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A dozen county chairs and strategists in the state telling "politico" warren is no longer viewed at front-runner there. they're turning the shift to new scrutiny, including attacks from rivals as well as his struggles defending her health care plan. with us two democratic strategists in south carolina, antoine sewright who worked on hilary clinton's 2018 and 2016 campaigns. in washington kristin hahn, the add siz advisor for the blue dog coalition in congress. on that point, she is concerned that the same scrutiny has not been applied to rivals on how they will pay for the health care plan. do...

>> nbc was first to report that buttigieg is going on the air with his first ads in the state. is it smart strategy for him there? >> i think he has to play there. he's not where obama was. i know that he has been trying to draw this comparison in fundraising e-mails and in public pitches as he's talking to voters between him and barack obama in 2008, and i think in a lot of ways it is a false comparison and he should be careful doing that. but i mean certainly he has to spend money in south carolina if he is going to make up lost time there. >> look, he's claimed it is a bit of -- antoine, ju...

Honest li a honestly and resources. >> part of pete buttigieg's argument is that he doesn't have enough recognition in south carolina. will ads help in that regard or is it not enough? >> i totally agree. you have to have the boots on the ground. you have to spend the time with the communities that matter, and you have to have the right message. but just as far as television buys, you have to be up on television, you know, and i think clyburn is exactly right and he knows south carolina obviously better than anybody out there. you have to be on tv as well. so i'm hoping that there's a -- as so...

Go for it. >> can i say one thing to that? >> sure. >> i know flirting with iowa and that's all good and it may be for the moment, but i will go back to old faithful, the most important state in this presidential nominating process will be south carolina. look, you will not have a better reflection i think of the temperature and the mood of our party until you goet to south carolina. actually any candidate can do well before you get to south carolina and stumble, and then that could be really the benediction to their candidacy. i will tell you i would diverse in the most diverse state early on...

Because people like medicare and you take that name and people associate certain things with it. you know, the sooner that people started to realize that that meant an almost assured tax increase on the middle class, and they could no longer keep the health care, the employer-based health care that they had, it is no surprise that it caused her numbers to plummet. >> antoine, warren is struggling nationally and dropping in two new polls. is it normal for a front-runner or should her campaign be concern right now? >> several things. i think it speaks to what i learned growing up in the ame chur...