wednesday, february 12th, 4:00 a.m. in new york. there's an established front-runner in the democratic race. cnn projects bernie sanders winning the new hampshire primary on the heels of a win in the popular vote in iowa. the win for sanders surprisingly tight in a state where he cleaned up four years ago. >> moderates advancing as they try to slow the party's move to the left. pete buttigieg coming in a very close second. and amy klobuchar surging into third place. elizabeth warren, a distant fourth even though she's from neighboring massachusetts. >> joe biden came in fifth. cnn predicts neither warren nor biden will make the threshold to get delegates. >> this victory here is the beginning of the end for donald trump. [ cheers ] we are taking on billionaires and taking on candidates funded by billionaires. [ cheers ] we're going to nevada, we're going to south carolina, we're going to win those states, as well. [ cheers ] >> i admired senator sanders when i was a high school student. i respect him greatly to this day, and i congratulate him on his strong showing tonight. and thanks to you, a campaign that some said shouldn't be here at all has shown that we are here to stay. [ cheers ] in a politics of my way or the highway is a road to re-electing donald trump. if today's washington were serving is america well, a guy like donald trump would never have come within cheating distance of the oval office in the first place. >> i'm amy klobuchar, and i will beat donald trump. [ cheers ] we have beaten the odds every step of the way. [ cheers ] we have done it on the merits. we have done it with ideas, and we have done it with hard work. >> the reality of sanders at the top setting in for one influential group. the culinary union now distributing a flyer that says sanders would end culinary health care if elected. the biggest change for the candidates going forward, the demographic map. the race now moves from mostly white iowa and new hampshire to a far more diverse nevada and south carolina. phil mattingly is still standing at the magic wall with a look at what happened overnight. phil? >> reporter: did i have an option to leave? i don't want to leave. we have data that's nice. let's focus on who won. that's bernie sanders. there was some expectation that we would win. he's the light blue, and obviously you see a lot of light blue when look at the space, especially manchester, concord, nashua, university towns like plymouth and keene. that's why he won. i think one of the big questions going into the night was what would be the scale of his victory and why is that the case? want to pull this out. why is it the case? go back to 2016, you mentioned it, it was a wipeout. bernie sanders with a 20-plus-point victory over hillary clinton at that time, and bernie sanders from vermont, a neighboring state. why did it tend up being so tight? i think look at this map and you see a lot of light green. that's pete buttigieg. green, amy klobuchar. it's unclear why they cut into places that hillary clinton could not in 2016. pete buttigieg winning a number of townships, also in a populated mostly affluent area in the southeastern part of the state. doing well. amy klobuchar in the center of the state, republican-leaning areas, taking advantage of those. i think one of the most interesting part of the night, when you saw the early returns, it was clear 5% on this was a three-person race. it wasn't by ideological lanes were liberals were going in one direction and moderates in another. you look at where bernie sanders was in first, second, and third. if fills out pretty much the entire map. he was in places where amy klobuchar won and pete buttigieg won. it was a three-person race throughout the course of the night. it ended up in a tight thr three-person race by the end of the night. what does that mean for joe biden? there's a reason he was in south carolina and not in new hampshire. this obviously is not a good number. the idea that this equals zero delegates is not a good number. when you see where joe biden came in first, second, or third, you realize when none of those states were able -- none of those towns were able to produce delegates and none had more than 100 voters in them, that was a bad night. i think elizabeth warren, as well, somebody who over the summer was doing very well in new hampshire. obviously also from a neighboring state. that would seem to be problematic that she only came in fourth place, too. i think everything you're hearing from the campaigns right now is they recognize that these were just the first two states. iowa and new hampshire. while we have two clear front-runners, bernie sanders, pete buttigieg, leading the delegates, there's a recognition of what comes next. you hit on it, a very different demographic set for the next two contests. look at nevada which comes next and south carolina. nevada basically a much larger hispanic and latino population, nearly 220%. in south carolina, a huge african-american population, a huge part of the democratic coalition. that's what candidates, most especially joe biden who's there right now, are looking toward as they go forward. and you hit on the culinary union in nevada, that will play a big role with bernie sanders. based on the results tonight, here's where things stand -- pete buttigieg leading in delegates even though he came in second tonight, with the iowa finish that he had. bernie sanders close by, then elizabeth warren, amy klobuchar obviously having a good night of her own. doing a lot better than people expected. the momentum out of the friday debate. the big question is we know where things are after the first two contests, but the map is about to look differently demographically with the contest to the come, guys. >> very different. thanks very much. it's going to be a long 17 days for joe biden before the south carolina primary. the former vice president led the democratic polls for the better part of a year but left new hampshire before most people even voted. >> we just heard from the first two of the 50 states. two of them. not all the nation, not half the nation, not a quarter of the nation, not 10%, two. two. where i come from, that's the opening bell. we need to hear from nevada and south carolina and super tuesday states and beyond. >> jessica dean covers the biden campaign. she's live in new hampshire. the former vice president is right, it's just two states. but no democrat has won the nomination coming in fourth or fifth in iowa and new hampshire. >> reporter: that's exactly right, christine. so you're looking at history and wondering, okay, what is the path forward here? will the biden campaign will tell you, it's about to look a lot different in terms of what will be voting in this democratic primary. up until now we've had primarily white voters in iowa and new hampshire. the biden campaign is really ready for a more diverse electorate to start participating within this primary process. they have long looked to south carolina as what they've considered their firewall where joe biden has maintained very high support among african-americans. they're also looking to nevada, the hispanic population there. and then beyond, into super tuesday states, to the south, into texas and california. they want to expand the map to expand who's voting in this primary because they believe when that happens joe biden is going to be positioned to do very well. now the problem with hanging everything on that premise is then you have to do really well. so it is -- there's a lot of pressure on joe biden and his campaign to not only win in south carolina, for example, but to really win in south carolina, to really make a statement on super tuesday as they look ahead. as one person close to the campaign told me, it is put up or shut occuup time in south carolina. you can talk about it all you want, but you got to deliver results there. not surprising that they would go right to south carolina. surprising they would do it before the polls closed in new hampshire. when you look at the results it explains in, and you can tell by what they decided to do yesterday morning, when they made the announcement that they'd be going to south carolina. that the writing was kind of on the wall there. we also saw elizabeth warren last night in new hampshire, a neighboring senator, of course from massachusetts. she like joe biden won't be taking any delegates away from new hampshire. we heard her come out and talk about party unity. we heard her hit donald trump, the roger stone situation that's gone on right now. but they said they are fighting ahead, pushing ahead. we'll keep an eye on the warren campaign. and then two things -- two people to note that are respect toing out of the race. andrew yang and senator michael bennett of colorado. those two had really hinged a lot of their hopes here in new hampshire. and it just did not deliver for them. starting to see the field narrow a little bit. likely see more of that as we continue on down this road. >> i would say so. all right, thank you so much for that. so more ahead on the primary results. plus, the president of the united states is making a mockery of the enforcement of justice with a tweet. - do you have a box of video tapes, film reels, or photos, that are degrading? 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buttigieg. it was a diametrically opposed -- it's democrats agree they want trump out of office. but they totally disagree -- >> about who can do it -- >> about who can do it and how best to get there. what do you make of this? i mean, how does the party figure out how to capitalize on that? >> reporter: yeah, that speaks to the broader elect ability airport that's taking place within the democratic party now. do democrats, did the voters across the country want someone who's going to bring change, who's going to be a change agent, who's going to shake up washington even more than it's been shaken up the past three years, or do they want someone who will bring calm and unity and sort of have a period after donald trump that allows the country to come together and heal. you see different candidates making different messages. bernie sanders saying, you know, it's time to have a political revolution, it's time to take on the billionaire class while buttigieg and amy klobuchar are saying we don't ies necessarilyd a revolution. we need to get as much done as possible for the most people. that's an argument that's likely to take place for several weeks going forward in this primary because voters are split on that. there are some who want that political revolution, and they are powering bernie sanders' campaign. there are others that are saying, we don't want to go that far. we want someone to unite the country, and they're looking at buttigieg and klobuchar. >> they're calling it the klobu-surge, klobu-charge. does she have what she needs for the next states? >> she's shot out of a cannon in ia and new hampshire. it remains to be seen whether or not she can capitalize on that. she's had the benefit of momentum. we've seen others go up in the polls early. she seems to have timed her rise in a strategic way. it remains to be seen whether or not she can capitalize on that quickly and go into more diverse states in nevada and south carolina and super tuesday and show that she has a broader electorate, an appeal to the broader electorate beyond the early states where she's spent a lot of time over the past several months campaigning in iowa, having that debate in new hampshire. now things happen rapidly, very quickly, and she's going to have to be able to ramp up the organization quickly if she's going to compete over the long term. >> noteworthy, she's able to do that even though for a good part of the last few weeks she was a juror in the senate impeachment trial. >> that's right. >> and so she was still able to get it done even though some of her colleagues weren't so much. i want to get your thoughts on elizabeth warren. obviously she comes in fourth. there's focus understandably on joe biden, the presumptive front-runner, at least in national polls. how does elizabeth warren recover from this? how does she reset going into nevada and south carolina? >> yeah, she's going to have to do something differently. there was an article in the paper yesterday about how she was planning to double down on her strategy. and that hasn't worked so far. even if she struggled in the state that's close by to her home state, if she struggled in new hampshire, staying in the single digits, there's not much of an argument for why she would do better in nevada or south carolina or going to the south, going to some of the super tuesday states. unless she does have a reset and retool her campaign, it will be difficult to see her being able to compete with bernie sanders. as you see, bernie sanders has been able to take a significant part of the progressive wing. he's been able to consolidate that vote. she was competing for that vote earlier this summer. it seems like at this point bernie sanders is running away it. >> you cover the white house. we have got to talk about this earthquake yesterday with the department of justice. we have never seen something like this before. if there weren't a new hampshire primary, we would be talking about this nonstop. the president of the united states saying he has every right to but didn't intervene against the sentencing recommendations to his friend roger stone even as he's intervening on twitter about the event. walk us through how monumental that was that we saw yesterday. >> yeah. this looks like a textbook case of political interference in a justice department matter which is normally something that is anathema to justice department activity. they say that they are independent of political interference. they don't allow the president to decide who gets a harsh sentence, who gets prosecuted, who doesn't get prosecuted. it seems that's the case. the president tweeted his thoughts about the potential sentence for his friend and confidante roger stone, and immediately the justice department decided that they wanted to reverse themselves. we saw what amounts to some sort of a tuesday night massacre in which four prosecutors on the case decided to leave the case after they were overruled by the justice department. it is a very messy situation that's hard for the white house or the justice department to try to explain this as a condense, if the president didn't have anything to do with it, when anyone with an inbiased view would say it's clear he had an agenda of his own and things turned in favor of the president's ally. whether or not the president continues to use the justice department to help his friends and go after his enemies is something that remains to be seen. >> part of what's so mind-boggling about it is that the justice department won that case. jurors found stone guilty. i mean, it is just confounding -- >> the witness tampering is one of the reasons -- there's a formula for these sentencing guidelines. and the witness tampering -- i mean, one after another, there were elements of the case that made it tough for roger stone, seven to nine years -- >> that's exactly right. >> up to the judge. >> up to the judge. we'll see what she does. something tells me she's going to have questions for the doj. thank you so much for getting up with us this morning. we'll see you soon. >> thank you. well, almost 200 people released from a two-week quarantine over coronavirus. but now a ship in japan reporting more cases. what it means for thousands on board. live from the port up next. these folks, they don't have time to go to the post office they have businesses to grow customers to care for lives to get home to they use stamps.com print discounted postage for any letter any package any time right from your computer all the amazing services of the post office only cheaper get our special tv offer go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again! can you help keep these iguys protected online?? 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>> reporter: they're frustrated. they're scared. they're tense. some are angry. some are just really -- they all really want to get off the ship. the common sentiment is how do we get off, when do we get off, is this february 19th deadline going to hold? according to princess cruise lines, in charge of this ship, they do believe that the quarantine period that is mandatory right now for all passengers will end on the 19th. in the meantime, that's a long time from now from people waking up every day just waiting to see if more cases will be announced. the japanese government said that even the cases that were announced today, they believe the people picked up the virus before the quarantine started. they still believe that the quarantine is working and that the best way forward is to keep it in place. you know, people are getting tired of hearing that as the cases continue to go up. here's what one man had to say when we spoke to him earlier today. >> yeah, feels a lot like -- just another day, more passengers, it gets a bit tiring for sure. kind of feel like a punching bag. you just don't know what's going to be next. >> reporter: this comes as the world health organization is warning that the coronavirus, if it spreads to countries less robust health care systems, places in latin america and africa, they could be harder to contain this virus. they are urging countries to invest in preparedness now to try and take vaadvantage of thi window of opportunity to keep the virus relatively contained and keep the death toll and zin infection rates as low as possible. >> matt rivers in japan. thanks. well, a razor-thin win, but still a win for bernie sanders. what the new hampshire primary results mean for a muddled 2020 democratic field. introducing tide power pods with cat & nat. that is such a large load, don't the stains sneak through? 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[ cheers ] >> bernie sanders with the win in new hampshire, but it was razor thin. who's right behind him and who's on life support in a crowded field. welcome back to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm laura jarrett. about 32 minutes past the hour here in new york. there is an established front-runner in the democratic race. cnn projects bernie sanders winning the new hampshire primary on the heels of a win in the popular vote in iowa. the win for sanders surprisingly tight in a state where he cleaned up four years ago. >> moderates advancing as they try to slow the party's move to the left. pete buttigieg in a close second and amy klobuchar surging into third. elizabeth warren, a distant fourth even though she's from neighboring massachusetts. >> joe biden wasn't in new hampshire for election returns. he came in fifth. since 1968, every single democratic presidential nominee took first or second in new hampshire. >> this victory here is the beginning of the end for donald trump. [ cheers ] we are taking on billionaires, and we're taking on candidates funded by billionaires. we're going to nevada, we're going to south carolina, we're going to win those states, as well. >> i admired senator sanders when i was a high school student. i respect him greatly to this day, and i congratulate him on his strong showing tonight. and thanks to you, a campaign that some said shouldn't be here at all has shown that we are here to stay. [ cheers ] in a politics of my way or the highway is a road to re-electing donald trump. if today's washington were serving america well, a guy like donald trump would never have come within cheating distance of the oval office in the first place. >> i'm amy klobuchar, and i will beat donald trump. [ cheers ] we have beaten the odds every step of the way. [ cheers ] we have done it on the merits. we have done it with ideas, and we have done it with hard work. >> now the reality of sanders at the top setting in for an influential group. the culinary union. new distributing a flyer that says sanders would end culinary health care if elected. the biggest change for the candidates going forward, the demographic map, the race now moves from mostly white iowa and new hampshire to formore diverse nevada and south carolina. phil mattingly with a look at what happened overnight. phil? >> reporter: want to get to what comes next in a minute. let's start with bernie sanders. he has an unending amount of millions in grassroots fund-raising support, one of the best organizations in the race. now he has a primary victory, a repeat of 2016. the numbers are a little different. right now with 97% reporting up by 4,000 votes. cnn called the primary for bernie sanders. i'll tell you why. bernie sanders in the most poplace areas of new hampshire doing extremely well. the largest townships, he won all three. plymouth, durham, in places like that, also big numbers where you expect public university students to come out in a big way for bernie sanders, they did, in fact, do that. guys, take a look at this map, and you'll see not just bernie sanders light blue but light green for pete buttigieg, dark green for amy klobuchar. why is that different? that's different from 2016 when it was a wipeout of light blue for bernie sanders when he was up against hillary clinton. if you want to know why in is different, there's a couple of things. one, it's obviously a different race, a larger field, more robust organization for a lot of those people. obviously a lot more money here. you also had candidates that were able to break into the core components of bernie sanders' wall in new hampshire back in 2016. take a look at the border of vermont where bernie sanders is from. you see a lot of light green. that's pete buttigieg taking advantage of opportunities. you also see pete buttigieg doing very well in the southeast part of the state. some of the more affluent townships in the state, doing better well. the better educated parts of the state, doing well. and you had amy klobuchar, where you see the dark green. republican-leaning areas went toward amy klobuchar. one of the most interesting moments was that the race was a static three-person race throughout. you didn't hear much from elizabeth warren or joe biden. what you saw when you go through the top one, two, and three, want to pull up where bernie sanders came up first, second, and third, almost the entire map. who else is in there? amy klobuchar and pete buttigieg. almost the entire map, almost every township. the top three were bernie sanders, pete buttigieg, and amy klobuchar. and not necessarily in that order come means they weren't ideological lanes so much as there were three dominant candidates. who was not dominant? that's easy to tell when you look at this. first, elizabeth warren, also a neighboring senator from massachusetts, down here. coming in 9.3%. not getting any delegates. and you have to actually scroll down to see where joe biden ended up. 8.4%. a very disappointing showing when his clearly aware it was coming. they were in south carolina when it all took place. i think that underscores the reality of what's next. you guys were talking about the demographic make-up of what's coming in the races ahead. take a look at the first two contests that we had had in this democratic primary, make-up. iowa, 91% white. limited minority groups. new hampshire, even higher percentage of white vote. very limited minority communities in the state. pete buttigieg and bernie sanders in both iowa and new hampshire were able to take advantage of those demographics. the big question going forward -- do they have a coalition that can go broader than that? let's look at what's coming demographically. you have a very different picture. frankly, a picture more reflective of the democratic party. in nevada, a major hispanic and latino population that will be voting in the democratic primary. 20% statewide. that number will go even higher when you're talking about just democratic voters. south carolina where joe biden was, he's not even being subtle about why he was down there, it's this -- 26.5% of the population voting is first place. even larger when you get into a democratic primary's perspective. that's where candidates are looking going forward. but the reality is this right now -- at the moment, pete buttigieg and bernie sanders, bernie sanders with the win tonight, pete buttigieg having a great night in iowa -- iowa last week, having another great night. they are looking at a timeline that is going to look different state by state going forward. however, as it currentlyver ber sanders. -- slight lead over bernie sanders. elizabeth warren and amy klobuchar with a good night for sitting at seven. joe biden at six. real questions about the money, the organization going forward. no question about it from joe biden. he believes south carolina is his firewall. so much so that he was there on new hampshire primary night. >> yep. remarkable you have to scroll up to find biden on the results. that's just really remarkable. thank you, phil. it's going to be a long 17 days for joe biden before the south carolina primary. the former v.p. led the democratic polls for the best part of a year, but he left new hampshire before most people even voted. >> we just heard from the first two of 50 states, two of them. i all the nation, not half the nation, not a quarter of the nation, not 10%, 2%, 2%. where i come from, that's the opening bell. we need to hear from nevada and south carolina and super tuesday states and beyond. >> jessica dean covers the the s in manchester, new hampshire. jessica, how does he leave before the polls close? >> reporter: yeah. good question, laura. i think a lot of people were going, wait, what's happening? but yeah, that came out yesterday morning, and then that is exactly what happened. joe and jill biden leaving the state of new hampshire before the polls ever closed and flying directly to south carolina which as we've talked about, as phil was saying, the biden campaign does consider its firewall because of his deep support among black voters there ho, again, as we saw in that data, we're about to expand this map, and the biden campaign is excited about that. they think joe biden is primed to do well when a more diverse population is participating in this primary process. and that's about what's going to happen in nevada and south carolina and in super tuesday. the question, though, is how well will he do. when you hinge all of your campaign on this launching pad, you really, really have to perform very well. the biden campaign knows that. and had is why you -- that is why you saw them get out of new hampshire where the writing was on the wall here. you know, you saw, you have to scroll up to get to joe biden's turnout here yesterday. but the writing was on the wall in new hampshire. they wanted to go ahead and start, get down to south carolina, start to fortify that base there. meantime, elizabeth warren also, like biden, not taking delegates home. the neighboring senator. we'll keep an eye on how they plan to move forward and expand as the primary map expands with it. and laura, something to note -- we are starting to see the field kind of narrow a bit. andrew yang and senator michael bennett announcing that they're dropping out of the 2020 democratic primary race. both men had put a lot of effort and time here in new hampshire. it just did not work out for them. a smaller field as we head to nevada. laura? >> all right. jessica dean on the trail for us. thank you so much. and nevada and south carolina are next, followed by super tuesday, march 3rd. the start of a busy month when about two-thirds of all delegates will be up for grabs. "washington post" white house correspondent joining us, nice to see you again. thanks for coming back. look, if so many democrats are saying that the most important thing is beating donald trump, how does the biden campaign make the argument that he's the electability candidate if you have to scroll up to find his name here in the first calm of states? >> yeah, it is very difficult for them to make that argument after iowa and after new hampshire are they finished far beyond the top tier. the argument is that, look, iowa and new hampshire are overwhelmingly white states, as we go into nevada, south carolina, and super tuesday states like california, texas, parts of the south, you'll is a more diverse electorate. some of those states are actually going to be starting early voting relatively quickly. so we're already in the super tuesday election, and biden's campaign is saying that is an area where he can be much more successful. that remains to be seen as a lot of those states are looking at what happened in iowa and new hampshire and wondering whether joe biden has what it takes to actually have the electability argument and show he can defeat donald trump and compete with donald trump among the white working class, among the rural places where president trump seems to be running away with some of those counties than previously voted -- that previously voted for democrats and are voting for trump in high numbers. it remains to be seen whether or not that electability argument can be made by the biden campaign. but they are pointing to more diverse states to make it. >> sure. >> one other thing that seems to emerge from last night is how angry democrats are right now. you see that in some of the exit polls. and certainly, you can make the argument that donald trump rode to the white house on at least a certain kind of anger. how is that going to work for democrats? is anger versus anger an effective strategy for them in this race? >> it could be. we have seen anger drive turnout in previous elections. and the anger toward trump helped in 2018 as the democrats were able to use and use some of that emotion to turn out voters in high numbers and have the suburban voters and people who normally would have considered voting for republicans decide to leave the party and vote for democrats. but the democrats need something to energize their base. the fact that they're having a fractious primary makes it harder to do that. the fact that there's so much anger against president trump may dive out a high turnout in november. >> the president has a really strong message on the economy. i mean, even with the exaggeration hyperbole, the economy, stock market, jobs market. things that conventional wisdom would say are in the president's wheelhouse. michael bennett is somebody i heard make the case how the economy wasn't working for everyone. he's out. andrew yang really sparked a lot of discussion about universal basic income or guaranteed basic income. the idea that some people just aren't -- aren't succeeding in the overall economy and there are fairer ways to do things in income inequality. those are the guys who best made the case, i think, and they're both out this morning. >> there are far more ideas and issues being debated on the democratic side versus president trump who is just saying keep america great, let's stick with what we're doing, deregulation, tax cuts. democrats are trying to figure out how to counter that when you have a strong economy, you have a rising stock market, and you're hearing ideas whether it's health care for all, universal basic income, getting rid of student loan debt, and we've seen in some of the exit polls that democratic voters are also split on what kind of approach they want in terms of figuring out what other voters will accept and what kind of policy they think would be the best to go up against president trump. that's something that hasn't been settled within the party, and it could be several weeks and months before democratic voters decide what kind of economic message -- >> there are lay-ups they could have taken that they didn't. new numbers show record consumer debt. student loan debt, you know, the payback -- more people are having trouble paying back. credit card debt at record highs, and young credit card holders are having trouble paying back their credit card debt. >> it's not part of the narrative. >> if they're trying, it's not breaking through. >> christine romans is trying to help you break through. thank you so much for getting up with us. see you soon. >> thank you. the backbone of american justice facing a grave threat after tweet from president trump. did it change everything? 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"new day" starts right now. nbc10 projects that bernie sanders will win the new hampshire democratic presidential primary. >> this is the beginning of the end for donald trump. [ cheers ] >> you have amy klobuchar, pete buttigieg coming in behind sanders. >> a campaign that some said shouldn'ting here at all has -- shouldn't be here at all has shown we are here to stay. four federal prosecutors withdraw from roger stone's case after top justice department officials overruled their sentence recommendation. >> i thought the recommendation was ridiculous. >> the idea this was just adjustments on the sentence, nonsense. this is "new day." >> welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is a special early edition the new day." 5:00 in new york. breaking news. senator bernie sanders wins the new hampshire primary. with 97% of the votes counted, sanders leads with 25.9% of the vote. former mayor pete buttigieg posting an impressive second-place finish. senator amy klobuchar coming in third, outperforming expectations there. and lagging behind senator elizabeth warren, coming in fourth followed by former vice president joe biden who is in fifth. >> bernie sanders did eke out a win, but it wasn't by a lot. and check this out -- bernie sanders and pete buttigieg end up with the same number of