send us a text at (202) 748-8003 . please leave your name and the town you are calling from. you can weigh in on social media. you can post a comment on facebook. threes saturday morning, days now to go before the new hampshire primary. it was four days when they met last night. here are some of the front pages from new hampshire. the union leader says from frontrunners fend off attacks. the concord monitor writes, clash over electability in a fiery debate. top presidential contenders clashed over experience and electability. mayor peteestern buttigieg and struggling former vice president joe biden. here is an exchange from the debate last night between bernie sanders and pete buttigieg. [video clip] >> in terms of money in politics, our campaign, unlike some of the folks up here, i don't have 40 billionaires, pete, contributing to my campaign coming from the pharmaceutical industry, coming from wall street and all the big money interests. what we do have is we now have over 6 million contributions from 1.5 million people a contribution. that is unprecedented in the history of american politics. we want to change america, you are not going to do it by electing candidates who are going out to rich people's homes begging for money. the way we are going to do it is held a mass movement of working ld and asked bui movement of working people who are willing to stand up to the drug companies and wall street. if you want to be part of that political revolution, berniesanders.com. >> we are going into the fight of our lives. donald trump according to news reports and his allies raised $25 million today. we need to go into that fight with everything we've got. i have been very clear on both my record where i have sued pharmaceutical companies and what i am campaigning for, that includes raising wages and raising taxes on corporations and the wealthy. as the only person on this stage who is not a millionaire or billionaire, i know a thing or two about building a movement because mayor of south bend, indiana, is not a fundraising powerhouse. we are here without any corporate pacs because hundreds of thousands of people went to peteforamerica.com and contributed to this campaign. if we want to bring about any of the changes that everyone is talking about so eloquently up here, we need to put together the majority that can decisively defeat donald trump. we need a politics that is defined not by who we reject but how we bring everybody into the fold. host: that is from last night's democratic presidential debate in manchester, new hampshire. they are watching this in california. l.a. times, rivals tried to upstage sanders and buttigieg at feisty debate. out thisa new poll morning, and exclusive new hampshire tracking poll from the boston globe. it says buttigieg takes lead over sanders in tight new hampshire race. pete buttigieg continues his wbz in friday's exclusive boston globe poll. 25%, 2 pointled in s from thursday night, while bernie sanders held steady at 24%. biden fourth with 11%. that is a new poll just coming out last night. time to go to our first call. eric, napa, california. thank you for being up so early or so late. who is the best candidate to defeat president trump in your view? caller: they all sound good. i think the problem we are going to have is the election itself and that being what's going on ukraineand like in situation our president was involved in. those things make it seem as though our election may not be as smooth. host: is there a way to get around that? is there a way to fix that? is there a way to make you feel more comfortable about the process? caller: the thing i would really love to see is for someone, c-span or another media source, to make people accountable for what they say. every time they get on tv and uth, that should be documented. demerit system where if you are an honorable elected official, you should not be telling blatant lies. someone has to be accountable for what they are telling the people so we can make an accurate decision to vote. host: thank you. let's hear from rob in new york city. democrats only this morning. give us the name, who is best capable of defeating president trump? caller: bloomberg, bloomberg, bloomberg. host: how come? caller: he is the greatest thing since sliced bread. he is the real mccoy. he is the kind of person we were hoping for from ross perot back in the day. i had hopes that trump as a money guy might have some of what ross perot used to bring to the table. butp is, i hate to say it, he is a fraud. bloomberg is the real mccoy. for everyone listening across the country, on the internet, around the world, looking to bloomberg. anyone who was a ross perot enthusiast like i was, the only time i voted outside democrat, i voted for perot twice. people need to look at bloomberg, look at what he is doing. bernie sanders is wrong putting down billionaires. bloomberg is self-made. host: let me jump into the former mayor of new york, mike bloomberg. what did you see when he was mayor that translates best to a successful run for the president and a successful presidency? caller: bloomberg was self-made. no one gave him a dime. trump's father gave the family $200 million split between the donald and his siblings. they ended up with over $70 million each given to them on a silver spirit. ver nonsense -- on a sil spoon. the nonsense is a lot of false information. i beg everyone to look into michael bloomberg. judge judy is behind him. host: one more question for you before we move on. what you make of the critique that mike bloomberg is just trying to buy the election, not taking part in iowa, new hampshire, waiting for super tuesday? caller: so what? the guy is an honest, ethical, decent person. people need to look at bloomberg very carefully, very seriously. host: thank you. bernie sanders makes his charge in the wall street journal's editorial page. they mention mike bloomberg. republicans say he cannot win. that is what clinton said about trump. mr. bloomberg is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars in march 3 primary states, but what if his main contribution is to siphon votes from mr. buttigieg or mr. biden? alienating his supporters who may need to win in november. some gop officials in south plan to urge republicans to vote for bernie in the state's open] that is playing with fire. mr. sanders is beating mr. trump in most head2head pulls in key polls in head to head key states. the impossible consume become inevitable. sk the democrats who rejoiced when the republicans nominated mr. trump. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. host: you're welcome. who do you like? caller: i like elizabeth warren. i think of the four that are left, she is the goldilocks candidate. buttigieg is too young, too little experience, and he cannot play to a certain crowd. biden and bernie are both so old. bernie says he is recovered from that heart attack, but anyone who has had the surgery can see the signs. he is struggling to make it on the campaign trail. calling fromou for evansville this morning. we can link that call and the one before that with this set from last night's debate. elizabeth warren was asked her thoughts about michael bloomberg. [video clip] >> a candidate who is not on stage tonight but is in this race, former mayor michael bloomberg of new york. this question came from nashville, tennessee. he has just gotten the endorsement of a former trump navy secretary. why do you think you are in a better position to be trump than bloomberg? >> i don't think anyone ought to be able to buy their way into a nomination for president of the united states. i don't think any billionaire ought to be able to do a good i don't think anybody who sucks up to billionaires ought to be up to do. as democrats, we all want to overturn citizens united because we want to end this unlimited spending. yeah, except everyone on this stage except amy and me is either a billionaire or receiving help from pacs that can do unlimited spending. if you really want to live where you say, put your money where your mouth is and say no to the pacs. i think the way we build democracy going forward is not billionaires reaching in their own pockets or people sucking up to billionaires. the way we build it going forward is we have a grassroots movement funded from the grassroots up. that is the way i am running this campaign. host: highlights from last night's debate. it is the mcintyre shaheen event. all of the 2020 democratic candidates will speak at the 61st annual event. every year, the new hampshire democrats host this event. it is a tradition that started in 1959 when presidential candidate john f. kennedy was the signature speaker. our coverage will be at 7:00 eastern time. thomas is in south carolina. go at it. who do you like on the democratic side? caller: i like senator biden because i am a native of hardi n, delaware. my family knew him. he helped us out a lot. i'm a black man. my name is reverend thomas davis. i am located in south carolina, where i think the south carolina needs will actually give -- carolinians will actually give him votes. nobody has more experience than him. if you are hired for a job, naturally they give you on your experience and education for knowing what is going on on any job. i think they need to vote for mr. biden behind the fact that he can help our country. the most important thing is global warming. the most important thing is also the economy. not a prejudiced man. i thank you for taking my call. host: thank you. from south carolina, that last call reminds me to bring up the real clear politics polling. they have a national poll. they still have jill biden on top,27% -- joe biden on 27% with bernie sanders at 21%. 22.5%.ttigieg at nevada, according to this accumulation of polls 21%. south carolina, they have joe biden leading at 31%. tom steyer in second place in south carolina at 18.5%. interesting set of numbers. good morning. caller: good morning. i am supporting bloomberg. he is the only one with enough money to go up against trump. let's not start with the left wing because president obama said we have to go more towards the center. andt go towards the left, president obama is supporting mayor bloomberg. he is the only one that has not been smeared and cannot be smeared. unfortunately, trump plays d irty. we have to have somebody who is going to be able to fight this. i was supporting biden, but president trump has smeared him, and all the other ones can be smeared. the older population, the baby boomers are the biggest voting bloc, and they will not support sanders. he only has 5% support of the older adults. i really just think that bloomberg is going to be the mp,t candidate to beat tru regardless of the money. let's put the money aside. this country cannot stand another four years of trump. host: mike is calling from south carolina. what is the name of your town? caller: ocateen. host: go ahead. caller: as a lifelong democrat, i must say i am a little disappointed because my choice would be amy klobuchar. biden, bernie,y and elizabeth warren are too far to the left. we need a moderate. we need someone who is rational, has independent thought, but can work across the aisle and develop consensus. amy klobuchar has shown that. not is too young, has solved the issues in south bend. i don't know how he could step forward and solve any issues globally, nationally. i think we need someone. amy is in the right age group. we have too many of the older folks, who in my opinion, don't have it in them to do what needs to be done. host: what do you make of amy klobuchar's performance so far? how is she doing? i'm a little surprised she has not caught on more than she has. debatesbrought into the exactly what needs to be there, a rational thinker who does not jump up and down, who does not waive their arms, who does not fight to get to say something. when she does say something, it makes sense. it is a moderate kind of position. host: thanks for calling. mike bringing up senator klobuchar and pete buttigieg. the two of them clashed on visions and experience. here is a look. [video clip] >> we have to meet this moment. this moment is different. the next president is going to face challenges from global china, tourity, like cybersecurity and election security challenges that were barely thought of a few years ago. here at home, we are seeing works like get work -- gig transformed what it means to be a worker in america. we cannot solve the problems i looking back. we have to be ready to turn the page and change our politics before it is too late. seeingere i go, i am independence and future former republicans ready to join in that historic american majority ready to turn the page. >> i am listening to this about meeting the moment, and my first thought is i am a fresh face up here for a presidential debate. 59 is thepete, that new 38. >> the new 50. >> meeting the moment. >>we had a moment the last few weeks. that moment was the impeachment hearings. there was a lot of courage you saw from a few people. there was courage from doug jones from alabama. there was courage from mitt romney, who took a very difficult vote. there was courage, i read today about lt. col. bittman being -- vindman being escorted out of the white house. you said it was exhausting to watch and that you want to turn the channel and watch cartoons. it is easy to go after washington because that is a popular thing to do. it is much harder as i see senator shaheen in the front row, such a leader, much harder to lead and take those difficult positions because i think going after every single thing that people do because it is popular to say and makes you look like a i don't think, that is what people want right now. we have a newcomer in the white house, and i don't think that has worked. host: as of this month, ,000 of them in new hampshire. one of the storylines in new hampshire is the fight for the independent voter. thank you for waiting. caller: thank you. i am going for elizabeth warren because of the bill she wrote and got kennedy actually put it through because she was just a junior senator. it's called the financial protection act. that shows what she is doing. she spent nine years teaching law in harvard. she knows the ins and outs. that bill pretty much covers all of us, especially senior citizens. we have not had a raise. we did get a raise, but most of my raise went to my insurance companies. that is why i voted for trump. i think i made a mistake. i'm going for elizabeth warren. i think she has experienced. she has a law degree. enthused about that because we have almost twice as many lawyers as we do doctors, and we need more doctors. thank you. host: are you still there? caller: yes. host: what do you think elizabeth warren needs to do to rise up higher in the polls? caller: i think elizabeth warren, if people would read the bill that she wrote and what she has done with that bill, not her particularly, but the bill she aste, really covers w fraud, and abuse in our government. i think that is what we really need. we could almost pay off the debt if we went into these organizations that's been bought off for the consumer's protection. host: a couple of points about elizabeth warren from this boston globe poll. warren saw an increase in support from voters 18 to 45. biden continues to be fueled by voters 46-65. sandersas inched past to second place among women voters. buttigieg continues to lead at 26%. biden is at 11%, seven points off his monday number. milton is on the line in philadelphia. good morning. caller: good morning and thank you for taking my call. i am supporting vice president biden. he has expense. he served for eight years -- experience. he has served for eight years under president obama. he is the one candidate that is outright beating trump. we need to unite and get rid of this racist in the white house. my dream candidate would be former first lady michelle obama. i think we need to unify behind vice president biden. if vice president biden gets the nomination, i hope he puts clothes are on his ticket -- klobuchar on his ticket. i think that would be a winning ticket. host: robert, give us a name. who do you like to beat president trump in november? caller: first of all, i switched parties in 2016 to vote for hillary because i did not want trump. i did not trust him at that time. i was all for him being found guilty in this impeachment trial. i supported vice president biden when obama was running even though i was a longtime republican. 1984 for u.s. congress in in the third district of colorado in the reagan administration. i have been a vietnam veteran in the navy. desertarmy, i was in seals. forstill supporting biden president against trump. he is the only one who will beat trump. host: why do you think he had a less than stellar showing in iowa? why isn't he higher in the polls, do you think? buttigieg was in was one ofy, but he the guys who promoted don't ask don't tell. he's been mayor of a city in adiana, and he's married to man. he's gay, but they are not saying he is a homosexual. somehow that message is not getting through in the media. this has been going on for a long time and has not come out. when it comes to him being involved in foreign policy with foreign policy leaders, they are going to ridicule him, and trump is going to ridicule him if he gets the nomination for president. beingot up to par for commander-in-chief. vice president biden is coming to colorado for the super tuesday events, and he's the only one of all the standing nominees that has been to norad, in the military bases colorado springs. he is the only one that is qualified to be commander-in-chief. host: thanks for calling this saturday morning. steve sent us a text from florida. bernie sanders has the voters, especially the young voters. dnc needs to stay out of his way. cap from new york city, " bloomberg is a real financial genius. trump pretends." kelly, "the one who will bring people who don't normally vote out and the one that is for true change, bernie sanders." chance,"g has the best according to mike from orlando. morning,r writes this taking us back to new hampshire, "it is an ideal environment for sanders and buttigieg. anti-establishment constituency is well represented in the granite state. it is also clear that buttigieg's success in iowa has gotten him second looks. buttigieg organizers had to shoo away those of us shivering in the wet weather to get in. buttigieg is unlikely to win the moderate or non-bernie lane without a fight." here is pete buttigieg asking to clarify his health care policies , and he talks more about his experience. [video clip] >> i want you to respond to that and take on the argument from the vice president that you don't have enough experience to be president. >> the truth is i have been consistent throughout on my position on delivering health care for every american. as to experience, i just bring a different perspective. admit, if you're looking for the person with the most years of washington establishment experience under their belt, you have your candidate. it is not me. i am bringing the expense of someone whose life has been shaped by those decisions in washington, d.c. whose community was written off as dying a decade ago. we need a perspective right now that will allow us to leave the politics of the past in the past, turn the page, and bring change to washington. host: here is the front page of the washington post showing several of the candidates. the headline says, democrats turn up the heat on electability. we have just under half an hour left in this first hour of "washington journal." we are talking to democrats only, asking you who is the best candidate to beat president trump. raymond is calling from pennsylvania. who do you like? caller: i come at this from a different perspective. i am going to vote blue no matter who. i don't care who the candidate is. this is what happened to us for years ago. the bernie people.net because clinton won, and they stayed home and voted for trump or someone else. the women are saying if a woman is not on the ticket, we are not going to vote. that should not be the way. that is the way to get trump in office. if the democrats don't start sticking together, that is what the republicans did. they hated trump. as soon as he won the nomination, they lined up behind him, and he won. that's the way i see it. host: thank you. good morning to you. caller: good morning. host: good morning. caller: i am so glad to get on this morning. i have been jumping back and forth between candidates. i truly believe bloomberg can win. host: why? well, likel, he is, everyone says, he is a real billionaire. trump is kind of htened of him -- frig him. trump is frightened. he loves money. bloomberg is a past republican. he sees both sides of the picture. the truee will pull republicans into his camp. idon't mean the trumpsters, mean the republicans that are quitting the trump cabinet. host: let me show you the website of the new york times, back to the point we mentioned earlier about bloomberg. candidates bash bloomberg for trying to buy the nomination during the debate. you are mentioning it is positive that is a multibillionaire. what you make of the criticism from his democratic counterparts? caller: i agree with them 100%. we are in trying times. when you are in trying times, you have to use trying measures. everyone else is great. i have been back and forth. i love buttigieg. but he's gay. i love elizabeth, but she is pocahontas. i love the ex-vice president. i love them all. they are also nice and wonderful people. can they beat trump? you need lots of money and not to be frightened of him. bloomberg is not framed of him. f him.ghtened o host: john, who do you like? who can beat the present? caller: jill biden can go into wisconsin,, michigan -- joe biden can go into rural areas, pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan. moderate republicans or independent voters. that is how we beat trump. joe biden is more likable than bernie sanders. bernie sanders would be a disaster. i think it is important that the black voters of south carolina don't let the republicans help bernie sanders. "while amywrites, klobuchar is my top choice, i feel tom steyer is the best to take on trump." this is from stephen, "biden and buchar would be the winning ticket." another vote for mike bloomberg. "democrats always bring a knifei to a gunfightfe -- a to a gunfight, which is why i am going for bloomberg." [video clip] >> whether it is health care or anything else, why are we the only major country on earth that is not guarantee health care to all people? pay the highest prices in the world on prescription drugs. 30,000 i because they do not -- die because they do not get to a doctor on time. people going bankrupt because they have cancer or heart disease or alzheimer's. why is it? why have we been talking about health care in this country for 100 years? here is the answer. if you want real change in health care, at the end of the day, you are going to have to take on the insurance companies and tell them the function of health care is health care for all, not huge profits for the insurance companies. you are going to have to take on the drug companies and their corruption and their price-fixing and tell them, sorry, we're not going to pay 10 times more for prescription drugs. at the end of the day, there is no way around it. ultimately, you need to rally the american people to tell the drug companies, to tell wall street, to tell the insurance companies, to tell the fossil fuel industry this country belongs to all of us. host: senator sanders from last night's debate in manchester. sandersrites, "bernie has the force of volunteers behind him needed to beat trump. even every day trump voters would benefit from his policies." a look back at the 2016 numbers. the republicann 35%.ampshire primary with ted cruz got just under 12%. on the democratic side, there is that big number for bernie %, beating 2016, 60.4 hillary clinton who had 38%. joe is in san antonio. good morning. caller: good morning thank you c-span for all the unbiased viewpoints that you give us. host: you are welcome. caller: i think in particular the democratic candidate who opposes the best chance of defeating donald trump is bernie sanders. he is very energized. he has a lot of name recognition. he has been on the forefront for the longest of all the candidates. people can really stand behind bernie. i think someone like andrew yang, if he were to sneak throug h, although he did not have a blowout by any means in iowa, he would decimate donald trump at any debate. just his intelligence and understanding and the amount of proposals he has, ideas, legislation to handle the economic crisis, i feel like he ran circles around donald trump. host: let's hear from bill. bill is in los lunas, new mexico. caller: how are you doing? host: doing well. how are you? caller: just fine. i would like to talk first to the center-right of my party, the democratic members. you have given us two fence jumpers. one was reagan. the other one is trump. and hewas a union man, fence jumped. donald trump was disgraced by the last president that we had, and he jumped. you are always blaming the left for something that the left has never done. i'm for bernie sanders. he follows the footprints of the lord jesus christ, a socialist jew. thank you and god bless you. host: thank you. the caller mentioning president trump and the economy. job growth strengthens trump's hand. this is the wall street journal, more americans are drawn into the workforce. u.s. labor market is drawing americans off the sidelines at a record rate. nearly three in for new americans employed in the last ratio ine highest three decades of records. that is in the wall street journal this morning. the washington post lead story, trump has ousted two key witnesses in impeachment. more may follow. he removed them from their posts, in an apparent campaign to enact retribution on his perceived enemies. the names are lt. col. alexander vindman, from the national security council. union ambassador gordon sondland. more may be coming. we will be watching the story. matthew calling from north carolina. democrats only. who do you like? caller: biden. host: tell us why. caller: i am going to tell you why. he is professional. ok. a lot of people that are going to go out there and vote against of ther for trump are generation of biden. i know we have a younger generation coming forward with a lot of new energy ideas. we are a divided country. i think one thing that is important between our party is democrats is that the only way to beat donald trump is to quit calling names. trumpers.g quit reading the headlines. quit saying he fired the sky or that. let's not. did you see his attorneys during the impeachment? they were professional. our party needs to unite. we need to quit dressing up. we need to quit looking like the angry mob, which we look. we need to be more professional like biden. he's an older man. he's been there. he knows policy. just work together as americans and get one of our officials elected, otherwise our party is quick to fall to pieces. host: thank you. joe biden featured in the new york times, slowly dawning on democrats, there is no safe option. mr. biden has presented himself as the safe choice, the that will do option for democrats whose chief priority is finding the candidate best positioned to beat president trump. there inrtcomings laid exchanges throughout the night, the party is left to consider an unsettled truth, there is no safe option. that is starting to feel especially risky. more from the debate last night in manchester. here is senator amy klobuchar, democrat of minnesota, attacking her rivals' health care plans. [video clip] >> i keep listening to the same debate. it is not real because two thirds of the democrats in the senate are not on your bill, and it would take 139 million americans off their current health insurance in four years. elizabeth wants to do it in two years. pete, you have a different plan now, you sent out a tweet to years ago henceforth, affirmatively you are for medicare for all for the ages. i would like to point out that with leadership is about is taking a position, looking at things, and sticking with them. i have long believed that the way we expand health care to more people is by building on the affordable care act with a nonprofit public option. that is the best way to do it. practically, the affordable care act is now nearly 10 points more popular than the president of the united states. why would we talk about blowing it up? we need to build on mental health care, addiction, long-term care. host: gulfport, mississippi now. it is scott calling. who do you like? caller: good morning. that is a tough call. i have four quick comments. let me say this from the start, there are two geniuses in the presidential field running for president. donald trump is definitely a genius. he's one we all understand. andrew yang is the other genius. he is the one nobody understands. that is my first,. -- first comment. lseond comment, the fau impeachment against donald trump brought down joe biden. joe biden is finished. he is washed up. he is through. the whole country understands what crooked joe has been doing all these years. thank god the president was acquitted. joe biden lost, his chance to be president. gabbard.hree, tulsi tulsi gabbard is an amazing woman and very impressive from the democratic party. how she got railroaded is something i don't understand. i wish somebody would explain to me how tulsi gabbard got railroaded out of the debates, out of the whole question of whether or not she is qualified to be president. she is so solid. she is so dsound. hillaryave this crooked who called her a russian agent. host: your last point. point is about your callers calling in about -- uh, what's the democrat billionaire's name? i just forgot. a couple.e are there is mike bloomberg and tom steyer as well. caller: last comment and i'm done. mike bloomberg, why are people behind this got? if you stop and think, he has never shown up on the same stage with any of the debaters. host: the earlier callers, some of them said he not only had the money to go toe to toe with the president, but he has an element of toughness about him to take on the president. that is what the earlier callers said. caller: nonsense. we have never seen him in combat on stage debating the issues with his fellow democrats. he does commercials. policy does are -- all he does are commercials. how can you get behind the guy who never makes the debate stage? host: we have about 10 minutes left. dorothy in florida. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i have been always for biden and amy as vice president. if biden's approval rate does not go up, i am going to have to switch to bloomberg because i will vote for anybody who can beat trump. buttigieg, i think he has a very intelligent mind. he's been around. he's been in service. he talks very well, but we have to get a president of the whole united states. i'm telling you, there are people in alabama, louisiana, and arkansas, the bible thumpers will never vote for a gay guy. i'm sorry to say that, but you know how they think. that is my opinion. host: thank you for calling. forthy leading with a nod joe biden. here is joe biden from last night's debate when he was asked about his less than stellar showing in the iowa caucus. [video clip] >> in the last few days, you have said the democrats will take too big of a risk if they nominate senator sanders or mayor buttigieg, but they cannot on top -- came out on top in iowa. what did the iowa democrats miss? >> they did not miss anything. willk a hit in iowa, and i likely take a hit here. usually it is the neighboring senators who do well. we have to restore the soul of this country, bring back the middle-class, and bring people together. it is a simple proposition. it doesn't matter if it is this one or the next. i have always viewed the first four encounters as the starting point. >> why are senator sanders and mayor buttigieg too big a risk for democrats? >> with regard to senator sanders, you know the president wants to stick a label on every candidate. we not only have to win, we have to bring along the u.s. senate. bernie has labeled himself a democratic-socialist. that is the label of the president is going to lay on everyone running with bernie if he is the nominee. mayor buttigieg is a great guy and a real patriot. he is a mayor of a small city who has done some good things, but he is not demonstrated his ability to get a broad support across the spectrum. host: the real clear politics poll averages for joe biden. you can see in new hampshire he is trailing. in nevada, he is leading in the polls 21. in south carolina, he is leading. second-place in california behind bernie sanders. joe biden nationally 27% to bernie sanders 21.8%. this is the real clear politics average. in's take a call from john davenport. caller: i just had one thing to say. i enjoyed the debate last night. i think all seven of those candidates have good ideas and thoughts to run this country. all seven should get together, look at each one of them, pick one, if it is joe biden, that is good. all six of them should get behind one candidate. put all of their money together and then campaign with that one candidate for the president of the united states. of that seven one that rises for you? caller: i did not understand you. host: you mentioned all seven are good. is there one of them that rises above the pack? caller: yes, in my opinion, the one who has the most experience on that stage is joe biden. from my standpoint, they should get behind him, all six of them and campaign in this country for joe biden. joe biden is the only one i feel can beat donald trump. themiden needs all six of to stand behind him and say this is the way we are going to go. this is the way we want the democratic party to go. host: liz calling from new jersey. good morning. caller: good morning. democrat, i think elizabeth warren. experience, and she also has the ability to think through issues. she offers plans. she has been crucified for offering plans, but the rest of that team, their plans are insufficient at best. i think one thing democrats need , we are always told we have to tack to the right, that we have to get some of closer to the center, somebody who is half a repu blican. that presupposes that every liberal progressive democrat is going to show up at the polls in the numbers you need them to do so to win an election. i think the reason why people don't come out for this party is because we are tacking too far to the right. we don't want republican candidates. we have to pick somebody who is a merger of progressive and moderate on the same ticket. that everysume democrat who is liberal is going to show up for a candidate who is not that liberal. host: one more short clip from last night's debate. pete buttigieg was asked if there was a danger for democrats in the republican investigations into hunter biden. [video clip] republicans in congress have ra started investigating -- already started investigating vice president biden's son hunter biden. >> no. we are not going to let them change the subject. this is not about hunter biden or vice president biden. this is about an abuse of power by the president. and all president and i of us are competing, but we have to draw a line here. to be the kind of president, to be the kind of human being who sond seek to weaponize a against his own father is an unbelievably dishonorable thing that is just one more example of why we as a party have to be completely united in doing whatever it takes to make sure this president does not get a second term. >> vice president biden. >> i thank my colleague for saying that. it is a diversion. whoever the nominee is, the president will make up lies about. we have to be authentic with the american people about what we are going to do and how we are going to do it. indman got thrown out of the white house today. onshould be pinning a medal vindman and not on rush limbaugh. we should all stand to give show ofvindman the support of how much we supported him. stand up. that's who we are. we are not what trump is. host: down to our last minute. leo from colorado, you get the last word. which democrat can beat trump? caller: i believe mike bloomberg is the best possibility because he has the executive experience. he can hit the ground running and fulfill the job. i also believes he has -- believe he has the dollars, the warchest to beat trump. fawning for the american public's dollars to get this position. i believe all the people that are running are good people in the democratic field. with this person that is in office, currently, you will have to bring a fight. i believe bloomberg is the man for the job. host: thanks for calling. plenty more times for politics. .t is their clock -- 8:00 three days before the new hampshire primary. theill talk to lucas meyer, president of the new hampshire young democrats. we will talk about the issues young voters are focusing on this cycle. later on, ellen nielsen discusses the 2020 primary. while we get the guests set up for this and more of your calls, we want to show you a short piece of an interview from chairman ray buckley who will be on this program at 9:30 tomorrow. he has served in his position since 2007. we asked about this year's volatility and his role as party chair. >> this race is so fluid. you have been to a lot of campaigns, 1992 with bill clinton, the comeback kid. 2008, explain the significance of how volatile it is, two days before the new hampshire primary. >> one of the effects of this year, by having some candidates, get to decide. wanting tovoters participate have not made a definite decision. they can move as a block in any direction. nobody should be counted out. there will be some exciting moments between now and the primary with the votes being cast. it is an exciting time to have these great candidates. >> what is your role as party chair? when a candidate says they want to run in new hampshire, how do they run in the state? >> first, i say give me a call and then i set up a couple of days of meetings. we try to give them a good flavor so they understand what it is like. i tell them first, have a good time. what an honor and a privilege, whether you win or not, running for president of the united states is an amazing experience. second, imagine you are running for your local school board. if you imagine coming from the position of governor or u.s. senator or something of national you tocance, they want shake their hands and answer the tough questions. that a lot of these candidates have done that and that is why you are seeing such a close race. >> washington journal continues. host: you are looking at a shot of the expo center in new hampshire, in downtown manchester. three days before the new hampshire primary. lucas meyer joins us now. he is president of the new hampshire young democrats. thanks for joining us. guest: thanks for having me. host: what were your takeaways from the debate? guest: there is always a question when you head into any election as to the value of a debate and whether it will move the electorate or will there be any pivotal moments? certainly coming out of iowa and the lack of a decision until later in the week as to who carried the state, that certainly made this bait really important. i think there was a lot of consternation ahead of the primary as to whether the new hampshire primary is still relevant. it still has a lot of influence. i would agree with chairman buckley who said that this might be the most consequential new hampshire primary in our state's history. full -- room was full. i thought the debate was excellent. i thought it was a positive night for the democratic party. host: as president of the new hampshire young democrats, what are you and young democrats in new hampshire looking for from the candidates in that state this year, just before the primary. is there one person delivering it more than the others? the new hampshire young democrats stay neutral through this process. the thing that was important to us from the get-go, we start planning -- started planning for the primary two years ago at this point. it was understanding that young people were going to be the voting bloc. young people have a lot of power when they show up to the polls. every candidate running for president, we wanted to make sure they were not just giving side time to issues that were important to young people. but issues that are critical to young voters and the generational crises we see are front and center to motivate young people to come out and vote. not just to vote to work for our nominee. from the beginning of this primary, we have been working with young activists to connect with these candidates to make sure that climate change is front and center and that we are -- that we are pressing candidates on their bold plans to address the climate crisis and build the clean energy economy. hereost of affordability, in new hampshire, we have the highest in-state tuition for colleges in the country. we export the most high school students of any state in the country. we have a challenge with student debt. within theosition primary process to make sure candidates are talking about those issues. childcare, which is a crushing burden for parents in this country. we saw our role as trying to shape the primary and shape the candidates platform. aich i think we have seen fundamental understanding from every candidate running for president that if you speak to the youth vote and he speak authentically and directly to them, that we will turn out, we will show up. we saw in iowa, a strong youth turnout. in new hampshire, there is a disproportionate impact. in 2016 and this 2018. while we have challenges of attracting and retaining young people, we are starting to see that shift. it has been encouraging for the democratic party and for the candidates at large to be taking those issues seriously. turnout,ee a robust not only in the primary but looking ahead to the general, see theung people census and redistricting on the horizon. a lot of young people, for them, that is very scary. it is also very motivating to .et to work we need to keep our majorities in congress. looking at state legislatures, redistricting will be an issue and will dictate the political power about state for the next decade. making sure that we are not only losing focus, -- not only focused on the primary and the general election but also looking down the ballot to make sure that young people are turning out and voting in state legislature races. and the next step is making sure young people run for office. our organization is making sure -- we understand that if you're not on the table, you are on the menu. we want young people to run for office. runningover 70 people for office in the stay and for midterms. we have over 50 running for city office last fall. we are looking for a robust recruitment of young people to run for state office in the state and fight for changes we need to see at the local and state level, which we hope will trickle up to the national level. lucas meyer is the president of the new hampshire young democrats. .or republicans, (202) 748-8001 for democrats, (202) 748-8000. .ndependents, (202) 748-8002 we will put a separate line for people from new hampshire. we have been talking about young voters issues. here are some statistics within new hampshire, the voting age toulation in that state, 18 44 years old, 41.6%. 45 to 64 years old, 38.5%. rate -- 65 and% over, 19%. how do you get young folks out to the polls on tuesday night? west: as an organization, don't do much because it is a primary and we cannot work with the campaign. what we are focused on is making sure, what i was talking about earlier. with helping to shape the narrative of some of these campaigns, and making sure young people are front and center. they will not show if they are not motivated. if we are not speaking to the core issues impacting young people, they will not feel heard and will not show up. we want to facilitate those conversations and make sure they are front and center. there was a lot of concern about if the new hampshire primary would be what it has been. if you look at primaries bill in the state, they -- an effort to put dedicated organizers onto these campuses to turn out the youth vote. 2016, you had three choices. not asas not much -- many options as there are now. incrediblet diversity in our field and how robust the field was for as long as it was, it really gave a lot of options to a lot of different students and professionals in the state and young families to identify with a candidate and get into the process. while some of those candidates may have dropped out, those young voters are still engaged. i think the robustness of the field and the attentiveness to youth issues is going to have a huge impact on the youth folk coming up on tuesday. from seattle, independent caller for lucas meyer. go ahead, eric. caller: thank you. let me give you and explain should for why the -- explanation for why the turnout was that big in iowa. what trump is doing, it does not personally offend white people, period. it will help all white people. you, your kids and your grandkids. ,he reason why i said that is you are right. it is personal to me. i am an african-american. what trump is doing and talking about black people is personal. it gives me a motivation to go out and really vote against him. the turnout of black people, it will be large. when you get in office, when we put democrats in office like klobuchar and biden and people like that, it seems like when you get in office, you forget us. you do nothing for the black community. won,election, when obama he did something for gay people and the dreamers. there was nothing specifically done in order to help black people. we are just basically the vote. bill clinton got in the office and governed on the right wing. black voters are getting smarter. we are seeing that you are not going to do anything to help us. we will not go and vote. a lot of black people while -- i am talking to, you know what they are saying, trump's is working. host: we know that new hampshire is a dominantly -- predominantly white state. can you speak about the concern to the broader electorate? guest: senator warren addressed this last night during the debate. the democratic party cannot just show up to communities of color .hat we are heading int the party needs to be focused on issues of racial injustice and climate change which are intersectional to each other. our next president has a big job in bridging the divide that has been created in the country because of this president. i agree with the caller. i think that is a fundamental problem the country needs to address. in new hampshire, while we are definitely not the most diverse state, we are here in message -- manchester, which has incredible diversity. a schoolet school is where 52 languages are spoken and 98% are on free argent reduced -- or reduced lunch. we look to our elected leaders to address it seriously with policy. certain ishat is republican leadership is not going to get that done. young people understand that. my generation and younger generations are going to be the most diverse populations in our country's history. change to see dramatic in how our country deals with racial systemic racism, and economic injustice. it is up to our next president to step up to the plate and drive some real change. calling from is illinois. what do you say? caller: hi. i just don't see where you are coming from. i hear about the robustness and the only thing that comes to the table about what you said was either racism or childcare. that childcare, whether it be expensive or not, i don't think the government should handle it for us. i think that maybe it is personal responsibility and take care of your own. as far as racism, i just don't see it in this country. i think we are steps and far beyond the 60's. it is a beautiful place and depute for country to live in. everybody has a chance. i think you guys push it way too much. preaches to the point of personal response ability, what do you say to him? reallyi think it is a interesting dichotomy between the two calls we just had. i think it really shows the divide in this country that some folks don't think racism is an issue and others are impacted by it, daily. i would disagree with the second caller that racism is not a problem in our country. to his point about childcare, the point i am driving is that young people have had -- have a number of crushing economic burdens on them from the cost of college. when you were in the 80's, we talked to folks in the statehouse in concord who said you would have to work over summer to afford your tuition. you would have to work 50 hours a week to afford in-state public tuition. you graduate with that debt to the point of childcare. that can run the $15,000 to $20,000 a year. wages are not growing and the opportunity seems broken for most young people. young people are looking for a leader who can give them some hope for the future. a pathw them there is forward. that is why young people latch on the climate change, not only because it is an existential threat to our planet. you see the effects in new hampshire, whether it is a sea level rise or extreme weather events, to lyme disease. addressing climate change forn economic opportunity young people, that we can create a clean energy economy. we have the seacoast in hamster. not a lot but enough -- in new hampshire. not a lot but enough. it is an untapped energy potential that will create thousands of jobs in the state. generate billions of dollars into the state. but, we need aggressive action on that to make it happen. at young people are looking this election, not just for how it will impact the next two years or four years. they will look at how it will set up the rest of their lives. will they start a family? will they go to college? or, is college not the right path? is it a vocational school? is it going into the trades? of an on the precipice economic opportunity to revolutionize how young people perceive their future, i think. the current administration is not going to help with that future. it is not going to support that future and not going to create the opportunity young people need to thrive and feel comfortable. host: lucas meyer takes a call from eileen. good morning, eileen. caller: good morning, c-span. thanks for taking my call. on what thecomment guest said about the environmental issues. i totally agree on what he said. , notve to talk about it only as climate change but green energy, but we have to talk we are doingwhat to the air and the land and the water. poisoning the air and the land and the water. it is all life. it is not just human life. that is not why i called. about theto hear environment. what i wanted to know is how is governor wells doing up in new hampshire? do you see that he would make trump's in president approval rating up there? is he popular in new hampshire? are there people who are going to go out and vote for him in the primary? i live in connecticut so i will vote for him in the republican primary in connecticut. that is the main reason why i called. thank you very much. can you speak to bill weld and how he is doing, we covered an event with him in new hampshire. friend whosewith a sister is helping run governor weld's operation. i admittedly have not been paying too close attention to governor weld's polling numbers in the state. he is present. there are people who are supporting him. he is just across the border. people are familiar with him. i believe he will poll some votes. whether it will be significant enough to cause the trump team to sweat, i don't know. but, i think he deserves a lot of credit for running and offering an alternative to ipublicans who, from folks talked to, desperately want an alternative. it is an interesting dynamic from a party perspective, just for them to have the sitting president and have a primary at the same time. he certainly is well received by a number of folks in the state. how well he will do is anyone's guess. host: lucas meyer, back to the democrats. we are called -- covering the big democratic party of new hampshire dinner. it is the 100 club event. they have been doing this for cades. what will you be looking for from the democrats at this event? we are told all of them are showing up. is that right? guest: all of them will be there. i will be there. just down the street at this new arena. i think folks will look forward to closing arguments. new hampshire voters take the primary seriously. they have been going through events for the past year. folks are familiar with these speeches. folks are familiar with these candidates. havenk they are looking to that final thesis statement to see who they will vote for. there will be a number of undecided voters there. a number of folks i talked to in a few havete, been campaigning for a candidate for a while, those folks are still flexible on who they will vote for. the closing will be argument. it should be a good time. in newet's go to francis hampshire, democratic caller, hey. caller: hi. host: what would you like to say to our guest? , i will be ind new jersey on voting day. i voted absentee ballot. i was surprised to see, there must be 50 candidates running and they are not alphabetized. it will slow down the voting. i hope people get their and stay there until everyone votes. and gets a chance to vote. when i saw the firefighter signs behind biden, i know that he is they will, because campaign all over new hampshire. they are voluntary. they know the state and they know the candidates. host: thank you for calling, francis. lucas meyer to her first point about new hampshire and crowds, what can you tell us about how things will work in this state, the granite state, compared to what happened in iowa? the best have some of local election officials in the country who are dedicated to their work. something we are keeping an eye of we have had a number voting changes since the republican administration took control of the state house. a lot of that targets student voters. they were introduced and passed under the guise of election integrity. no one was asking for these changes. byse changes target students changing nuanced definitions of residency. this has been a concerted effort forthe past couple of years student voters as to whether they can or can't vote here. what are these tweaks that we have made. it has crated confusion that we have had to combat for the past three years. ands really aggressive persistent youth organizing on campers -- campus to make sure every student has the right -- every student knows they have the right to vote in new hampshire. out to our was put local election officials saying no voters should be turned away from their polling locations. new hampshire is a non-voter -- whichte which is means they have same-day registration. we cannot go to college campuses and register students live. the alternative is we have heard students out on election day and get them registers -- registered at the polls on the day of. it puts the pressure on election polls to make sure they were efficient and lines do not get long. we are used to this. we are used to big elections and large turnout. we have the confidence in our elected officials to make sure we carry out the primary successfully and are certainly glad. leslie ins go to texas. a republican caller for lucas meyer. hi. caller: hey, how are you doing? host: hey. caller: good morning. i just want to make a couple of comments. i am in nashville. me and my wife, a small business owner. going on,business paying our taxes. the motel i am staying in as fox and friends blocked. you can't watch it. i was watching a little bit of the thing going on on the stage last night. they were asking all of the candidates about qassem soleimani. he was asking them, would you have done that? would you have ended his life? every one of them had said no. and they know, before they answered that question, they knew that the man was responsible for thousands of lives. host: what do those answers mean to you? caller: it means that they are crazy. why? they want to talk about it? they think they should have talked about it more and more and brought it to the table while this man killed more americans? host: let's hear from steve and then we will go back to our guest. caller: i have to say, i don't think joe biden will be a viable candidate due to ms global. about climate change, when you are making $15 an hour, who is going to buy me a brand-new electric car and get everything set up? what aboutng, chicago? i used to live in chicago? . there were 18 murders on my black. -- block. fentanyl was running rampant. donald trump stopped the fentanyl run. he is doing everything that president obama should have done. >> thank you for calling, stephen. any observations about what you just heard? to the first call is point, when i heard the talk, weial candidate were talking the night of the strikes. of the generational crisis and the anxiety young people feel. my brother has a legitimate concern that his sons will end up fighting in the same war he was fighting. we are tired of endless war with no end in sight. to hear democratic nominees talk about the diligence that they would bring to being commander in chief, to making these decisions, not just for a headline and to think thoughtfully about their policy and whether or not we get engaged in countries is encouraging and important to hear. lived in awn up and world where most young people don't know a world without war. there are people serving in our military now that were born after 9/11. i would say it is important we hear from our commander in chief -- commander-in-chief. i think that was an important thing for young people to hear. last call for our guest. tim, you get the last call for the segment. caller: one thing i would like to say about elizabeth warren. i think that she is the person to beat donald trump. beat all, hillary clinton him in the popular vote. i think she would have won if it were not for some other things. the important thing i want to say about joe biden that people have been avoiding is that joe biden wrote a 1994 crime bill. that crime bill actually is voter suppression because all of those nearly 2 million african-american black men and in jailo have been put under joe biden's crime bill have lost their right to vote. greatest is the er of black votes in the country. thoughtsal stotts -- on the state of play in new hampshire ? guest: i think it will be interesting. i come from an operative point of view in that these campaigns have been building volunteer basis and have been knocking on doors for a long time. you never get an insight on how those operations function and how they are ready to execute. we have campaigns that are robust. hasn't i on how they campaign. senator sanders obviously does. i think it will be interesting to see mayor buttigieg and if his campaign can capitalize on the momentum and see who has the bones to come out victorious in a distinct way on tuesday. it will be interesting and i am looking forward to it. host: lucas meyer is president of the new hampshire young democrats. thank you for taking time to talk to us. i appreciate it. guest: thank you. host: more guests from new hampshire as we enter the midway point of this washington journal program. coming up next is ella nilsen of vox news. discussing the 2020 new hampshire primary. later, we will hear from new hampshire public radio reporter lauren.st she will talk about the new hampshire primary. we want to remind you about this week's newsmakers segment. james clyburn of south carolina talks about state primaries ahead. what happened in iowa, the impeachment trial with president trump. the primary process and caucuses. through the years, we have recommended that we not start our campaign season in a state that does not reflect the demographics of the country. i don't know. it is just not a good thing to do. we shouldn't start with such a small sample of what the country is all about. i have always been against that. i think we ought to get rid of caucuses. i have argued against that. south carolina used to be a caucus state. i helped get rid of it because i are how caucuses manipulative. i have been in the caucuses. i know how they are manipulated. open primaries should be the way to go. host: would south carolina be a good place to launch the presidential primary season in your mind? >> oh, yeah. that is how we got in the window. i was arguing for south carolina to be among the first. this is what we call the pre-primary window. four states, two caucuses and two primaries in the preprimary window. we ought to get wit up -- rid of the preprimary window and have the primary season and select regionally and rotate so that we that isave one state dictating the outcome of what momentum may be built. >> washington journal continues. joining us from manchester, new hampshire is ella nilsen, a politics reporter for fox news. thank you for joining us. guest: thanks for having me. news. thank you for joining us. guest: thanks for having me. host: i have the headline from your article. tell us more. guest: the day after iowa, all of these candidates went to new hampshire for their events. i was able to talk to a fair number of voters at the events. i would say that i think it was mixed. app people said that is an that failed in iowa. it doesn't have anything to do with here. i honestly think that the fact that iowa was the first contest is setting the tone for how the 2020 election will go over the fact that there was so much confusion and semi delays even though there was nothing to suggest that there was anything nefarious or hacking, the fact that it got off to such a rough start rattled some people. i was talking to one woman and she said right off the bat, that made me nervous. i am worried about election interference in 2020 and i think that the 2016 16 election and everything that happened is still fresh in people's minds and iowa did not do anything to quell those fears. host: tell us more about the process in new hampshire. they are making the point that voting the old-fashioned way can help protect election integrity. new hampshire uses the old pen and paper, the ballot system, correct? guest: absolutely. , a secretary of state long-time defender of the primary has repeatedly held up a pen or pencil and said you cannot hack this pencil. ton new hampshire voters go the ballot on tuesday and go to the local polling places, i used to live in new hampshire years ago and this was when i was a young voter. you get a paper ballot, you get a pencil and you fill in a circle next to your preference. townse places, in smaller , these pieces of paper get dropped into a ballot box and counted by a election officials. sometimes they get scanned by a scanning machine. it is very much the old-fashioned way. there is no electronic voting machines in new hampshire. host: we will put the phone number on the bottom of the screen. republicans, for democrats, independents and a separate line for new hampshire voters. ella, i wanted to read to you what the boston globe wrote about iowa and new hampshire and holding the first emanation status. each testwith starting with iowa and new hampshire becomes harder to fend. a system is unfair to americans in 40 other states. new england loves its traditions. in the centuries since new the role asized first in the nation primary, much has changed. the demographic makeup of the nation has changed. it is time for nominations to change with it. do people have that sensitivity in parts of new hampshire? we know they hold dear their first in the nation primary status. is that changing? caller: i think -- guest: i think that what is changed since 2016 and previous elections before that was who was talking about this. there was always election or politicians in places like nevada and south carolina who have always criticized new hampshire's and iowa's role. former senate majority leader harry reid is famous for criticizing that. he got nevada added to the early state line up in 2006 before the 2008 presidential elections. he said the reason for doing that is that nevada is a more diverse state. there is a heavy latino population and african americans, american pacific islanders. he said nevada looks like the rest of america and new hampshire and iowa are too white to continue to have this privilege of picking the presidents. when you talk to the candidates --ut this, especially i think that the fact that new hampshire and iowa go before and the fact that we have this say before nevada and before south carolina, that does impact what folks in those states do. it is not like it is just happening in a vacuum. they are looking to see what happens in iowa and new hampshire. for newthat these calls hampshire and iowa not to have the privilege has been happening for years. i think the new thing is that we are hearing calls from some presidential candidates, julian castro was making this a big deal in his campaign, saying new hampshire and iowa should not go first. i think with iowa's snafu, there about howestion closely iowa and new hampshire's states are linked to each other. i think new hampshire officials are hoping to prove that they are not going to be anything like iowa was. that the election will be clean and it will be fast. obviously, there is no confusing caucus rules. one-vote,e-person, secret ballot vote primary. we will not have the same kind of confusion. i think that these questions will be looked at harder. we are going to have to see if democrats want to take a look at shaking up the nomination process. host: what did you think of last night's debate? klobuchar and amy bernie sanders did well. elizabeth worn fated to the background sometimes but she had sharp moments and good moments when she was asked about mayor buttigieg and his tenure in south bend. i think joe biden had an ok night. i think it was a mistake for him to start out by saying he thinks he might lose to new hampshire -- lose in new hampshire in finishing fourth in iowa. to have a candidate come out and say it does not show condit -- confidence. host: good morning, you're on with ella nilsen from vox. caller: bernie sanders is the only candidate who has consistently opposed the inlets endlessfghanistan -- war in afghanistan that has killed millions of people and cost trillions of dollars. i hope people vote for him. host: thanks, sally. what would a bernie sanders win in new hampshire, we know that he one last time big over hillary clinton, what would that mean for his campaign? guest: i think it gives him the boost that he needs going into nevada and south carolina. i am watching sanders very closely. i will be watching closely on tuesday. he had a historic 22 point win over clinton in 2016. he got 152,000 votes. that is the most i believe that any winner of a primary in either party has gotten. he got support from a lot of independents in 2016 which is a key block. a lot of young people. it is kind of hard to tell, going into 2020, how much of support for was sanders and how much of that was for people who did not like hillary clinton. i have talked to multiple of sanders' high profile supporters and they think he needs to win here. the campaign infrastructure to continue on if he loses new hampshire. i think that in order to do well in nevada, especially with latinos, which is a group that he is courting, he needs to show strength here. host: here is the boston globe poll that came out last night. it has sanders in second place. behind pete buttigieg. hishat do you attribute rise in new hampshire? guest: i think people are looking let -- looking at what he did in iowa. they think he is candidate who could potentially do well here. among strength of mung -- older voters and strength among moderate people. i have talked to lots of older voters who think buttigieg, the word articulate comes up over and over again. i think that they find him a calming presence. the fact that he is a soothing candidate. he often tells people to picture the day after donald trump's and what that looks like. i think democrats like doing that. i talked to an 85-year-old couple and they said he reminds them of john f. kennedy. there is that thing going on here. , a newd to andy custer hampshire congresswoman. she said she thinks he is in a good mold to appeal to new hampshire's independent voters and maybe appeal to some of those more moderate republicans who are looking for an alternative to trunk and are not finding it in the republican party. i think we will have to see how he does. i think the expectations are getting higher as his poll numbers rise. on the line, wanda a republican from chico, california. good morning. caller: i think that democrats, when they have their debates, they should answer more specific questions about socialized medicine because they are blaming the cost of medicine on .rescription we have nurses making $70 per hour. we have doctors who are millionaires. how is socialite medicine going to fix that when democrats are unions the money from how are they going to faith that -- pay for that. ? doctors will not take a pay cut for the and neither will nurses. host: ella nilsen, what did the candidates have to say at the debate last night about health care and how important is that voters. the guest: it is huge. i think it is important around the nation. folks like this color agree that they are stuck with, sometimes, medical bills in the thousands. even if they have insurance. even if they are not uninsured. it is a huge concern for people. people, there was debate off the top about the cost of medicare, this time between joe biden and bernie sanders. this question of how are you going to pay for medicare for all without raising middle-class taxes has come up over and over and over again. it has come up in pretty much every debate. night hassponse last been, in many prior debates, it was look, yes, we might have to raise taxes. is cost of doing nothing also going to be exponential. one of the things that sanders said, as far as the specifics of his plan goes, i would need to check it in terms of if it would set regulations on how much doctors and nurses get paid. one of the big things he is proposing with his medicare for all plan is to sort of cut administrative fees. this is a huge chunk, people who process insurance paperwork. and deal with things like that. that is in the millions or billions of dollars of the ministry of cost of health care in this country. i think he is proposing with medicare for all to streamline that and to take that cost out of the equation. lonnie, good morning to you. caller: good morning. how are you doing? host: doing well. how about yourself? caller: i am doing mighty fine. host: question or comment for our guest? caller: yes. i appreciate everything you say and do. my concern is to the gentleman in front of you, the head of the young democrat party. his last remarks his last statement he started off first by talking about democrat candidates in regard to taking out the iranian general. and how all of the candidates said they were not for it. the question was asked to him and he would not answer the question. he would go on about the longtime war and his family in the marines. he did not answer the question of self-defense. this gentleman had done this for ,ears, taking out our soldiers wounding thousands of them and yet we did this in self-defense and yet our democrat candidates will not agree that taking him out was the right thing. in self-defense. when we ask these questions of our candidates, we get these slim and slam answers and they do not come to the matter. i am kind of disgusted with our us,le not being honest with the populace. host: thanks for calling. ella nilsen, that person referring to the earlier segment with lucas meyer. he speaks to foreign and the qassem soleimani killing. the folks in new hampshire, to what extent are they talking about foreign policy issues these days? it definitely -- is being talked about. the it is a few weeks since killing of general soleimani by u.s. forces. i remember, i was on the trail the day after it happened at a pete buttigieg rally. it was like everybody was uncertain if this would preempt war between the u.s. and iran, there was a lot of uncertainty, a lot of fear among voters and this was on top of everybody's mind when it had not been before. we have a lot of focus on it around then and a little bit before the debates. i think that, you know, certainly some of the democratic candidates have had similar tones on their foreign policy i think bernie sanders is a staunchly antiwar candidate. maybe more so than somebody like joe biden. wheret is a moment america is thrust into an international crisis, people do get very concerned and interested in foreign policy. host: our guest is ella nilsen. she is a political reporter. for delegatesce in new hampshire. what do you need to win? what else can you tell us about the rules for the primary? guest: absolutely. it is a little less complicated than iowa in terms of there is no sort of individual precincts and multiple realignments? . the same thing that holds true is 15% is the threshold you need to hit to qualify for delegates. like iowa, new hampshire's strength does not lie in the number of delegates we have. we have to play for delegates. that is a small number compared to a state like california. the vast majority of delegates, is what it takes to win the nomination will be allotted around the time of super tuesday in early march. this is when states like california, other big states like north carolina and texas, that is when they go to the polls. this is going to be a really big day. for new hampshire, new hampshire's strength and importance does not lie in these 24 delegates that will be allocated after the vote totals are counted. it lies more in the momentum that the state gives candidates going onto the other early states and onto super tuesday, which is where they will pick up the lion's share of delegates. host: let me ask you about the delegates in new hampshire. jointed 76,000 plus in new hampshire. democrats, 200 76,000 plus in new hampshire. republicans, 288,000. a big play for the independent vote, as we know. what are candidates saying to appeal to those folks? guest: independent voters are top of mind for a lot of democratic candidates, whether they are more progressive or moderate. i think that sometimes the name independent gets conflated with undeclared, especially of new hampshire's independent, almost libertarian eat those. we don't have an income tax or a sales tax. that is something a lot of democratic candidates won't touch with a 10 foot pole when they are running for governor or running for state legislature. has thishire independent ether those. it is the live free or die state. that is the motto. thefact that we have 42% of boater eligible population being undeclared -- voter eligible population being undeclared, this projects the group as independent-minded. talked to have political experts in new hampshire. i would not say -- they do not vote as a block. it is not like 42% will throw their weight around at once. democrats or republicans like the flexibility of being able to vote in either primary which is what being undeclared gives you the power to do. sometimes if they are voters that are less engaged like the voters who are truly independent and go either way. came out big for john mccain when he ran in the republican primary and for bernie sanders in 2016. they do not cleanly follow ideological lines is another thing i would point out. still a very big thing that candidates are chasing after. i have heard pete buttigieg say that he is well suited as a more moderate candidate to appeal to what he calls former future republicans and independent voters. lives with warren, who is a more progressive -- elizabeth warren, who is a more progressive candidate, thinks that the ideas she is proposing, specifically anticorruption and getting money out of politics will be a big appeal to new hampshire's independent and undeclared voters. left just under 20 minutes with our guest. steve.ssouri, caller: i appreciate the opportunity to talk. the independent christian, i c ould never vote for trump. we will win the election, either independence. i cannot vote with buttigieg or biden. the only one in my opinion is that a bernie/warren ticket would be trump. to me, it is not way far-left to balance the budget, make the rich pay their fair share of taxes. the richest men in the world pays 1%. i don't care if you don't get hardly nothing done, it will still be better than trump. at least, maybe, we can get something done and get our budget in order and maybe get health care straightened out. that is pretty much my comment. i do appreciate you taking my call. host: thank you, steve. elizabeth warren and bernie sanders, he says. guest: i think it is going to be fascinating to see. i am interested to hear the call upon viewpoint. viewpoint. as we go into the general election and the nomination process plays out, we don't know who the nominee is going to be. i think there will be, like there was in 2016, some handwringing over bernie sanders as the too progressive to beat trump candidate. been have been some -- has some interesting polling on candidates if you see where his support is coming from. his support is working class. it is people that are frustrated about money in politics and frustrated about this idea that the rich seem to be getting they are not seeing the bid fits of the gop tax cuts -- benefits of gop tax cuts. we looked at a pole in new hampshire and this is just one state. this is not the rest of the country. it was interesting to see that sanders support, in particular, it is favorable among people of different income brackets. favorable with those making under 50,000 dollars a year in new hampshire. the working class base is something that trump was able to attract in 2016. i think that signing a candidate that can go toe to toe with trump in this group is huge. they need someone who will talk about economic issues. they need a candidate who will speak to working-class voters. i don't know if that candidate is vernie -- bernie sanders. that is one snippet of the data. the candidate needs to do well. democrats are concerned that the candidate needs to do well in rust belt states that they lost in 2016. places like pennsylvania, wisconsin and michigan. it is unclear to me if democrats can make gains in ohio which seems to be getting redder and redder. that is another place that so i think that driving home this economic message is going to be key, whether it is a more moderate or progressive candidate like sanders and warren. host: here is a brief snippet of what president trump had to say it taking aim at joe biden. [video clip] [video clip] pres. trump: it is sad how he is doing in the polls. iowa, they couldn't even take a simple tabulation, and yet they're telling you how to run the country and how to run health care. i think they fried their votes on computer. think of all the money democrats spent in the votes are fried and they don't know who won. i will tell you who one for the republican side, they accounted for every single vote, and it was a record-setting number of votes, trump won. ella nilsen president trump saying he won. he is going to do a rally there. why does the president feel the need to show up in manchester, new hampshire the day before the primary? president trump has been of then his been in all --tes to remind folks to that he is very much still there. new hampshire has special significance to him, to be more so than iowa. iowa16, trump did not the caucuses and new hampshire was the state that gave him his first big win in the primary. i was a reporter here for the chronicle" and i remember being there as both of them one huge in the granite state. i think coming back here for his very narrow loss here in the general election in 2016 to hillary clinton kind of hurts. he went on twitter quite frequently after that to complain about what he called massive voter fraud even though there was no evidence to back that up. republicans in the state, and i am leaving independents out of this because i believe in , the polls have gone down. base.re he has a loyal what i am interested to see, in the northernmost county of new hampshire, the county where i'm from originally, trump won that county in 2016, where it had been blue that voted for obama. it is one of those places that went from obama to trump. a lot of voters up there were tired of the status quo and wanted dramatic change. a lot of people said they wanted dramatic change and that is why they voted for trump. the area is still economically depressed. this is part of the economic frustration that people switched votes and voted for him in 2016. it will be interesting for me to see if he retains a hold up there. there are plenty of trump assigns up in the north country. but there are also plenty of bernie sanders signs. he did well there in 2016. i am interested to see who gets more votes in that area in 2020. gordon ins hear from tacoma, washington, and independent. caller: i want to thank c-span for their programing. it is excellent. mucht to think c-span so for you not being biased and people who think so, they must be watching cnn. i want people to understand you do allow only one phone call every 30 days, but that is to give everybody a chance to talk on your program. are about youru calls. my question for alan is, -- ellen is, when growing up i only voted twice but i was always told there was a secret ballot. so when you went in, nobody knew who you voted for. but when i went into vote, i signed my name in a booklet and beside it was a number. i opened the screen up and i noticed a little box in the corner and i asked what the box was and they said they were counting every time that opened and closed. so in reference, me opening the , anybody could2 votes to my my signing of my name. i believe that is what took place. you thinkering what about that. , any commentlsen on that? caller: i couldn't say what his specific experience was paired i know in new hampshire, there is no signing of your name on your ballot. a bubble nextin to the candidate you want and dropping it in. obviously, people, ballots but your name is not near the ballot. he may have been referring to writing down your name on your registration. i am not entirely sure how things work in washington, but i just know from new hampshire, i don't think he would have a similar experience here necessarily. host: let's hear from betty in virginia beach is a democratic caller. caller: good morning, and thanks for taking my call. i am originally from connecticut, so i am a new englander. and newsick of iowa hampshire being the first two contests, not because of the debacle, i have felt this way for a long time. they may be should divide it up east, west, north, and south. why should they get the opportunity to meet all of the candidates and maybe stop somebody who might be a whole lot better. my only other comment is, and ifs is just my opinion, bernie sanders becomes the nominee, you can kiss the election goodbye for democrats and we will be stuck with the most horrible person that's ever been the president in the united states and that would be the worst thing that happens. i like joe biden. he is not doing well right now. i also like mayor pete, and i also like amy klobuchar. i don't know how she might not make it. this is just my opinion. be the think pete will nominee, but if he was the nominee and he picked an african-american, especially navy and african-american woman to run with him, i actually think he'd have a better chance of winning than bernie sanders. i have nothing really against bernie sanders, that he has been singing the same song for 30 years. thank you for calling us and a strong opinions there. i would love to address her point about new hampshire and iowa. but first, i wanted to say it is interesting to me because i have heard similar things, especially from older people that like pete buttigieg. they like his fresh face and maybe lack of washington experience. really did caller not like bernie sanders and cited is 30 years of experience. i wanted to point out that i think that is the exact reason a lot of young voters like bernie sanders. they have said he is consistent, unlike other politicians they see as maybe flip-flopping or changing their positions to fit the mold of whatever is popular at the time. they like the fact that he hasn't changed what he has been saying in 30 years and is consistent and honest. i would said this is not just young voters. bernie sanders has a law of followers in new hampshire and they say that. point, rightler's now i am in manchester and there are tv crews everywhere. it is like primary chaos at this point. not even talking about the chaos in iowa. there is a huge buzz of activity. i was in a coffee shop yesterday doing some work and senator elizabeth warren just walked in because she was meeting supporters who won a contest to get coffee with her. she walked around and held a baby and said hi to people. that is something you get in new hampshire in -- and iowa but that you just don't get in other states. once we get to super tuesday and after south carolina, this is going to become a national primary. candidates will not be doing the retail stops and will be meeting voters face-to-face and having hour-long town halls to ask them detailed questions, they are going to be putting up as many ads as possible and flying around to do big rallies. i totally understand people have frustrations and want to know why is it that iowa and new of this time,all months and months of time with candidates and we don't. it makes sense. the fact that this happened seems like an integrated idea almost. i think people are feeling frustrated and maybe want to move to a national primary or something that is more equitable for all states that have that sense of frustration. i understand it. host: we understand all the democratic candidates will be at the big dinner tonight, it is the democratic party's 100 club event, largest annual fundraiser. our coverage of the event is at 7:00 eastern time tonight here on c-span. what will you be looking for from the candidates at that event? caller: i am going to be looking for the response from them. the democrats plugged in around the states will be attending this dinner. a lot of it will be around the campaigns, but just seeing who gets the most enthusiastic response and if anybody makes use or interesting moments beforehand. think coming off the debate last night, i think i would be watching amy klobuchar because she has ground to make up. people are interested in her, but she came in fifth place in iowa, which begs the question if she can do better here. i will be interested to see what the responses for bernie sanders and members of the new hampshire democratic establishment are enthusiastic for him or not as the, and also looking at responses were senator elizabeth warren. like lucas meyer said, she has a very big organization here and has the potential to do well. we will see. host: it is joe calling from palm coast in north florida, republican line. hello, can you hear me? host: we can hear you fine. caller: i just wanted to point out last night that joe biden went into a heart to heart with how heience about overcame hate and divisiveness and came into impassioned description about how we have dissolved into the divisive hate and it is not us. he grabbed the hearts of the audience. pete buttigieg gave one of the most stunning responses in the debates, or instead of easily kicking biden under the bus, he went into an absolutely stunning response about how der trump tried to divide a father and son. trump try toow der trump try toe divide a father in son? too.e amy klobuchar it is going to take a moderate philosophy to be trump. you can't build in without peeling away the voters who are normally for him. who is going to win? i don't know. but i like those three. host: let's take a call from gary, democrat, east brunswick. caller: thank you for taking my call. you make my day. i am going to be 82 years old next week. host: happy early birthday. caller: thank you for taking the call. 60 years ago, i went to iowa. it does not represent america in the country in terms of diversity. neither does new hampshire. i try to get into the university of i'll -- of iowa but didn't get in because of my jewish faith. all of the candidates are excellent but none of them had the experience to be president. the only person that has the experience to be president that has managed large organizations is michael bloomberg. knowhost is too young to that in 1992, ross perot entered bush.ce with george h w i am a social justice activist and he got 24% of the vote and was not the greatest personality. i think michael bloomberg should be the nominee for the democratic party and i will tell you why, young lady. bernie is screaming medicare for all and worn. do you know that i have to pay for my hearing aids now? $4400.to pay they are letting me pay it out. most of us you have to pay upfront. the prescription industry has raped the public and that is going to change. corporation set up with warren buffett and jamie dimon. they are selling prescription drug insurance to their employees and taking it nationally. i believe in young people. here we have a young host thinks she knows it all. the people in iowa and new hampshire do not represent the united states in terms of diversity. i believe it is 95% white and iowa, maybe 2% african-american, 1% hispanic. to can you use bingo cards determine votes? host: gary, thank you for your points this morning. final thought from ella nilsen. the lack of diversity is something we have talked about. caller: we did touch on that exact point earlier. i think you very much for the comment. he did bring up michael bloomberg, who is an unknown in this race so far. he didn't compete in iowa and is not competing in new hampshire and is not on the ballot here. but to the callers point, he has been campaigning in places that have not typically gotten attention. he has been campaigning in the south in places like arkansas and texas. withdo not get showered attention from the candidates until later in the process. i think it is an interesting theory of campaigning. once we get to super tuesday, it will be an interesting test of whether iowa or new hampshire at the sway and credibility they once do to see if a billionaire candidate can prove this alternative method of campaigning for president. host: ella nilsen is the television reporter for vox. thank you this morning for the nuts and bolts about the race. on saturday, we will be from new hampshire where we will talk with public radio reporter and cohost of the stranglehold podcast. it is lauren chooljian discussing the future of the primaries. you are washing -- watching ""washington journal." ♪ 75 years ago this month, the united states, great britain, and the soviet union met to discuss a post-world war ii germany and a liberated europe. sunday at 4:00 p.m. eastern on american history's tv, the documentary of that meeting. 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[video clip] >> he raised up, jumped up, and started firing weapons in the air and screaming and yelling and that kind of stuff. i really thought everyone lost their minds for a second. i couldn't figure out what was going on, and then i caught on what was going on. then i looked >>. >>-- then i looked. >> this weekend, explore our past c-span-3. our campaign 2020 coverage continues today at 7:00 p.m. eastern, live from the new 100shire democratic party club dinner, featuring joe biden, pete buttigieg, tom steyer, sen. michael bennet, sen. bernie sanders, patrick, sen. elizabeth warren, sen. amy klobuchar, and andrew yang. c-span,ve on c-span.org, or listen on the free c-span radio app. >> "washington journal" continues. host: in new hampshire, we say good morning to lauren chooljian , who is the reporter at new hampshire public radio and also the cohost of the podcast called "stranglehold thank you for joining us. caller: good morning. thank you so much. host: we asked you to talk about the future of the republican primary. let's start with the name of your podcast why is it called "stranglehold?" caller: in part because it acts it up. for why we have been first in the nation, we've hit hundred being first primary. we passed 100 years of being a primary. what we are talking about here was "stranglehold" is weak ended up with the primary -- is we ended up with the program -- ended up with the primary. know, we ended up with nevada and south carolina. we have had to fight competitors back like michigan and other states. there were years in the 1990's where delaware was trying to edge out and be an early primary. way for us to is discuss that this is our spot and we don't want you to take it from us. we want to put this podcast to turn the camera, so to speak, and get questions about this powerful constitution. placenot our say -- our to say we shouldn't have it, we asked who it benefits and who is missing out because we get to go first. you had a caller from virginia who brought this up earlier. what do we gain by being first in the nation? way tolehold" is our raise those questions. we get questions all the time from people in new hampshire who want to know, why is new hampshire first? we decided it would be a good use of time before the big election season to give people, i keep saying homework, but a sense for people of why this thing is the way it is. host: we will put the phone numbers on the bottom of our screen. we will get to your calls as soon they come in. we wanted to read it to you the boston globe editorial that speaks iowa and new hampshire and why must they continue as the first. they write that with each passing election, the privilege of bio and new hampshire becomes harder to defend. the -- of iowa and new hampshire becomes harder to defend. distortntinuing to american politics. it goes on and on and says it is time for the way we nominate presidents to change as demographics have changed in this country. based on what you just said, are people talking about this? are people in new hampshire concerned? are they thinking about it at all? i was stunned by that. the "stranglehold" podcast has longtime reporters and producers and editors. when we have these discussions, and the conclusion we have been able to draw is that this is a moment in new hampshire primary history where voters are grappling with the idea in real time about maybe should we be first? i can't remember a time where you can't on the -- where you go out on the campaign trail and somebody says, yes, we should consider someone else. has spurreduation that some people who love it and will stick up for is that iowa will stand up for what it will do and deliver results equally. we are in a unique moment in new hampshire primary history where there are many reasons for that. changed,e do news has social media, the internet, the way the campaigns work. used to got -- you used to get your news from papers and a program where you could learn about the candidates they were voting for and who they were choosing between. now we are in an entirely different situation where those otheroters are looking in places, like "the washington post." it is changing a lot and has been fascinating to see. host: larry from gallatin, tennessee, democratic caller. i watched the debate last night and i thought it was really good. they were representing themselves well. they respected one another. i felt like the communications represented their way of thinking in a way that people could understand it easily. in policiesference and i just really have had a -- the great example of candidates the democrats have are top-notch. host: thank you for calling. let's hear from our guest, lauren chooljian cared what did you think of the debate? guest: it was the time where candidates were really trying to crystallize the differences between them. this is one of the more aggressive debates we have seen. i appreciate larry's comment that he has been enjoying it. a lot of people have been exhausted of politics lately because of how much news is happening. we heard a whole commentary from some of the candidates about how people are feeling and what it is like to be a senator at this moment. i think there were a variety of topics discussed that were probably insightful for people who are undecided. pole saidaustin globe -- a boston globe poll said that their mind could be changed. they are looking at climate change, gun control, health care. i inc. when i started watching the debate, what i was of was i am voting in new hampshire and how am i going to make my decision and around here, people change their minds all the time. host: let me get your take on one further particular exchange between bernie sanders and pete george. the topic was money and wealth. let's take a look. [video clip] will campaign and i am enormously proud of this, unlike some of those appear, i don't have 40 billionaires, pete, intuiting to my campaign. [applause] from the pharmaceutical industry, coming from all street and all the big ones. but we have now over 6 million contributions for 1.5 million people, averaging $18.50 a contribution. that is unprecedented in the history of american politics. [applause] america,t to change you are not going to do it by electing candidates who are going out to rich people's homes begging for money. the way we are going to do it is build a mass movement of working people who are prepared to stand up, not take money from billionaires, not take money from wall street, but stand up to the drug companies and wall street. if you want to be part of that political solution, bernie sanders.com. we are going into the fight of our lives. ,onald trump, according to news raised $25 million. we need to go into that right everything that we've got. i've been very clear on both my record where i have sued pharmaceutical companies and what i am campaigning for, including raising wages and raising taxes on corporations and the wealthy. and as the only person on this stage who is not a millionaire or a billionaire, i know a thing or two about a movement because the mayor of south bend, indiana is not an established fundraising powerhouse. involvementwithout of corporate because hundreds of thousands of people went to pete for america.com and contributed to this campaign. if we want to bring about any of the changes that everyone is talking about so appear, we need to put together a majority that can decisively defeat donald trump. in order to do that, we need a politics that is defined not by who we reject, but how we bring everybody into the fold. , in: lauren chooljian manchester, your reaction? guest: i am not surprised. it is what bernie sanders started the day with at a politics breakfast. what i do think is that we will be hearing a lot more of that in the coming days because these are the two who came out of iowa officially or unofficially as the victors there. i think we will be seeing a lot more of this on the trail. hear thisurprised to as they have been covering mayor pugh buttigieg -- mayor pete buttigieg a lot in the past days. hearing this from bernie sanders every since he has been running since 2016. i am not surprised to see them have the fight on the debate stage. host: who has impressed you the most in new hampshire up to this point? i will say there is a variety of campaigning going on right now that goes back to the earlier question about changing dynamics at the primary, something that has been noticeable as there are still a lot of candidates trying for this longshot style of campaigning that worked out for jimmy carter and bill clinton and john mccain, gary hart which have all been covered on this program extensively. people coming from behind or struggling in the campaign for people who were unknown like jimmy carter, was known in george as the governor, but in new hampshire hardly anyone knew him. they came here in shook hands and slept in people's houses. these are the stories that build the mythology of the new hampshire primary. we sought candidates try to make this work for themselves. i am talking about michael bennet, congressman john delaney who dropped out, but these other kinds of winds that guys like that were looking for -- wins that guys like that were looking for. what was really interesting was to see how hard they tried to make that narrative work and wondering if it's possible. i think a lot of other reporters will say the same that it is harder to make that longshot campaign work because of the way politics has changed. it michael bennet has not been able to reach the threshold and they are high for a guy who isn't pulling well across the country. and so i have been struck by people sticking to the narrative. i have been enjoying watching new hampshire voters trying to find the one on one moments with candidates and candidates trying to find them as well, but still trying to do the more polished style of campaign events, with a come in, make a speech, shake a couple hands and get out. they will try to get the one-on-one face time where they can. votersard to judge when are between two candidates in making the decision, but it was a stronger night for amy klobuchar than she has had in the past. think elizabeth warren has had stronger nights before. a lot of attention was paid given the results in iowa to how bernie sanders and pete buttigieg were to react with each other. i am very curious to see what the nays -- next days shape out as. -- next days shape out. host: jim is: from texas, independent caller. texas,is calling from independent caller. caller: i want to talk about amy klobuchar. my wife and i don't always agree on candidates, but we agree on her. she would make an excellent president. when she came in sixth in iowa. she should have been in the top three at least. as iowa is a midwest state and minnesota, why didn't she come in better in what is she doing wrong? host: thank you for calling. klobucharoljian, amy is several down the pack in terms of the polls. if she doesn't perform in new hampshire, what is next for her? guest: this is a big test for her. is slowingsults momentum and making it harder people to grasp on who were further down on the results. she couldn't come down and say i did better than expected because we don't know because they are not official. her debate performance will perk years up. ears up. up wither name pop people who are going between buttigieg and klobuchar. it is really tough to break through when it seems like the narrative has coalesced around the four names we have been hearing over the past week. fromrings up endorsements the newspapers she is getting and i hope she -- i think she is trying to get something from them. what candidate doesn't love the attention of a local newspaper? be leaning onll those endorsements and trying to tap into her connection wherever she can find it. out to u.s.her call senator's, trying to make those connections where she can. after this, it is up for her to decide. i think she will want to get herself into other states. usually new hampshire has an effect. whether we will have the same strength of winning effect with what we have already seen, with so many dropping out before the debate and the primary. i'm curious to see what happens to her on tuesday. tony, you are on. caller: thank you you, c-span. you are the best. believe newis, i hampshire should be first. iowa and of adam should be nervous -- and nevada should be nervous. i like new hampshire. it should be first. you should agree that nevada should be worried because they do a caucus and iowa has had major problems. first keep new hampshire on the caucuses. i think they do a great job up there. host: inc. you for calling. lauren question -- thank you for calling. lauren? guest: i was interested to see how they were gonna take the news out of iowa and what that meant for us. an thing i have heard is immediate attack from some voters, not everyone, on the caucus system. i was talking to some yesterday who said the caucus system is confusing and here we have a valid process and it is so much easier to understand. i have heard arguments from voters in new hampshire saying we aren't going to mess this up. if i hear one more time the joke what i hearthat is a lot these days. i am so curious to see more from voters across the country about how they are digesting this and what they think about whether or not iowa or new hampshire should be first. an interesting point is that iowa and new hampshire for so many years have been so closely tied together. we have laws that keep us separated by eight days from iowa and we have a state law that says not only are we first, but first before any similar election by a week. we haveweird system between the two states. i know there are voters in the new hampshire primary who think that if they have to go down, are we going to go down with them? this is an interesting moment for the country to think about the way we conduct elections and how we pick our president. , at: we have logan, ohio republican caller. go ahead. -- my: my mate lead put main input here is we have lost all moral citing. formerrence to the mayor, pete buttigieg, how could he think about being a religious christian went in fact he is gay. speakinglically incorrect and unethical to go before god and the country. and claim you are a religious person when you were stricken as a simple person in god's eye. this guy gets up and professes what all he has done in this nation, served his country. i haven't heard him say anything that he fought on the front line for our country. he was just there in afghanistan apparently in 2014. what has our nation come to and the bizarreness facing is the question of how he could possibly foresee being elected and taken oath of office, especially the president of the united states, from an introduction of the first in history what would be called the first man rather than the first lady? the point about mayor pete buttigieg. nonetheless,ian, he is performing well when you look at iowa and pulls in new hampshire. guest: he is and i think the former mayor would dispute his characterization about his faith. i would say that he was creeping up in new hampshire. a lot of people have pointed to his first big moment being on a cnn town hall stage. we are used to the narrative where someone has a spark or a moment in new hampshire and that carries them through and helps them do well. he cashed in on a national stage, where he had a moment where people got to know him. i heard people who were first introduced to him on a podcast or npr. i think he has tried to take that momentum and come to new hampshire and keep pushing it forward. he was claiming victory before the iowa results came in. he said to reporters in new hampshire that it was the most electrifying thing that happened to his campaign in years. he was looking for a win to help validate for him and his campaign what is going on. we talk about momentum coming out of iowa. who is going about to sail out of there and do well and run on that momentum? when there were those results, the first question is, are they going to be able to cash in on that momentum? have seen, yes, even thanh it came in slower usual, he can still show voters that somewhere in this country, he has people backing him. the one question for him is he doesn't have strong minority support, and that is essential to winning the democratic nomination. if he does well in new hampshire , right now he is pulling well and just slightly pulled ahead of bernie sanders in the boston globe and we track it daily. he is going to try this momentum -- try to ride this momentum as long as possible. if he wins in new hampshire, the big test will continue to be nevada and south carolina. host: you mentioned jimmy carter earlier in new hampshire has a history of picking the presidents. what other stories from the new hampshire primary stand out to you? guest: oh, my gosh. how much time do you have? newe is a time when hampshire and iowa got into a battle over the dates of the primary. that picking of the date that our secretary of state takes very seriously. he has been known as the garden of the new hampshire primary. it was 1999, 2000 primary coming up. he picked a day that didn't work with iowa's schedule because they had a pork conference and in iowa pork is a big deal. so it turned into this major battle between the big politicians in iowa and new hampshire and they had to kind of fight it out and decide what was going to happen and how they were going to make this work. thisng this up because first nation caucus and primary is so important in the states. it is our identity and their identity. i love the story in 1999 because these are two states we think are supposed to be lakhdar in arm. but in this -- be locked arm in arm. but he said we are going to have our day. he heard rumors that delaware was trying to creep up on new hampshire. this has become part of the lore around here that they had to keep their first in the primary spot. we won and continue to be the first in the nation for primaries in this day. when the conversation about who should be first, it is more prevalent than we have seen in the past. i am thinking about castro who has endorsed warren. candidate criticizing new hampshire. that is something you have never seen before. i am curious to hear from others about people in states and what they think about the system we have an if it works. for the democratic party, i mentioned the battle in 2008, the battle that got us nevada and south carolina. one question that was raised then is a demographic one, which is to say iowa and new hampshire don't look like the rest of the country. they get a lot of power and make big decisions. there was a study from long ago who said that iowa and new hampshire have five times the power of other states. think of those who go much later , they don't get the opportunity to vote for people we get to vote for. i am very curious to see how this debate continues. this diversity question was raised in 2008 and in a big way this time. we mentioned it as part of the calculation that reporters and analysts are making when they talk about sustainability of certain candidates and their campaigns going forward. those are the stories i think that can help us learn more about what the primary institution is going through today. another story i would share from this election that i think about is the potential he dying nature party.-- as we have been talking about, new hampshire is in a different spot. there is a much more nationalized primary starting to happen and these house parties were candidates used to be able to be shaped and the conversations they had with voters, some would say that is the way they think the campaign should be run. sometimes you cannot compete with a candidate like elizabeth warner bernie sanders who can bring hundreds and hundreds of people to rallies and they can spread the word a lot quicker then maybe the 20 or so people who show up at a house party. we are in an interesting spot and i look back at the stories that tell that narrative. if anyone is interested in great stories on primaries, i would turn them to our podcast. host: let's turn to joan in michigan on the democratic line. how are you? caller: i am fine. how are you? host: i am fine. caller: as far as the primaries and caucuses in the order, i don't think hampshire and iowa should be special or permanently first and second. it should be rotated and should've been done that way a long time ago. my question is, when is somebody going to tie people to did to this shadow app? he is part of the financing that allowed it to be developed. the developers themselves were x clinton campaign advisors. -clinton campaign advisors. they are letting this guy do what he did. it is really upsetting to see something like that. it is all over. it was said in the impeachment hearings that the truth will, eventually. it is just whether it is in time for the american people to realize what is going on. host: can you remind viewers what this talk is about the shadow app? .uest: a couple things but not to disappoint john and i haven't done a lot of reporting on that. i hear a lot from voters, especially sanders supporters who feel like the debacle in iowa with the app that was supposed to tabulate the votes from the precincts, i went to a sanders rally recently and that was the first thing on people's minds. they wanted to know that they are concerned and they feel that it fixed for sanders. these are the feelings people are sharing. i have not reported about the back-and-forth of this app and it is brought up from sanders supporters a lot. that is the kind of feeling that is powering sanders supporters. they feel like those results a complete when and work unfair and the word stolen. that is a word i hear from a lot of sanders supporters. the rotation idea is one i hear a lot about and has been brought up for many years. in 2008 when the debate opened up at the dnc about the primary and caucus calendar, a rotation schedule has come up and head has come up. i heard from a voter about this idea of why are they special comes up. if you look at manchester right now, it does look like we are special. we have every network is set up. my alma mater was on international news posting a debate. most of the big names that people are used to seeing on their televisions and new hampshire. voters get special access and there is certainly a lot of benefit that comes with being first. i am sitting here in this chair by nature of the fact that cover the primary first. i don't we would be having this conversation if it were for that fact. i understand that other states would want that and i understand why people in new hampshire want to defend this to the end and keep it here. the rotation idea comes up a lot because it seems like voters they wanted to be fairer where everyone gets a turn or a certain amount of states would get a turn. the defense you would hear from new hampshire who are hoping to keep this first, they would say you can't re-create the culture that exists here in new hampshire. this is what they say. they would argue that these people have been voting first for a long time and they vote a lot and we have a representative government. these are people used to elections. in ohio and callers virginia would probably like a crack at being able to show they can handle it too. host: is onto nevada for the democrats and then to south carolina. the big day, super tuesday, march 3 of this year. we take a call from bill in key biscayne, florida. caller: good morning. iowa, mr. biden was at least tied for the lead. the polls i had seen where that he was the candidate with the best stance -- chance of defeating mr. trump. i haven't heard anyone that asked the question for people who did not vote for mr. biden in iowa, did the impeachment hearings change their mind about mr. biden? to me, the most ironic thing is the impeachment and what was publicized about biden and his son was actually what sunk them. i never heard anybody that ever asked the question. in other words, is there any information on what the impeachment did in terms of changing people away from biden, or were there other issues? host: thank you for the question. what are your observations, lauren chooljian? guest: i wasn't in iowa but i say the week we just had, people are about how considering biden here is what i hear a lot is people who say they loved vice president biden and i hear from older voters who say they are looking for a fresher face. that is why maybe we have seen mayor pete buttigieg climbing. there are a lot of people who joed -- who have watched biden for a long time. there are longtime leading democrats in the state who back biden. lynch backsnor john joe biden. he has a lot of strong people still in his corner. what was striking to me was the way he opened the debate. it is not a unique thought. he opened the debate by saying he is likely to take a hit in new hampshire. we have heard a little bit of him saying that he has been looking at the first four dates and trying to say not looking at just iowa and new hampshire but nevada and south carolina as well, which is likely because he is pulling well in african-american communities in south carolina. i is struck that he is already trying to build the narrative that if he doesn't do well, it was expected. tolan to go talk to voters see how they took that and if they thought that was a concession early on or if they are excited to get out and prove otherwise. host: one last call is monica in illinois, republican caller. caller: i am into say that pete s win or near win in iowa is a false one. voters voted for the man they would lease went to see as president. so the figures are skewed. shouldve the person that be running for president is adam schiff. he is despised by the republicans. he rattles them all, especially donald trump, and a good choice --.vice president would be host: one thought about the dinner tonight for we are covering the democratic party and the largest fundraiser. it is the 100 club event. can forward to tonight leading up to tuesday. guest: to speak to monica's point, what i would say is what happened in iowa has raised concern around the country about the security of our elections. that is why we are hearing about these i don't want to say conspiracy theories but they are people that feel the election wasn't fair. i think it is a feeling shared across the country and that put extra pressure for iowa to perform. looking ahead to tuesday, i will try to figure out where all the undecided and independent voters are going to go. you mentioned the fundraiser tonight. that will be an opportunity for everyone to be in the room together, but a big moment for new hampshire. this is the special treatment that one of the callers was talking about and is a prime example of the democratic party being able to fund raise off of the new hampshire primary. it will be interesting to see how the candidates interact with one another and if they get any shout outs to any people in new hampshire. host: lauren chooljian, is a reporter for new hampshire public and is also on a podcast called "stranglehold." thank you for be appreciated. guest: thanks for having me. host: we thank everyone who called in. new hampshire primary is tuesday and you can watch lots of the action tuesday evening. we will have candidate speeches and results. monday we will have candidate vence and tomorrow candidate -- events and tomorrow candidate events. coverage is tomorrow of the dinner. we look forward to talking to you tomorrow morning on another ,dition of "washington journal ." 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