joining us from our studios in manchester, new hampshire ahead of tomorrow's residential -- presidential primary are a j. how do you think he has bounced back after iowa? you said he got a got punch by iowa. >> we have two neighboring from vermont and massachusetts. there is some stiff competition and we also have amy klobuchar who is rising. it's going to be a challenge but what i'm seeing is jan new hampshire that the polls are very favorable for vice president biden. host: in new hampshire in particular who does he have to reach to win tomorrow? think the undecided voters is about 40% and we really need to reach out to those folks. at this time from what i'm seeing, vice president biden is and not with elizabeth warren. we can't really tell until it's over. senator melanie levesque, joe biden supporter. we welcome your comments. (202) 748-8001 republicans. (202) 748-8000 democrats. (202) 748-8002 others. (202) 748-8003 new hampshire residents. we would love to hear from you. senator, you endorsed joe biden at the end of january. what was it about senator biden that made you come out in his favor? when i was felt that going to go to the polls, as much as i liked some of the other candidates, i felt it was going to be joe biden that i voted for and the reasoning for that is a resume is important. you have done is important. joe biden has had a very extensive career and accomplished a great deal. also surfing with one of our greatest presidents. so i felt that his experience was something we need in this critical time. candidatesber of have pointed out that new hampshire isn't necessarily the of the 50ct state states in the primary process. why is it in your view important that new hampshire lead the nation to have its primary? doesthink new hampshire have a great deal of diversity. speakf our high schools over a hundred languages and there is a lot of diversity. you just have to be where the diversity is. different functions, churches is critical to meet those folks. one of the great things about new hampshire is that it's so small that a candidate can run. they don't have to have extensive finances to run but it's a great way for people to reach out and meet people and then have their views broadcast for the nation to see. capturing they tone of the campaign in new hampshire, pressure builds for round two. susan page writing that the volatility in new hampshire escalationfueled an in political attack and counterattack during a fierce week of campaigning. happens tuesday the results are likely to signal the democratic message ahead. senator, as you look so tomorrow what is your sense of how joe biden will do? >> i'm hoping he comes in and the top four. we have neighboring states, candidates that are running. they are well-known and well-liked. host: we hear from barry in montana. independent line. good morning. >> i was calling in regard to your last speaker. where does she get off? don't have a lot of proof about republicans causing their problems. precincts was 1700 when the app didn't work and that's what was jamming the phone lines and they've got to blame somebody for their incompetence and this is what i have to say. host: we are talking about the problems that happened in iowa. the results just being finalized. senator sanders challenging those results. how confident are you in the states primary voting system? i can't speak for iowa. haven'tampshire, we excellent system that has very few points of entry for any kind or cheating on our voting. we do have paper ballots. different types of monitoring and voter systems. i feel that we are really prepared for this election. i also have a great concern about media fraud. and when different groups portray themselves to be candidates and mislead our populace similar to what happened with the russians. i feel like that is a bigger concern to not only new hampshire but to our country. we really have to scrutinize what we are reading. that in thee seeing campaign in new hampshire? >> yes. we are seeing that in the campaign. not necessarily this campaign. we have seen social media fraud. host: richard in towson, delaware. caller: good morning. biden supporter ethnically and i can tell you that -- definitely and i can tell you that without a doubt the reason the republicans are going so hammer and tongue on joe biden is because with all their money and other data mining, they know that the one guy who can take trump out is joe biden. with swiftme thing boat veterans for truth and the benghazi debacle. runner harm the front and it's really unfair. with all due respect new hampshire and iowa. talk about demographics. new hampshire and i was demographics are aligned with the pga tour. host: let me ask you, how do you think joe biden has come out of of thethe efforts impeachment. the criticisms of joe biden in ukraine. how do you think he will come out of this? back and target on his that's exactly what trump and republicans want. if i was hunter biden and joe biden i would say, they wanted hunter biden on the board namese the biden names -- stands for integrity and professionalism. host: your thoughts on how joe biden has fared. >> i think he has fared well. no matter who the candidate would be, they would have a target and they would be treated the same from our president. i find that joe biden is a very credible honest person. a man of integrity who has done so much for our country with the national cancer moonshot. helping with the revitalization of our economy when we were in recession. with the affordable care act. ande seen what he has done we should know better than to believe some of the comments that are made by our president and those that are trying to stain his name. is dan in clarksville, tennessee. know why would like to the democrats are still defending hunter biden's white privilege so much. it's almost fanatical. kind of addressed that. do you care to respond? thattually it's joe biden is running for president and again, he is a very credible man. he's a good man that has an extensive record of service to our country and i think people tend to look at that more than listen to people saying negative things that may not be true. along the lines of even social media fraud when people make up things about candidates that are not true. and we have to look at people's record. we have to look at where they've been and what they've done. host: pete buttigieg is the lead candidate just ahead of bernie sanders. the biden campaign has an ad running criticizing the experience of pete buttigieg. here's a look. >> barack obama called joe biden the best vice president americas ever had. pete buttigieg doesn't think much of the vice president's record. when president obama called on him, joe biden helped lead the passage of the affordable care to 20ich gave health care million people. when parker was called on people to he installed decorative lights under bridges, giving citizens of south bend colorfully illuminated rivers. they both have taken on tough fights. joe biden helped to negotiate the iran deal and under threat of disappearing pets, buttigieg negotiated later licensing negotiations on pet chip scanners. joe biden revitalized the economy of the midwest and led the passage and implementation of the recovery act. revitalized the sidewalks of downtown south bend by laying out decorative break. then both of them have made hard decisions. despite pressure from the nra, joe biden past the assault weapons ban through congress. then he passed the violence against women out. even when public pressure mounted against him, former mayor pete fired the first african-american police chief of south bend and then forced out the african-american fire chief, too. we are electing a president. what you've done matters. host: new hampshire senator kathy levay -- kathy levesque. you think that's a fair thing to ?ttack pete buttigieg on experience versus joe biden's experience. >> i do think it is fair. i think experience is one of the key points here. we are in a critical time in our country and if we don't understand that we need to have somebody who has experience with getting these things done, that we are going to be in a bad situation if we can't have a democrat as a president. but if we can't bring on somebody who has already known all of the leaders on the world stage, who can very quickly start attacking climate change, who can work for our health care and nothing against pete buttigieg. he is a wonderful man. he was a great mayor. but we need more than a mayor right now. we need somebody who has the vast experience. and at this time, why wouldn't we go with somebody who has experience who may choose somebody to be a vice president who is one of these passionate people running for office? we have great civil servants around our country and i think that pairing joe biden with another one of these candidates or one of our great civil servants would be a winning ticket. host: one more thing on that ad. pete buttigieg's campaign responded from the hill. at this moment the american people are crying out for something different than the classic washington style of politics. washington politics trivializes what goes on in communities like south bend. don't thinkesidents their lives are a washington politicians punchline. woodbridge.rina in katrina?id you say how are you? i'm calling to make a couple of comments. absolutely love joe biden. my only issue is that i think his train of thought sometimes and his validity in his speech doesn't give people the confidence that he is electable or it compete against trump's rhetoric. i think of course he will do a great job. let me go back. one of your callers saying that democrats are always trying to blame the republicans on various issues or suppressing votes and that's definitely happened to me maybe three times at minimum. constantly receiving robo calls or telling me that the vote is over, no need to come out. all kinds of stuff. putting things on my door saying things. it definitely happens and i did see there was an online presence of -- the republicans clogging the phone lines for the iowa caucus, they were definitely doing that. for the republicans that don't believe that, you need to do your research. that definitely happened. they were definitely clogging the phones. overall i am a democrat. i will be voting for whoever is the nominee. but i am for bernie sanders. i think him and a moderate would definitely do well. there, i'm voting and bringing tons of people with me to vote. that's katrina in virginia. melanie levesque, your thoughts. >> thank you very much for calling in. arst of all, talking about new page, we talk about that at every election. things are not going to change until we have independent redistricting, until we draw our districts fairly. so we could have a democratic president. but if we don't have a democratic house and senate or at least people that are willing to serve our country rather than look for their own power, things will always be the same. that's why i feel that joe biden would be the person who can help us flip the senate. workus keep the house and on things like redistricting. hefar as the way that presents himself, i will be honest with you. i had some concerns at the beginning as well and then i heard that he had a stutter that he overcame and then i looked at him in a totally different way. i understood that he was trying to be thoughtful when he spoke and trying to overcome the stutter. many people in our country stutter. ithas been able to overcome with his techniques. he has done so much for our country. when you meet with him one-on-one, i had an opportunity to meet with him three times one-on-one. and have conversations. and what i got from him was a man of wisdom who was a man who was a statesman who believes in decency and rather than poking shots at people, he's going to take the high road. when there is a fight that he needs to fight, much like myself, i will fight and he will fight for us. host: on the new hampshire line in salem. dave, go ahead. caller: just a couple quick comments. i'm never going to be able to understand trump followers. person seemost to a to believe the conspiracy theory more readily than what is out there as public information. what they see, what they hear. that's the one thing that really jars me. i think it's going to make it very difficult for any democratic candidate to gain any kind of footing because there seems to be such a groundswell of accepting the prescribed story. as opposedcan line to what they see, what they hear. what they should understand from history. joe, i hope he makes it. he seems like a very solid guy. i'm just afraid the media is going to tear him up. i will leave it at that. wait for your comments. host: senator levay, any thoughts? are people i have heard independence, that are republicans. they may have voted for trump the first time but they do not want to vote for him again. there are many people who see what has happened in the u.s. senate and they don't understand why our senators can't listen to reason and fight for our people and our country rather than holding onto power. so i am hopeful that people of goodwill are going to come out be voting innot hordes for our current president. the other question you had talked about was regarding -- i just lost it. host: i apologize. i lost it, too. go ahead. >> i personally feel that we as an american people are going to do the right thing. i think there's more people that are supportive then not. ask you about the trump campaign's efforts with the african-american votes. the super bowl, the pointed direct comments on the state of the union last week. the opinion piece in the wall street journal. african-americans were front and center at state of the union. what's your take on this effort by the trump campaign and the president. know that ourple president is a showman. he really have to look at what somebody's done, not just what they're telling you. he said something about what have you got to lose, try me. we are losing. people are losing and you can't just prop somebody up, a person of color to make us want to follow you. host: in new castle, delaware. caller: good morning. all of the corruption that man has committed during his 50 years that he's been down in washington and has done nothing, i mean nothing. and i'm a neighbor of his pain i know what joe biden is. he's scum. all the years that he was down he rode the wilmington railroad down to washington every day and didn't pay a dime. he is cheap and can be. and when barack obama voted for the obamacare, they took $716 billion from the elderly, from the medicare to fight for the took care and then they $700 billion out of social security and gave to the refugees. host: that is an a in delaware. mike in strongsville, ohio. caller: is just so hard to believe that you can sit there and try to say that biden didn't do anything at all when you know damn good and well that something went on there. what you're saying is you're giving him a free pass for what he did and you are not giving donald trump a free pass for what you think he did. let her respond. >> i have never met donald trump and i'm not accusing him of anything except that i want a different type of president. i have met joe biden several times. even in 2008 i met him and i've seen his track record. he is a good man and a decent man and i'm not going to let someone who's trying to muddy his name to change my views. see whatch want to and i believene joe biden has done good work for our country. in baton rouge, louisiana. caller: by support donald trump for a lot of different reasons. and i also think that he's doing a great job and i also think that he's going to be the next president of the united states thank god. i also think the democratic party left me when supporting bernie sanders and all these people with this communist stuff that's coming down the line and it's the 2030 agenda and i'm looking at the 2021 agenda. i'm looking at all of the big i just thinkon and that donald trump is the best for our country now. and i wonder what's going to happen after the four years that donald trump is not in. who's going to come behind him? keep usperson going to out of socialism and communism? the democratic party left us. young left us. so please do not come here and tell me anything different. i believe that what mr. trump is trying to do for this country and i think he's doing the best thing for this country. levesque, how does joe biden reach trump supporters and others who may not be inclined to vote for other candidates in the democratic ticket in the primary? andhank you for your call i'm sorry you feel the democratic party left you. we have a very big umbrella in the democratic party and there are very diverse thoughts. minde, i want to keep in that we are a country of democrats, republicans and independents. and we should have a president will serve all of us. toill say maybe try to go somebodye events of like vice president biden and listen to what he's saying. ask him those questions. why the democratic party left you. maybe you can come to some kind of understanding. but maybe he has heard something that he has heard before. heard thatave message. the great thing about our country is that we have the right to vote. we can persuade each other about who to vote for and what to believe in, but at the end of the day we all have that right to vote for who we choose. so if you choose our current president, that is your right. levesque, first elected to the new hampshire senate in 20 18. the first african-american elected to the new hampshire senate. joining us from our studios in manc c-span's washington journal live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up tuesday morning, we talk about the new hampshire primary with a politico reporter and the cochair for the pete buttigieg campaign. also joining us, the vice president of national nurses united to share her thoughts about the primary and the union's endorsement of senator bernie sanders. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 eastern tuesday morning. join the discussion. announcer: coming up tonight on c-span, supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg on the 100th anniversary of women's right to vote. meetingsident trump's with governors at the white house. after that, politico's solutions conference with the maryland governor. the new hampshire primary is tuesday. watch results and candidate speeches starting at 7:30 p.m. eastern on c-span, c-span.org, or listen appdom the c-span radio -- free on the c-span radio app. announcer: supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg would give the women the right to vote. at the law center. -- bader ginsburg justice ginsburg: thank you. please be seated. -- >> thanks to justice