Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening, wherever you are. And welcome to the politics guys with your host, Jay Carson and Michael Baranowski.

Welcome to the politics guys. I'm Michael Baranowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.

My co-host this week, as always, is Cleveland Area Attorney and sometime Republican strategist Jay Carson.

Our top story this week is a Democratic primary in South Carolina, where, as expected, Hillary Clinton breathed to a win over Bernie Sanders.

Now, both Jay and I predicted a big win for Clinton.

We guessed 20 points, but we had no idea how completely she would just crush Sanders, winning

73.5% of the vote and getting 39 of South Carolina's 53 delegates.

And this win increases Clinton's already formidable delegate

lead over Sanders, which now stands at 544 to 85, with 2383 needed to win the party's nomination.

So what do you make of this, Jay? Well, we should have guessed higher. Yeah, we really should have.

Now, to be fair, the polls also thought it was going to be somewhere in the 20, mid-20s kind of range. So we weren't the only ones

who were way off here. Right, right. Well, I mean, again, I think we missed the over-under there,

but she certainly covered the spread.

And I think that's sort of the death knell for Sanders.

You know, as we've said, he was never going to be that competitive in the South for a whole variety of reasons.

This shows that he's really not competitive in the South.

Yeah.

And, you know, he did do a lot of things towards the end to try to appeal to the African-American community.

He really did some outreach, but it was too little too late when you consider

that the Clintons have built this base for 20 years now.

Yeah, building up a network in the African American communities. And for Bernie Sanders,

it just feels like sort of a bolted on type of thing. It's not where he's most comfortable.

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