Joe Biden Wins Big In South Carolina. Now What?
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 1 March 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Bernie Sanders has an infrastructure advantage in the coming contests, but will Biden's momentum and Mike Bloomberg's cash imperil his shot at the Democratic nomination?
This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, campaign correspondents Scott Detrow and Asma Khalid.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Tamer Keith. I cover the White House. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Scott Detro. I'm covering the presidential campaign. |
| 0:10.0 | And I'm Asma Khaled. I'm also covering the presidential campaign. |
| 0:13.0 | And the time now is 9.19 pm on Saturday, February 29th, weekday. |
| 0:19.0 | And in his third run for the presidency, four states into the Democratic nominating process of 2020. |
| 0:25.0 | South Carolina has delivered former Vice President Joe Biden his first win. |
| 0:29.0 | I told you all that you could launch a candidacy. You launched Bill Clinton, Barack Obama to the presidency. |
| 0:42.0 | Now you launch our campaign on the path to defeating Donald Trump. |
| 0:48.0 | The Associated Press has called the race for Biden. |
| 0:51.0 | We don't know his exact margins, but they look to be very big. |
| 0:55.0 | Scott and Asma, you are at Election Night parties, which is why there's a lot of conflicting music going on right now. |
| 1:02.0 | Asma, you have been with Biden's campaign all week. How big a deal is this for him? |
| 1:07.0 | He needed a win here. I mean, there were really serious questions about the viability of his candidacy if he did not win here. |
| 1:14.0 | I will say I think this was a long expected victory in South Carolina. |
| 1:18.0 | He had been leading in the polls for months, but still it was a much needed win. |
| 1:22.0 | You know, he compared there that that quote we heard his candidacy to what happened here in South Carolina to Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. |
| 1:28.0 | And I will say that's a bit of revisionist history. Both Barack Obama and Bill Clinton did not struggle as much leading into South Carolina as Joe Biden has. |
| 1:37.0 | Well, and then Biden turned directly from there and said, voters in Super Tuesday states, I have a message for you. |
| 1:44.0 | It was like he knows that this is his moment and the question is, is this a springboard or is it a bump? |
| 1:52.0 | I think that's the biggest challenge that Joe Biden faces. He said that tonight after he won South Carolina and because he did so poorly in Iowa and New Hampshire in particular, |
| 2:01.0 | he was not really able to spend the money or time in Super Tuesday states. |
| 2:06.0 | And that is a direct contrast with a lot of candidates in the race, but especially his main rival at this point, Bernie Sanders. |
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