Gather, this is, i think, what winning feels like. [ cheers ] ill be damned if im going to stand by and lose my country, too. Period. [ applause ] not going to let it happen we have one job in november. Beat donald trump. [ cheers ] my plan is to build a beautiful blue wall around those states of strong votes of democrats and independents and republicans and make donald trump pay for it. That is my plan. [ applause ] well, they say you dont get a Second Chance to make a first impression. The president ial candidates doing exactly that here in New Hampshire. Come on in. Were in the home stretch with just a few hours left before voters cast their ballots in the opening primary of the 2020 race. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. Live from manchester, New Hampshire on this monday february 10th. We have a make or break moment covered on all fronds. The candidates, Amy Klobuchar, Michael Bennet. Strategists James Carville and David Plouffe. Analysts Lawrence Odonnell and al sharpton and reporters. Kasie hunt and the aps Jonathan Lemire along with joe, willie and me, msnbc contributor mike barnicle. Msnbc National Affairs analyst and cohost of showtime the the circus and editor of the recount, John Heilemann and former director of Strategic Communications for Hillary Clintons 2016 president ial campaign, Adrienne Elrod is here with us. So all right. One day left. One day left, mika, and obviously still a lot of movement going on. Whether its bernie, youve got, of course, at the top right now youve got bernie and mayor people fighting each other. Yeah. Of course, youve got sort of second here, if you believe the polls, joe biden and Elizabeth Warren battles out there but somewhere in the middle Amy Klobuchar. Somethings happening. If you look at some polls, willie that have come out, man, its she has made a late move. She has. Weve got Amy Klobuchar on the show this morning. Look at that latest boston globe tracking poll showing Bernie Sanders puppi inpullingy from democratic rivals and Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar making a move up five points as joe said after a strong debate performance friday. At 14 with joe biden and Elizabeth Warren tied at 12 . You went to an amy event last night, John Heilemann. Said it was over 1,000 people. The most intense that she had and im having people come up to me, several since weve gotten here saying, watch out for amy. Watch out for amy. Theyre hearing it. If you thought about this weekend here, the candidates that really have been on the move have been Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar and both have, all over the state, drawing big crowds. Klobuchar last night, this event in nashua, biggest crowd shes had at any Campaign Event the entire cycle. 1,100 in nashua and it was a highenergy affair. She feels it. Up know . She said, i talked to her after. Whats different between now and New Hampshire . She said, im here. In iowa, i was well, also, they count votes. Well, thats true. In New Hampshire. This is nice. Thats true. [ applause ] i like it when they do that. But shes, you know, retail politician who really felt the pain of being stuck in d. C. For the impeachment thing. Now is here on the ground with a real fingertip feel things are going her way and then Pete Buttigieg in nashua that morning turned out 1,800 people, biggest crowd in entire New Hampshire. The two running around the state with a lot of enthusiasm and moving up. Bernie sanders still in the lead but just sort of sitting there at the top. And then you got joe biden on the way down. Yeah. You know what, i dont know why people are yelling in here but i guarantee you, i do have ten nigtenitis in both ears, so and sitting here since 1972. In fact, trying to kick this guy out and its not working. So, mike, youve been here at every primary since 72. Friends with joe biden for about as long. Yeah. I know were all talking about whos going to win this thing. Yeah. But, i mean for me personally, look at the long run of the campaign, the question is, whether New Hampshire is going to finish joe bidens political career. He may stumble on to South Carolina but if he finishes fifth, fourth, or fifth, boy, its going to be hard. Even if he wins South Carolina, hes not going to have the money to go on after that. Hes got to still finish first or second, doesnt he . Here . Yeah. Well, thats not going to happen. So my necessary question thank you for walking right into the that. Yeah. So how does he survive . Tough, but its not going to happen. How does he survive . Absolutely he has to raise money. He cant do it. Going to be very difficult. Why mike, why is there this guy, you know, ill ask yall as well. Ask adrienne, too. Why cant he raise money . Why a guy in the game since 74 or so, why is he so incapable of raising money . Hes not incapable of raising money. He just cant raise the amounts of money online that people like bernie and Elizabeth Warren have raised and now Amy Klobuchar is raising. I think part of it is because of his long years of incumbency. Vice president of the United States. You sort of lose touch with the everyday reality how politics and fundraising has changed. I think thats hurt him a little. Hurt his campaign a lot. Going on to South Carolina hell have enough money to compete in South Carolina. The odds are he will win South Carolina. The odds are they will do fairly well in nevada although not at well if held a month ago. Hes been damaged by iowa and New Hampshire. Not so much by iowa, given the fact they still havent figured out how to count votes. This is different. New hampshire has finally separated from the iowa caucus which is a wonderful thing, because in New Hampshire people actually perform democracy. They get out of their homes out of their cars and go and vote. Right. Unlike iowa, where you sit there and someone offers you a snicker bar and you move to some other candidate. I dont think its quite that way, mike, even though that worked for you the one year you became an iowa resident. One of those big ones. Like donald trump, perfection or rejection. Just dont do any of that. At an event for mayor buttigieg last night, and hes got big crowds, incredible performance. Virtual wtie in iowa. Gag to our point, the extent people were talking about joe biden. There to support buttigieg. People there to see him members of the press, joe biden where is he going to finish . In third, in fourth, in fifth place potentially and what does that mean for the future of his campaign . This place is about Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders, Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren, yes, but joe biden is the backdrop of all this. To his credit, hes managed expectations a little more in New Hampshire than in iowa. Making it clear this is not a state he plans to perform well in. But i think the big question to pa what mike said, can he raise the funds necessary to stay in the race . And hes not been able to successfully raise that grass roots donations nearly all other frontrunners has been able to raise. The question, can he make it to South Carolina with the funds raised so far . If he can, he can win South Carolina then go into super tuesday with momentum. The next few weeks will be crucial for joe biden, but his campaign has pretty much all but said they dont plan to do well in New Hampshire, expecting a fourth or fifth place finish and want to move on. The tough thing about joe biden, joe, is that this state is uniquely in a way uniquely made for him to campaign in. Its campaigning in the palm of your hand. Right. You can hit three, four cities in five or six hours traveling. And you go to these events. I was at an event Early Saturday Morning on the west side of manchester. Terrific event. Scholarship breakfast for a beloved local High School English teacher, joe sullivan, and the place was packed with teachers, retired teachers, cops, firefighters. Right. Its amazing the number of people who not only like joe biden but want to like joe biden. Right. And are going to end up going with amy buttigieg. Wheres he been . A good question. Yeah. So i talked to several top new york fundraisers over the past several weeks asking the question, why cant joe raise money . Uhhuh. And they said, even this year his new york Fundraising Efforts have been just absolutely terrible, disorganized. So i ask you the same question, because its going to determine whether joe biden can move forward or not and survive another body blow here as he called it. Why hasnt he learned how to raise money . I think youll appreciate this, having been on the hilt. One of the weird curiosities of joe bidens career in the senate was that the two committees he was on for basically his whole career, Judiciary Committee and Foreign Relations committee. Committees that dont have, have a lot of lobbyist around them. Not like the Commerce Committee or finance committee. If you live on two committees where you dont have a swarm of lobbyists around you through your career, you dont make the kind of contacts in the big dollar donor world that the tax writing committees do or other but he was Vice President of the United States man nerve her to raise money as Vice President of the United States. Sat on the ticket with a guy named barack obama, the biggest fund raise gz diising dynamo. Had the same problem in 2008. Couldnt raise money then. A historic issue with him. One thing of what mike had to say a second ago about South Carolina. Hes obviously been dominant in polling in South Carolina for a year. Shown throughout a year before any votes were taken he is among this democratic field, the strongest, has had strongest support with africanamerican voters. Whether that is still the case two weeks from now, i dont think anything should make presumptions. No one should assume africanamerican votes in South Carolina are static, stay with joe biden. Not saying theyre not to, but they are watching this race carefully and there is no more sophisticationed group than africanamericans and no group more intent getting reaid of donald trump. Watching in iowa, always do, watching what happens in New Hampshire as they always do. Theyll watch whats in nevada and then make a judgment. So i dont think the Biden Campaign is or should take for granted any kind of outcome in South Carolina. They have to go to South Carolina killer and fight for every one of those votes. I wouldnt say anything is set in stoun done down there. Amy klobuchar raised 3 million since the debate, fyi. Over the weekend, the fight between former mayor Pete Buttigieg and former Vice President joe biden began heating up, bidens campaign released a new video on saturday that contrasts bidens record on national issues, with buttigiegs accomplishments as mayor of south bend, indiana. Heres part of that video. Barack obama called joe biden the best Vice President americas ever had. But Pete Buttigieg doesnt think much of the Vice President s record. Lets compare. When pret obama called on him, joe biden helped lead passage of the Affordable Care act which gave health care to 20 Million People and when parkgoers called on Pete Buttigieg he gave citizens of south bend colorfully imr ill muminated rivers. Both former Vice President joe biden and Pete Buttigieg took on fights. Threat of Nuclear Weapons with iran, joe biden helped negotiate. And for pets, lighter license regulators on pet chip scanners p. Were electing a president. What youve done matters. A tough ad. What do you think . A tough ad. I feel hes picked the wrong enemy. Again, its trump. What hes done matters and what hes able to do and connections he has. Background and experience he has could bring us back at least to stability. What do you think, mike . Theyre in the same lane right now. Joe biden think mayor pete is taking his works. I dont think that works at this stage of the Campaign Given where joe is in the race here. What is surprising, if you go to a number of these rallies and ive been to a number of them over the past month, every weekend id come up here. The striking lack of talk you hear talk about the nuclear deal. You hear talk about iran. You hear talk about the stock market, you hear talk about income inequality. Olive issued mentioned by all the candidates but very little talk about values. How you lead your life. And the way to go to donald trump to get donald trump, i would submit is you go part of your pitches got to be, think this over. You have one vote. And do you want your children, would you want your children to grow up to be liars and cheats and trimmers . Hmm. Thats who trump is. Would you want your children the values that people would live with on a daybyday basis, you dont hear them mentioned. So biden also on saturday talking to reporters dismissed buttigiegs rise in candidacy. And buttigieg hit back during an interview yesterday morning. When you get attacked youve got to respond. Ive kept my mouth shut for a long time. I havent responded at all. At all. But constant, a constant assertion that the problems that were facing today are somehow because of our administration. Thats simply not true. I get it. Hes a good guy. Hes a great mayor, but guess what . He was a mayor. Served for a president who is criticized in this very way. Nearly at this very time in the campaign. Hillary clinton said barack obama you dont have the experience to be president. He went on to be president. Is this a act of debt operation on your campaign . Oh, come on, man. You think this guys not a barack obama. He says, this is his quote hes no barack obama. Well, hes right. Im not. And neither is he. Neither is any of us, and this isnt 2008. This is 2020. This is about how were going to turn the page and deliver a Better Future in the country. Its worth pausing, guys, i think, and acknowledging where in a place, how extraordinary it is the former Vice President of the United States out of desperation in New Hampshire is attacking the former mayor of south bend, indiana, of 100,000 people. Extraordinary place for a campaign to be, but here we are. I think the other thing is, people generally like their mayor. You know . Voted for their mayor, the mayor cuts a sidewalk and a curb and puts lights under the bridge. So what Vice President biden is getting at is, you might like Pete Buttigieg. I like Pete Buttigieg, but lets look ahead to the general election. Can you see Pete Buttigieg standing on a stage with donald trump . How do you think he stacks up . Being the mayor of south bend, indiana . See if these voters behind us agree that they have questions about buttigieg. The polls now suggest, no. They like Pete Buttigieg. This isnt 1960. This isnt 1980. This isnt even 1992 where people want to see races between governors and senators. I mean, were in a strange, new era. We have, you know weve got, of course, a mayor doing very well. Won iowa, and you have reality, failed reality tv host in the white house right now. And so people are more open to shaking things up, adrienne. Yeah. Feels like a weird way for joe biden to close his argument here in N