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What is the state of the democratic race . Will the next 10 days shape this primary thele . And your reaction to results a, including in nevada yesterday. That is our starting point this sunday morning. Colin to washington dc. 202 7488001, your line for republicans. 202 7488000 for democrats. For independents, 202 7488002. You can also join us on social media at 202 7488003 with a text message, on twitter at cspanwj, facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Lets begin with the latest results from the nevada caucuses, which wrapped up yesterday. With 50 of the vote now reported officially, senator Bernie Sanders garnering nearly 47 of the vote, as followed by former Vice President joe at att over 19 , Pete Buttigieg 15. 5 percent, and Elizabeth Warren coming in fourth at 10. 3 . The numbers at the bottom of the delegate totals that will go to the county conventions across the state of nevada, and to the state convention, ultimately 36 delegates will be selected for the National Convention when the party meets in milwaukee in mid july. This is a headline from the washington post. Sanders dominates in nevada. Here is the following senator Bernie Sanders overwhelming in nevada with substantial leads in nearly every demographic group, allowing him to set down a marker in the first state with a significant share of nonwhite voters. Sanders expanded the electorate by attracting relatively large numbers of firsttime caucusgoers, providing momentum as the race shifts into a critical stretch over the next 10 days. He prevails over those with College Degrees and those without, those living in union and nonunion households, and every age group except those over the age of 65. He won more than half of the hispanic caucusgoers, almost four times as much support as joe biden, and narrowly prevailed among those who did orntify as moderates conservatives. Despite attacks on his Health Proposal by the powerful culinary union, he won in caucuses with union members. The debate will take place at 8 00 p. M. Eastern time on pbs. Onhance to listen to it live cbs. A chance to listen to it live on cspan radio. You can also see it on wednesday on the cspan networks. From last night in san antonio, texas, senator Bernie Sanders. [video clip] i am now delighted to bring you some pretty good news. [cheers and applause] know we wonof you the popular vote in iowa. [cheers and applause] we won the New Hampshire primary. [cheers and applause] networksding to three and the ap, we have now won the nevada caucus. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] [chanting bernie. ] let me thank the people of nevada for their support. [cheers and applause] in nevada, we have just put together a multigenerational, multiracial coalition, which is not only going to win in nevada, it is going to sweep this country. Host that was senator Bernie Sanders, in the san antonio texas, in san antonio, texas last night. About 30 delegates will be selected in total. Has the mostwho delegates will be the nominee, and Bernie Sanders is the front runner. Our phone lines are open, and this from the president last night as returns were coming in. Before 7 00 p. M. Eastern time he wrote the following on twitter crazy bernie is doing well in the great state of nevada. Biden and the rest look weak and mike can restart his campaign after the worst week in the history of president ial debates. Congratulations bernie, and dont let them take it away from you. Our first color, good morning. I think bernies probably not watching this, but i hope somebody that knows him will tell him what my comment is. That is he is a democraticsocialist and the reason trump and putin want him to be the nominee is because they are going to use socialist and communist every time they open their mouth. Dont let them steal your narrative. There are many, many, many countries in the world that are democraticsocialist. Name as many as you can, take the our own, and sting out of it for him to say it again. He will say it every time and try to scare people about it, and it is not communism. It is like what canada and europe and scandinavia and lots of countries, even in asia, and all around the world have. That is what he wants. Dont run from it, say it, say it, say it and take the sting out of him saying it. For the republicans, i live around a bunch of them, and if you dont check out what your president says and see how he is lying to you about us, about democrats, about other people and everything, youre just ignorant when you call in, because you dont check anything out and what you say doesnt make sense because you are spouting what he says, what you hear on fox, and so much of that well, anyways. R its a lie. Host diane, i will leave it there. From abilene, texas, one of the 14 states with a primary on march 3, in 10 days. Former press secretary contributor to barack obama with a tweet this morning westin for buttigieg, warren, and cloak which are klobuchar. Frankly, it is very hard to see, which leads us to this headline from politico. Com, the Bloomberg Campaign quietly applauding a broker convention strategy. Here are the details from politico. Com. Mike bloomberg is privately lobbying Democratic Party officials and donors aligned with his democratic opponents to flip their allegiance to him and block Bernie Sanders in the event of a brokered National Convention. The effort, largely executed by bloomberg senior state level and advisors in recent poachingparently supporters of joe biden and other moderate democrats. The outreach has involved meetings and telephone calls with supporters of biden and the buttigieg, asete well as uncommitted members in texas, oklahoma, florida, north carolina, and others. With sanders emerging as the front runner in the president ial primary, writes politico, democrats in those states have recently raised the process that the democraticsocialist could be the top of the ticket liability. It is presumptuous play for a candidate who has not yet won a delegate or even appeared on the ballot, and it could bring havoc to the convention, raising the prospect of Party Insiders that would be delivering the nomination to a billionaire over a progressive populist. That this morning from politico. Com. Julie is joining us, staten island, new york. Democrat line. Good morning. Caller good morning. Out first of all like to say i am an African American woman, and my children are all grown and of voting age and we are supporting Bernie Sanders. People say he is unelectable. I think the dnc needs to put their a year to the ground and listen to what is going on out here. I keep going back to when a president that president obama when president obama ran, and he would say yes we can. I think there are hopes for this country, and people need to stop, look, and listen. Keep their eye on bloomberg. Dont forget, he overturned term limits in new york. If you could go against the will of the people like that to suit his own needs, he will do the same thing on a national level. I think people need to support Bernie Sanders and get out there, get that vote out, and like president obama said, yes we can. You, julie. Dan is next, republican line in cleveland, ohio. Good morning. Caller good morning. How are you doing today . Host i am good. How are you . Caller im good. Im good. It is hysterical to watch the democrats nominate someone like Bernie Sanders. It is catastrophic. There are so many jobs that are available in this world, and nobody wants to work. Everybody wants everything for free. Free is not for free. It never will be for free. It is comical to watch these kids just want everything handed to them. They have to have their 500,000, 600,000 house instead of living within their means. I dont know what this world is coming to. Host we go to david in flint, michigan. David, good morning. Caller good morning. How are you today, stiviano host im fine. How are you . Caller im good. I had something happen to me yesterday i am going to be a lifelong democrat, but i have been fighting against bernie because he was fighting against tolary, and i wanted hillary win. But after listening to his speech in nevada, i am 100 behind bernie so far. I will be supporting him in anyway i can. Host this from rude politics the Trump Supporters say bernie supporters dont think. You guys are the not the enemy of nonthinking. [inaudible] from yesterdays speeches across the country, including Vice President joe biden, waking up this morning at South Carolina. Local 357 in las vegas with this. [video clip] i think we are in a position now to move on in a way that we een until this moment. [cheers and applause] i think we are going to go, we are going to win in South Carolina [cheers and applause] and then super tuesday, and we are [cheers and applause] look, i want to tell you, they stepped up at the moment, just the incredible right moment. Host from former Vice President joe biden. All of the speech is available yesterday on our website at cspan. Org. Half of the vote has come in from the nevada caucuses, Bernie Sanders, followed by joe biden, a distant second. Pete buttigieg coming in third, Elizabeth Warren coming in fourth. Ene from Washington State, independent line. Good morning. Caller thanks for taking my call. I wanted to point out a while back, Newsweek Magazine had a cover story that says, we are all socialists now. Right now, we have corporate socialism. What we need is the kind of socialism that they have in scandinavia and many other successful. At is so for example, they said people in denmark are the happiest people of any nation, and most would call them socialists. At any rate, we must focus on what is best for our people, and stop corporate socialism and give us a kind of socialism, the democratic socialism that benefits the people. Bernie sanders is proposing to do just that. I didnt support either of the candidates in the election, but Bernie Sanders really has the right program, and we just all need to get behind him and push it through, despite trump and the naysayers. So that is my opinion, and i hope everyone will get behind Bernie Sanders now, and lets have the kind of change we need in america, which is definitely to get rid of trump. Host gene, thanks for the call in Washington State. Fred with this socialism kills. Senator sanders and his campaign are based on a cult of personality, not the constitution. Sanders promises free stuff by government theft. It is immoral and destructive. President trump wants all citizens to have a job and individual freedom. Here is this from Debbie Sullivan on our Facebook Page how does bernie plan to broaden his base beyond 18 to 29yearolds . , he wont win, but even if he wins he will lose house seats and no hope of picking up any in the senate. People ought to start getting used to the words president standards, the nation is incomparable decline right now. And Time Magazine out this past week right now, the late reverend dr. Martin luther king. Lets go to mark in philadelphia. Good morning. Caller good morning, steve. Yeah, right now i am pretty agnostic as far as who i am going to support as far as a democrat, but one thing i will , i think bernie should do i might be moving a little on to the woman from texas, one of thinkirst callers i bernie should really try to kind of paint himself as kind of an extension of the new deal. Paint himself as an fdr democrat. Then, if trump and the gang start calling him a socialist and communist, bernie can come back and say hey, is fdr a communist . Socialist . That is just an idea. Thank you. Thank you for the call. More from Campaign Appearances in las vegas last night, the former mayor of south bend, buttigieg,te here is what he told supporters. [video clip] we are moving on from a battleground state with a battle on our hands. I congratulate my camp editors in the state of nevada, and i congratulate senator sanders with a strong showing today, knowing we celebrate many of the same ideals. Before we nominate senator sanders in our shot to nominate him as president , lets take a look at what is at stake for our party, our values, and those with the most to lose. There is so much on the line, and what we know for sure is that we absolutely must be donald trump must defeat donald trump and everything he represents in november. Mayor of southr bend, indiana, who came in third in the caucuses last night. David has this on our faith page i hope the establishment democrats do not steal the nomination like they did from him in 2016. The morning. Your reaction to the caucuses yesterday out west . Caller hi steve, thank you so much for cspan. It is an honor to speak to you. Excited about bernies win in the caucus. I have mailed in my ballot in washington, and i incurred everyone in Washington State to do the same. Im really excited and think this can actually happen. What people have to understand, i could i completely aligned myself with the comments that have already been made about bernie income inequality is the highest it has been since basically the gilded age, and when people say, how do we pay for these programs . It is through progressive taxation, the way we pay for everything. We pay taxes to live in a civilization. That is how we need to decide how we use those taxes. A u. S. Ly, im taking history class now, i am in college, and we learned in 1945, the single year of world war ii spending was six times the amount spent on the entire new deal, in one single year of that war. Im not saying that was a bad idea, that was a good war and the last thing i will say, i am 37 of thew, and potential electorate is younger than i am. Nearly four out of 10 voters are people that were born after the 1990s. Socialism doesnt scare them in the same way it scares people from older generations. Im sorry. People will have to get used to this. There is a new american majority coming, it is here, and i think bernie kennerly s everyone together. I am excited bernie can coalesce everyone together. Host from felicia on our Facebook Page, young folks rock. I know there are many older folks like myself, a boomer, supporting Bernie Sanders as well. Thank you all. It is time for a new america. Out with the old and in with the new. From politico. Com, sanders eviscerates conventional wisdom about why he cannot win. Joining us on the phone is my king, reporter for politico. Good sunday morning. Thank you for being with us. Guest good sunday morning. Thanks for having me. Host your reaction to the result beyond Bernie Sanders winning convincingly, what are the stories that came out of nevada yesterday . Guest we knew this would be a battle for second place heading into the caucus. We had an understanding that this was really Bernie Sanders race to lose, but now that we are looking at the results, 50 of precincts reporting and joe biden is in a comfortable second. What this does is give him a nice springboard into South Carolina, which is also his race to lose, and we understand that because of the high africanamerican population, hes got a really comfortable. Ead there you have a last stand to look at next week. With Pete Buttigieg, who still is kind of figuring out his footing with voters of color, this was a pretty decent showing for him, in third place in a more diverse state, and this might give him the leverage he needs to perform well, if not in South Carolina on the more diverse super tuesday states. Host if you hear the commentary yesterday, senator sanders has one path on the progressive line , the progressive route, and a more moderate path. I question, where does that put senatorklobuchar, warren, even tom steyer . Do they stay in the race through super tuesday . Answer tohink the that lies in how much money they are able to raise, because that is really what is going to give them the staying power that they need. Is arms of ideology, that tough question. It really depends on the whim of the voters and whether or not they can sway them away from what sanders has, huge momentum. This win in no nevada with sanders is a great opportunity to appeal to voters sure, like yes, he is a democraticsocialist, but he is best positioned to beat trump. That is an opportunity for maken and Amy Klobuchar to the same comments while chipping away at his support and trying to stall his momentum. Democraticis a version of what we saw in 2016 with the republicans . The base of the party a cigarette President Trump and canada trump and a number candidate trump and a number of others who stayed in the race . Like that, and it is an interesting storyline to see how another candidate for the democrats this time, who is not historically a member of the party, and brings this ideology that is not unique to the Democratic Party, and has been able to bring out a different level of the electorate in different groups to come vote and support him. It shows there is a growing disenfranchisement with establishment rule on both sides, and i see a similar storyline in 2016 now and 2020. Time will tell if this is sanders race, but his win in thisa and New Hampshire, is historical already, to say a democraticsocialist has taken the lead within the Democratic Party for president. Before South Carolina, there is the debate on tuesday, airing on cbs. Even Michael Bloomberg admitting that it was not his best night last week. What are you looking for . Guest well, this will give candidates another opportunity to really talk to issues that affect the demographics in South Carolina, particularly black voters. Not be a comfortable environment, i dont think, for Michael Bloomberg unless he is willing to own up a bit more to his stop and frisk policy and figure out a way to come back stronger. This is also an opportunity for someone like but joe biden like joe biden and Pete Buttigieg, who are neck and neck behind sanders, to close that gap. Host maia king, her work available at politico. Com. Nk you for being a with us this sunday. We appreciate it. Joe murphy over the weekend revealing he has a tumor on his kidney that is likely cancerous. He will be undergoing surgery, but according to doctors is expected to have a full and complete recovery. No radiation is expected. Headline new Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has a kidney tumor that is likely cancerous. Herschels joining us from cincinnati, independent line. Good morning. Caller good morning. It interesting, the color you had from politico, they missed the whole thing about the black folks plan. One of the things hillary did this deal the Democratic Party, they based it on black lives matter, which is not a black a gay,ation, but lesbian, bisexual, Transgender Organization at its root. What trump has done is he has in africa, he has had an effective policy where obama didnt, who supported gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender. He put in opportunity zones in all of the democrats and Congressional Black Caucus mixed missed it. Oft year was the celebration 400 years of African Americans in america. Because trump signed that law that was passed by congress, but you didnt hear about that. Now who has a black folks plan in the democratic side of the ticket . You know bernie ok he doesnt, ok . You know that pete doesnt. They came out with this Little Douglas plan, not even acknowledging that douglass was a republican, a founding, radical republican. As an independent who has voted democratic all his adult life, looking at it going into this, thatnow, the unique thing we have in this is that black folks do not have a plan. The Democratic Party as a caucus, the black congressional caucus, does not have a black folks plan. Int this is from don atlanta. We are witnessing the decline of the american experiment. Remember america, our leaders are the reflection of us, not another way around. Bernie sanders is a symptom of a declining society. The radicala, and societies will wait to mop up what hasnt happened yet. God bless america. Story available from nytimes. Com, Bernie Sanders runs nevada. Is he unstoppable . With Bernie Sanders romping in nevada, we have to come to be inserted candidate. Armored against normal Political Forces and equipped with a passionate following, leads the field of more conventional party politicians. His early state successes have given him a clear path to a plurality of the pledged Convention Delegates and his rivals are dividing the votes that might derail him. What remains of the Party Establishment day by day proves itself irrelevant. Democratic party, no less than the Republican Party, looks like a derelict shift awaiting capture by a band of pirates. The center of the establishment, no less than its gop counterpart, seems old and exhausted, promising to mildly reformist that is that it portionand a motivated of it cards to be too decadent regards to be too decadent to be worth preserving. Delegaterats apportionment rules do make a contested convention more likely, but bernie is better light by most democrats than President Trump was by republicans at this stage. My bet is that history will repeat itself. A world where sanders is on track to get a clear delegate plurality in march means he gets a majority by may, meaning the long game of delegate accumulation is probably irrelevant, and the only question is whether it is possible to unite a not sanders vote across the first three tuesdays in march. That from the New York Times. Lets get back to your phone calls. M do in panama michigan from do win, michigan, mike. As ar i want to chime in predominantly republican voter for years, i will be voting for bernie if he is the nominee. If you take a look at medicare for all, try to imagine, folks, the magnitude of the tax cuts that corporations would get if they did not have to provide Health Insurance for all of their employees. Know, trump talks about the level of growth we might experience here in the near term with his policies think of the amount of jobs that would come back to the United States of america from international economies, back into our realm here. For is why i will be voting bernie. I think you will experience unbelievable economic growth, provided these corporations do not have to provide Health Insurance for their folks and in turn people would feel incredibly empowered. I cannot imagine the amount of positive societal effects that that would have on everybody as well. Tople would not be tied their jobs, just because they have to have their Health Insurance benefits. Host thank you for the call. This is joe from highland, new york, saying vote blue, no matter who. A sandersabrams ticket would dump trump. As joe says, love cspan. We love you. Thank you so much. David says, this has to be the craziest democrat day for the communist movement. Communist Bernie Sanders will fall hard. Listen to the crazy phone calls. Front page of the New York Times in a show of might, sanders women nevada winning nevada and doing so convincingly. Democraticext on the line. Good morning. You are part of super tuesday on march 3. Are you going to vote . Caller of course im going to vote. It is the american thing to do. Host who is your candidate . Caller there is no crying in baseball, first of all. Bernie sanders is so far the best deal. Donald trump, he is so far on we need someone to replace the center deal. All you young people who vote for Bernie Sanders, remember, Bernie Sanders is an independent. He is not a socialist. He is an independent. You are all sitting around doing nothing, this move for Bernie Sanders to give you free college, give you free education. Bernie sanders is independent. Hes not a democrat. That is the basics. You are going right still. Donald trump way out in right field. He is so far out in right field he probably stumbled over his own seat. Host so who is your candidate . Caller im going to vote for joe biden. Anita, whois from says its sad so Many Americans have no idea what this means. Bernie wraps up socialism like a shiny new toy instead of the reality. If you want a fundamental change, america, move out. Margaret, independent line. Good morning. Caller good morning to you, steve. Others a couple of things i want theres a couple of things i want to talk about compared to the earlier colors. Not all of the people who vote for Bernie Sanders are young. I was 92 last month. Host happy birthday. Caller yes, thank you. I have voted ever since i was old enough to vote. I am an independent, but im voting most of the time with the democrats. In thatoray for bernie, the dnc, the corporate democrats, and the Corporate Media have been against him from the beginning. They are already bad mouthing him. They say, we want someone who can appeal to all. Bernie appealed to in nevada. He appealed to all these people across the spectrum, no matter who and what they are. These people that talk about socialism and communism, i dont believe they could define the term if you asked them, what is communism and what is socialism. They forget that these economic ms, just as capitalism is capitalism is not democracy. Capitalism is an economic term. Democracy is a political term. I did not know why people do not simply understand that, that a Political Party, no matter what pe theythey are stri are, can use economic measures to make a society that is better for all of us. As far as the health care, which in maine is a great issue people say, look how much it will cost us. When you dont have to pay these huge amounts to insurance agencies, when you are not paying all of these hospital bill, getting a surprise of 57,000 for a couple of youts in a hospital, when dont have to pay that, people can pay a bit more in their taxes and make it more equitable for all of us and it will cover all of us. Host margaret, it is great to hear from you. Happy 92nd birthday, and we wish you many more. Caller thank you. I have a cold and i know you have a lot of other people to talk to, so once again, go bernie, go. Host this is from michael, saying he appeals to the idealism of the young. Empathetic, the lazy and the gullible, come along for the ride. The surge of sanders giving some democrats some down ballot jailers. This from senator Elizabeth Warren, who came in fourth last night in the nevada caucuses. [video clip] before we get started, i have a word tonight for nevada thank you for keeping me in the fight. [cheers and applause] the race has been called. Bernie has won. Congratulations, bernie. I want to tell you Something Else thats going on since wednesday night [cheers and applause] since wednesday night our support has been growing everywhere. Ance i stepped on that stage, quarter of a Million People have gone to elizabethwar ren. Com and pitched in their 25 bucks. In three days, people have contributed 9 million to this campaign. [cheers and applause] so join them. Beto elizabethwarren. Com, part of this fight. That is how we are going to get this done. Gohave a lot of states to and right now, i can feel the momentum. So lets stay in the fight. Host from senator Elizabeth Warren, who came in fourth in New Hampshire, and in the nevada caucuses. The week from today is the South Carolina primary. We will have the results of the candidate speeches again we have evening, as been throughout the primary season. The one network showing you the speeches in their entirety as they come in. Rob is joining us in missouri, good morning, rob. Caller good morning. I really hope in 20 that americans would focus less on politics and more on policy, and by that i mean they would look at their bank account, whether their family has Health Insurance or not, whether their kids are going to have enough money for education, whether they themselves have outstanding Student Loan Debt they can no that if we i think do that as a nation, as a people , we will make the right decision as to who our next. Resident will be we talk about jobs and the stock market under trump, but yesterday i read that 32 of minorities are doing worse than they have ever been because they dont not even have three months worth of savings or dont have any Health Insurance or things like that. Because ajob numbers seven dollar to 10 an hour job is not going to help you pay your bills. Americans will benefit from Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren presidencies because of their Student Loans, portion or all of it will be paid off, many millions more will benefit from Health Insurance that they no longer have i dont have Health Insurance right now. Im one catastrophic medical event away from being completely in 2020 thati wish we are going to vote smart and not just vote a strong politics, because that will let leaders know where we are. Have a great day. Ted in missouri has this on our text message bernie is strong and will be trump beat trump. We already have socials socialist programs, roads, fire medicare. , education, production trump wont debate. Appearing on face the nation this morning, former Vice President joe biden assessing the race in an interview that took waste before the results that were finalized in nevada. Here is a portion of that conversation with margaret brennan. [video clip] early entrance polls are showing Bernie Sanders has a strong need here. Fact, this is a diverse state. You have talked a lot about relying on minority votes as being a key to your success. What is happening . They also said i am way ahead of africanamerican voters here in early polling. Go io knows what it is you feel good about where we are. I feel good about going into South Carolina, and about the support i have with africanamericans around the country. Towhat does this indicate you . You were pretty confident in the past that you could pull off a win there. I just told you, the exit polls you just cited also say i am winning by 15 or 20 with the africanamerican vote here. Here in nevada. , sameSouth Carolina thing. Are you confident you can win this . Yes i am. Host that is one of the many programs we host beginning at noon eastern, beginning with meet the press. We have the next debate on tuesday evening in charleston, South Carolina. You can listen to it live on cspan radio, beginning at 8 00 a. M. Eastern time. 8 00 p. M. Eastern time. Inside the New York Times in a show of might, sanders becomes the clear front runner and sanders, the teflon candidate, facing new tests as the front runner. Vin sheekey, the Campaign Manager for the michael Bloomberg Campaign issuing a statement as follows the nevada results reinforce the reality that the fragmented field is putting Bernie Sanders on pace to amass an insurmountable delegate lead. This is a candidate who just declared war on the socalled democratic establishment. Andill need independents republicans to defeat trump. Attacking your party is no way to get started. As mike says, if we appeal to a candidate that appeals to a based like senator sanders, it will be a fatal error. Mike joining us in charlotte, South Carolina. Good morning. Caller good morning. Two points,ke because i have been waiting six months to make this call. This political election we are going through is a [inaudible] we, the young folks, all have Student Loans. [inaudible] for bernie and i did it the last time for bernie with hillary, then i did it for hillary. But how can it be that you as an individual have Health Insurance from your job, but we get a bill for 8,000, 9,000 after the insurance pays its 15,000 . I am paying that. I have Student Loans im paying. Im not voting for bernie to pay off my Student Loans or pay off my wifes medical bills. It is my responsibility, because i cant afford it. I joined the military to pay my Student Loans, but we need this country for the next generation behind us. Host thanks for the call. From perry in florida, saying the saddest part will be losing an election over policies that cannot possibly pass. Only biden can win. This headline, down ballot continue within the Democratic Party. As senator sanders builds what could eventually be at an insurmountable delegate lead, many are approaching a shift in their campaigns as they recalibrate to promote capitalism and distance themselves from the national party. Top Campaign Strategists from both parties view sanders suc cess as a potentially tectonic event which could narrow the parties already slim hope of retaking the Senate Majority and fueled will be dreams every claiming the house, which it lost after a democratic romp in 2018. Victory inhatic saturdays nevadas caucuses, sanders has won two of the first three contests and lost the third, the Iowa Caucuses, in a squeaker. He also holds lead in polls in many of the super tuesday states that vote smart third, and sanders power had to turn out young and bluecollar voters or suburbanites is not fully tested. Joining us from grand forks, north dakota, another super tuesday state on march 3. Ello, jim caller things are going well here in north dakota. I want to say, i grew up in pennsylvania. I want to go i used to go to vermont all the time, would go skiing, and it is a paradise of there. It is the whitest state in the union, 98 white. That is why bernie with th ere. Leftists are drawn to conclaves because that is where their fairytales work. Bernie would always tout nordic countries. Explain if that would be called racist or not, because they are touting modernist nordic nations as an ideal that we should follow. One person called about denmark being the happiest place on earth, according to polls. There was a 60 minutes segment about that 20 years ago, i still remember that, and because at the time denmark was a small population of a few million, totally 100 and homogenous, and develop and they did these wonderful socialist utopias, but because of their homogenousness. The foundation of trust. That is changing with the modernization of denmark. Stockholm is the rate capital of the west. Thece with their problem, stupidity of bringing in all those refugees. They are ruining that. Here is the thing i want to point out. Bernie is living in a microcosm of denmark. Vermont, if anyone has ever been there, it is like you are in bavaria. It is almost a 100 white little place filled with a bunch of all the hippies bunch of balding hippies. This fairytale stuff works there. If you are member robert putnam, the harvard professor had a a on the ethnic population. He is a liberal and tried to hold back his findings, but he ended up showing that one of the main pieces of Ethnic Diversity for the communitys trust, a lost of trust and cultural cohesion. It works inld vermont because theres trust. America is a diverse nation of 300 31 Million People, and the socialist type of new england denmark nordic policies, they are not going to work in a diverse nation with 5, 6 million different ethnic groups becoming more and more racially conscious going in five different directions. Host we will leave it there. While you are making those comments, jim has this denmark has a population of less than 6 million and high tax rates. You can send us a tweet or a text message, just we ask that you tell us your name and where you are tweeting from. Steyer, who spent up to 15 million in the nevada caucuses in advance of yesterdays voting , coming in with a fifth place. Amy klobuchar coming in sixth. Heres what Amy Klobuchar told constituents in las vegas. [video clip] i think we are going to have a good night tonight. I think this is the start of us moving up. I think we are going to have a good night tonight. I think we are going to have a good night next saturday in South Carolina. I think what we are going to see is, as we get into diverse america, we do better and better and better. That is where we are going. Start. The im really, really proud of what happened in nevada. Im really thrilled at what we did together. I believe more strongly than ever in what we are fighting for. I really do. Why we are the answer to the democratic question of who can beat trump. Host that is from billionaire tom steyer, one of the democratic president ial candidates in las vegas last night. This is bill from Northern California on 59, and am very excited at how well bernie is doing. Been wanting a candidate like him since the 1970s. The ap declaring the vermont running the independent garnering anation large portion of the vote. Second, Pete Buttigieg is third, Elizabeth Warren is still worth fourth, prefixs is with 50 reporting in nevada. Connie, independent line. Good morning. Caller good morning. I would like to echo the comment you read from a person in california i am older than the 18 to 35yearold generation , but i have supported bernie since i saw him launch his candidacy in 2015. People,ant to say to and i think it is mostly older people, people who are boomers were older than boomers who keep saying things like oh, all the young kids want free stuff i go back to Elizabeth Warrens comments. She is a bloomer. When she went to community college, i believe it cost her Something Like 50 a semester or Something Like that. When you say young people want free college, they just want the boomersvantage that had, which was that college was very, very inexpensive and you could afford college by living on your own, working a parttime and still afford college. We cant do that anymore because of the reagan revolution. When all those boomers got to be yuppies and voted reagan in, they started charging College Tuition at exorbitant rates and it has gone up since then. When corporations got all the tax breaks instead of the working class and middle class people in the 1980s when i was growing up, this is the comeuppance that you get. It is called karma. What goes around comes around, and i am very happy for bernie. Host connie from florida. With this, tom steyer will and his run on the night of super tuesday and endorse perhaps bloomberg, but he could endorse bernie would be odd. Frank is joining us from delaware, the couple can line republican line. Caller i would like to comment on the lady at just called, about the people who want free stuff . It is. They do want the free stuff. But they got to realize that these professors in all these colleges who are democrats are making 100 50,000, 200,000 a year got to make some money. You have to understand that. As far as Bernie Sanders goes, and the democrats, do you want to give all these people your money . Everything you worked for all your life, youve earned it, and they spend it the way they want to spend it not the way you want to spend it. The way they want to spend it. If that is what you want, i hope you dont get it. Host linda is next from florida. Good morning. Caller i want to put a plug for cspan 1, 2, and three. That athem all and wish lot of people that called in that dont have good information and factual information, there is where you get the history of everything so you can have the right talking points. Listen i am so happy in my heart, and it is because i think bernie needs to run with the , whoarold lady from texas gave an awesome education to aboutwho dont know socialism, democracy, theocracy and all that. I am a baby boomer and a bernie girl. Not one of those nasty terms, but my 84yearold father will because weor bernie cant wait for change. This stepbystep change from is going to move us a little bit more towards the goal post. We need to go through the end zone and bernie is going to take us there. I am in full force and my family with him. My kids who are in college are with him. I want to let you all know, dont be stirred by the fear that the people tell you, that they are going to take your money away. They are going to give me something back, because my insurance wont be so high. I practice socialism when the cops come to the door or if there is a fireman that comes. We love the ladies from texas, keep us encouraged. Thank you, linda. We appreciate the call. We will go to patrick, north carolina. Good morning. Caller you have to respect Bernie Sanders. He is running a Good Campaign here. I voted for donald trump, but you know, bernie does make some good valid points. You know, the health care, bringing it down, the bringing the drug prices down. Trump really hasnt done nothing on drug prices for three years. His type of, corporate socialism that he has been espousing to, giving 80 billion to farmers, this mucked up trade deal with china deep down, i do not think trump leaves in pure, free market type of adam smith markets. You take a look at bernie, bernie will put the brakes on the big bank giveaways, the money that goes to wall street, and bring it back to the working class. Trump failed us on infrastructure. And votinggoing down for bernie on tuesday. I can cross the ticket on tuesday. Host thank you for the call. Jody has this bloomberg will be the shooting star of the democratic primary, burnt up to a cinder with all that advertising money. He might have gotten my vote if he filled americas food pantries with it. Billionaires just dont get it. This is a headline from the Las Vegas Review journal, Bernie Sanders taking a national lead. Josephines, myrtle beach, South Carolina. Good morning. Caller good morning. The reason i am voting for bernie, most of the problems americans faced today are caused by the corporate influence on our senators and congressmen because they contribute most of the money for the campaigns and end up writing the same bills that are passed for their benefit more than ours. Americanse, most today maybe they are working more, but they have to work two jobs to support themselves. When i was a child, most mothers could stay home and one job of the father supported the family. Now a lot of the companies dont give you health care. They will give you a job, but without the cost of health care because it is so high. Why . The pharmaceutical companies are charging us three times more whatever than other countries. Number two, the Insurance Companies are biting a big trough it out of our health care profit out of our health care, and that is why costs are high. The other thing is this health care. All the other candidates are copying his idea of universal health care, but they are saying, you can have your choice. Keep your own or go with universal health care it wont work that way. The only way universal Health Care Works is if everybody contributes and there is a bigger pot of money, which will support all the costs after he brings the costs down. Where is the money going to come from . He made it very clear people are making a fortune on the stock market and do not pay as much taxes as people who are working for their income. Hes going to raise that. He is also going to raise the tax that billionaires pay, which is something that is absolutely necessary. When i was a kid i am 74 Elvis Presley used to make millions, but paid 90 of his millions because most people get. Nder 5,000 a year for so many reasons, bernie talks to the needs of the many. When i was in school, college was very cheap, like that lady said, maybe 500. Now colleges 40,000 a year . What average family can pay that kind of money . ,e hits that problem medical if you cant pay for a heart operation, they can take your house away. Host we have to stop you there, because we have one more color and a lot to get to, but thank you for the call. The next primary on saturday, this is the headline from the state newspaper, the largest South Carolina newspaper 2020 hopefuls spending more than 70. 6 million so far in ads million so far in ads across South Carolina. Carl is joining us, you get the last word in this segment, from oxford, massachusetts. Democrat line. Caller good morning. Thank you for cspan. I would like to say to the Trump Supporters out there, Bernie Sanders is the only candidate that will have any respect for you. He will listen to you. Democrat or republican, he is the only one who is going to respect you. All the people complaining about socialism, i will be more than happy, if you turn over your Social Security checks over to me. That is all i have to say. Thank you so much. Host a reminder, newsmakers follows the washington journal. Murtaugh will be joining us, Communications Director for the trumppence ticket, and democratic r. Weegist lauren bae talk about the president s tweeting habits and whether that is a turnoff for some voters. Here is part of that conversation. [video clip] look at roger stone, another Campaign Aide going to jail. Ven supporters of the areident saying the tweets divisive and dividing the country. What do you tell the voter that says ingvar good, but i do not want four more years of this . I think that will matter on who the democratic now many is democratic nominee is. I have seen the polling. This country is split right now. It is split between 46 of people who are going to vote for democrats, no matter who the nominee is, and i think that number could come down if they nominate bernie or somebody like that, and the other the numbers are Something Like 36 will vote for the president on matter what. Then there is 13 that love his policies and are willing to vote but may havedent reservations about things like you have mentioned. The task for the party is to go and talk to the 13 and say look, the results that you see right now are not guaranteed to continue. Democrats are putting up a socialist, the economy will go in a complete opposite direction. That is what this goes down to. Comes down to. I am not denying it exists, i have seen it. But there is a case to be made and a path forward to ensure that these results continue on. The president will stop tweeting. I really do not. William barrs comment, i think this showed that the people who gained the president stressed critical. That was a good thing. Maybe the president will tweet a little less about what is going on in the department of justice because of that, but he has not. You are not going to stop the president s tweeting. There is an asset to it. The upside is he communicates with people in realtime. You take the good and the bad. Those of us in the conservative policy movement need to make sure host tim murtaugh is our guest chapman will be our guest on newsmakers. We want to welcome tim murtaugh. Your reaction, the results from nevada . Socialism government carried the day. The frontders was runner on the democrat side. All of the democrat candidates since the middle of last year have been debating bernies issues. He has been the intellectual thought leader and set the pace as far as the issues that all of the democrats are required to run on. Which it does not matter one becomes the nominee because bernie has set with the agenda is. Whoever the successful candidate arewe know what the issues that that candidate will be running on and it is thanks to bernie. As we have seen over and over. They have had 47 to beats debates and they are always debating bernies issues. They wille nominee, debate on a government takeover of the health care system, the border policy, the green new deal, getting rid of the fossil fuel industry, oil, natural gas, and coal, and the 10 million jobs that go with that. That is the democratic agenda. It does not matter to us who the democratic nominee is. Night, President Trump said, it looks like crazy bernie is doing well in nevada. Said, dont let them take it away from you. Guest i think he is making the observation that there are signs that the democratic best tablet schmidt comfortable with Bernie Sanders. We saw with 2016, bernie supporters fully believe the nominee was taken from him and there is plenty of evidence to suggest people are gearing up to do that to him again. Aboutc having discussions super get superdelegates, and that would be a way for democrats to move in against Bernie Sanders. Things like the Des Moines Register poll, right before the Iowa Caucuses, which was going to show bernie with a lead to getting spiked mysteriously before the caucuses. All the various shenanigans that went on with the Iowa Caucuses that ended up with bernie having a victory lap. Hillary clinton coming out forcefully against him. Very publicly saying nobody likes bernie. If you are Bernie Sanders and you are one of his supporters, you do not have to be a conspiracy theorist to think maybe the democratic establishment is up to be against him for the nomination. You are seeing a lot of stories in the news about the democratic establishment being uncomfortable with that. When the president tweets like that, i think he is just making an observation about all of the things that are apparent for regular people to see. Senator sanders was in san antonio, texas. We will have that in a moment. Peopleasically saying hate we do have it. Bernie sanders the American People are sick and tired of a president who lies all of the time. They are sick and tired of a corrupt administration. They are sick and tired of a president who is undermining american democracy. Who thinks he is above the law. And who apparently has ever read the constitution in this country. On thewhat is going on democrat side is this is a nomination process being run by the extreme left fringe of the Democratic Party. That is the audience bernie is speaking to there. These are the facts on the ground as we know them to be. The president has these rallies which we do on the campaign trail week after week, and they are very successful. We know who they are that register for tickets for those. And state tocity state, about 25 of people who register for tickets for President Trump has his rallies, they are identifiable as or democrats. A lot of them did not vote in 2016. These are new voters and fully a quarter of them state to state and city to city are independents or democrats. The president is expanding the pool of people who are supporting his reelection. Democrats and the media like to make themselves feel better by talking about how the president is preaching to the choir and always talking to his base and perhaps they think his base is shrinking. Not so. His popularity is growing. His clear record of accomplishment is attracting new voters. Bernie sanders can preach to his choir if he wants to but we know what reality is. Ost our guest is tim murtaugh phone lines are open. 202 7488001 four republicans. 202 7488000 for democrats. We also have a line for independents. Let me ask you a question i know you have heard many times. This gets to one of the issues you would and the president will have to address in the campaign. He will go on a twoday trip, saying there will be 10 million ple for a campaign route rally for him. My question is, why the need to constantly embellish . It gets to the point that the president has a tendency of embellishing the facts. Guest i do not know if that is embellishing. The capacity of the arena is but there are many magnitudes of thousands of people outside who do not get in. Perhaps that is what he is talking about. Of 5 he is going to a town million and the rally is 20,000 people but he said repeatedly that there will be 20 Million People there. Guest people can travel. In the United States, not from the immediate metro area. A nation of many hundreds of millions of people. I dont suppose that just because his surrounding communities 5 million that that is all they are drawing from. Host how big of a challenge with the president s tweets . He communicates directly with the American People. He has 73 million twitter followers. He is able to communicate directly with and it is very effective. We have data inside the campaign that shows when there are people who hear from the president himself and not filtered through the news media, people respond much more favorably to the president s record, his proposals, and his messages. Twitter is a way for him to go straight to the people. I know the media likes to write stories about this because when he tweets, it is outside of the media control to shape the narrative. The only thing there left to do is tweet. When you see this headline, the president making 16,241 false or misleading claims in his first three years, is that headline accurate or inaccurate . Guest i think the Fact Checkers at washington post, cnn, and elsewhere, see it as their duty to be cardcarrying opponents of the president. What they say does not concern us. Host from kentucky, good morning, republican line. Thank you for taking my call. I would like to speak about the tweeting first. I voted for trump. Im a 200 trump are. Trumper. , it did fortweets quite a while. Am not a tweeter i had to overcome that because raw even, i love as it isore raw for me for some of the other people, that maybe they take the and i have thought a lot about blowing up the white house, get in their face. Those ares of things ,robably more irritating to us and i do like the way the president says thank you. Hear every civil time that people support the president because he tells it like it is. People tell us this is a president who says out loud the things they themselves are thinking. I think a lot of that is borne out in his tweets and the things he says at rallies. I do not think you will find too many people in the country, maybe half a dozen, who dont already have their opinions of donald trump well cemented. We know this president is in a much stronger and far better position today than he was on election day 2016. If you look at the real clear politics polling average going back to 2016, on election day of 2016, his favorability rating was 37. 5 on average. The rcp polling average. He won that day. 37. 5 Approval Rating. Today, it is 46 . The day hetter than was elected quach or years ago. I know that scares democrats to death and that is why you see Bernie Sanders and democrats leading with bombast when they make their Election Night speeches like last night in nevada. Bernie was in texas. This president was in a far better position today than he was in 2016 and everyone knows it. Our guest is tim murtaugh. You understand pennsylvania politics. Why is it such a battleground state . It is to states in one. Urban areas and more rural areas. The rural areas in the center part of the state, that is Something Else. It will always be a battleground state. It is tough. When i worked with the congressman in 2016 during the president ss first campaign, lou kept saying dont worry about this. He was the cochairman of the election in pennsylvania. He said im telling everybody that trump will win pennsylvania. This was at a time where the National News media and the local media and a lot of republicans in washington were convinced Hillary Clinton would be the next president of the United States. He kept saying no, he will win and that will seal the deal. The president called the two of them thunder and lightning and he was right. Now that we go back to pennsylvania and other states that have similar concerns to pennsylvania, it is a working class state. We have an excellent story to tell. The president s record argues tremendously for reelection. He made a lot of promises to people who are hard workers and people who carry a lunchbox to saying ion members, will bring construction and manufacturing jobs back. Thee jobs disappeared over obama years and president obama famously said you would need a magic wand to get those back. President trump must have found it because those jobs are back. Battleground or not, President Trump will win pennsylvania again. Host glenn, pennsylvania line. Caller good morning. There are about four commercials out, that they only show one time and then they ditch them. One of them had him coming through the doors, where the president is coming through the doris with right lights behind , and you have two generals standing there at the podium. Through their like he is god. When we willg start changing the religion once this guy gets in again. We have got to get him out of there. Everybody just keeps going on with this going along with his lies. Sons put up ahead on the spikes when they were talking. When congress had a half hour or 45 minute break coming down the hall, there were two of them , anyoneabout trump voting against him on this there were 100,000 waiting to go against him. I am not exactly sure which advertisement he is talking about. Bulk of our advertising has been to tout the president s is positive record of accomplishment. Is on the vastly improved economy. We have the best economy in 50 years. Unemployment nationwide is at its lowest point in 50 years. For just about any demographic of the citizenry, it is at an alltime low unemployment, talking about unemployment rates for women, blacks, latinos, asians, and veterans. All of those groups have seen alltime low unemployment rates. Those are the kinds of things we highlight in our Television Advertising and more specifically for an ad that aired more than once, in the super bowl. If aegis Alice Johnson in our super bowl ad, and she was a person who had her sentence commuted by President Trump. She was in prison for a nonviolent drug offense. She signed the first step act. Giving people a second chance, those are the sorts of things that highlight advertising. It argues strongly for the president ss election. I want to read part of this and get your reaction. In some of the most critical corners of the trump administration, officials show it to work now never entirely sure whether or not they will be there at the end of the ed the evening. An administration that has been a revolving door since seat since day one. At a moment when firstterm president s are typically seeking a stable team to focus on reelection, President Trump has embarked on a systematic attempt to sweep out officials perceived to be disloyal. A replacement by a sharp partisan it a missed and a dispute over interference. Ofluding perhaps even that attorney general william barr. Dozens of policy experts have been cleared out of the National Security staff. The official at the Defense Department was shown the door. The office of president ial freeze onordered a all political appointments across the government. I have known peter for a long time. I think, with all due respect to peter, we are about political appointees, that every single president and administration gets to make. Any president has the right, and the expectation is that people he appoints to these jobs actually agree with him. Host he has the highest turnover of any modern president. Guest these are people who serve at will and the president can make changes as cc fit and that is what he is doing. The New York Times has a interest, a vested in trying to create the impression of turmoil where none exists. With all due respect to peter in the New York Times, this is talking to political appointees in the administration and every president in every administration gets to decide who the important is are. You want them to agree with your point of view. Difficults having a time finding replacements knowing that if youre disloyal to the president you are out the door . Guest i do not think so. I worked for two years for secretary of sonny perdue at the department of agriculture and we had a very strong and impressive cast of legal and pointys political appointees. We all knew that we served the president of the United States. I was oh impressed with my. Ounterparts i met i was always very impressed with the people i worked with and still work with who work with the president. And very strong professional team. These are political appointments. I do not know why anyone would expect the president to surround himself with people who have a different view of the direction of the american government. That is silly. No one would ever expect someone like barack obama who disagreed. That is silly. This program is carried live every sunday morning. To our viewers in great written, good afternoon to you. Kevin is joining us. Good morning. Caller my question is this. What are we doing to take the house back . In new jersey, all of the people running in 2018 distanced themselves from donald trump. All but two lost. That does not make sense. The Republican Party in new jersey, if they do not get all of these representatives back, they should be fired. I do not know how it goes around the country but i know it new jersey, in these town halls, the democrats plant people to harass the republican candidates. Host is there a path from your mind in your mind for the democrats to lose the house . Guest certainly. Getting the house back is certainly one thing we anticipate that is extremely possible and in fact likely. 2016 versus 2018, one president , house districts that , althoughied President Trump did better in ending, weidterm know that there were almost 9 whoion people nationwide voted in 2018 one President Trump was on the ballot, and did not vote in 2018 and stayed home. That contributed to the house seats we lost. We know who the 9 million voters are. They are nationwide. Main contact with them and we know who they are. They are trump voters and will be back. President trump will be on the ballot again in 2020 for his reelection. Willhe is reelected, we win back a lot of house seats. Yes, taking back the house of representatives is on the tape for us. House, to win the white retain the senate, and get the house back. Had respect to the rally we a new jersey that the caller mentioned for a congressman, Party Switcher who switched from the democrat to the Republican Party as the result of a an impeachment and the frustration with the way the Democratic Party was handling things, that was a show of support for the congressman and we think the fact that he switched from democrat to republican, we think he represents exactly what millions of americans at ross the country are feeling, their frustration with the Democratic Party, which has been completely obsessed with impeaching and getting rid of this president , overturning the 2016 election and interfering in the election from today. 5 months he embodies what a lot of democrats across the country are feeling, and that is why we believe, we see it, more independents and democrats are coming to the president s camp. The president will win a bigger victory in 2020 the first then the first time around. Host when you saw the speaker of the house repurposed it of the union address, were you thinking, we will see this in an ad . Guest you will probably see that from time to time, yes. That was from a threeyear quest to overturn an withe with the 20 the election. They told the American People that President Trump was a in the russian asset white house. They set it for two years. The most convenient excuse it was the culmination of that and through the course of it and through the efforts and the course of three years before he took the oath of office and before he became president , that will go down. That will go down as the greatest miscalculation in american political history. Host can President Trump work with her in a second term . Guest the battle is over ideas. I your ideas are superior, think if there is a democratic speaker of the house, that person will have no choice but to work with the president because people will have demanded it to be so. I do think it is extremely likely that people will refer to nancy pelosi as the former speaker of the house. Two pennsylvania on the democratic line. Caller i cannot believe that your guest has not spouted off about from getting 63 million votes. Got 66 million votes and is not in the white house. The people, the 66 million who bootheel her, have the of fascism on their throats for the last three years. I would also like to comment that manufacturing in this country is back to 2009 levels. He does not have much of a record to run on. Reference tos a versus the vote Electoral College. Often when democrats lose, they want to change the rules, to do away with the Electoral College when it does not suit them, add to the United States Supreme Court when it does not suit them. With the truly elected a president based on the popular vote alone, it would change the way you campaign. The president has said that many times and it is just common sense. The president and republicans, anybody would have a lot more in new york, to campaign in those places almost exclusively. That is the reason why Electoral College exists. It is amusing for us. Look what happened with Iowa Caucuses where Pete Buttigieg came out and declared victory before anyone knew. As we sit here, there has not been a final tally actually announced and certified in iowa a couple of weeks later. Pete buttigieg ran out of town and said i won iowa because he got one more delve it delegate than bernie did. It is declaring victory in iowas state version in its own Electoral College. Hesuits Pete Buttigieg when was the victor. The next day, he would tell you we need to get rid of the Electoral College because it is unfair. When people complain about this, you have to look at who actually won under the system and find out why they are complaining. Host kathleen in florida, republican line, good morning. Caller for sure, four more years of donald. Hear,e thing i never bernie or any of the socialist prone people to talk about, is what happened happens when the american doctors and dentists and so forth refused to be a part of the socialist system . Is exactlyink that right. Health care will be a big issue in this upcoming election. The president ss approach is working. It is a free marketbased approach to health care. We are talking about lower costs, more choice, and better care stop better care. He has added more and better providers, shortterm limited to range arrangement policies prescriptionlt, drug prices are falling. A complete and utter takeover of the healthcare care system by the federal government. It means elimination. The elimination of private employer insurance. Tricare, gone, all of it. It makes the Government Entity massive. Tens of chiles of dollars over the course of the life of this. It makes government bureaucracy massive and it gets between you and your doctor. Where is the motivation for people to spend so many years becoming a money doctor if you know you will become what amounts to be a government bureaucrat at the end of it. This is from after the impeachment and acquittal by the senate. Impeached ands there has been criticism by republican and democratic sit i believe he will be much more cautious in the future. I do not think the president did anything wrong. Everyone can see the contents of the phone call with the president of the ukraine. They can see for themselves what was in it. I think it was obvious from what happened through the course of the house and into the senate that no one can demonstrate any or produce any evidence that the president did anything wrong. I do not think the president has to really alter. His Approval Rating is reaching alltime highs. Unemployment and the economy in the country is at a generational position. The arguments that move forward for the president to be reelected are crystal clear. Americans want their president to be able to succeed on behalf of the country, and that is what this president is doing. What has this been like for you so far . Awful lot of fun. The president is the best boss i have ever had. We will get a democratic perspective in just a moment. Laurenratic strategist, baer. Later, a new study says there are as many as 100 million nonvoters in this country. You are watching and listening washington journal. We will be back. Tonight, we will discuss notable speakers of the house with Catholic University of America Political science professor matthew green. We have come a long way. We work together. That is not what we are seeing now. There are certain ways in which our elected officials, we expect to share some common agreement on issues or at least a sense they have important institutional roles to play that should rise above policy. Ifferences candidates beyond the talking points are only revealed over time. Our campaign 2020 programming differs for that from all other coverage for one other reason. It is cspan. We brought you your unfiltered w of government every day this november. In other words, your future. Season, go deep, direct, and unfiltered. Your own mind. With cspan campaign 2020, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. , thank you forer joining us. Senator sanders is the front runner and likely nominee . Guest last night was an excellent night for Bernie Sanders. He will come out of that with the clear delegate lead and the clearest path to the nomination. But it is a long way between now and july, certainly. We have seen quite a few candidates on the moderate side of the party who think they have comeerate route to victory july. If you were to advise Amy Klobuchar, what would you tell her campaign . Guest i think it is really hard for senator klobuchar to see a path to the nomination. Momentumout with some and had a less than stellar debate last week. If you are getting less than 5 of the vote in nevada, the first state really diverse and representative of the electorate as a whole, it will be hard to see how that is indicative of what she needs to win. Senator Elizabeth Warren came in fourth and did not do well in southern New Hampshire, which borders massachusetts, and came here yesterday. Reading too much into a fourthplace showing. She had a spectacular debate last week and had her strongest fundraising showing of her entire camp and reporting that she has raised over 9 million. I would also note more than in thevoters voted early nevada which meant elizabeth torens a limited ability impact those showing up in nevada caucuses. It will be critical for her to followup up with another strong debate performance next week in South Carolina. Show that she can project a strength into super tuesday. Host senator Bernie Sanders has a progressive path and the moderates have 3, 4, or five democrats vying for the lane. Guest there is a conundrum on the moderate side. Senator sanders is pulling strong nationally but only 25 or 30 . The overwhelming majority of democrats have someone else as their first choice. It is frankly hard to see the way the race is currently playing out, a clear front runner emerging. We saw last week that Michael Bloomberg was considering Hillary Clinton as his running mate. What was that about . Guest i am not sure. Host they were clearly looking for hillary supporters. Guest Michael Bloomberg is coming off of what can be called a disappointing performance last week. He needs to come up with a way to ensure support. That might be one idea for his campaign. Along is to all spend quite exorbitantly and basically to crowd the airwaves and the internet with information about his campaign. Their strategy is the incredible spending combined with laser sharp data driven, it will be a path to victory. Your reaction to comments by joe biden on face the nation. This interview with margaret before the final results were released in nevada. Early entrance polls show that Bernie Sanders has a strong lead here. Is a diverse state. You talk a lot about relying on minority votes as being a key to your success. What is happening . I also said im way ahead of africanamerican voters here in voting. I feel good about where we are and about going to South Carolina and i feel good about the support ive had with africanamericans around the country. Indicate to this you . In the past, you are confident you can pull off a win in South Carolina. I just told you, the exit polls you just cited also say im winning by 15 percent or 20 with the African American vote here in nevada. In South Carolina . Same thing. I am still confident. Former Vice President joe , does he need to win South Carolina . If he does not, then what . Without a doubt, the Vice President needs to win in South Carolina. His campaign was counting on second place in nevada but it was not as strong as anyone would like. Sanders at about 45 . Joe bidenss campaign is premised to the diverse electorate really representative of the Democratic Party. If he does not have the showing in South Carolina, it is hard to see how he continues to make the case. Host what does Michael Bloomberg need to do in the debate . Guest he needs to show up with a clear vision for america and why he wants to be elected. He came to the debate last week looking unprepared, ganged up on, but without answers to questions i think his team ought to have known were going to get thrown at him. He needs a compelling argument that he is the strongest candidate for super tuesday and that americans have a reason to want to elect him. Host you run for the house of representatives. Is there an establishment . Who are these individuals . Guest i do not know what the term means. Art of why i am a member of Democratic Party is because it is a big tent party. A Diverse Coalition of individuals across ages, races, genders, and the left side of the political spectrum. I think when we talk about the democratic establishment, it is really able demand, and a straw man for what some folks are fighting against. Host our phone lines are open. 202 7488001 four republicans for republicans. 202 7488000 democrats. R join 202 7488003 tell us your name and what you are where you are voting from. What will it look like post super tuesday . Guest if you are a candidate in a race, and i was in 2018 myself, there are two things that will keep you running. One would is having the resources to continue. Two is having a sense of having a path to victory. Fact is i think we will if we will get past super tuesday, certain candidates will see they have neither the resources nor the have to get to the nomination. How that shakes out remains to be seen. I expected to have a narrower field. Host good morning to you. Welcome to the conversation. Caller thank you. I just want to say this is a great show. Anyone who is the final democratic representative. I would vote for a dolphin, anything that is not republican in order to defeat donald trump. Host thank you for the call. Guest thank you for calling in and for your comment. At the end of the day, when it comes down to electability, who is going to show up, cast a vote, and say they decided to take the country in a different direction than Donald Trumps fails failed politics. We have enough in the country looking for a different direction that when it comes november, whoever is on the ballot will show up and vote democratic. Don from ohio, republican line, good morning. Caller i just wanted to comment on trump. I am 93 years old. In every president ial election since harry truman. The donald is doing just exactly exactly what i voted for him to do. Tweets be dammed, i could care less about that. Damned, i could care less about that. Guest thank you for sharing your feelings. Withight be pleased everything donald trump is doing. What ive heard from americans in florida and around the is that there are millions of americans who are not pleased, particularly when it comes to the issues most voters care about, their Economic Security and their health care. Marketve a rising stock , aing to piece together president continually trying to take Health Care Away from millions of americans. When you talk to the average voter out there, ask them whether their life has been improved with donald trump in office, most people will say no and turn up voting democratic in november. Yorker waiting for cleaner air and that 4 growth rate in the economy that he promised. Cement thate to they are sociopathic liar in chief lets go to debbie in flint, michigan, also democratic line. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. I tried all day to get through yesterday because yesterday, it was a Disinformation Campaign by republicans. The mullah and said report exonerated him, which it clearly did not. Anyone who read it, and i know it was a heavy lift, and i know a lot of people did not read it, but even though it did not rise to the level of criminality, it makes you sick to your stomach to read what the Trump Campaign did in the last election. I am for joe biden. What he did to Hillary Clinton the last time, sliming her with all of these lies, here we are three years into it, hillary is not in jail. Never been locked up. Those were all lies. They are now trying to do it to joe biden. Im not a bernie fan. He is not a democrat. Do i need to say anything more . In regard to yesterday, i was so frustrated, i swear i said i would never watch this program again because you have got republicans calling in on the democrat line saying, i will never vote for democrats against. Week who girl last said, a dictatorship would not be that that of an idea. I thought, these people do not do their homework. You call in and sound like an idiot in front of millions of people. Open your, please, hearts and your minds. Joe biden is a good man. You for tuning in today after your frustration yesterday, i hope you will continue to watch us. Caller i love cspan and i love being able to put my two cents in. When people call, and it is obvious that they did not read the Mueller Report the Mueller Report did not exonerate President Trump. He is a crook, and unindicted coconspirator. Wake up, america. Host well we love you, thank you for the call. Made it am glad you through today. I want to pick up on one part of , which was, this president , and republicans as a whole, their willingness to play fast and easy with the facts. A graphic was shown before i came on the air this morning, highlighting the fact that the , over 16,000 lied times since taking office. That ought to be concerning for every american. The basis of our democracy is having a common understanding of truth and the facts. We may disagree about policy solutions and the best way to get for from point a to b. With ahave to start common understanding of facts on the ground if we will move forward. What the president and the Republican Party have shown is to will a willing disregard for the truth. Ost our guest is lauren baer will you run again . Guest that is to be determined. I would love to stay involved in politics. Ensure on i can to the democratic side in 2020, to come out in that election. Host our guest studied at the university of oxford. A call from South Carolina where the candidates are heading now. Caller it is getting exciting. Thank you for what you do on cspan. Since you are connected heavily with the Democratic Party, and to change motivated the rules for debates . There are people who are democrats who are missing from the debate page who i think should be on there. Tulsi gabbard was not on last time. Tom steyer was not on. Tom steyer spent a lot of money in South Carolina hiring African Americans. Tulsi gabbard has strong foreign policy. They are not qualifying according to dnc rules because of not pulling with official pulling people, not having enough money, or whatever. Can exceptions be made for candidates like that . The field is not huge. Why are they not allowed on the debate stage . Call. You for taking my the most important thing is the perception of fairness, that the rules are not changing midstream. What we have seen in this cycle from the party is very clearly before each debate what the standards are for altercation. I would caution against changing to allowes midstream one or another candidate to make it on the stage. We have heard from an incredibly diverse range of voices going into this process, starting with more than 20 candidates at the start of the debate. As we had deeper into the electionyear, it is time to narrow the field and consolidate around the candidate wholl carry us to victory come november. Host they did change the rules to allow Michael Bloomberg to participate. Guest and they received quite a for that. Hback that is precisely why im suggesting that further rule changes to a, a getting one or another candidate on the stage is not an advisable choice. Headline, sanders surge is giving democratic democrats the jitters. Many Democratic House and Senate Candidates are approaching a dramatic shift in their campaign tothey count recalibrate include praise of capitalism and distance themselves from the national party. Strategists view both parties success as a potentially tectonic event which could narrow slim hopes of taking the Senate Majority and fuel gop dream of taking the house, which it lost amid a romp in 2018. With a victory in saturdays third in they lost the the Iowa Caucuses in a squeaker. The march 3. States watch wrote and 10 delegates nasher nationally will be chosen. The ceiling of trump support is poorly defined in a twoway race. The senator from vermont has not yet been subject subjected to a negative advertising effort. Your comments . Very legitimate concerns coming from individuals in the Democratic Party. 2018elf was a candidate in in a very contested swing district in florida. If you look at the strategy that allowed democrats to reclaim the house in 2018, by a large margin, the strategy was focused on decisively focusing on the issues that mattered to voters. What i would advise the senders the nominee,ou are heading 22020, focus less on the label and focus more on what you and thefor americans proactive agenda of how we will restore our democracy in this country. Concerns people are raising, that someone who is a selfavowed democraticsocialist might be subject to easy attacks come november, those are valid concerns. St. Petersburg. Good morning. You are with lauren baer. Caller thank you for having me. I love trump. Our whole family does. So many people we know changed. What is scary, i talked to a lot of people. I asked what a socialist country is. They are shocked. They are saying i do not want the country to be like that. People who work so hard, people paying taxes, it is scary what is going on with the socialist socialism in this country. You for calling in. This goes to the point i think i was just making to steve. If you are the sample sanders campaign, you will need to focus incredibly hard on the issues that are propelling your agenda for. Those issues are, frankly, quite popular with the majority of americans, expanding access to health care, reducing income inequality, ensuring we are doing something about Climate Change so our children are able to enjoy the lannett in the same way we have. The label of socialism is so easily weaponize. I as a democrat have no doubt that Bernie Sanders does not want to turn our country into venezuela. But he has also made himself in the target. Advice to his campaign or to any Democratic Campaign come november is to focus on the issues that voters care about. We will go to ed in florida. Democrats line. Good morning. The rapture of Bernie Sanders. Shocked, that he had expanded his promise. I was sure he would cut back on some of his promises. The way it is constructed right first of all, there will have to be cuts. The only way with that list of things he came out with yesterday, it is all just beginning. She had some of those features. They would have to control all of the goods and services in the country as a distribution host thank you, ed. Thank you for calling in. You are raising a question a lot of americans are raising. What are the costs democrats are putting out there . In the democratic debates themselves, you are starting to see are starting to see democrats call on each other asking for more details of the plans they are proposing. Elizabeth warren laid out very clearly how she plans to pay for medicare for all. I want to take a step back and examine this assumption. Democrats are the big spenders examine this assumption that democrats are the big spenders. If you look at what donald trump has done, it has ballooned deficits and been exorbitant spending. It has been in ways that do not benefit the average american. We are seeing income inequality as high as it was during the great depression. The haves are doing great but the havenots are not. It is not fair for the Republican Party to claim the mantle of fiscal conservatism. Host al in detroit, good morning. Caller a few things real quick. To her response about these guys claiming fiscal responsibility, they dont care. Period. These guys just do not give a dam. Second, has anyone thought about , for the guest, on Supreme Court justices we have nine judges, why doesnt somebody they cant win by one vote anymore. It has to be by two or three. T would force a response host thank you. We will get a response to those points. Guest i love a fellow tennis fan. When it comes to the Supreme Court, i approach this wearing my hat as a lawyer. Historically there have been times where there have been discussions about changing the composition of the Supreme Court. It has always been to advantage one Political Party or another. I think our Supreme Court functions best when it is seen as an Impartial Institution that can deliver justice on behalf of all of the American People. Belief is that if we democrats care about outcomes on the Supreme Court we will have to redouble our efforts to ensure that we put a democrat in office come november and that we are able to control appointments for the next four years. Host with Bernie Sanders now the Democratic Front runner he refuses to release his medical records. Ishas had a heart attack, he 79, should he release them . Host for the last three years democrats have made calls for transparency a hallmark of their criticism of donald trump. I believe that on on our side we should show the same transparency that we expect of republicans. That sander should release medical records and tax returns and the same should be for Democratic Candidates across the board. We cannot expect more of the other side and we deliver ourselves. Who is aren baer former candidate for the house of representatives and a democratic strategist in florida. Guest thanks for having me. Host when we come back, a new study from the Knight Foundation on who is voting and who is not voting. Sam gill will join us from miami. First a video produced by the foundation about this study. Announcer there is a crisis facing our democracy. Who has the power . Is it americas voters or americas nonvoters . In 2016 we witnessed on of the most contentious president ial elections. Won the presidency and Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. Who did most americans support . Nobody. I am not registered. I have not voted. I do not vote. Nearly 100 million eligible voters did not vote. This is the story of the most important voice in america yet to be heard. The 100 million project is a landmark study of 12,000 nonvoters done at unprecedented scale and depth. Who are these 100 million americans . They are as diverse as this country, as different as 100 Million People can be. Many nonvoters lack basic fate and our democratic systems. They arenvoters say not confident elections represent the will of the people. Many believe the system is rigged. There is a Conspiracy Theory that it is rigged. I think the whole thing is rigged. Nonvoters engage less with news and feel underinformed on politics. Many nonvoters are College Graduates and over a third are middleclass or wealthier. Democrats, republicans, and independents make up a third of nonvoters, half of respondents who reported an unfavorable view of the president , 40 favorable, and the rest undecided. Are lessyearolds informed, less interested in politics, less likely to vote in 2020 than nonvoters overall. Are we losing a generation of voters . I am not informed on anything so i feel like my vote will be wasted. Being young and voting people will judge you because you are not educated enough about the voting process. Increasing voter turnout is not just about politics, it is about the future of our democracy. To start the most important conversation of 2020, visit the100 million. Org. Washington journal continues. Host joining us from miami is sam gill, the chief Program Officer and president for the Knight Foundation. A new study on who are the nonvoters. What did you learn . Sam thanks for having me. I am looking forward to the chance to talk to your audience. We commissioned the study because, if you actually count the people who did not vote in the last president ial election that would be the top vote getter, not vote is the top vote getter. We wanted to understand, if so many people are not voting who are they . Why are so many people disconnecting from this basic civic act. We found a few things that were important and some of them surprised me. The first thing we found was that the nonvoters really flitter rates our caricature of those who are not engaged. They represent all walks of life in this country, people from every background and people of diverse interests and ideological ideas. It is not just one kind of person. There are things that unify nonvoters. These are folks that have less faith in the system. They have less confidence in the outcome of elections. They are more likely to think the system has been rigged. Matter,ion really does we take it as an article of faith in this country that having an informed electorate and informed citizenry is important. Our Research Found that is true. People who do not vote are less likely to actively seek out news. But intomore likely to news, which is increasingly common in the social news area. They are less likely to have talked about their views growing up. We found that nonvoters are ideologically diverse. There are folks who support President Trump, there are folks who support Democratic Candidates, and there are moderates. Excitementot of about an emerging generation that seems to be concerned and passionate about so many crucial issues, the youngest part of our electorate, the 18 to 24 show signs of being more disconnected from politics and even less interested. Host i do not overgeneralize, ifbased on your research you are a High School Graduate who makes less than 50,000 a year you are less likely to vote, correct . Exactly sam that is right. In many ways voters look like nonvoters. Those features are important. Nonvoters tend to earn less in terms of household income, nonvoters tend to also not have a College Degree. Quite a few people with a College Degree do not vote. You can find nonvoters from all walks of life. Host what about those who simply just do not like the candidates . Sam that is a lot of nonvoters. When you ask people why they do not vote they tend to give a lot of reasons. There is not one overarching reason. The one is they say they do not like the candidates. Folks whoue of those are close to voting, particularly those who are moderate and progressive and tend to follow the news and be more plugged in. They are more likely to say they do not like the candidates running. Host going back to the chart which is available on your website, those who have an unfavorable opinion of the president , 40 are nonvoters. If you dont like the candidate, or trump, why not vote . That is a good question. We found there are a lot of reasons. Some people might not like the president but do they feel they have the information to vote. Are there other decisions i have to make on the ballot . I am not sure i have the information to do that. We found that nonvoters are messed less likely to think that the Election Results are accurate, that they represent the will of the people. A nonvoter might say that they dont run like the president but will it matter if they go vote. Will it make a difference in the final tally . Nonvoters have a more attenuated sense of the impact of politics on their lives. They are less likely to think decisions made in washington will impact them. They are more likely to let others make choices for them on their behalf in washington. When asked if they like the president they may say they do not where they like another candidate, but they have a weaker sense they will be able to make a difference in the system. That is something that should concern us, that people do have opinions about what is right and wrong. Their voiceure actually matters. This is something that no matter what party you are from should concern us about the state of our democracy. And our guest is sam gill he is joining us from miami. If you are planning to vote in this election give us a call at 202 7488000. If you are planning to skip voting, if you are a nonvoters 202 7488001. If you aot you are not sure, 2 7488002. We have a phone line for all three categories. Tell us about the Knight Foundation and how you are funded. Is the Knight Foundation built on the wealth of a couple that ran the knight Newspaper Company for much of the 20th century, it was one of the largest Newspaper Companies in the country. It operated newspapers in places like miami, charlotte, akron, the breadth of the country. The knight Newspaper Company does not exist anymore but the wealth that the Knight Brothers accrued through the company now lives on in the foundation. As an independent endowment our mission is to support stronger democracy through more informed and engaged communities. Areas ofn the journalism, arts, and the community. Host how many nonvoters are there in the United States . Sam about 100 million nonvoters. In the last election it was just under 100 million. It tends to since the 60s vacillate around 40 to 50 of the electorate. Host can you underscore that point . That is a huge number. Sam if you look at the last thetion, donald trump won Electoral College, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. Between the two of them you are looking at 25 to 27 of the eligible electorate. 40 of the eligible electorate chose not to vote. To 100 vote, close Million People, was a more popular choice for americans who were eligible to vote than either candidate who was running. To the study, one question you asked is what do you believe is the most important issue facing the u. S. Today. Immigration,s number two was health care followed by jobs and the economy. If you think these issues are important why not cast your ballot for the candidate you think is best suited to deal with those issues . Sam the study helped us understand a couple of elements. It is not like the voters care about the issues you mentioned are issues people care about. They matter deeply to our lives and how our families are doing and what the future of this company will look like. Nonvoters are prioritizing the same issues. They are not asking the electoral system to prioritize different issues. We did find that nonvoters do the wayss match on that parties divide these issues. Tovoters are more likely favor the construction of a wall along the southern border. Toy are somewhat less likely favor paths to citizenship for undocumented immigrants in this country. They are less likely to think that what we need to do is scrap the Affordable Care act and replace it. That would be a clear example of where nonvoters are pretty constant with the current Republican Party and donald trump. There are other parties views that do not reflect that. This might be a question we need to ask ourselves. Is our current way of sorting ideologically exactly representative of some of the ways that most americans see these choices . I think the other thing we found is that nonvoters are not sure that their vote makes a difference. They are not sure that it is going to be counted and they are generally not sure that their voice and ideas are important for the decisions made in this country. Even if they feel passionately about these issues, if they are not sure the system is going to work for them, amidst Everything Else we have to do and the pressure it takes to go out and vote, this may not be the highest priority. Gill, ar guest is sam graduate of the university of chicago and study at oxford in england, he is a Rhodes Scholar and the chief Program Officer of the Knight Foundation. Joe is joining us from buffalo, new york. Are you planning to vote . Caller yes i am. Host know ahead. Go ahead. Caller i am an intellectual. I do enjoy listening to intellectuals. I enjoy listening to their opinion on cspan and other shows. How do intellectuals feel about this guy, trump . Whenever he opens his mouth . Come on , sam, tell me the truth . Sam thanks for planning to vote and thanks for calling in. Foundation does not have an opinion on who ought to be the next president in this country. It does not have an opinion on a on who should have been the president. We do really care that people are informed and that we have an informed country. Some of that depends on elected officials. Whether they can communicate with the public about what they care about and what is important to them. A lot depends on the other ways we find information. One of the great things about cspan is that it not only gives us a chance to hear from the president and other elected officials, but it gives us a chance to hear from journalists and each other. We think that what is as important to the future of our democracy is that people feel that they are able to find news that they trust about where they live and the country and they are able to access that news. No matter what unelected officials says we feel we have facts we can use to make decisions about what we care about. Host we will go to charlie and windemere, florida. You are planning not to vote . Caller i am planning not to vote if what comes to pass happens. I am a Bernie Sanders supporter and what i feel will happen with the Democratic Party when Bernie Sanders comes out with the most amount of delegates. As you know they go to the second ballot, and in the second ballot you have a rigged system really where you have the , whiched superdelegates the establishment Democratic Party made up. If they give it to, who i feel they would give it to, when everybody runs out of money Michael Bloomberg who is really a republican, i dont think i will vote. If i have to vote for the green party i will vote for the green party. Can i ask your guest two questions that relate to his study . Number one, did he include in that study people who turned 18 this year and now are eligible to vote . I would love to know that. Answersas people gave to why they did not vote, how can you attribute laziness of people who just did not vote because they did not want to be bothered . The third question, does he know how many countries i know australia is one, but there are a lot of industrialized countries where it is required to vote or you pay a fine. Those are three things i would love to find out about. If he can provide me with any of that that will be great. Sam thanks for calling in. Happy to answer those questions. We did include 18 to 24yearolds. For that part of the study we did not require them to have registered to vote or to vote. The nonvoting part of the study are those who consistently have not voted over the last six national elections. We did have some folks in the sample who probably turned 18 this year. We wanted to understand on emerging generation, not focus on who votes or does not vote. Your second question is about laziness. Thats not a word i want to use. Who sure there are people sometime prioritize things other than voting. I have gone to vote with a threeyearold and a oneyearold, when you are there you wish you werent. I am glad i turned out to make sure my voice was heard. We did find that single mothers are a little bit less likely to vote. These are people with a lot to do in a day and a lot on their mind. I am not sure laziness is the right word. If you dont think you have the information you need which tends to typify nonvoters, if you are not sure your voice matters, if you are earning less it might be that other things take priority when boating day comes. You asked about something some countries do to help with this. Australia requires voting. For zillow is a country that requires you vote. From brazil and has to vote. Brazil tries to make it easier. It is on a weekend. You dont have to take time away from work. There are things countries do to encourage people to come to the polls. I am a member of the commission of the American Academy of arts and sciences that is exploring these issues. This issue has been discussed, we have a commission on the question of citizenship. Should we make voting easier, should we have a National Holiday . In addition to discussing those ideas we should be concerned about what you said, why you might not turn out. You are passionate about politics. About if thisd system of selecting a nominee is rigged. Even if we require voting in elections, they should worry us. If we do not believe in democracy than the systems may not be enough to keep our democracy strong. Next in washington, d. C. We have marked. You are unsure if you are we have mark. You are unsure if you are going to vote . Caller yes. Unsure this year. Host why . Initially i was interested in the array of Democratic Candidates. Then the second and third base they started whittling it down boring, scripted. Ones that appeared intelligent also interesting. He gathered comes to mind. They did this based on polls. We know from 2016, those polls are not accurate. Unsure about voting. Lets go to kelly and hear another voice of someone who is planning to vote. Caller i am definitely a democrat. I am very active in politics. Sister havend my all worked for the dnc to try to get people interested to vote. One of the problems of why young arele are nonvoting is they educated about. That is a problem in the schools. I knew nothing about politics. I did not think my vote mattered and i didnt understand what was going on for how it affected me. Voted hen, he started getting into voting because of the marijuana issue. Them witho tempt something that might be interesting to them then pull them in. The kids are 18 when they are in high school. I did not know anything, there was no Political Science in my private school. They did not concentrate on that whatsoever. Maybe if they understood how it affects their lives they might get out there. As far as one thing i think that should be out there as far as people that are nonvoting, because they are not sure, they do not like this one or that one. If they are not voting they are voting for trump. Especially this year, the election is being manipulated by russia. Everybody knows that. Host sam, what are you hearing from these colors . One in washington and one in massachusetts. What we are hearing are some issues that tie nonvoters together. Certainly issues that tie a Younger Generation together. When we ask this emerging part of the electorate, 18 to 24yearolds about what they think about voting in the election they are less interested in politics. They are less likely to think their voice makes a difference. Some of what we are hearing from these callers speaks to why. Young people are less exposed to politics at home than previous generations. If they are not exposed in school either they may not have a strong sense of why this matters, why do think about politics and why they can engage with how the system works. There are a lot of good ideas about how to improve things like Civics Education. In florida a Civics Education is required. That is true in some states and other states are exploring ways to do this. Helpve invested efforts to schools either directly or through libraries to teach Media Literacy and Information Literacy so young people can navigate the information environment more effectively. There are new methods for teachings civics that are being developed. Ways to make it more about the actions we take as individuals to debate critical issues. That is critical for Younger Generations. They are also less likely to see the system as reflecting them. You heard this from both of these callers. The woman from massachusetts, her son is more interested in the marijuana issue. Young people are much more energized on issues of climate, much more energized about issues of gun violence and gun policy in this country. Many young people are excited about the different kind of candidate, one who they may no longer see on the debate stage. Andrew yang in the democratic primary was able to build a lot of momentum around people who were looking for a different voice, a different set of issues. You are arguably seeing the same thing with senator sanders. He is tapping into people who are not excited about what some of the other candidates tended to represent. That they critical is find ways to help people see the system is legitimate. It is also the responsibility of the system itself, of the way the campaigns are run, the candidates, the way that the media reports on elections to begin to speak to some of those broader issues. Ahead ofng was pulling the coverage he was getting in the media. This is an example where the media focus on the horse race on who is often who is down may actually contribute in some cases to people saying, heck with it. This debate does not reflect what excites me or interests me about the future of our country. Edward from new jersey. You are unsure if you are going to vote . Caller bernie or bust. Where there any studies done about breaking up the twoparty system, excitement for multiple parties . We have these parties that have been arguing about abortion and gay rights for hundreds of years while the world is on fire. That is why people are not excited. It is not working. I would like to know if there is any idea about possibly breaking up this twoparty monopoly. Host edward, thank you for the call. Did not ask people about whether they would like to see a different party. We would ask people nationally and in swing states about who they might vote for. Folks werety of interested in reelecting President Trump or a generic democratic candidate. There was a meaningful number of ofple who preferred neither those candidates or just were not sure. There are people who are not voting that are the kind of folks who would consider Something Like a third party, that is not something we directly asked. I think that you see both among those who vote and those who are not voting some real challenges to the ways that the Current Party system is dividing lines. Most people in the republican establishment would say donald trump was an unconventional candidate in the primary. A lot of folks in the democratic establishment, the previous guest on the show would talk about Bernie Sanders as an unconventional candidate within the democratic primary. Donald trump is the president and Bernie Sanders is the front runner in the democratic primary. Among those who are voting you are seeing them start to reach for something that looks like a different way of imagining what the different parties are focused on. Among nonvoters you saw views that are not really well youained in any one party saw nonvoters looking more like in any one party. He saw nonvoters looking more like republicans when it comes to a wall and a path to citizenship but looking more like democrats when it comes to medicare for all. Whether that materializes as a thirdparty i am not sure. It has been a popular Washington Field envelope prediction for 20 or 25 years. I think most political observers would say we are seeing change today in what the party stand for and we are likely to see more. Host if people want to get the study how can they do so . Sam they can go to our website. Kf. Org. That is the Knight Foundation website. They can also go to the 100million. Org. They can find the study and hear the voices of people who do not vote in this country and the people of the voices of people who are trying to talk to those who do not vote. From all ideologies and background and all points of view. They have a chance to find out what kind of nonvoter you are to see other people making the same choices you are. We would encourage people, whether you have not missed an election, one of your earlier callers was 93 and had not missed on election, or you have missed every election by design, we would encourage you to check out these resources. Voice about why you do or do not vote. Host sam gill, senior vp of the Knight Foundation. Thank you for being with us. The president has landed at joint base andrews. He is about to embark on a journey to travel to india. This is marine one that has just landed. He will be boarding air force one in a moment. , politics, policy, and the promise of his biggest rally yet, a rally that is expected to include 112,000 people. We will watch for just a moment. Host air force one at joint base andrews with the president heading to india for a two day and he returns to washington wednesday. From theal reporter post joining us from South Carolina via skype, now all the attention focusing on that stage. What are you looking for in the next six days . Guest it is going to be a frenetic final stretch here. We have the cbs debate in charleston on tuesday. We will see if that has any lasting effects on the race, expecting jim clyburn, the states most influential democratic congressman to weigh in on the race on wednesday after the debate. He has been saying that on the sunday shows. Bidens always been joe state to lose. He has a long history in South Carolina, he is popular with the africanamerican voters who make up about two thirds of the democratic electorate in South Carolina, far more than any of the three other early states. Maintains to this day. Closere has gotten a lot over the last few weeks. Bernie sanders had made some gains and more inroads than he did in 2016. He has spent millions of his own dollars here in South Carolina and while he did spend significantly in nevada New Hampshire as well it has been a lot more effective here. He has risen in the polls significantly. Othersalso going to see make final plays here. Host let me put two scenarios on the table. If joe biden wins South Carolina where does that put the race . Guest the Biden Campaign is hoping that it will serve as a springboard into super tuesday. Will a few of those states also be Southern States with significant black populations. Carolina could be a bellwether for how those states might vote. We also have a few other states that are very important later, georgia, and others. The issue for everyone who is not Bernie Sanders is that he is soaring in the states that matter the most. California, texas, where there are quite a few democratic delegates to be one. The trouble for sanders is that all of these states toward their delegates proportionally. It is not winner take all. If you win these states by a few Percentage Points you do not get that many more delegates than the person in second place. To theare trying to get magic number is hard to do that by continuously winning states by a small margin. Answer of where this goes is it will be a very competitive rates potentially all the way up to the milwaukee convention. It would be a big boost for joe biden to get his first ever state victories, he has never won a state before. It would be a big monkey off of his back to coming to come into South Carolina and finally get that win. Host conversely, if he loses South Carolina is his campaign over . Guest he has been reluctant to say that. He does not want to put it all on South Carolina. When i talk to folks in his orbit and people who support him, donors, it is hard to see a path forward for my disappointment at that point. How do you make the argument that you can lead the nation if the state that where he was leading by 20 points in South Carolina just a few months ago. How do you make the case that if that falls apart you are still going to have a shot to win . At that point i imagine a lot of his Financial Support would move over to the other candidates like buttigieg and bloomberg. That would create a serious financial headache for him. If he does not win South Carolina it will be a significant problem for him. He has not said he is dropping out if he loses. He has set as long as he does well it will be ok. It was not very long ago, in january that folks on his campaign, a congressman from louisiana was in South Carolina and said this is a must win. They are banking a lot on this. Host final point. When the returns coming on saturday give us one area, one district or one community that you will be keeping a close eye on that could determine who the winner is in South Carolina . Guest Richland County where columbia is is said to be the county with the highest number of democratic votes, the most progressive part of the state. It has the highest number of africanamerican voters as well. Which candidates are performing strongly here could be an indication of which candidates are going to do well. Even greenville county, it will be interesting to see. We will see quite a few candidates campaigning in the upstate region which has historically been a very conservative part of the state. It has gotten a little bit more over the last few years and that could be a test of how candidates are doing in terms of , some moderate republicans may participate in the race. Those are three regions to Pay Attention to on Election Night. Host jamie is a political reporter joining us from columbia, South Carolina. Thank you for being with us. Me. thank you for having headline from the New York Times , in a show of might sanders wins nevada. Senator sanders with a strong commanding lead, 46 followed by former Vice President joe biden a distant second at just under 20 . Pete buttigieg coming in at third at 13. 3 and senator Elizabeth Warren in fourth place. Other numbers on your screen, those are delegates going to the county convention. The delegates then go to the state convention in nevada. The state will award 36 delegates to the convention which will meet in milwaukee this july. Our phone lines are open, tell us what you think about the results from nevada. 202 7488001 for republicans. 202 7488000 for democrats. Pete is joining us. Put bernie the bolshevik in with my democratic friends. Fromave people flood in all over the place and everything is free and has health care and housing. I am going to lay down. Why would i show up and work hard when you have people from all over these third world countries rushing here to the land of milk and honey and taking my job and driving down the wages for unskilled laborers at these jobsites. Im going to lay down and collect my money from the government every week or month or so. Good luck supporting me everybody. A victory lap in texas with senator sanders. Senator sanders i am delighted to bring you some good news. [applause] i think i love you know that we won the popular vote in iowa. [applause] we won the New Hampshire primary. [applause] according to three networks at theap we have now won nevada caucus. [applause] [crowd chants beat trump] let me thank the people of inada for their support nevada we have put together a it will notional only win in nevada, it will sweep the country. Host part of our Live Campaign 2020 coverage last night. Speeches available on our website. Us fromis rick joining napa, california on the democrats line. Theer greetings from democratic peoples republic of california. Named you the most patient man on earth. Host not on earth. We want to deal with the facts. Caller ok. I just voted for bernie absentee ballot and i received a text back that they counted my valid. Ballot. Medicare is coming up on a shortfall in the next four years and the next president will decide its fate. Republicans will only cut it. We need someone like bernie to save it. Taxes are going to have to be raised or it is going to be cut. Thank you. Host this from kevin, he is the Campaign Manager and longtime adviser to Michael Bloomberg. In a Statement Last night released by the Bloomberg Campaign there was this. The nevada results reinforced the reality that this fragmented field is putting Bernie Sanders on pace to amass an insurmountable delegate lead. This is a candidate who declared war on the socalled democratic establishment. We are going to need independence and republicans to defeat trump, attacking your own party is no way to get started. As mike says, if we choose a candidate who appeals to a small vase it will be a fatal error. Matt is joining us from bath, new york. Good morning. Caller the sun is shining up here for a change. I would like to make two comments. Hello . Host you are on the air. Caller i am disappointed that yesterday and the day before you guys wasted segments on this russia stuff. It is ridiculous. They cannot hack our voting machines. People know who they are voting for. Unless you want to believe that all these people that are showing up at trump rallies are russians. That being said. The that the democratic establishment is definitely going to try to yank the rug out from bernie just like they did before with hillary being supplied all the answers at the debates. It is ridiculous. They call themselves democratic. It is totally ridiculous. On one want to jump in point. The fbi director who was appointed by President Trump and is now the former director of National Intelligence is saying that russia is trying to influence this election. You do not agree with them . Caller they might be trying to influence it but trying is different than succeeding. Nobody changed my mind on any kind of internet thing. I knew who i was voting for. Something i would really like to see you guys have in the morning which i hope i could see but my work varies with South Carolina coming up all we kept hearing from biden is the black firewall and the people of color. I would like to have you have a segment that is only for people of color to call in, stating whether or not they feel like they are being taken for granted by biden and the democrat party. Host we did that just last week. If you want to check it out it is available on our website. Topicn type in either the or the subject, washington journal, you can scroll through and see that. Thank you for the call. Im glad the sun is out in bath, new york. Idaho falls, iowa. Idaho. Caller i am disappointed in the citizens of nevada. I cannot understand for the life of me how they can vote the way they did. That bernierealize sanders is a socialist . They did a poll a couple of weeks ago asking the whole nation, would you want a socialist . 70 said no. So how in the world do these Bernie Sanders supporters think he is going to win against donald trump . I will tell you Something Else. Know thatdo they not donald trump is hurting the in his stancety on immigration and what he does to the children . Im going to have a hard time feeling sorry for them. We have some acciden excellent candidates running. , ised to be a republican have voted since i was able to. If Bernie Sanders is the candidate i will vote for third party or i wont vote at all. Host kathleen, thank you. This is the headline available online, the Bloomberg Campaign quietly plotting for a blow brokered convention. Mike bloomberg privately democrats to flip their allegiance to him and blocked Bernie Sanders in the event of a brokered National Convention. The effort executed by senior statelevel advisors in recent weeks attempting to prime bloomberg for a second ballot contest at the democratic National Convention. The outreach has involved meetings and telephone calls with supporters of biden and Pete Buttigieg as well as uncommitted dnc members in virginia, texas, florida, and north carolina. According to one of the strategists. With sanders emergence as the front runner into the primary democrats in those states have recently raised the prospect that the democraticsocialist could be at the top of the ticket. It is a presumptive play for a candidate who has not won a delegate or appeared on a ballot. Raising the prospect of Party Insiders bringing the nomination to a billionaire over a progressive populist. Cspan will be your source for gaveltogavel coverage of the democratic National Convention in july. We go to mike next in st. Louis, missouri. On the democrats line, thank you for waiting. Caller good morning. Of thelling in because medicare for all Bumper Sticker phrase that bernie uses and nobody seems to realize it is not medicare for all. It is a singlepayer health care. Would senator sanders stop calling it medicare for all. You see commercials about how americans 160 i have been on medicare for five or six years and im going to lose my medicare under bernies medicare for all. My medicare is part a, part b, for c, bernies medicare all does away with all of that. His proposal, medicare for all, if you have not had him on i if he wants singlepayer health care and that is what the American People want, so be it. It is not medicare for all. Anything the public can do about the st. Louist post dispatch. It reminds me of donald trump saying mexico is going to build the wall. Not medicareall is for all, it is singlepayer health care. If america wants that it is fine with me. As a democrat i dont fear another four years of donald trump, we know who he is and we have whether this so far. Host thank you for the call from st. Louis, missouri. His from cbs news, the debate airing on Cbs Television at 8 00 eastern time on tuesday evening. In case you cannot see it on cbs or cbsn you can listen to it on cspan radio. Vicksburg, mississippi on the republican line. Caller good morning. President , our President Trump. I have watched to other channels. They keep showing all of these bernie and biden, but they never show kelsey grammar and she is one of the best ones they have. Gabbard and shes one of the best ones they have. Shes the one who should represent the democrats. Host from outside of chicago on the independent line, good morning. Caller i wanted to say i am completely surprised by the results from the nevada caucus. As James Carville said, bernie for putin. I believe that a moderate candidate for the democrats is the best option right now. I am looking at Mike Bloomberg. I think he brought some good points even though he was destroyed in that debate. Will Lose Health Care under Bernie Sanders plan. That should not be the view of the Democratic Party. I think a joe biden ticket or at Mike Bloomberg ticket is the best choice. This new Political Revolution is whateverg and direction he is going in is going to be the same direction as the British Labour party, it should not be like that and a modern candidate is the best choice. Host last night in las vegas, joe biden with this to his supporters. Biden we are in a position to move on in a way we have not been until this moment. [applause] we are going to win in South Carolina . South carolina [applause] then super tuesday. [applause] i want to tell you, they stepped incredible moment. Host that was the former Vice President who is in South Carolina today with an eye on the voting. We will continue to cover all of the candidates as they campaign their. Super tuesday is on tuesday march the third, 14th states and a fourth of from california all the way to new england. Linda joins us from new jersey. Good morning. Caller good morning, thank you for letting me come on. Concerningeat deal me. I have voted for the past 50 something years. And i never been polled am absolutely a biden fan. I will back him all the way. I am totally confused. As to why people are supporting Bernie Sanders who is not a democrat. I think his lies are getting to the kids. They think free colleges around the corner. I think that they think that medicare medicare for all or whatever he wants to call it is get what thet kids are thinking and i chalk that up to being young. I am with a whole bunch of seniors here, we took four buses to a trump rally, stood in line, got in, so they were not Trump Supporters at his rally. The talking to people rally was in new jersey. We had people from pennsylvania, maryland, ohio, and new york at this trump rally that i guess he ships in, i dont know. We found that to be amusing. Since he never knew that we were there he has nothing to give america and it ish of lies nothing more than what he gave to the state of new jersey. , heave nothing but cons bankrupt his own casinos how many times . He doesnt pay taxes. He owes Atlantic City 23 million. Chris christie forgave him for 43 million on taxes. He is a con artist. He is a con. Host we want to share some news on the new jersey governor, confirming yesterday in a story from politico that he has a kidney tumor that is likely cancerous on his left kidney. It will be removed surgically next month. The governor is the chair of the Democratic Governors Association and he will undergo the surgery in early march in new york, city. He is expected to have a full recovery according to doctors and will not require any chemotherapy. And danny is joining us from the louisiana on the democrats line. Good morning. Caller i have been sitting here listening for a while. The number ofd at people who are concerned about our government. Down and sogoing forth. My only problem is i am a Bernie Sanders guy. It, in the at beginning when ronald we have been under corporate rule since Ronald Reagan sat in the white house. Have resolved that they have to live that way. Americansare all good , but they participated in the systems. I am a 70 twoyearold decorated vietnam veteran, fighting cancer the past three years from agent orange. Host good luck to you and thanks for the call. Your final point . Caller i have a point. The problem we touched on in the last segment, about the apathy of voting, many people do not know who to trust. Host i will leave it there. Thank you for the call. We will continue the conversation tomorrow morning as we do every day at 7 00 a. M. Eastern time. Joining us tomorrow morning is jeff mason, White House Correspondent for reuters and a reporter from the hill newspaper. Congress among the topics we will discuss tomorrow morning. A lot of politics in South Carolina and the road to super tuesday. Newsmakers is up next. Check out our book tv programming. Thanks for joining us. Enjoy the rest of your weekend