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The Gist

Combatting Coronavirus With Clowns

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

On the Gist, why Bernie still needs the black vote. In the interview, Mike talks with senior fellow at the Brookings Institution E. J. Dionne about his most recent book, Code Red: How Progressives and Moderates Can Unite to Save Our Country. They tease apart Dionne's arguments about visionary gradualism, and how moderates and progressives can move each other to greater social justice in the US. In the spiel, Trump's coronavirus press conference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:41.0

It's Thursday, February 27th, 2020 from slate, it's the gist I am Mike Pesca.

0:46.0

Yesterday I saw a headline out of South Carolina, Biden says candidates who can't get black support should drop out.

0:54.0

Now the actual quote conveyed a very similar sentiment while at the same time actually being totally opposite the squib that I saw on CNN which is Biden to rivals drop out if you can't get black support.

1:07.0

Because here is the whole quote.

1:09.0

Quote. They would have to consider dropping out not because I want them to or anybody else does but because the victories and losses are going to dictate it Biden told the post in courier.

1:19.0

How do you stay in if you have demonstrated you can't get any African American support by an added how do you stay in if you don't get support in South Carolina?

1:26.0

Well, I just think the process is going to take care of that. I don't think requires anybody to say get out of the race.

1:33.0

Well, it doesn't require anyone but CNN said that anyway.

1:36.0

Now, if this is the idea that you can't win without black support and we've talked about it on the show over and over again and this gets said on our 17 times down cable news.

1:44.0

Now the obvious counter charge is that Bernie Sanders is the leader and he doesn't have much black support as of yet.

1:52.0

He has and he will continue to say he has a multi generational and multi racial coalition.

1:58.0

Maybe you've heard of the multi generational and multi racial coalition.

2:03.0

In Nevada, we have just put together a multi generational multi racial coalition, which is an untrue.

2:13.0

But of the races in that coalition, African Americans aren't particularly robust.

2:21.0

Maybe it makes sense given Bernie Sanders background.

2:24.0

Pete Buttigieg has been hammered for his inability to garner black support and Buttigieg is after all the mayor of South Bend in Indiana.

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