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🗓️ 29 February 2016
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0:00.0 | Hey, it's Glenn Thrush with Politico's off message podcast. |
0:10.8 | Hillary Clinton just had probably, not probably, the best victory of her political career. |
0:17.1 | She wiped Bernie Sanders out in the Palmetto State. I'm calling it the Palmetto Massacre. Nearly 50 |
0:22.8 | points victory there, completely eradicating her terrible loss to Barack Obama in 2008. And I personally |
0:30.1 | think, I'm going to take a lot of heat for this. I think the race is essentially over on the Democratic side. |
0:34.9 | I think Sanders has a very, very narrow path on Super Tuesday. |
0:39.4 | He's going to get destroyed in southern states that have high African American populations. |
0:44.0 | And I think more importantly, unlike Clinton, so far this is a guy, a very disciplined candidate, |
0:49.8 | an inspirational candidate who hasn't made the necessary adjustments you need to do to become president. |
0:55.2 | Let me give you an example. In 2008, Hillary Clinton, after New Hampshire and after a string of |
1:01.9 | losses and caucuses, was really able to get her footing in a lot of white sort of Midwestern and |
1:10.1 | upper southern states. |
1:11.5 | That was the territory that was available to her. |
1:14.1 | Obama, by that point, had dominated the African-American vote. |
1:16.6 | Well, at that point in time, that was when the Reverend Wright controversy exploded. |
1:21.9 | Barack Obama and his staff, and I've talked with a lot of his staffers about this, David Axelrod, and our guest |
1:28.6 | this week, David Pluff. Obama's staff was totally in a panic. They were divided and confused. |
1:34.5 | They had no idea how to deal with this. A lot of them thought it was a candidacy killer. |
1:38.5 | So what did they do? They sat down and decided, instead of running away from it, to give a big |
1:43.2 | race speech in Philadelphia, |
1:45.0 | and that was a turning point of the campaign. I was there. He took what was fundamentally |
1:48.7 | negative and turned it into a transcendent moment that really defined his candidacy. |
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