How They'll Win: Candidates Outline Path To Nomination Ahead of Super Tuesday

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🗓️ 2 March 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Our reporters have been following the Democratic presidential candidates all across the country for months. Ahead of Super Tuesday, we check in with them to learn how each presidential hopeful thinks they will be able to secure the nomination. And, we say "bye, bye, bye" to two candidates who decided that they didn't see a path forward.

This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, campaign correspondent Asma Khalid, campaign correspondent Scott Detrow, political reporter Danielle Kurtzleben, congressional correspondent Susan Davis, and political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's the NPR politics podcast.
0:05.6	I'm Tamer Keith.
0:06.6	I cover the White House.
0:07.6	And I'm Dominica Montenoro, Senior Political Editor and Correspondent.
0:10.6	It is Monday, March 2nd.
0:13.5	Super Tuesday, Eve!
0:15.8	I want reverb.
0:16.8	I really want reverb.
0:18.6	Super Tuesday, Eve!
0:21.4	And it is a very big day.
0:22.9	It is called Super for a reason, right, Dominica?
0:24.9	Yeah, look, Super Tuesday is the biggest day of the primary for the Democratic nomination.
0:29.9	This year we have 14 states that are going to go 1,357 delegates up for grabs.
0:37.3	That is more than a third of the total delegates at stake and just to put that in perspective.
0:42.6	So far, the leader in this race, Bernie Sanders has something like 50 delegates.
0:48.6	He needs 1,991 delegates to become the nominee.
0:53.8	This is the first big day and we're getting a lot of news leading up to that that may
0:58.6	be clarifying too.
1:00.2	Right.
1:01.2	And what you're talking about here is that both Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar, so the
1:06.8	former South Bend Indian Amer and the Senator from Minnesota, both in the, what you call
1:12.1	it, moderate lane of the race, both of them have announced that they are withdrawing from
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