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The Conversation with Dasha Burns

South Carolina: Biden his time all along

The Conversation with Dasha Burns

POLITICO

News, Government, Politics

4.01.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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POLITICO's Ryan Lizza joins Scott to talk through Joe Biden's decisive victory in the South Carolina primary -- and whether or not it threatens Bernie Sanders' momentum ahead of Super Tuesday. Plus, we pour one out for Tom Steyer, who taught us that many millions can't fix everything. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Thank you, South Carolina.

0:03.0

Greetings, thank you, South Carolina!

0:04.0

Greetings,

0:10.0

Ner-Casters, and welcome to our special South Carolina primary edition of the

0:15.6

Nurdcast, where Joe Biden is moving on up.

0:22.1

And Biden first started campaigning for president in 1987.

0:26.0

As today, I announce my candidacy for president of the United States of America.

0:32.0

Sounds so young there.

0:35.0

And Saturday night, February 29, 2020,

0:39.0

some 32 and a half years later,

0:41.0

Joe Biden won his first ever presidential primary.

0:44.8

Just days ago the press and the pundits have declared this candidacy dead.

0:50.0

Now, thanks to all of you, the heart of the Democratic Party, we just won and we've won big because of you.

0:59.0

Moving on up, as they said.

1:02.0

And this was 18. Moving on up, as they said.

1:04.2

And this was a decisive result.

1:06.6

The exit polls showed it so strong.

1:09.0

The networks called Biden as the winner in South Carolina

1:11.1

as soon as the polls closed before we had any results.

1:14.0

Now as we tape this results are still coming in, but we've got Biden hovering a little bit below 50% of the

1:19.3

vote.

1:20.3

We've got Bernie Sanders in second place at about 20% or so.

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