Can Biden Still Be Stopped?

Deconstructed

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🗓️ 4 March 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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It’s being described as one of the biggest turnarounds in presidential primary history. After disappointing results in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada, Joe Biden appeared to be fading in Bernie Sanders’ rearview mirror. Then came his crushing win in South Carolina, after which Tom Steyer, Amy Klobuchar, and Pete Buttigieg all dropped out of the race. Klobuchar and Buttigieg, along with former candidate Beto O’Rourke, then endorsed Biden, cementing the growing consensus among establishment Democrats that the former Vice President is the best positioned candidate to stop Bernie. Where does all this leave the Democratic race? Mehdi talks to Intercept DC bureau chief Ryan Grim and to Larry Cohen of Our Revolution about Biden's big night and about Bernie’s path forward.

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0:00.0	Just a few days ago the press and the punters had declared a campaign did.
0:05.6	And we're told well and he got the Super Tuesday be over.
0:09.5	Well, it may be over for the other guy.
0:18.1	It may be over for the other guy.
0:20.4	The other guy, of course, being Bernie Sanders, for whom Super Tuesday was not so super.
0:26.0	So welcome to the always super podcast that is deconstructed.
0:30.0	I'm Mehdi Hussin. What a night it was on Tuesday where Joe Biden took the lead in the democratic
0:35.9	primary race and took back his front runner spot from fellow Septogenarian Bernie Sanders.
0:42.0	It's now a two horse race.
0:44.3	We have to figure out how to build the progressive campaign that can win delegates next week,
0:50.5	particularly in Michigan and Washington and then going forward in Illinois, Florida.
0:54.1	And the other key space.
0:56.2	That's my guest today, Larry Cohen, chair of the Pro Sanders Group Hour Evolution
1:00.9	and a former campaign advisor to Bernie back during the 2016 election.
1:05.5	I'm also joined by the intercepts DC bureau chief Ryan Grimm to chew the fat and deconstruct all the
1:11.6	results. How bad were they for Bernie? What happens next? And is Joe Biden? Joe Biden?
1:18.6	Really the safe option to take on Trump in November?
1:24.3	It was in a word shocking.
1:30.3	Former vice president Joe Biden making a remarkable political comeback from the brink.
1:35.1	Joe Mentum is real tonight, so we've established that.
1:39.0	This is the most blindingly fast political comeback at the presidential level that I've seen
1:44.3	in my lifetime. I mean, what a turnaround. Joe Biden declared politically dead and buried
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