for the whole country. cheering. this victory could be down to many things. a well organised campaign on local issues and lingering anti brexit sentiment in a remain voting area. but many conservatives believe in a general election the result would still go their way. vicki young, bbc news, amersham. i m joined now by lord hayward, a conservative peer and a former mp. thanks very much for being with us. is this surprising and not so much that the lib dems won but the scale of that? , , that the lib dems won but the scale of that? , , ,., ~ of that? yes. it s both i think the toic of that? yes. it s both i think the to - ic that of that? yes. it s both i think the topic that was of that? yes. it s both i think the topic that was very of that? yes. it s both i think the topic that was very good - of that? yes. it s both i think the topic that was very good analysis j topic that was very good analysis that was given by vicki young. but it is both the victory and the scale of it. yo
to the american project. like donald trump they are all in on this cheating as a political project for the party. and it goes beyond this impeachment. you have gerrymandering in states like wisconsin and carolina as soon as they get controlled. these things have become just endemic in states they want to control, because they want to control who they re voting constituency is. they want the right people voting. and he won by 50,000 votes to abrams and to look at kemp s own efforts to close down voting precincts and he found, they found those attempts took away probably 50 to 85,000 votes. and the people disproportionately affected were
how these things get scheduled in an intricate process with the dnc. but this is a national split screen momentous countdown three hours and 22 minutes here like we ve never seen. well, and i don t have a track record of great debate performances for the politicians for whom i served under my belt. but i would say if i were giving advice, i would say it is not joe biden s job to respond to this by himself because if donald trump will ask the ukrainians for dirt on the bidens, donald trump will ask anyone for dirt on anyone. can i ask you a question? sure. i know you re in charge here and you ve been leading us intrepidly. but given your expertise and you re leading our coverage, i am curious as we look at the debate part tonight which we haven t gotten to as much as we wait for the hearing to start. what would you say exactly to that, the other democratic candidates who as always in these primaries, they speak as wanting to be the nominee but they also speak to an audience of v
you re buttigieg, but this 2004 example is a reminder of how jumbled the races can be. leading at any point in better than losing at all the points. talk about beyond iowa and let s look at some of the numbers from south carolina. that is where buttigieg has come under some fire, particularly as it relates to the critical voting constituency, african-american voters. can he roll it to other states, particularly south carolina 60%, probably more than 60% of the electorate will be african-american. certainly not the case in iowa. take a look at the latest iowa poll and look at this. biden, warren, buttigieg in single digits. 37 points behind joe biden. this has been the story the entire time in south carolina. you take a poll in south carolina, biden isn t just leading overwhelmingly, he s winning overwhelmingly support from black voters. and i think that s the biggest problem sign for buttigieg. even as he s moved up in iowa and a little in national polls,
general election candidate but that s a long way to go. i will say this, if bloomberg eventually opts not to run as a democratic but instead as a third party all that does even his own advisors recognize that would hand the presidency back to trump. if you look at elizabeth warren or bernie sanders those further left than moorg is. right. they see this as an opportunity as confirmation of what they have been saying all along. they do. but moorg as the rappers would say don t put no fear in nobody s heart. as a democratic voter. okay. get out of here. as a democratic voter these are the people i talk to outside of the bubble every day. i don t know what michael bloomberg brings to this that voters have been looking for. he is not the missing link in any voting constituency that i would speak to. this seems like the world s most remarkable vanity project of the moment. if you are a billionaire maybe