las vegas for the lesser known candidates like former mt. governor martin o malley, the debate is a chance to find support that has so far alluded them. but one of the biggest potential challengers to clinton and sanders won t even be there. vice president joe biden is still weighing whether to run. on cbs president obama said he understands why biden might get in. if you re sitting right next to the president in every meeting, you know, wrestling with these issues, i m sure that for him he s saying to himself i could do a really good job. now, another reason why these new cnn/orc poll numbers have some democrats more bullish on hillary clinton has to do with the black vote in south carolina. she gets 59% of this key voting demographic for democrats if joe biden is in the race. but check this out take joe biden out of the race she pops all the way up to 84%. bernie sanders only at 7%. he s really struggled to speak to black voters in a way where
everything right now. if vice president biden were to show up and participate in this debate, it changes everything. all of a sudden hillary clinton has to her right bernie sanders and to her left she has joe biden. you can look at the polls right now. you meant that physically. yes, physically. not politically. i think that according to the lectern positioning at this point. certainly not from a political standpoint. but if you look at the polls in just the last 24 hours, cnn/orc polls show vice president biden would be a factor in nevada. he would be in third place in nevada without biden in the race hillary clinton s lead rose dramatically in this early primary or early caucus state. in south carolina he places in second without being a declared candidate. until the white house puts out, and you know this from being a white house correspondent, until it puts out its daily guidance for tomorrow and says joe biden will be at the white house attending meetings, the vice presi
and webb holding, what can martin o malley do after riding a summer long hot streak to become the chip leader in new hampshire, is bernie sanders now playing with house money? or will his luck change? and does hillary clinton need to do more than just cover the spread? if she busts tomorrow night, will that be enough to convince vice president joe biden to pony up and join the table? i want to get right to cnn senior political correspondent brianna keilar. brianna, these new cnn/orc polls out this morning from nevada and south carolina seem to suggest that democrats still think clinton is the safe bet. yeah, that s right. because they believe, jake, that certainly if you see bernie sanders doing well in new hampshire that after that there may not be a pathway for him to get to the nomination. so hillary clinton they think is still at this point doing significantly better than he is. but at the same time the idea of a loss in new hampshire would be stinging for her. so you ll see her
hewitt, you and i have talked about this, what trump is doing on the right, in some ways, sanders is doing on the left. sure. he s exciting people who haven t previously been excited. a year ago i thought she was going to be the prohibitive favorite. now i fear joe biden will get in because it will be harder for my republican candidate to beat thank you so much. really appreciate it. don t miss your first chance to see the democratic presidential debates on one stage at the cnn facebook democratic debate. coverage starts tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. eastern. anderson cooper will be the moderator. you can weigh in on the conversation using #demdebate. september 11th, 2012, the events of that date will haunt the rest of hillary clinton s political future no matter what happens here in vegas tomorrow. but now a bombshell revelation. one man fired from the republican-led committee charged with investigating that day says the panel seemed to change and hyper focus on hillary clinton. he do
you were talking about how you talked to a top democratic official. let s talk to one ourselves. joining me communications director for the democratic national committee. lewis miranda. thank you, jake. i know you cannot betray emotion one way or the other about vice president biden joining the race? i worked for the vice president for four years so i have deep respect for him. regardless of whether he s on stage or not, this is going to be a field we re already seeing in all of the talk and coverage building up to this debate this is going to be a substantive conversation. i think that s what s exciting is whether he s in or not we have a field talking about the issues that effect people like here in nevada who saw some of the highest rates of unemployment, some of the highest rates of foreclosures during what the last republican administration left behind. and for a change we re actually going to see presidential candidates talking about those issues and how do we move forwar