Super tuesday voting begins in about 48 hours. Welcome to this sunday edition of washington journal. Joeill get your take on bidens victory in that democratic primary. We want to get your reaction to it. If you are a democrat, call 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001 is your number. Isependents, 202 7488002 your number. We have a separate line just for South Carolina. Voters, tell us about your experience and react to the victory of joe biden. Here is your number, 202 7488002. You can also send us a text, 202 7488003. With that, please add your name and the town you are calling from. You can also weigh in on social media. Http twitter. Com cspanwj you can post a comment on twitter were on cspan. First 2020d courier, ahead of super tuesday, joe biden wins the rise of Bernie Sanders. Here are the figures from the voting yesterday. Joe biden, 48 point 4 in the primary, translating to 200 and 55,000 votes. Bernie sanders, 19 point 9 . Almost a 30 point difference. Tom steyer, 11. 3 . He hashavent heard, pulled out of the president ial race. Pete buttigieg, 8. 8 . What this means for the delegate count is as follows, Bernie Sanders has 56 delegates up to this point following these four contests. Joe biden, 48. 26. Buttigieg, Mike Bloomberg, zero, he did not take part yesterday. Tom steyer, zero. Totals he gathered, zero. Front page of the New York Times, biden captures South Carolina, wave of support delivers a moderate option to sanders. Thats the story this morning in the New York Times. Low on cash, mr. Biden desperately needed South Carolina, estate for which he has affection, to cement his final pledge for the presidency, facing a humiliating finish in New Hampshire, he flew out of the new england cold before the polls closed and staked his campaign on South Carolina, telling voters in colombia that he was counting on the state has more racially diverse set of voters to offset his dismal showing in dismal showing in the first few states. They want on to say that after finishing a distant second in nevada, they came directly to South Carolina, campaigning almost exclusively here, debatets in the promising to win South Carolina and projecting confidence that he would prevail with africanamericans. According to the New York Times, he did both. Here is more from the former senator last night in South Carolina. [video clip] we celebrate as tonight here, let me talk directly to democrats across america. Especially those voting on super tuesday. A moment to this is choose the path forward for our party. This is a moment and it has arrived. Maybe sooner than anyone guessed. T would, but it is here the decisions the democrats make across america for the next few days will determine what the party stands for, what we believe, and what will get done. Democrats nominate me, i believe we can be donald trump. [applause] keep nancy pelosi the house of representatives as speaker and take back the United States senate. Join us. Democrats across america, join us. The democrats want to nominate someone who will build on obamacare. Take on our income manufacturers. Keeping the promises that we make, join us. If the democrats want a nominee who is a democrat [applause] , a proudg democrat democrat, and obama biden us. Crat, then join we have the option to win them big or lose them big. Thats the choice. We need to build on the coalition and legacy of the most successful president in our lifetime, barack obama. We will hear from Bernie Sanders and several of the other candidates shortly. We will take your calls on the joe Biden Victory in that democratic primary. The headline from the biden winsost, the victory, new life for an ailing campaign, first solid ,efeat of the front runner Bernie Sanders. First up this morning, steve, welcome to the program. You. R good to talk this was expected in South Carolina and it wasnt a big surprise to me. I think it may have surprise a lot of people. You know, paul, the analysts tell us that South Carolina is representative of the nation when it comes to black white ratios of voters, elderly versus youth, men versus women, and if thats the case, this may be interesting Going Forward. The thing that democrats need to do, they need to get their act together right now. I am a republican and i exercised my wrote to vote in South Carolina. My right to vote in South Carolina. They werent going to have a republican primary and joe takes aspect to a time, im 72 and he takes us back to a time when it seemed like the parties were friendlier to each other and people could reach across the aisle to get things done. I certainly wasnt going to vote for Bernie Sanders, i can to you that. I just want out and said, in case, South Carolina will go read in november but it was my way of saying i would choose him over bernie. Who is going to drop out . Thats the question. Well, tom steyer did last night. Does that make a difference . I think amy, kelsey, maybe even liz. Amy probably wont drop out, minnesota is coming on super tuesday, but that may not be smart for her. She has to think about the Party Overall and how the delegates are going to split. I dont know if you know this, but did you watch the debate in South Carolina, charleston but him or host what did you charleston . Host what do you notice about it . Caller black voters here, especially the christian voters, they are pretty conservative on samesex rights, but they feel they dont have a choice. They still feel the democrat is a better choice. The other touring where it was held, ironically, its right across the street from the mother emanuel ame church, i dont know if people know that. Can i say one word about down ballot . Host make it quick. Caller the democrat there thats vulnerable voted for withchment, but he sided trump on maintaining his right to military action. Hes vulnerable this year and it will be interesting to see how that pans out on the down ballot. Thank you. Matt is calling from charleston. Good morning to you, matt. Good to see you, paul. Way to go, bernie. I mean sorry, way to go, biden. This is a bernie beat down. This is great, beat down the bernie brose, democrats are finally coming to their senses and i hope that biden goes on to win super tuesday. Host more reaction here from mike in fairfax. Good morning, mike. What is your reaction . Move this forward to your vote on tuesday . Caller i was impressed that biden remembered what state he was in yesterday, didnt say he was in ohio or vermont or someplace else. He actually knew where he was for a change. As far as super tuesday, i will independent,m an ,ut i live in republican especially on the left these days which are complete socialists. Im not sure who i am going to be voting for. I would like to vote for a candidate that trump would crush. I really want to send a message with my vote to once and for all finally crush the socialist agenda coming out of the left. This election would be the perfect opportunity to just crush, crushed Bernie Sanders and the socialist agenda. Night, thatden last was baked in the cake. You know, black voters in South Carolina, if they cant see that they voted for someone who clearly has earlystage dementia , maybe they shouldnt be allowed to vote anymore. Host thanks for your participation in the program. Social media to hear tweet here host from the Washington Post, they write reading life into the struggling campaign as he is the first candidate with a clearcut victory host here ishost Bernie Sanders last night following his secondplace finish. [video clip] the established what the establishment, lobbyists and political pundits are saying is Bernie Sanders cant beat trump. Well, to those folks i would suggest taking a look at the last 70 National Polls. Because we beat trump 65 out of the 70 polls. At the polls in michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, and other battleground states. We beat trump. And we are going to be trump. In virginia as well. And the reason the we are going to win is to hold. Number one, we have the strongest Grassroots Movement of any campaign in the modern history of this country. Already knocked on millions of doors from maine to california. All, our grassroots not have a super pac. And we dont want a super pac. Because when you start taking money from billionaires and millionaires, what you end up needs. S serving their our campaign, and i want everyone here to be really proud of this, we have received more from moreontributions americans as of today than any campaign in the history of american politics. Bernie sanders in virginia onch, following his defeat tuesday, super tuesday there will be 99 delegates at stake. An online publication had this headline, democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders promises government that works for all at a Virginia Beach rally ahead of the state primary on tuesday. We have jim from highland park, new jersey. Good morning to you, jim. Caller good morning to you. Im excited youre taking my phone call. Bernie sanders is in the forefront right now. I believe that joe biden will be try atful in his third the presidency of the United States. Host how come . Theer hopefully he will be 46th president of the United States. Host why do you think he can go all the way . Caller he has got the , he,ience, the integrity excuse me, im a little bit excited here. Well, he did bring forth some programs that we are currently enjoying right now. He has championed the cause of the downtrodden, the middle class and the working people. Like i said, he has integrity and he has the experience, Like Congress andin also as Vice President of the United States and chief advisor to the 44th president of the United States. Thats what i have to say. Thank you for calling. Leo, go ahead, sir. Caller yes, i have worked 65 handing in Social Security and everything and it looks like i see democrats wanting to give everything away. I worked for what i have got coming to me and i use that to pay my heating bill, my lecture will, stuff like that. Looks like they just want to , the ones coming saying get something free for everybody. Let them work for it like i had to do and lots of other people around them. Just like when obama was in there. He gave drivers licenses to everybody that wanted one. My grandson just went through training and stuff like that. School to get his. A few years back they were just passing them out like candy bars. Said, tell us what you think about President Trump and would you be voting yes. Im this year . Caller if they wasnt fighting him so. Uch, he cant do anything they are blaming this disease going around, trying to blame that on him somehow or other. It dont matter what happens. They just dig and try to find something to blame him for. Dont matter what it is. More of your calls in the second. From the Washington Times this crushes southiden carolina primary. Shows him and those aviator sunglasses, getting off his bus in South Carolina. After two depressing losses and criticism from allies, biden refocused and one South Carolina last night. Sherman, ohio, democratic line. Hey, sherman. Caller im a Bernie Sanders supporter. I wanted to give props to the Biden Campaign for their victory, but i dont think there is enough time between now and what, two days before super tuesday . Bernie didnt do very well in South Carolina, it was an improvement over how well he did in 2016 and i think a lot of people are forgetting that. Number two, i dont know if anyone has heard this, but it looks like the Sanders Campaign has brought in 46 million for the month of february alone. Basically, he is very well suited to go all the way through june and it looks like he has amassed enough of a delegate possiblyalifornia and texas to make a stand there. Let me make this point quick, i dont know if anyone is , thecting the campaign 2020 campaign with the coronavirus. If this global contagion is going to be as bad as i think it may be, Bernie Sanders is making the best case out of anybody as to why the forprofit medical industry should go the way of the dodo bird. Ok. that was sherman from karting can, ohio. 15 delegates at stake in california. Less than starts in 48 hours in the east. You can see the states signing. Rom east to south, west maine, massachusetts, down to alabama, North Carolina. As the last caller mentioned, minnesota, california. And one territory, american samoa, will be voting as well in the primary. Actually, its a caucus there on super. Lets hear from pat, now, calling from paying growth, california. Thank you for joining us this early. We appreciate you calling. Caller i voted for republicans and democrats. My problem is Bernies Health Care plan. I would vote for him over by biden. Host tell us why, pat. Aller because of health care when i was an independent i, he was, my son and 40, i was 60. Fors paying 340 a month from 60 900 for myself to 65. Thats a real burden on somebody that age. Think everybody should have health care and it takes every penny you have got if you are sick. Host you called in on the republican mind . Caller yes, i missed of the independent line. Host appreciate you calling. This from online host President Trump was at the print conservative Political Action conference on tuesday, talking about biden and sanders. [video clip] we have two names we have two big names. One is crazy bernie. Hes like a crazy professor. The other one is sleepy joe biden, right . Lets take a poll. Biden. Screen like hell if you the guy should run against them, right . Is that ok . In other words, were going to beat him. So, scream like hell. Sleepy joe biden. Reacts] all right. Would you like me against. Crazy Bernie Sanders . [crowd reacts] you cannot charge me for that. They will send me a bill for that. Think of it, these pollsters. You ever see this crowd . We interviewed 193 people. With a plus or minus of three. You have thousands of people in here, i got it for free. Mercedes will send me a bill, i guarantee, for a fruitful. It happened last night. They think that crazy bernie would be easier to be than joe. The guy cant put two sentences together. Its insulting. But he is more down the middle. Everyone knows hes not a communist and bernie is a real question about that, but hes a radical socialist democrat and people know that. Joe is sort of down the middle, you know . The difference is that joe is not going to be running the government, hes just going to be sitting in a home someplace and people will be running it for him. And they will be radical left socialists. Thats what you have to remember. Theres no way hes running the government. President trump, yesterday. You can watch is. Full speech on cspan. Org. The president around midnight sent a series of tweets. Here are a couple of them. Congratulations he says to who he refers to as sleepy joe biden. Host againhost , the words of the president by twitter. Eddie, good morning. Yes, good morning. I wanted to congratulate joe biden on his victory last night and i will be supporting him all the way. And about the righteousness darkness of the demonic Republican Party and their leader, donald trump. I believe that god will win this and joe biden is the right guy to represent. Thats a lie got to say. Caller joe biden the great last night, but realistically he has no ground game left and he has run out of money. And in the delegate rich states like california and texas, Bernie Sanders is set to do a whole lot better than joe biden can. The other thing is that Bernie Sanders is going to win minnesota and massachusetts, effectively ending the campaigns of klobuchar and warren. After super tuesday, Bernie Sanders will be in a much better position to lock up the nomination. You mentioned money. ,ome speculated that tom steyer Mike Bloomberg, should they leave the race and put his money behind somebody like joe biden . What do you make of that. Or possibility . Caller people will be surprised at how poorly bloomberg is going to do. He not only has a history of racist politics, hes a republican and in a democratic primary true democrats will never vote for a republican. Sanders has caucused with the democrats for decades. Mike bloomberg ruled as a republican and will have no insight on the nomination. Politico has a story on how joe biden plans to capitalize on the wind. His advisers and allies say the challenge is to seize on the performance by locking down the moderate wing of the party and making the race between him and. Ernie sanders under resourc