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🗓️ 29 February 2020
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0:00.0 | Secretary Clinton storming through the South after her resounding victory in South Carolina. |
0:13.0 | Well, we got decimated. |
0:14.3 | That's what happened. |
0:15.2 | I just don't see a path for Bernie Sanders. |
0:17.7 | I really don't. |
0:19.5 | Welcome to the ticket. I'm Isaac Dauver. Four years ago the South Carolina primary was a turning |
0:28.9 | point for the Democratic nomination. Bernie Sanders put up an unexpectedly strong challenge to Hillary Clinton in the first few states. |
0:35.0 | But his blowout loss was the beginning of the end. |
0:38.0 | He'd hold on through the end of the primaries, but South Carolina showed he couldn't break through to a big section of the |
0:44.4 | party. South Carolina was also a turning point in 2008. Barack Obama was the unexpected |
0:50.0 | challenger that year. And after his win in Iowa, South Carolina voters saw the |
0:53.8 | chance to elect the nation's first black president. And after polls had |
0:57.9 | initially showed Clinton doing well, the state gave Obama a huge victory and |
1:01.9 | he went on to become the nominee. All that's to say |
1:05.1 | I want New Hampshire get the attention but South Carolina has been crucial for the |
1:08.9 | last two nominees. So this week I spoke with someone who lived through South Carolina and Super Tuesday last time. |
1:15.0 | Jennifer Paul Mary was the communications director for the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign. |
1:20.0 | She was also communications director in the Obama White House before that. |
1:23.5 | Now she's a co-host on Showtime's The Circus, and we should also note that she's an advisor |
1:27.9 | to the Emerson Collective, which owns a majority stake in the Atlantic. |
1:31.5 | I sat down with Palmyra Friday morning at the |
1:33.3 | Planters Inn, it's right across the street from the old market in Charleston, and |
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