Outbreak. Lets start with the less scary of the topics, six more states hold the democratic primaries today. What are the story lines use still trying to digest super tuesday from last week . Im glad you said super tuesday to make because someone said many super tuesday and thats just tuesday. River number of states up tonight. The most critical one for both of the campaigns as they spent the last couple days is in michigan. Its a state Bernie Sanders one bat back in 2016. Discover largest delegates, when hundred 25 up for grabs and its a state that appears to be tilting towards former Vice President joe biden. Hes got the support of not just his former rival cory booker and, hares but also the governor of the state budget what brca1 her race back in 2018. The mayor of detroit, the lieutenant governors of young dynamic up and. Establishment if you will in that state of the newly elected establishment seems to be going behind former Vice President biden. Biden is almost certainly going to win mississippi by a pretty handy margin tonight. Its a state with a significant African American population is going to make it more than half of the democratic primary electorate and that is similar to States Joe Biden one last week on super tuesday come states like north carolina, alabama, arkansas places were African American voters play a huge role. Those voters are about a quarter of the electorate in michigan and missouri. Another stick up tonight. Missouri looks like it will go for joe biden as well. 68 delegates up for grabs there. The fascinating three states im going to watch tonight washington, idaho and north dakota. Wentare three states that for Bernie Sanders but there is been some changes in the way they conduct their elections. Because of the Democratic NationalCommittee Unity form d commission, two of the states held caucuses four is a correct way to allocate the delegates. This time they will hold primaries. Bernie sanders one Washington State caucuses by significant margin in 2016 but he lost the beauty pageant primary as they call itan which basically it waa meaningless primary. People just voted with that delegates being allocated but Hillary Clinton wanted it. That tells me sanders will have trouble with the broader democratic elections Washington State as all mail in election. What has the ballot in the mail. They drop the in the secretary of state has advised people not to lick their envelopes so find another way to seal it. Use a sponge or paper towel so that nobody spreads coronavirus. Host all the window the secretary of state quoted in usa today about the people who have to open those ballots and said all theen people are openig envelopes and processing the ballots are wearing gloves to try to not get in contact with potential antivirus pit. They washed and sickly, try to keep distance from the coworkers and that seems to be working okay. Thats a statement from the secretary of state mr. President , i love to it. Election workers are the best workers. Of the six dates up to make him Bernie Sanders got four of them in 2016. It wouldnt surprise me if the only wins one of them tonight. North dakota primary which is a firehouse caucus which basically means is a party run primary. Its not like the Iowa Caucuses where people cigarette and argue with each other. Its more like you go in and cast your ballot and walk out. Sanders more likely to do well there and some of the states but this is continuing a trend. Weve seen sanders lose several states that he won in 2016 and is hes yet to win a state that he didnt win in 2016. Sanders needs to grow and he needs to grow fast, otherwise this race will wrap up pretty quick. Host weve seen the ballot shrink. Mike bloomberg, Elizabeth Warren and now no longer in the race. Its not as simple as Mike Bloomberg supported go to joe biden and Elizabeth Warren supporters go to Bernie Sanders mr. President , the moderate and progressive line was always too simplistic. As i was on betrayal this year i was in iowa seven times and i had a bunch of other early states as well, and i was more likely to come across somebody who is struggling to decide between Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren than somebody struggling to decide between warren and sanders or buttigieg or biden or Something Like that. That cross Boundary Line i think tells you about the people, but for think people are looking for, looking for somebody knew who could convince him he could beat President Trump. None of those all called and secondtier candidates who are not out of the race made the the ones whoy were are best able to beat President Trump, so everybody reverted and went back with former Vice President biden. Host trying to understand the lanes. Four you to go on this program there would be guests sitting in your position and college would say im for the Bernie Sanders but it doesnt get im voting for donald trump mr. President , there were a lot of those people. One of the consistent themes wet have seen in the elections it happened so far is Bernie Sanders is underperforming among rural voters. A lot of those with a bloke the system voters backof in 2016 who did, in fact, do that, who voted for sanders in the primary, voted for President Trump in the general election and the state republican. I think they are never trump voters. Bernie sanders rhombus is a a serious revelation to disrupt the systemt as that exist right now. Thats what President Trump promised. Yes, of course, they differ on how to get there and which systems to blow up, but the fact is if they are looking for a revolution, they got with President Trump. Host with Bernie Sanders making one of his closing arguments i had a super two, sto the polls in missouri. Heres what he had to say. If you want to defeat trump, which all democrats do, a majority of independents, some republicans do, we are that camping. The second of all, what we also understand isnd that while it is absolutely imperative that we beat trump, weve go to do more than that. [applause] weve got to transform this country so that we have an economy that works for you and you and you, not just wealthy campaign contributors. [applause] our government which he says that what we need is a multiracial, multi generational workingclass movement of people coming together for justice. [applause] host Bernie Sanders in missouri yesterday. Reid wilson, you listen to these pages all the time. Has anything changed much in his pitch since last week . Guest hes going much gravelly after biden. He recognizes the situation, that is path to the nomination has grown short and would has to do is take away support from former Vice President biden and earn it himself. But the voters themselves seem to be rendering a verdict on that very question that sanders just broughtha up. We need to do more than just defeat President Trump democratic voters are not interested in more than just beating President Trump is the numberone thing i hear over and over is operable for anybody. In iowa the recited peoples jarred that would say in the schuman in 2020. The elected would like to joe biden based his entire campaign on and that almost sank his Campaign Turns outrg to be the thing that is now fueling his rise in these polls. Caller good morningjohn. Id like to ask your guest a question concerning the long lines that people are, the six hour wait to vote in some of these states and i would urge all the people voting today to vote for bernie ersanders because he is definitely head and shoulders above joe biden without a doubt and if you could also comment on the number of democrats that are masquerading as republicans, like Stephanie Murphy down here in florida and mike quell a in texas. I resent the fact that these people say they are democrats and vote 70 percent of the time with donald trump. Thank you very much. Guest bill, the concern about long voting lines is something people have brought up especially lately after the texas primary where when the last guy walked out of his polling place at one in the morning or Something Like that after waiting for so long and the notion of basically spending an entire workday waiting in line to vote is something that is a prettymassive problem in a state eslike texas thats going to be more in focus for the president ial contest than it c ever has been before. Even states like california, there were long lines and weve seen the lia a county board of supervisors in particular calling up the Election Department there and trying to get assurances basically that those lines will not exist on election day. The difference is there will be three times as many people voting on election day as in the past as in the primary. In texas, the problem is with the counties and in a lot of these states, we are the only western democracy that has a disjointed Voting System, a noncentralized Voting System so its not up to the federal government to regulate who and how voting operates, its not even up to the states and alot of states, its up to the county. 254 counties and in some of them its very clear they have not made the preparations for higher turnout so we will see if that gets changed. The legislature cant do anything to address that unless theyre called into a special session because theyre only in the oddnumbered years or theyre already donebasically with their session. Its going to be up to counties to do some real work to get more polling places open. The state has recentlycracked down on the use of mobile polling places. Which is used get more seniors and people who are far away from polling places to actually cast a ballot. We will see if that hasany difference. The question from tony on twitter coming off of your performance on super tuesday in some of these poles i had of super tuesday too especially in michigan, tony asked is that that mining has beenjudged electable or that bernie has been deemed unelectable . Guest thats a great question and its a little of both. And a lot of the coverage, ive been surprised by the ferocity of coverage after Bernie Sanders won the nevada caucuses. There were people not talking about him as a front runner as much as talking about how democrats were freaking out about how they needed to stop him. And there were some personalities on cable news went way over the line i thought in passing sanders as kind of threat. When it would have been much more appropriate just to cover him straight andtalk about what he was saying on the trail and what his appeal was to voters. The sanders has a lot of critiques of the media and the way the media treats him and he is not wrong on a lot of it. But biden clearly became the candidate who was the best able, best position to be President Trump. That was his pitch from the absolute beginning and ill say one of sanders the arguments is that he can turnout this huge wave of new voters who have never showed up to vote before. As it really born out, we havent seen a surge of new voters in a few cases, the new voters are casting their first ballot in the democratic primary are voting for buying more than they are voting for sanders so that pitch that he is uniquely capable of turning out this way of voters who sat out the last time or who have never voted, i dont see a lot of evidence for it in the numbers. You see Bernie Sanders making his closing arguments in missouri, this is joe biden in michigan picking his siclosing arguments to state voters. Over a week ago, the press and the pundits had declared this campaign. They then South Carolina spoke. Then super tuesday spoke. And the turnout was incredible. And now tomorrow, michigan, mississippi, missouri. North dakota, idaho, Washington State, you will be heard and michigan, im counting on you in abig way. [applause] you know, sanders and one of us, god bless him, likes to say were only going to be donald trump by generating excitement and turnout. Guess what, on super tuesday, we turned out 70 percent more voters than ever voted there. And guess what . Theyre voting for us. North carolina, 19 percent more voters, texas 40 percent more voters. Full, hes on. Right, were going to turn out a democratic party. Were going to turn out a party that is supported by the backbone of this country. Look, the fact is that this movement we started and all of you are part of his generating incredible amounts of emotion around the country. Folks, we cant create a Movement Without there being powered by people in the base of the democratic party. Joe biden yesterday in michigan, reid wilson, the history of michigan in deciding primaries, this is the third contested democratic cycle in a row in which michigan has played a huge role, not necessarily a determinate role but a huge role in the calendar. Back in 2008 michigan and florida violatednet National Committee rules and held their primaries earlier than they should have. They encroached on South Carolina and that sort of early statewindow the democrats try to protect. And so the dnc said their delegates would not be seated at the convention. Hillary clinton who was a little behind the eight ball at the time onwent in and campaigned heavily in both states trying to find some sort of momentum to revive her primary campaign. Barack obama stayed away and clinton both won both of those states, their delegates didnt count until it became clear obama was going to win. They struck a deal and the delegations basically got to show up anyway although their goals only counted for half of what they would have to read in 2016, Bernie Sanders was the one who was behind the eight ball and trying to find a sort of boost of momentum to get ahead of clinton and he found it in michigan. He stunned the polls, he came out ahead when nobody expected him to and that gave his campaign a boost and vaulted him through basically another month or so of contested primaries so michigan has played this determinative role a couple of times and i feel bad for my home state of washington which i think is, places like mississippi and idaho where and missouri where democrats have had less success on the statewide level lately but as far as have fared better so theyre going to get left out. The frontpage lead story if you will that michigan is now playing a big role for the third time in a row. From the wolverinestate volunteer state, one that is in chattanooga, good morning. Morning. I am an africanamerican person who is a fan of Bernie Sanders. I wish that warren would support him with her delegates so we can move forward and when the coronavirus came and they said that we were prepared, healthwise to control a pandemic and this is from Mister Sanders now, it kind of made me look at joe biden as a person who showed definitely that weve been waiting a long time for help here in america. For people, working people, differentpeople. And that virus is the same thing for me. Its like youre not prepared and you dont want to be prepared. And i wish america will see that we need people like Bernie Sanders to stand up and do the right thing. And so with that i would like to say everybody, just put on your hats, put on your gloves and your sparks, tiger mouth up, go vote. Have a great day. Guest good advice, wanda. Ill put on my virus had for a second, one thing wanda touches on that is 100 percent truth is the United States is not on the preparation it needs to do to battle a pandemic d. A pandemic flu, pandemic like a coronavirus, pandemic like ebola which is much harder to get than Something Like a coronavirus. The Obama Administration and congress after the evil outbreak in 2014 2015 past a 5. 8 billion evil the supplemental bill and part of that bill funded what you can think of is basically a mini version of the centers for Disease Control and prevention and 49 other countries why are we spending money on health care in Foreign Countries . Because we are a globalized world and people travel all over the place and if that outbreak happens in the congo or liberia or i dont know, wuhan china is going to come here eventually so why not spend money to a virus when its small. China was one of those 49 countries and as a matter of fact the chinese version of the cdc sent representatives to west africa to basically shadow the cdc officials and learn how to control an outbreak because they are a global superpower as well, president obama called the president of china and the case that if youre going to be a superpower on the International Stage you have to do things like ohelp out when theres apandemic virus. So basically, we were funding the many versions of the cdc and 49 cou