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Focus of the contenders this week? >> well, theyre all going to be gunning on joe biden. now, i debated joe biden in 08. hes a very good debater. he conveys truth. he conveys competence. he conveys a lot of good things. i think hes going to be very tough to beat. i know he had a bad week on the segregation comment, but hes had vast experience, and thats going to come through. but i would expect most of the candidates will be gunning for the front runners, and he clearly is a front runner now. do...

Building those relationships right now? >> barack obama has given joe biden what i call this obama curve. a lot of people are grading him on that, its the obama halo. i think cory booker, beto orourke and kamala harris have built a foundation in south carolina. it going to be a long race. i remind people that barack obama was behind hillary clinton and john edwards in polls at this time. im very pleased with beto and kamala. the question that most people have, is joe biden hillary clinton 08 or ...

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Question. does the fact that joe biden is polling so well, particularly among african-americans, speak to a sense that with donald trump replacing barack obama, black folks are just not at that point now where theyre saying, do you know what, were going to throw that arrow for hope. right now were thinking magnetism, were thinking this country may not be the progressive place we thought it was in 2008 and he makes it harder for a candidate like you to come along and say were going to go back to ...

Of nominating a person of color, let alone a woman of color. and believing that their fellow americans would actually elect that person. a lot of that reticence is what makes joe biden such a strong enemy. i hear all the time that only a man can get elected to go against donald trump. how do you convince those people to take a chance on not just a woman of color -- i mean, not just a person of color but a woman of color? >> the main message that i have is that you, meaning each of the folks that...

Because the polls everything on had a competitive race. she and her husband had a lot of relationships, especially with black leaders, that went back to his presidency. thought she had a chance to win the primary there. but in the days leading up to that south carolina primary in 2008, bill clinton started attacking barack obama. it started to get ugly. jim cleburne, who was officially neutral in that race, he spoke and up he told bill clinton, chill out, bill clinton. he also got this line off....

Jim cleburne, who was officially neutral in that race, he spoke and up he told bill clinton, chill out, bill clinton. he also got this line off. this was in the 90s when clinton was president, tony morrison had said, hes the first black president. jim cleburne said, were still looking for the first black president. that was back in 2008. that had an effect. hillary clintons numbers crashed in south carolina. bill clinton had a lot of damage to make up for. this was the primary result. suddenly a...

Something that started under obama 08, you could go see a rally with oprah, but you would give them your text number, and campaigns have gathered more data from these rallies. now, the trump campaign, when you sign up to get a ticket, an electronic ticket, you give your basic info. when you arrive, when they scan your ticket, they ask you a few questions to try to gauge how excited you are about the election, your likelihood to vote, and thats why you go to orlando, florida, swing area of swing ...

Obama won iowa in 2008. then they went to new hampshire. clinton won new hampshire. then this war of attrition ensued for months. obama won some states, clinton won some states. came to north carolina in the middle of may and it ended up being decisive. obama won the primary in the middle of may but what it did, it broke the idea of a stalemate on this network. that night as the results came in tim russert with a famous declaration. >> we now know who the democratic nominees going to be, and no ...

>> we now know who the democratic nominees going to be, and no ones going to dispute, it keith. sometimes in campaigns the candidate is the last to recognize the best timing. >> and that was it, brian. when tim russert said that that really did change where the democratic race was going in 08 and everybody did know, obama would be the nominee and then the president. >> weve also been thinking about our friend tim more than usual. we just passed the anniversary of his death, and its great to see ...