Hello from Washington. I'm Chuck Todd and this is the Chuck Todd cast Tuesday night was the

10th Democratic primary debate in Charleston, South Carolina and it was a yeah. For some unknown

number of candidates, it was probably their last time on the stage and staring down the

barrel of the end. It seemed like many of them were trying to cram their whole campaign

into their last few minutes, but did any of them change their own campaign's trajectory?

For those who will still be here after super Tuesday, it was necessary that the frontrunner

Bernie Sanders come out at least a little bruised and he was bumped. But I don't know how

battered Biden took a swing at Tom's tire. That may have been a clean hit and Warren turned

the volume up to 11 on Bloomberg again, but to what effect?

Joining me now are NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent Casey Hunt and Leah Eskaranam, editor

and chief of the hotline, a publication I've heard of. Plus later in the show,

I'll be joined by Stu Rothenberg, longtime roll call columnist, senior editor of Inside

Elections and a guy who knows how to get you off his lawn better than anybody I know.

And I say that with affection for Stu. And we're going to tell people to get off our lawn soon

enough. Casey Hunt, you've covered Bernie Sanders for five years. You know this guy well.

That is the most incoming he has ever taken as a political candidate, probably going back to

Burlington, Vermont. Days, how do you do? You know, Chuck, this is a pretty unusual situation

for him. And I think you saw him flash a key personality trait of his, which is his general

lack of patience, he would say for fools. But he has a relatively short fuse and his challenge

all the way along in these debates has been to keep that in check. And when he's been able to

keep his cool successfully, he's tended to have steady debate performances in the few moments

where he's lost his cool, he has often stumbled. And you know, you saw it a flash of it in the last

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