night, bernie sanders tomorrow night is having a new years eve rally with a band that formerly backed prince but this is a several day string of events for bernie sanders. he s appearing at a brunch here in dallas county. when you look at polling here in iowa, it is up and down but where is bernie sanders consistently stayed at, at about the number two position. and when you look at this primary contest, most of the states are going to be handing out delegates proportionately. so it is not like whoever wins iowa walks away on caucus day with all of the delegates out of iowa and that is where the bernie sanders campaign believe they have a viable path toward winning the nomination. this is a room on a cold, chilly, flurry morning still full for bernie sanders and he has to plans to leave the state until impeachment trial begins over in the senate over on capitol hill. so for bernie sanders, it is about continuing to make his way
scary, right? police say they do not expect to charge the flight attendant. now to battle for white house. the latest republican primary delegate count shows mitt romney with the lead ahead of trailers newt gingrich and rick santorum. but he s still a long way from the 1,144 delegates needed to clinch the republican nomination. first up on the agenda is today s caucus in kansas where 40 delegates are at stake. the real focus are tuesday s primaries in alabama and mississippi where the candidates are hoping to clinch the southern vote. joining me right now is mark murray, nbc news senior political editor, good morning, mark. good morning, alex. let s take a look at the delegate count as it stands currently. can rick santorum or newt gingrich still stage a come back? mathematically they can but the math looks very, very tough for them. we ve actually crunched some of the math. for mitt romney he really just needs to win less than half of all remaining delegates. and so when you
and the people of michigan looked into the hearts of the candidates, and all i have to say is, i love you back. moving ahead to super tuesday, the big kahuna one week from tonight and could change the race completely. with ten states voting, 416 delegates at stake. i m back now with our cnn stellar a-team. led by the king himself, wolf blitzer, john king and gloria borger. welcome to you all. thank you. i ve been watching, as always, the brilliant coverage all night, and my sort of gut feeling is i know a win s a win. mitt romney won arizona. we expected that. and he did sneak through to michigan. but to win only by 3% in your home state when rick santorum was outspent, what, five or six to one, it s bringing it s not exactly a ringing endorsement. as you know, and who knows better than you do, piers, in any kind of soccer or football match or baseball, a win is a win. you can t deny that he did win. it was only a week or ten days or so ago that santorum was ahead i
santorum is putting his best foot forward. he took second place in michigan. in a race that everyone said ignore you have no chance here and the people of michigan looked into the hearts of the candidates and all i have to say is, i love you back. thank you. moving ahead to super tuesday, the big kahuna one week from tonight and could change the race completely. 416 delegates at stake. i m back with our cnn stellar a-team. wolf blitzer, john king, and gloria borger. welcome to you all. thank you. i ve been watching, as always, the brilliant coverage all night and i know when a win is a win. mitt romney won arizona. we expected that. and he did sneak through to michigan. but to win only by 3% in your home state when rick santorum was outspent, what, five or six to one, it s bringing endorsement. as you know, and who knows better than you do, piers, in any kind of soccer or football match or baseball, a win is a win. you can t deny that he did win. it was only a wee
there will only be two republicans on the ballot, that is romney and paul in virginia on march 6th. jon: in one recent quinnipiac poll newt gingrich was leading the state in virginia. the fact that he apparently barring some miracle won t even be on the ballot, does that shoot down his prospects to eventually become the nominee? i don t think this is a game breaker for a number of reasons. up until april 1st they are allocating the delegates proportionately. there are only 50 delegates in virginia. it highlights the fact that his team from a manag a managing standpoint are not doing what is required. they are giving mitt romney a free play in virginia. if this comes down to be a very tight delegate battle, long and drawn out, 10 or 20 delegates could make a difference in the