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Why? because of her overwhelming support among african-american voters. now, bear with me, the biden scenario would have been this. hillary clinton loses those first two states to bernie sanders. the action shifts to the south. now hillary clinton is in some kind of a free fall but african-americans are not showing an inclination to bernie sanders but joe biden doing better running as the loyal, two-term vice president of barack obama, the country's first black president, the close personal friend of barack obama could beat her in south carolina, beat bernie sanders in south carolina and then ...

Judiciary committee. joining me is the writer of that piece for "new york magazine." gabriel sherman, good to have you with us. a lot of people would think the clinton campaign would have pretty much had it gamed out, thinking, okay, a scenario, b scenario, biden scenario, just typical of what a campaign would do. >> i think it's both. i mean, of course, you're running a presidential campaign. you're going to plan for potential adversaries, but i think the fact that they have commissioned operatives to start the work, they have been at it for weeks now, shows the seriousness in which hillary i...

>> well, yeah. donald trump shows up at a rally and sits down for an interview and does what no presidential candidate does, immediately starts talking about thele whos. but in this case there's a reason to do that. over the last few weeks we had seen, what looked like his national momentum stalled. maybe he hit a ceiling there. maybe he was even starting to recede a bit. that's when the questions started to come forward, geez, if we hit past-peak trump here, is there a scenario where this guy gets out rather than face indignity of losing. we have the new polls today showing him expanding his ...

Bernie sanders has hit a very responsive chord with a very progressive -- the most progressive wing of our party. when you get into urban states that have a lot of hispanics and african-americans, steve, sanders doesn't come close to clinton. >> let me bring the panel in on this. let me start with more polling numbers here. this was in quinnipiac this week. they went into three key swing states. florida, ohio, pennsylvania. they tested clinton and biden against donald trump. we now have to seriously consider that trump could be the republican nominee. they got clinton trailing by two in florid...

Hurt and mind ready to take on the tough challenge. that's not something you can mark on a calendar. >> i was reading charles crowd hammer's column, and he was quite bold, his first sentence, unless hillary clinton is indicted she is going to be the democratic nominee. i wouldn't classic charles, but what would biden scenario be, a backup, standby candidate? >> well, he wouldn't call it that. if he were to run. he would go after clinton, but i think his best chance is in effect if -- whether she is indicted or just discredited, if the weight of all the investigation and if new evidence comes o...