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  • >>> 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.

>>> IN ORDER TO BEAT DONALD TRUMP WE WILL NEED LARGE VOTER

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