Democrats was a lot of them looked at the prospect of nominating Bernie Sanders, said you know what, thats a risk we dont want to take and they looked around and said, you know what, joe biden is the best alternative. We are going with him. Do you agree or not . I do. He had assist with that. It did help imthat you that folks like Pete Buttigieg and amy klobuchar. This is our guy, he has the best shot. The field is clear and he is the alternative to bernie. Paul so is that plausible to you, dan, do you think that that is my theory or Something Else . I guess he got an assist from Mike Bloomberg and that moved him out in the view of democrats as alternative. Yes, the Democrat Party is a big interconnected institution. There were significant endorsements, jim clyburn, congressman from south carolina. Susan rice, formerly Barack Obamas chief of staff. Harry reid, harry reid called chief of staff and told him im sorry its nothing personal, its like the godfather. Paul its strictly business. Its strictly business and they finally realized that Bernie Sanders is an outlier. Hes not really a democrat and that the whole system of the Democratic Party, lawyers, urban machines, patronage and so far was going to be at risk if bernie became the nominee and so they just swept over to joe biden who is really a proxy for the Democratic Party. I think the democrats looked at what happened to republicans four years ago, paul, where an outside populist came in and they decided we dont want this to happen to our party and avowed socialist to come face of our party, we will not let that happened and we are also done indulging progressives out there. Thats not the way we will win in 2020. We will not win with promising free stuff and medicare for all, we will win back to try to get back swing voters in industrial midwest, suburban moms and joe biden is for doing that. Paul why were democrats able to pull this off and the republicans werent against donald trump . Now donald trump won so in the end it worked out for him. Because what kim mentioned because when klobuchar and buttigieg got out, they immediately turned around and backed an alternative to Bernie Sanders. The republicans did not do that 4 years ago and trump was able to go on state to state picking up plurality. Never winning the majority but enough to paul cruz and kasich. Beto orourke came out in texas which was a huge boost for him. Paul clear favorite to get the nomination Going Forward . Well, look, we are still going to have a competition but here is what joe biden comes out of super tuesday with, one is the strength of his coalition and it was quite remarkable if you looked at those exit polls. You know, he won over older voters, africanamerican voters, suburban women, centrist voters. This is really when you put together all of those groups, that is very formidable camp within the Democratic Party, and if you look ahead to states like the next big one is michigan, that electorate very much represents that coalition. Its a demographic very much like minnesota which joe biden just won or massachusetts which he won. So that gives them a lot going ahead and its harder to see a path now remarkably for Bernie Sanders. Paul and is that a more durable coalition than bernie which is young people, the Progressive Left and younger hispanics and African Americans . It appears to be. One of the take aways from super tuesday was all about turnout, the reality is, we have been talking about bernie support, Young Millennials for the better part of a year and they didnt vote in the percentage they did in 2016. Their turnout was low, yet turnout among suburban woman, that vote was very high. It does look like joe biden is appealing to a class of voters who actually do vote. Theres no real obvious way hes going to be able to get them to do that in the upcoming primaries. Paul a lesson for the Michael Bloomberg campaign . The Campaign Finance might want to give it a rest. They might want to. If you dont have the message, all the money in the world is not going to help you with voters. Thats the lesson for Michael Bloomberg and some steyer. Paul what did him in the end . Being unprepared in initial debates. There was no excuse for it and i also think that Elizabeth Warren was quite hard on him. Paul thank you all. Still ahead as the democratic race narrows to two, the democrats set their sights on tuesdays michigans primary and beyond, pollster takes us at Fisher Investments, we do things differently and other Money Managers dont understand why. Because our way works great for us but not for your clients. Thats why were a fiduciary, obligated to put clients first. So, what do you provide . Cookie cutter portfolios . Nope. 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Paul with the democratic contest now at 2man race all eyes are on pivotal upcoming primaries. Voters head to the polls on tuesday in 6 states including delegaterich michigan followed by 4 primary contests the following week in florida, illinois, ohio and arizona. Here with a look at the landscape heading into the contests former clinton pollster mark penn, chairman of the harris poll. Welcome back, mark, good to see you. Have you ever seen a comeback like this by biden . I havent. Well, i have never seen anyone reemerge after not winning in iowa and new hampshire, the whole idea and the whole common Wisdom Within the democratic common is you have to win those, its impossible to come back and its the first time i have ever seen that coming now turned on its head. Who cares about iowa, who cares about new hampshire. [laughter] paul good point, so what what do you think happened . Was it that i think the democrats staired into the sanders candidacy and staid, no, not going to go there . No, there was a wave of fear of Bernie Sanders actually winning the nomination and coalescing then around former Vice President biden who, remember, had been the leader before so the momentum that sanders was getting was relatively short lived but everybody concluded, you know, probably from President Trump on down that the Democratic Party was headed for almost a suicidal run with Bernie Sanders as the likely nominee. Paul well, you know, its interesting that you mention the president. I wonder if it was a little too obvious and overt in indicating that he really did want to run against sanders. I think he could have done a better job Holding Cards close to his vest. Paul sanders has oneonone candidate said he coveted all along. Im not sure that he really did want that, but he says he did. Can he make a comeback and how does he do it . Well, i mean ive seen comebacks before in the later stage when i was working with hillary. We didnt win but we came back with 3 00 a. M. Ad in ohio, pennsylvania and texas, but to do that, sanders need a gamechanger . How is he going to get that . Hes going to get that likely through next debate. That debate is not happening before march tenth, that his only opportunity which is to crush to crush biden in the debate. If biden gets through that debate i think he has incredible by lead in florida and decided on the 17th, its over, its a wrap. Paul so that debate is on the 15th and what i guess youre talking about bidens vulnerability maybe being performance. Hell be on the stage for 90 points or maybe longer, oneonone and so he wont just be able to break in and different, you know, and a minute here and a minute there and bernie like to go after him in a big way. Is that bidens biggest vulnerability now . Well, i think thats the only chance really that that biden has oneonone to catch this incredible momentum that hes got built up. I think biden will be in the bloomberg chair, right, if he does a better job in that chair which remember he was Vice President. Hes been through this a zillion times. All he has to do is kind of keep his demeanor, sharpen his message and remember hit the theme that got him there which is that sanders cant be elected president. You may like him, you may he may have good ideas but he cant be elected president. Thats what got him there. Sanders has to take him down. Its going to be fascinating, wellwatched debate. I predict biden will probably come through and go to the nomination, but thats sanders only real chance here. Paul sanders unveiled new series of contrast issues on the around the super tuesday hitting him, hitting biden for cutting Social Security and medicare, hitting him for supporting disastrous trade agreements and hitting him for supporting iraq war and hitting him for bankruptcy bill. Do you see any real is that enough . Are those issues enough . Like take trade in michigan to turn the tide . Not really. Sanders has to broaden his coalition. Really if you look at it first turns out that Democrat Voters as ive been saying for a long time are a lot more moderate than you could tell from congress or the press or the general actions of aoc and the squad and those older, more moderate voters combined with Africanamerican Community are an incredible coalition, Winning Coalition and sanders has to break into that coalition. Attacking biden on the issues i dont think the going to get him there. Its not going to get him the growth that he needs to overcome what is otherwise a jugger nod at this point. Sanders is saying im for the working person, biden represents the corporate elite and billionaires, so where is what part of bidens coalition is he trying to carve into when he makes those kind of attacks . Well, hes trying to get the mid western working class votes back but biden is just really well liked. They have an association with him that really sanders despite rhetoric about working has really never been able to achieve. He has gotten a constituency driven by young people and millennials and quite the opposite who brought onto free college. So its a little late for him to try to try to do that and he has no road into the Africanamerican Community, but he does have a substantial vote in the latino community, but its a its a losing coalition as we see kind of dramatically even with warren because bloomberg also got out unless he can reach over and really score some points here. Paul all right, mark penn, thank you very much, with Elizabeth Warren out of the race can Bernie Sanders stage a comeback and which candidate would President Trump really rather face in november . I would like to win. I would im your mother in law. And i like to question your every move. Like this left turn. Its the next one. You always drive this slow . How did you make someone i love . 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We are back with Dan Henninger, kim strassel and jason riley. So dan, only 40 of the democrat delegates are chosen, room for bernie to come back . Yeah, by definition theres room for bernie to come back and the question is there room out there in the democratic electorate for bernie to grow his vote beyond what he has . Its not as though bernie is falling off the clip, hes still competitive but hes not winning and you need to grow voter up higher than his producing. You to give senator sanders credit as he just said in that clip, this is about a difference in ideas and how to go forward with, you know, politics in this country and bernie is proposing medicare for all, basically nationalized health care and other things, free tuition. Joe biden to be done incrementally. Both of them are pretty out a pretty distinct separate visions to democratic voters and so far those voters have been going for joe biden. Paul results not a revolution. Right, the problem for sanders even where hes winning hes underperforming. He was counting on big wins in texas and california on super tuesday. Lost texas. The the win in california was much narrower, much tighter than he expected and could get tighter still as the votes come in. You know, we talk a lot about how trump benefited from antihillary clinton sentiment in 2016, but Bernie Sanders also benefited from anticlinton sentiment in 2016, and now that shes not in the race we can see that. We can see that that people have other alternatives besides Bernie Sanders and theyre going with them and i think that is showing up now in underperformance. Paul kim, what about the risks for the biden candidacy Going Forward. Democrats have pushed all their chips here, establishment on biden, what are the risks of performance, for example, in the next period . Well, just watch the tapes over the last couple of weeks, paul, i think the risks are fairly large in some ways. You know, it is this remarkable thing that we have an essence the democratic nomination coming down to two guys who are nearly always has been prone to stumbles and prones to gaffes, almost a hallmark of his career. The question how much of that at this point is tied up in his age and there have been some real questions in the last couple of weeks about some of his slips. So, yeah, they may well have decided on biden as their frontrunner but the reason they did is because they think hes more electable than Bernie Sanders and thats a big bet to be taking as Going Forward. Paul you know, i think donald trump didnt intended but he helped joe biden because he was so obvious in almost begging for Bernie Sanders to be nominated. Hes still trying to meddle. Its being stolen from bernie. Yeah, i agree with that, the primaries werent decided not by endorsements but voters. Voters are out there paying attention and if youre Democrat Voter and primary metric is defeat donald trump and trump wants to run against Bernie Sanders, go to biden. [laughter] paul what about Elizabeth Warren, jason, last summer she was in the front, what happened . I think Bernie Sanders was running as visionary. I know where i want to take the country, i dont care about the details. They tripped her up when she put a spotlight on her numbers. Continue get her math right. People noticed and they lost track of her, of her vision. So i think that that got the better of her, but i also agree that the party i