Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast. This is an election year. Will Donald Trump be

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you will get 5% off. Please do so. I'm joined this morning by Bill Barnard, who is the author of Dixiecrats and Democrats

and a political historian. Bill, Super Tuesday turned out to be a very good night indeed for Joe Biden.

I don't think there's any other way of looking at it. Would you agree?

I don't think anyone had predicted or thought it was even possible that he would carry

in Massachusetts and Texas, for example, and be in the running in Maine as well, and sweeping

the southern states.

I think it was an absolute bolt from the blue that he did so extraordinarily well.

And I'm surprised by the – I mean, there's been a lot of talk about how the moderate lane,

as people call it, needed to coalesce quickly in order to stop Sanders. Have you been surprised at the

speed with which that's happened? Not really. You know, most candidates, yes, there has to have

a sizable ego to be involved in presidential politics to be sure,

but most candidates are fairly realistic and willing to make judgments that are in the best

interests of not only themselves, but their campaigns in the country.

And I think when it became clear that Klobuchar and Buttig, for example, had no clear way

to victory, they did the thing which one would expect

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