Me. Was. Good luck may well if. Not. For the coronavirus stop the world in its tracks the battle for the future of the Us Democratic party was in full swing back. To clear options would eventually emerge from a pack of candidates with very different visions for the future of the country id like to introduce to you. The senator from vermont drew crowds of thousands as he took on the democratic establishment and promoter polled policies to improve the lives of working people i. Hate. To have. To leave it was. Like ok for although there was a lot more problems also to one night. At a critical moment the democratic establishment coalesce around former Vice President joe biden propelling a familiar face the front of the race. Where you. Can Joe Biden Donald trump oh yeah one hand or both type binders back. Faultlines followed both candidates on the campaign trail in the 2 places that may have mattered most to michigan and South Carolina. Happens up here on i think about what happened here. Sanders has suspended his campaign and endorsed biden but Many Democrats remain concerned that the party is too fractured to defeat donald trump in the fall i dont consider Bernie Sanders part of the Democratic Party because hes let his in and a punch bowl like you and his supporters i dont see is furthering what i understand the Democratic Party to be they want to change the Democratic Party i believe joe biden candidacy itself is the middle finger to my generation i think your generation i will not be voting for surviving give me a break the. Last do you think the Democratic Party has ever been this divided not in my lifetime ive been to 65 years and ive been involved in politics but ive never seen the country in the shape that its in. Charleston South Carolina was the site of the 10th debate since the democratic primary began in 2019. That. A Diverse Group of contenders was now reduced to 7 white candidates including 2 billionaires and no no no luck and the. Following victories in New Hampshire and nevada Bernie Sanders enter the debate as the clear front runner. Who were either going to support someone who say so im democratic socialist or somebody who has a long history of all this we go to one of those extremes we didnt hear a list of 300 dollars and users im daniel marrons and i cover politics for huff post ive spent the last few years reporting on how democrats have responded to donald. Selection. The party has largely splintered into distinct lanes. Bernie sanders has led the progressive way pushing medicare for all to issue free college and a Green New Deal to solve the climate crisis. The moderate wings main argument has been electability that joe biden can put together the coalition of voters democrats need to be donald trump for a very strong person had a time before john going to top the person to do some progressives believe the influence of big money is a defining feature of the conflict within the party and they criticize the democratic establishment reliance on wealthy donors the moderate wing effectively kind of produced by big money and it says that business really is kind of the engine of the American Economy and democrats need to be a crow growth kind of probusiness party in order to win over a you know collect enough Corporate Cash to then be able to win over these median voters that they that they believe exist. Moderates in modern day are less literally means reliant on foreign fighters less and so what its become may be called yourself a moderate what does it mean theres a lot i dont care and about the substantive outcome of bills and legislation i will settle for some middle ground for pretty much friends lies. Another fundamental disagreement is which lane can attract more undecided voters says a lot of moderates think that you need milk toast or weeks tossed in order to attract people who are swing voters and the truth they swing voters in now in order to vote period and want someone who is take up the system on behalf of the family and if you have to like joe biden his core brand is cutting back room deals with corrupt politicians like much of panel or corporations as possibly our worst put forward against outcrop you might ironically see the outsider mantle to the most corrupt and becoming president ever. These 2020 South Carolina campaign would endorse or representative i think. The arab. Was. The 1st in. The we would. Be willing to the rule was it was to get it would as the United States i know the power of the one do not underestimate. Run for president in unison. Contributions ivory think penn state representative who has drawn inspiration from the Bernie Sanders campaign here who are the moon. Through. You judge companies the Drug Companies the. Military industrial complex. The one parser you see are willing to stand up against. Stand up against billionaires and even against the system and the elites government regardless of which party or side of the aisle theyre on so i think he embodies a lot of thing that really we need and i dont mock or seems to be saying. It is different to his political or as a pastor and role but baptist church. He sees a Spiritual Connection to the social justice agenda promoted by centers. Im reminded of the song right at the same house. Is. Part. Of what i am saying that what stan wilson isnt shown to me is that he had one in generally careful but we stood with that as a scripture on all jesus declared that we all should be and that we should be concerned with the least of these we must 1st talk about compassion and discuss it as it differentiates itself but toys simply. A man ive seen that genuinely care for. What those who have been left out those little marginal out there with will be raised belfour being channeled all but also been chewed up and spit out by the system those are the people that when i hear him standing up and talking those are the people that hes fighting for those are the people who he saying well were going to give them a fighting chain. After losing the 1st 3 states in the primary joe biden staked his comeback on a big victory in South Carolina. He relied on support from black voters often emphasizing his close relationship with former president barack obama not only was he a Vice President but he was a friend he was. A champion of the president. Melissa watson is a High School Teacher and longtime democrat who is backing joe biden some of her former students run this barber shop in north charleston. And barber shops is. Where the political discussions happen no school. Home on mr tim this move have you decided whether or not you go today or not. Ive been doing politics for a minute we lost so many voters like you melissa says Younger Voters are less attached to joe bidens like to see his Vice President and more open to sanders ideas. You know to marry a lot of us lose you know. Bernie simmons think its a magical stuff. I want to get a manager of but like i say we go get money you know to me like. If he can do the stuff he say he will do he got me there is a divide theres a generational divide thats real younger africanamericans want more pay well policies they want student loan really they want legalization of marijuana but those older voters. Honey i can buy. An ass im going for. On election day voter turnout searched passing the record set by barack obama in 2000 and. One South Carolina by almost 30 points and claimed more than 60 percent of the black vote according to exit polls time at the site somewhere and so we dont have to worry about a proper convention at that time for mary a boy a man who restore the goodness of this this this and take us the way this country can be theres a. Monarch. One who i knew who. Was. Taking. The democrats want to nominate democrat was most americans dont want the promise of revolution they want more the promises they want results was up on a victory tonight nice consensus for unity can the Democratic Party most of its base a Little Something of what theyre looking. At a case that the democratic establishment respondents abidance blog victory moderate candidates people are judging amy club which are dropped out and endorsed him giving him momentum just when he needed it if they had stayed in the race super tuesday looks extremely different you likely have sanders winning massachusetts minnesota and then pretty soon you know coronavirus shot. Down the primary and reshapes it around issues of solidarity so that you know that they really had. A very brief window to make their escape that made the story of the night does seem to be. The former Vice President he is projected to went. Oh biden went on to win tentative 14 states on super tuesday he sees the delegate lead becoming the undisputed front runner in the race as joe biden swept states for super tuesday if you look at the coalition of voters it is africanamerican voters and suburban women and these are the coalitions of folks who lead to large victories in 2018. Resign or partitioning a lobby reform on the ballot for november 2020 ok lonnie scott thinks back to the 22 midterm elections when democrats won swing districts with more moderate candidates thank you so much hes a progressive activist in michigan was supporting a Lisbeth Warren but shift its a biden following super tuesday thank you so much as. The way that i look at these arguments is who is going to perform with the base and who is going to encourage the folks in the Democratic Base to turn now. We refer to him here as uncle joe he is i guess i would say like comfort food for some people he is the devil that you know in the way he was there with barack obama and has been doing work as a Public Servant for a really long time. I dont think hes as progressive as i am i dont think that his policies are as liberal as i am but i do find him as someone that i am fine with voting for in november and someone that i can justify to myself and to my family that thats who we voted for to take on donald trump. Oh my god oh right right you oh lord daddy that was. Brotherhood. Man. Yeah it was. It was. Hoping to make a final stand Bernie Sanders canceled events elsewhere and focused intensely on the state of michigan. During his 2016 run sanders defeated Hillary Clinton here in the primary. His victory foreshadowed her narrow loss to donald trump that november. If sanders could repeat the feat it would revive his campaign and prove once again that he could win in a battleground state. I am whats called a stage at home people who want to volunteer to canvass for Bernie Sanders reports to my home 72 hours before election day a group of Bernie Sanders supporters gathered at lincoln parents home just outside detroit these volunteers are fueled by anger at the suffering around them and the corrupt political system they blame for it but theyre excited by sanders reliance on small donations as opposed to big checks from wealthy donors theres really here in a minute were going to be getting to the crucial work of building a movement but i want to know why interviewer here what youre fighting for a lot of people like dont get paid time off and i think that right now were experiencing with the crown of i. Everest is certainly going to why medicare for all is crucial this one percent their tentacles are affecting everything theyre exploiting groups of people around this country just to make more money and i really believe that bernie wants to fix this from a systemic standpoint getting another you know milk toast democrat as the competition is not going to drive people to the polls theyll call anyone to the left of ted cruz a socialist so and we need to make sure that we dont water down our beliefs and spier nobody and let trump be guided and the general election that as what will happen if we put by an accord for the general election so much of joe bidens recent surge has been based on the idea that hed be the best at taking on donald troll but you dont think so absolutely not. Joe biden represents the part of the establishment that sent people to the polls to vote what voting for donald trump hes the politician that voted for nafta and was really behind the t. T. P. And other trade agreements that harm our country he represents why manufacturing plants are closed down he represents the Health Care Industries of pharmaceuticals making so much money at our expense while were drowning in you know medical bankruptcies i i cant support that. The night before election day joe biden fans lined up term rally outside Renaissance High School in northwest detroit people we spoke to here didnt think sanders could defeat donald trump in the general election and mark the man for what hes trying to do but burning he talks a lot of your gas and it sounds good to the ear but when the bottom line comes now when the rubber hits the road theres no front line what you think a moderate candidate is the best person to run against donald trump i think joe biden thats the right candidate i think i know that hes paul to other primaries probably republicans who are unhappy with the trumpet ministration i know he has a lot of support from independents he obviously has a lot of support from democrats and i think thats a recipe i dont think any candidate is going to ultimately win the presidency with just their party base was. You have to invest more in the slope of america. Here is the best word to bring dignity back to that office was that of course it is one person that persons name is joe biden was. We need on whose trust truth will reassuring leadership and look and thats why if im given the honor to be president i promise you i will provide to the nation was. Was true before biden could finish a stump speech the protests broke out in the crowd was he would be 100. 00 a black social Justice Group and the Sunrise Movement a youth led Climate Action group interrupted the proceedings the Sunrise Movement later said he wanted to highlight bidens quote failure to embrace a bold climate agenda. The reason that we use those tactics is because of those learnings from history about how change happens it doesnt happen when you continue with business as usual it happens when you disrupt business as usual. The big easy reason why you cant declare bankruptcy for stupid joe biden has a new trading on his Climate Change record i mean there are a lot of things in bidens platform that i would love to see move a little bit farther left i would love to see him take a stronger stance on rejecting the role of big money in our politics his climate hot form could use some real work it needs more Environmental Justice language and provisions. Are you voting for anything or. Talking about nato augur well horton is 17 years old are you voting for barney today. Night and the politically for the end or the Sunrise Movement are you burning separately or devoted to god so that sunrise advocates for a Green New Deal which is a vision for the future includes rapidly decarbonizing our economy and putting millions of people to work in the process and could high paying union jobs my biggest concern with biden is the nominee hes a guy who promises a return to normalcy and a lack of you know Sweeping Change but rather favoring like an incremental approach and i dont think that message resonates with a lot of young people right know where. Its own i. Was starting. To think the Democratic Party takes young people for granted yeah i think after this election cycle i kind of do polling across the board has shown that young people are overwhelmingly in favor of progressive ideas and i havent seen a really meaningful effort from the Democratic Party. To move for their left and to adopt some of those progressive ideas and who theyre backing as a nominee i hope that people will be energized enough by that desire to be total trump that they show up anyway and that could very well be the case but it is a concern. I want to hear you say hey i knew it. Was somebody from the right you know i was somebody. I sometimes bidens victory margin for the state was 17 points sanders then when a single county he failed to win among the rural and working class white voters who supported him here in 2016 what are you feeling right now all the frustration frustrating that were seeing a generational divide where the youth vote is 100 percent behind bernie and were trying to clean up the mess that the boomer generation has left us and they dont want to face that stuff so this is for historic and to the trail of our generation and all future generations theres rightly i hope their grandkids forgive them because i know i wont hundreds of thousands of peoples lost jobs too rapidly because of the policies that so by advocated for joe biden voted for that every single last year we are currently spending 250000000. 00 a day on war and were not even al gore no one is attacking us i think that there are a lot of people who are voting for any who are not at all interested in a job by the president. Or one of them. Im undecided but i know that right now im not s