Bounce . It is important. We look back to 1984, and the democratic caucus, Water Mondale ahead in the polls, 49 in the last iowa poll. 48. 9 . There is a surprise number, too. Gary hart at 17 . He was polling at 3. 3 points in the last iowa poll, and shows up less than a week later at 17, for the next 8 days thats all we talk about. He then knocks mondale off in new hampshire, and the contest for the democratic nomination in 1984 finally settled on June 5th final set of primaries when hardt takes south dakota, new mexico. Mondale takes New Jersey and West Virginia and clinches the with 22 delegates to spare. This is important. Bret thats no monkey business. That was four years later. Bret i know. Thank you, guys. Here are other headlines tonight. One woman is dead. More than a dozen injured in a series of stabbings and rammings
above 50%. emma got a contest for second place is two elements to it. first of all who s going to be in second place? will it beat nikki haley or ron desantis? and how good to second place number going to be? 1984 everyone knew walter mondale be the nominee paired 49% in the final cells are iowa poll comes in on 48.9% in the boat. number two is a surprise. gary hart we are off to the races. we are gary hart. he beats mondo and new hampshire we have a contest that goes on for five more months. neil: was right to the convention for. a final contest are on june 5 hart takes california, new mexico south dakota mondo six west virginia and new jersey. consciously with 21 delegates to spare. yes 21.
surprises happen. you go back to 1984, walter mondale was a leader who went into iowa at 49% in the last iowa poll on caucus night he nailed it 48.9% s. but there is a surprise second finisher. gary hartman them polling at 3% came in second with 16 for the next eight days all we did was listening to conversation about what a surprise that was. he beat mondale in new hampshire the contest took until june 5 to settle mondale became the democratic nominee but in the meantime gary hart 127 contest and on the final day of the primary season walter mondale secure the nomination with 21 delegates despair. my point is, as you start out don t let people create surprises. do not let someone get momentum for the best way to do that is to unite the party and act like a front runner not to be belittling your opposition and creating animosity.
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dive into some key counties we ll be watching as the results come in, take you back into the midterm election mode as we watch the election results come in. obviously the state we are looking at is georgia. midterm election results, you ll see some of the key counties for candidates, warnock, when you set this up obviously as an urban versus rural picture, warnock focusing in the urban areas, fulton county, atlanta georgia, 10% of the state s vote will be coming from. atlanta, georgia, fulton county. go back to the midterm elections, 48.9% was the margin of victory for warnock then. that was end greater than back in 2021 for the run-off election, he won 45.1% of the margin, it was 45.1%. so, any turnout as far as vote for warnock in some of these urban areas in the high 40s, he starts to look pretty good, and pretty good shape.