Party for tomorrows primary. Throughout the hour we are going to be talking to some of our favorite analysts, South Carolina voters, and those who know the state best. Along the way we are going to show you our own interactions with the voters today, including from fox news own Gianno Caldwell who is on the other side of the state at joe bidens rally tonight. As for joe, the former Vice President seems poised to win based on the latest polls. S. Hes up about 12 points in the real clear politics average. You might remember, i told you this last night, those most invested in the biden blowouts tomorrow are the democrats in the media establishment. They see sanders as a threat and they hope before can pull out a comeback move and catapult himself and his campaign ahead for the super tuesday contests that are coming right down the pike. Biden himself thinks a victory tomorrow might wrap up the whole thing for him. So many others who have supported me, you send me out of here with the victory that is significant, then i think im going to be the next nominee of the United States. Laura albright, Barack Obamas upset victory here over Hillary Clinton in 2008 was his springboard to the nomination but does biden really have the obama magic . One word, no. Even if biden does win make tomorrow, he still has major problems and im going to talk about them tonight, walk you through this right now. S m heres the first problem, his continuous stream of gaffes andf just bizarre statements. It seems to be getting worse and not better. Just listen to some of what he said just in the last 24 hours. Im looking forward to appointing the first africanamerican woman to the United States senate. China doesnt have enough water. O water. The idea, the idea that they are our competition, that they are going to beat us is bizarre. If someone in this room got up, took off all their clothes and walked out the door, no man has a right to touch her. Laura number two, his campaign is quickly running out of cash and big donors are holding back. That suggests a much bigger problem, as former obama era official van jones pointed out. There is a weakness in the Biden Campaign that is obvious. Its not just a weakness in the candidate. A former Vice President , two term Vice President , obama the guy should be just sucking and money. He is broke. That shows a lack of enthusiasm, not just at the grassroots level, where he needed that, but also at the top. Laura van jones himself seems bored, doesnt he . And three, third problem, onethird of the democrat delegates are awarded and that doesnt look good for biden, okay. In california he is going to get his clock cleaned by bernie who is up, on average, today it was about 17 points in the latest polls. Meanwhile, biden is pullingn under 15 in the state. That means he might not even meet the viability threshold to get any delegates, because that is how many are in california. Its a huge treasure trove. The last three polls out of texas have bernie leading in biden thought at some point was going to be his firewall. Its just not adding up here that doesnt even take into account commanding leads that bernie has in massachusetts, wisconsin, and utah, states that will also be voting on super tuesday. Di even if biden wins tomorrow, how can the democrat establishment deny bernie the nomination if this is what the landscape remains after today, after tomorrow . Joining me now is chris bedford, Senior Editor at the federalist and vice chair of the Young American foundation. Hes been following theni democrats around South Carolina for the last few days. Also with me is a g. O. P. Chairman, a man who knows the ins and outs of the state better than most. Barring of an epic collapse, he seems to be assured of a victory but of appearances on the trail, its actually kind of sad. If got to say. Personally, have always liked biden. Hes actually kind of a lovable personality. Ive always really liked him. His extremely lovable. Laura but its almost like someone needs to stop him. Its time for the early voting corralled dinner. Joe biden is an extremely likable person. He has a lot of history, but its been clear he probably should retire for some time. What he could get tomorrow, which would be a big win for him, potentially, if he actually just get a bige win. Ten points or more points that he can carry and because the worst thing for any candidate, even worse than this lack of money is the stink of loser. And if people think youre a loser, theyre not going to back you no matter what, especially in the super tuesday states. If he does well he can stay in this race and the New York Times reporters are actually showing the Democratic Party is willing to break their own party to stop the superdelegates from making bernie the nominee. If he can make it to the conventional alive, he has a chance at being the nominee. Laura true. He has to bend over backwards to try to reassure voters that he has fire in his belly. Watch. What is your fire . Because you see bernie, you see Elizabeth Warren, you see that fire. Thats what im looking for. What is your fire . Decency and honor. The fact that im not screaming like bernie and waving my arms, look elizabeth, is not a lack of fire. Laura all right, is that kind of reminds me of that interview that ted kennedy did with roger mudd years ago where he can explain right offthecuff why he wanted to be president. He couldnt answer that question. Like, why is he actually running . Other than to stop bernie or to save the establishment. Theres people that arent really excited about supporting his campaign and his problem here is whether he wins here or not, when you leave here youre going to states where he doesnt have much organization, he has to spend money. Bloomberg has dropped half a billion dollars in 20 states so what are they going to do even if he wins or . Wins by ten, or by five, whatever it may be. Theyve a structural problem over the long term and that is proportional delegate allocation in all states and it took how long for hillary to put bernie away last time in the two person race and how youre talking about three, four, five people from the convention . Theyve got a math problem and then you get to the superdelegates, what are they going to do . Ki half of those guys are elected officials, they dont want to run with bernie on top of the ticket so they take it away from him, and either way, heads we win, tales they lose. Laura congressman clyburn is incredibly popular, significant figure in this state for all the reasons weve discussed before on this show. He soaping his endorsement will get biden the momentum going all the way to texas is what he said. Were trying to create a surge here. 14 states voting next tuesday and we would like to see him go into those 14 states, a big boat out of South Carolina, it would signal to the people of texas that joe biden is in fact surging. Laura jim clyburn doesnt even seem excited about biden and he is the biggest endorsee that he has. Rn my big question is why is an congressman clyburn here . Why isnt he here to speak on behalf of him . Why are there local officials and hollywood movie stars there to try to pump up the crowd because joe biden is not really pumping up the crowd. Why isnt he down there stumping for the guy who he thinks is the future of the Democratic Party . Democratic candidates are really worried. Bernie sanders has a chance to go for a nationally and donald trump. They will sacrifice their party not to have Bernie Sanders. Laura they will sacrifice the next four years to stop him. That is how important they think stopping Bernie Sanders is, if they have to lose to trump its better than losing the whole party. Am i saying that correctly . Its telling that this endorsement comes just four days before the primary. Why wasnt he on the trail with biden two months ago . Laura desperation. By the way, Bernie Sanders was not happy about the president being here tonight, check it out. Turns out Donald Trumps in charleston today. He is here in South Carolina. He doesnt even have any opposition in the republican party. Why is he here . He is here to try to disrupt the democratic primary how pathetic and how petty can you be . Laura apparently, the president is not allowed to travel. They dont want him to travel to South Carolina, state hes goino to win, by the way. The fact South Carolina is the last stop for all the media is in one state for a solid wee, so why wouldnt the president come here to get his message out . He had a winning message in 2016 and a winning message now in a record to go along with it to advertise it. Laura it reminds me that they dont want him to travel to california, he cant go to california because theyre goins to have riots, he cant go to chicago, they threatened violence last time last election, and now they dont want him to come to South Carolina. Nice try. O South Carolina want him here. He is popular. Laura thank you so muchh for being here tonight. The beer is on me. Thanks so much and as i mentioned many times before on this show, democrats are heading down a dangerous road this election cycle. One that many of them dont want to go down. They are on the highway to socialism and a lot of people are asking how did we actually get here . I posed that question to some of the folks in the charleston area earlier today. Laura we are here in charleston, South Carolina, where frankly there are a lot of tourists. Spectacularly beautiful, little chilly, but were trying to find out why socialism is making inroads into our public consciousness, our thinking. A why is it becoming more popular . What about socialism . Everybody want socialism in america. Do you want socialism . No, but my kids do because they are broke and they keep asking me for more money. Laura but they went to college. My kids are voting for bernie. I think socialism is great possibly in theory. Laura you are worried about socialism coming more popular . I am because the campuses are more liberal. I own my own business so its all about capitalism from. Laura Bernie Sanders is on the rise, 78yearold guy, heart attack but so what . I do think its is going to come down to Bernie Sanders and trump. Bernie sanders is a very smart man. He knows exactly what hes doing. Laura what did Bernie Sanders not get right . What do you think the push for socialism is hurting him . Yes, that word is definitely going to push a few people out. Laura lets find some angry socialists. Hes going to win it big. Laura by the way, the bike messenger, taxi driver, whatever you call him, he was awesome and i am pretty sure that he is a trump supporter. And he thinks the economy is great. That was the most fun part. Despite suggestions from some of the folks that you just heardd that the general election will be sanders versus trump, joe biden and the never bernierd democrats see South Carolina as the decisive 2020 primary contest. They may have a point. According to the washington post, since first becoming a binding primary, the state has become a bellwether for important constituencies. Southern africanamerican voters. On top of that, the eventual democratic nominee has won the primary every Election Year with the exception of 88 and 2004. Joining me now is Political Science professor at the college of charleston and author of first in the south. And jamie lovegrove, political reporter at the post. Will South Carolinas reputation of clarifying things the democrats be intact after this . Is going to be tough. 2004 they supported john edwards. He ended up getting beaten by john kerry in the end. This is a crowded field so i think they could give some life to biden. May be biden will fight to be the alternative to Bernie Sanders, but this is a lot more multiyear than in previous years. Laura would you have predicted that it was going to be, this, four years ago after hillary obviously stumbled to defeat no, if you had told me for a while, Bernie Sanders had a chance to win the South Carolina primary, that wouldve blown my mind. But he got 25 last time. So it really blown out by Hillary Clinton but because there are so many candidates and because hes done a good job ofn keeping his supporters loyal to him, you win 20 , that looks pretty good. Jo laura hes an an amazing retail politician. Young kids love him, he spent a lot of times on College Campuse networking. When you look at the landscape here, this is a state unlike any other state in the country. Every state is unique but thispe is a very Different Democrat Party in this state. Much more moderate. It really isnt in many ways a bellwether of what is coming down the pike, but bernie is Still Holding up so far. If its bellwether of anything it is of Southern States and that is obviously not the whole country but if you look to some of our neighbors, georgia and North Carolina and some other states on super tuesday, alabama and virginia, it might be indicative of what we will see there but certainly south carolinians and South Carolina democrats, both parties pride themselves on the fact that they are independent thinkers, and they like to go their own way. I dont think there is any state other than probably delaware where joe biden has a stronger relationship with democrats and they are poised. Laura theres a lot of excitement today. A lot of them want to get rid of trump and i keep telling them that is not going to happen but you can have fun tomorrow. Anyway, Bernies Campaign guy tried to explain why bernie left the state early. T watch. Where is your senator going to be tomorrow . In South Carolina or some other state . Hes in some other states tomorrow, massachusetts and he will finish in vermont. Are you assuming hes not going to do well in South Carolina . , not at all. We typically do this, after the first few states have moved on. Laura thoughts . I think he has seen some polling and it doesnt look particularly why waste the time here to think biden will probably get a victory, but is it going to actually be a springboard or a dead cat bounce where he wins here and then bloomberg has so much money and bernie does well, and not as much money. Laura its interesting to see the generational divide in the democrat party, and its interesting, and msnbc moment, talking about africanamerican voters about, who are they going to vote for versus his parents. Watch. My parents live in South Carolina. Are they going to vote tomorrow . Yes, they are. They were more biden in the beginning but they werent really following. They just know biden and obama. I kind of had to pull them along, tug them along. Do you know who they are voting for tomorrow . Yes, i do. Laura he convinced his parents to go for Bernie Sanders. But we talked to folks today, i saw that divide over and over and over again. Congressman clyburn is over there for biden and his grandson works for Pete Buttigieg. There is a generational divide, intimately in the Africanamerican Community as well. Laura but also president obama, that is a driving force here. There was an older africanamerican voter i talked to who viewed the symbolism of biden, a white establishment politician standing behind a black president for eight years loyally laura low realism goes back. De absolutely, they remember joe biden coming down here with fritz holling. Laura oh, my gosh, youre really going back in time. They have these memories. The older voters are much moreee worried than the Younger Voters of a repeat of 1972. B laura oh, they remember. They view Bernie Sanders as essentially a landslide defeat candidate, so there a lot more worried about the Younger Voters wanting inspiration. Laura a number said it would be considered for them a repudiation of obama, which they dont want to say. Fascinating, i cannot wait to see how this plays out. Thank you so much. Faced with a fourth or fifth place finish tomorrow, Elizabeth Warren is backtracking on a Major Campaign promise that cant be happening. We expose the latest and then we will speak with some actual warren supporters on the ground here on whether they care. Stay tuned. My message to bernie is its time to wrap it up, buddy. Youre wasting a lot of peoples time and money. Tv just keeps getting better. How you watch it does too. This is xfinity x1. Featuring the Emmy Awardwinning voice remote. Streaming Services Without changing passwords and input. Live sports with realtime stats and scores. Access to the most 4k content. And your movies and shows to go. 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