Im told me all laddie well welcome to the program voters across the United States have been casting ballots to decide who should take on donald trump in the race for the white house on this super tuesday as its called millions of voters a choosing but among the 5 Democratic Party candidates left in the race for the president ial nomination and youre watching live images from virginia where polls have just closed voting has also ended in vermont. Now whats crucial about super tuesday is that 14 states are holding primaries today under the system the more votes a candidate gets the more delegates there are awarded and the states with the most democratic democratic delegates up for grabs are california with 415 and texas would to 28 the results should yield a clearer picture of who has the best shot at clinching the democratic president ial nomination. Now well have coverage as the polls close and as results come in over the next few hours but right now correspondent alexander of the nominee is in los angeles and reporter william do craft is with me here in studio lets begin with you alexandra polls have just closed in vermont thats Bernie Sanders home state hes seen as the front runner for the nomination along with joe biden is one of them likely to secure the democratic president ial nomination by the end of super tuesday. Well i dont think thats likely to happen because that would mean that. Would carry all the super tuesday states and would get all the delegates and thats not likely to happen as we can see when we could sit out the 1st projections for virginia where. Joe biden seems to be winning and moment senator Bernie Sanders is at least by one network to be winning so probably we are not going to see a candidate for the democratic nomination. Maybe we will get a good hint of who has to best chances right now here at the polling station in West Los Angeles where we have still 4 hours to go 4 hours before the vote to cast a ballot ok william when the results start coming in were talking from North Carolina virginia of a moment what should we be looking out for well alexander was exactly right were going to have a very good indication after this day is over this night is over who is going to be the likely democratic candidate for proud of the nominee for a democratic president we want to see really how well is joe biden and Bernie Sanders going to do in these states we have a real choice democrats have a real choice here often in these primaries its often said that to win and to win your nomination of your party you need to go to your base so democrats have to go farther to the left to win their base and republicans the republicans have to go further right and then to win the whole the whole ballgame to win the presidency they all think come back to the middle so youll see in a normal primary season youll see a candidate sort of trending left or trending right regardless what they actually believe but in this primary we were actually have a real candidate to the left and a real candidate in the middle that being joe biden and also Michael Bloomberg and so. So democratic voters in these states are facing a real choice if they want to have a more left leaning catheter or more moderate candidate ok stay with me alexandra and well it will come back to you in a few minutes but 1st we want to take a look at the wild card candidate on the super tuesday Michael Bloomberg the billionaire former new york city mayor is making his debut in the democratic primaries and is hoping an impressive delegate hole can catapult him into nomination into contention for the nomination. When youre watching live images of bloomberg rally in West Palm Beach florida where the audience is waiting for their candidate to speak. Now bloomberg has already spent more than half a 1000000000. 00 of his fortune on his campaign but will pay off. Mike bloomberg at one of his rare rallies in Houston Texas here the former new york mayor is presenting himself as the only candidate who can stop donald trump so if you align someone who talks turkey and who has a record of accomplishments and all the big issues facing our country and country and if you want somebody has the resources to beat trump thats made. Of Mike Bloomberg resources in other words his wealth is a controversial topic among voters while some say his money makes him independent others say the billionaire wants to buy the election. Were essentially in the middle of a Political Science experiment we dont know how this is going to turn out no one has ever thrown this much money at a primary before i dont see that hes trying to buy the election hes using his resources to make a difference for america i say that he cant be bought is really what that means a nation divided by an age of control president Mike Bloomberg is running on president diddley Expensive Campaign he has spent 300000000. 00 on t. V. Ads he doesnt accept donations relying instead on his own fortune brings people together that means hes spend President Trump in 2016 with up about 60 6000000. 00 of his personal money on his campaign and his democratic rivals Mike Bloomberg spent already twice as much as Bernie Sanders and joe biden combined. Thanks to his money Mike Bloomberg seems to be everywhere he has bought 1500000 facebook ads and even paid ordinary people to post messages supporting him on their profiles. The mayor bloomers not to charm you and hes not gonna make you fall in love with this policy ideas but his aunts are thing to behold wonderfully produced the best visuals the best audio hes good at making commercials can he persuade voters that commercials are enough i dont think so. Super tuesday Mike Bloomberg is on the ballot for the 1st time this primary season some polls put him among the top 3 candidates for now it seems like his big spending has paid off. Because when i look sandra phenomena is still with us in los angeles and. New craft is here with me in studio and its andrea is bloomberg strategy likely to pay off will he scoop up the delegates today. Well i think that the key question here is how well is he going to do well is he going to do well enough to continue his campaign he seems to be determined to do so even though a number of moderate democrats are accusing him of stealing the votes from joe biden but today he said that hes determined to continue but of course it will depend on the amount the delegates that he will get up to super tuesday and we also have to add that he doesnt have a deep doesnt seem to have a deep connection with his voters just like joe biden does and we also dont see very energized crowds at his rallies as it is to case that any center is rallies. William we are getting projections here but the sound is winning. And joe biden getting the ginia but between these 2 who should be more worried about Mike Bloomberg i mean traditional wisdom would be joe biden because hes the other socalled moderate candidate in this race and biden is accusing bloomberg of stealing votes from him and bloomberg is shooting that accusation right back at him youre stealing votes for me. Bloomberg got rather angry at reporters earlier today by saying youre not asking biden if you should drop out of the race against me why should you ask me if im dropping out of the race against him this split this was the bigger risk earlier for centrist democrats when there was still club char and booted judge in the race that the moderate vote was getting spread over all these candidates leaving Bernie Sanders alone on the left side of the spectrum to gather up all the the delegates now were just down to 2 sanders is still kind of left on his own with warren also on the left but trailing very quite quite far behind him ok well continue the conversation in just a moment but 1st california and texas are among the most closely watched contests in both of them the large latino population is expected to play a big role in tuesdays primary and its under phenomena traveled to los angeles to see which issues are energizing latino voters there. Which is a minimum it on the air with armando why you have produced with cant help you k w a latino Radio Station in los angeles sports not politics is his passion but this tuesday armando says many latinos just like email are eager to get out and vote. Theyre looking for a good leader theyre looking for somebody that theyre going to give you confidence theyre going to give them. Peas for. Their own leaving most of our latino as we leave checked paycheck to paycheck. President down home trumps policies and transfer week to stir many of the teams they all are hoping for a candidate who can place him. As soon as california moved its primary to super tuesday it was clear latinos would be crucial in choosing the democrats president ial nominee they represent roughly a 3rd of the states eligible voters and their influence is growing. A rally in Downtown Los Angeles county fornia super tuesday speaker price with its 415. 00 delegates no wonder the candidates are complaining to them that last minutes these are the centers he seems to be the most successful candidate in reaching out to latinos both. I think you just talked to a lot of people that are like did not believe the franchise by the. Big corporations and special interests whether its Big Oil Big Pharma the gun industry are essentially creating our policy with their money and what green anderson doing is trying to take the power away from the big corporations and give it back to the people i got sick people are struggling right now people are falling into homelessness mean the 1st time in their lives because rents are too high. Housing homes guarantee candidate like center centers. And i believe that we need to invest in mass Public Housing after the rally at meo is tackled from a popular place in the neighborhood we need christian i ran a poll to see directed at the Latino Community foundation whose goal it is to make sure that every see the latino can so hes hoping for a high turnout on super tuesday latinos have been traumatized living under the Top Administration you know if you look at the child separation crisis he tried to end the doco program i feel like latinos in this particular action ours are seeing this as a moment to really fight back and actually stand up to whats happening in our country today. And super tuesday seems like an important 1st step to bring about change. Now lets return again to the correspondent alexander phenomenon in los angeles and. William blue cross here in the studio alexandra quickly and very briefly could the latino population decide the result today. Well thats what they definitely want to be talking here about 7700000 voters and they want a big say in who gets to nomination to have a candidate whose policies speak to their communities looking women what about 1st time voters or any other particular demographic will they have a crucial role in this i mean i didnt disclose you know voters black voters we saw a huge support for joe biden in South Carolina and that looks to be holding in other states with large black populations as well so that will be another key demographic we should be looking at today ok correspondent alexandria phenomena in los angeles and william do craft in the studio thank you. And a reminder of the top story were following for you people across the United States have been voting in the Democratic Partys super tuesday primaries polls are not closed in the states of them on and virginia voters in 14 states are deciding who should take on donald trump in the race for the white house. 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