of south carolina, saying in part, quote, in 2020, it was the voters of south carolina who proved the pundits wrong, breathed new life into our campaign, and set us on the path to winning the presidency. now, in 2024, the people of south carolina have spoken again. and i have no doubt that you have set us on the path to winning the presidency again, and making donald trump a loser, again. of course, we are also watching breaking news coming out of the middle east. after the united states and the uk launched a new series of strikes today, targeting the houthis in yemen. the attacks hit at least 36 targets in at least 36 locations across the country. a senior biden administration official told nbc news today that the strikes in yemen, and yesterday s attacks on more than 85 targets linked to iranian-backed militias in iraq and syria are not related. but let s go back to politics, first to those live primary results we are getting out of south carolina. our team of correspondent
versus a progressive one. first it was clinton versus sanders and then biden versus sanders. they had been engaging in vigorous policy debate. joe has voted for terrible trade agreements. i don t know that there s any trade agreement that the senator would ever think made any sense. joe and i have a fundamental disagreement here, in case you haven t noticed. [ laughter ] obviously the paris accord is useful but talks to doesn t go anywhere if you re laughing, joe, you re missing the point. this is an existential crisis. about a year later, biden s governing from the core and base of the democratic party. the progressive base, pushing the liberal plans i just mentioned, spending that outstrips anything from the early days of the obama/biden administration, pushing higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations, and joe biden taking sides with labor more than he did in past decades or
are fixated on impeaching the president instead of fixing the problem. laura: i think they see, after watching this debate last night, there is no one on that stage. i don t care, you could show me a poll, all these polls. when two people are on a stage and you are not insulated by anderson cooper or by someone, it s going to be trump versus warren, or trump versus sanders. that s it. i didn t see one person on that stage and they know it. they ve got to try to remove him from office. they know they re not going to win the selection. i don t care, i m going to keep saying it. i think they know when they have to come out of a meeting saying, it was a meltdown, it was a meltdown. how many times has she said th that? they said that back in may, that it was a meltdown. speak of the important part, who is the leader? the person who stayed in the room and had a discussion pair the people who leave the room are the ones who can t handle it. if you re going to have an exchange of ideas and y
problem. laura: i think they see, after watching this debate last night, there is no one on that stage. i don t care, you could show me a poll, all these polls. when two people are on a stage and you are not insulated by anderson cooper or by someone, it s going to be trump versus warren, or trump versus sanders. that s it. i didn t see one person on that stage and they know it. they ve got to try to remove him from office. they know they re not going to win the election. i don t care, i m going to keep saying g it. i think they know when they have to come out of a meeting saying, it was a meltdown, it was a w meltdown. how many times has she said that? they said that back in may, that it was a meltdown. the important part, who is thee leader? the person who stayed in the room and had a discussion. the people who leave the room are the ones who can t handle d it.
dream possible are under attack like never before with the grim spec tore of socialism descending on the democratic party. we re fighting for this country and we re fighting for what we grew up with, the values that we want. as we continue this conversation, if you look at the north carolina race and you just start thinking about 2020, with 2016 in mind and what happened in 2016, look at this poll match-up. trump versus clinton in 2016, the president won the suburbs by 4 poins, but republicans if you go back in time, the suburbs used to be critical. he won rural areas by 27. look at him in these match-ups. biden crushes him and the president holds an advantage in rural areas. trump versus sanders, same dynamic, versus warren, versus harris, versus buttigieg, all run stronger than trump s