Bernie Sanders Wins New Hampshire Democratic Primary
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 12 February 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Former South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg and Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar both had strong showings in New Hampshire. The state's electorate is considerably older and whiter than that of the nearly all of the remaining contests. Despite this result, both candidates face an uphill climb to the nomination because of a dearth of support from voters of color.
Former Vice President Joe Biden and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren both under-performed expectations. Neither secured any delegates in the state, with their vote totals falling below the necessary 15 percent threshold.
This episode: congressional correspondent Susan Davis and campaign correspondents Asma Khalid and Scott Detrow.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's the MPR Politics Podcast. I'm Susan Davis, I cover Congress. |
| 0:07.4 | I'm Asma Khaled, I'm covering the presidential campaign. |
| 0:10.0 | And I'm Scott Detro, also covering the presidential campaign. |
| 0:12.8 | And it is 11.47 pm on Tuesday, February 11th, and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has won |
| 0:20.9 | the New Hampshire primary. |
| 0:22.6 | And let me say tonight that this victory here is the beginning of the end for Donald Trump. |
| 0:33.4 | Sanders finished narrowly ahead of former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg. |
| 0:38.5 | So to win and to govern, we need to bring new voices to our Capitol. |
| 0:43.8 | We need to get Washington starting to work more like our best run cities and towns rather |
| 0:48.4 | than the other way around. |
| 0:50.7 | And Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar placed a surprising third, stronger than expected. |
| 0:57.2 | What we've been is steady, we've been strong, and we've never quit. |
| 1:02.0 | I think that sounds pretty good for a president. |
| 1:05.3 | So Scott, you're with the Bernie Sanders campaign, right? |
| 1:07.8 | Yep, I am. |
| 1:09.1 | The campaign staff just took a victory picture up on the stage, kind of like when teams |
| 1:13.5 | win the Stanley Cup or another championship. |
| 1:15.6 | All jumbled together. |
| 1:17.0 | Definitely a good night for Sanders, but there does seem to be some debate over whether |
| 1:20.7 | his win in New Hampshire was a really strong victory or not as strong as sort of his campaign |
| 1:27.2 | was setting the expectations for. |
| 1:29.0 | Yeah, no, I think it was a strong victory. |
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