Inside the Mind of a Super Tuesday Voter

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🗓️ 3 March 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In the weeks leading up to Super Tuesday, Senator Bernie Sanders was the only candidate to win across multiple states. With his more moderate competitors splitting the vote, his success was built on a coalition of union workers, Hispanics and the college-educated. Then South Carolina happened. Now, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is banking on a different coalition — this time, of suburban, black and older voters. Is the contest for the Democratic nomination now a two-person race? Guest: Brian Keane, a 52-year-old Democratic voter from Arlington, Va, who spoke with Michael Barbaro about his experiences with Mr. Biden and his thoughts on the 2020 election. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading: Here’s what’s at stake in the 14 states (as well as American Samoa and Democrats Abroad) voting on Super Tuesday.Senator Klobuchar and Mr. Buttigieg both dropped out of the race after the South Carolina primary. Can their backing for Mr. Biden help him capture the moderate vote?Mr. Sanders’s strength has complicated the Democratic establishment’s effort to coalesce support around a single candidate.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, unlike Obabaro, this is the Daily. Today.
0:10.3	In the first weeks of the Democratic primaries, Bernie Sanders was the only candidate to win
0:16.3	Bitt and to win repeatedly.
0:38.8	In Nevada, he did it through sheer popularity by proving he'd built a coalition.
0:44.8	One made up of union workers, people with college degrees, and Hispanic voters.
0:50.6	In Iowa and New Hampshire, he did it by narrowly beating out his moderate rivals,
0:56.8	who split the majority of the vote with the leading moderate candidate, Joe Biden,
1:02.4	losing support and stumbling badly.
1:04.9	The only gas that powers a candidate to the nomination is these delegates.
1:10.1	And Sanders now has 43 of them. That's more than his closest rival, Peep Buttigieg,
1:14.0	26. And now you can see Sanders also has more than triple the number of delegates,
1:20.5	of most other people in this race. All of this left Sanders the front runner.
1:25.6	Down-ballot Democrats are very worried about Bernie ending up at the top of the ballot,
1:29.2	but their speculation that the rest of the folks, the moderates, and others can't get it together,
1:33.5	and they can't stop Bernie.
1:34.8	And the only one who could walk away from Super Tuesday today,
1:39.5	as the likely Democratic nominee,
1:46.1	then came South Carolina.
1:47.8	Just days ago, the press and the pundits had declared this can't be dead.
1:53.6	Now, thanks to all of you, the heart of the Democratic Party,
1:58.1	we just wanted to win one big because of you.
2:03.5	And for the first time,
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