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Lots to talk about today after Super Tuesday last night, which really lived up to its name, I guess.

A brokered convention seems less likely this morning after Bloomberg has dropped out and endorsed Biden.

We need to talk about turnout. We need to talk about who turned out.

And what it just says about campaigns moving forward. I mean, just a lot to jump into Jonah. Any opening thoughts on Super Tuesday? How super was your Tuesday?

I think Super Tuesday doesn't really capture it. I think we have to go back to the original German and God.

Oh, bro Dion Stagg.

Jonah's been on fire today, guys. I just want you to know this is going to be Jonah hot. Yeah, it's in it's not on fire in the sense that I ate a lot of spicy Jamaican beef patties from the 7-11.

I thought, look, I actually, I'm kind of killing myself because I was mocked, derided, scorned by civilized society for arguing that Biden had a chance that I thought he was going to do better than people thought.

And I stuck to my guns for a while and then I gave up and I caved to the small minds of conventional wisdom just because he was sounding like the night nurse forgot to give him his meds again.

And he did badly in like four contests or three contests. I just assumed that meant I was wrong. When it turned out he was like the coiled sea snake waiting to strike at his moment.

And so now I honestly think I'm willing to go back to my original thing. I think he is the prohibitive favorite to be the Democratic nominee, which means, you know, this time tomorrow he's going to be found wandering in the snow in his nightgown.

But no, I think it was a big huge night. I feel almost sorry for Bernie Sanders and as for Elizabeth Warren, it would take a hardest tone not to laugh at her predicament.

Steve, expectations, we in campaign, we'll talk about the whole point of a campaign, basically until the very last day is just to exceed expectations in a primary that is the only game last night was that on steroids.

If we had gone in with no expectations to super Tuesday or back up, we'd started, you know, fast forwarded from June 1st to super Tuesday.

Bernie winning California by a healthy margin, Bernie coming up real close to Biden in Texas would look really different.

Yeah.

But because Biden actually dipped so, you know, below the pulse of living campaigns, Biden's ability to exceed expectations yesterday is what is really the story.

I think that's right. And I would add to that the fundamentals of the campaigns, right, the campaigns themselves. I mean, Bernie has a ton of money. He has infrastructure. He's organized. He'd been on the air in these states.

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