HAS A
SALARY BASED ON SHOWING UP TO WORK, NOT AN HOURLY RAGE, A
SALARY WHERE YOU ARE PAID FOR THOSE SICK DAYS OR
YOU ARE PAID REGARDLESS OF IF IT IS AN EMERGENCY OR SOMETHING,
WITH THE INCENTIVE TO STAY HOME IF YOU HAVE TO MAKE MONEY. SO IF
BERNIE SANDERS IS USING THAT AS PART OF THE MESSAGE.
>> IT PRESENTS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE CANDIDATES TO SPEAK TO
WHAT IS PERHAPS A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS IN A WAY THAT THE
PRESIDENT HIMSELF HAS NOT SPOKEN TO ACCORDING TO HIS CRITICS AND
GIVING VOTERS A CLEAR IDEA OF WHAT WOULD THEY DO IF THEY WERE
IN CHARGE BECAUSE RIGHT NOW, THEY KIND OF DO HAVE SOME
INFLUENCE TO DO SOMETHING
AND TO SHAPE THINGS AND -- >> WE HEARD JOE BIDEN TALKING
ABOUT WHAT HE AND PRESIDENT OBAMA, BARACK AND I, WHAT THEY
HAD SET UP IN TERMS OF LOOKING AT THE TRANSMISSIBLE DISEASES
AND YOU KNOW, GEARING UP FOR THAT PLACEMENT AND THEY DESERVE,
THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION DESERVES CREDIT IN RETROSPECT
FOR EFFECTIVELY RESPONDING TO THE EBOLA THAT CAUSE MASS
PANIC IN 2014 AND DID NOT LEAD TO A WIDESPREAD OUTBREAK WE ARE
APPROACHING MIDNIGHT SO I WANT TO GET FINAL THOUGHTS FROM BOTH
OF YOU BEFORE WE CALL IT A NIGHT EVEN THOUGH WE ARE WAITING FOR
RETURNS FROM SOME STATES. EUGENE, WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS?
>> I'M VERY INTERESTED IN WHAT ROLE IN THE FUTURE WILL YOUNG
VOTERS PLAY IN THIS ELECTION. BERNIE SANDERS WAS REALLY
BANKING ON YOUNG VOTERS TURNING OUT FOR HIS CAMPAIGN AND IN WAYS
THAT MATCHED THE 2018 MIDTERMS AND THAT HAS NOT BEEN THE CASE
RIGHT NOW. AND
A SIZABLE PERCENTAGE OF YOUNG VOTERS THAT HAVE TURNED OUT HAVE
ACTUALLY GONE FOR BIDEN SO IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE IF
THEY ARE ABLE TO CONTINUE PUTTING FORTH THE IDEA THAT THEY
HAVE THE BROADEST, MOST DIVERSE MULTICULTURAL COALITION HEADED
TO THE WHITE HOUSE IF THE NUMBERS DON'T CONTINUE TO
SUPPORT THAT. >> JAMES?
>> IT IS A TWO PERSON RACE BETWEEN BIDEN AND SANDERS. THERE
WILL BE PRESSURE, TO BLOOMBERG OR WARREN DROP OUT IN THE NEXT
24 TO 48 HOURS. CAN SANDERS DO ANYTHING TO MAKE INROADS WITH,
DEEPER INROADS WITH COMMUNITIES OF COLOR LIKE IF HE HAS HIT A
BRICK WALL AND IT KIND OF, IT IS DÉJÀ VU IN SOME WAYS, WE TALKED
A LOT ABOUT DÉJÀ VU IN 2016 AND DONALD TRUMP AND SANDERS IN
2016, HE CAME
, CAME OUT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE WITH BIG MOMENTUM AND THEN HE HIT A
WALL IN SOUTH CAROLINA. ONCE AGAIN, KIND OF THE SAME DYNAMIC
IS PLAYING OUT. NOW DEMOCRATS TO FACE A SIGNIFICANT CHOICE. THERE
IS, REGARDLESS OF WHAT SIDE OF IT YOU ARE ON, THERE IS A BIG
CONTRAST, A VERY CLEAR CONTRAST BETWEEN POLITICAL REVOLUTION AND
A RETURN TO THE KIND OF OBAMA PRE-TRUMP STATUS QUO. THAT IS
THE CHOICE AND I THINK YOU ARE GOING TO SEE THOSE CONTRASTS
, BOTH SIDES MAKE IT STRONGER. YOU WILL SEE BIDEN GOING AFTER
SANDERS AND YOU SAW TONIGHT IN HIS SPEECH GO AFTER BIDEN SO I
DON'T THINK, THE RACE IS GOING TO YET MORE NEGATIVE BEFORE IT
GETS BETTER. >> JAMES, --
JAMES HOHMANN, EUGENE SCOTT, THANK YOU SO MUCH, EUGENE, JAMES
HOHMANN, THE DAILY 202, THANKS BOTH OF YOU FOR BEING HERE AND
THAT WRAPS UP OUR COVERAGE ON THIS SUPER TUESDAY AND
SUPER TUESDAY INDEED, 14 STATES, 1 TERRITORY, 1357 DELEGATES IN
PLAY. YOU'RE THE TOP HEADLINES NIGHT. JOE BIDEN WON BIG, TAKING
STATES ACROSS THE STOUT
SOUTH ALONG WITH MINNESOTA AND MASSACHUSETTS. BERNIE SANDERS
TAKES UP WINS IN VERMONT, COLORADO AND UTAH. WE ARE NOT
EXPECTING A RACE CALL TONIGHT FROM THE TWO BIGGEST PRIZES,
CALIFORNIA AND TEXAS. IT REMAINS TOO EARLY TO CALL. WE WILL HAVE
TO WAIT DAYS FOR THOSE DELEGATES TO BE REWARDED IN FACT AND THAT
IS ALL THE MORE REASON TO HIT THE SUBSCRIBE BUTTON AND STICK
WITH TREND WOOD TO -- THE WASHINGTON POST. I AM LIBBY
CASEY AND I WILL SEE RIGHT HERE NEXT TUESDAY NIGHT. THANKS FOR
WATCHING.