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Hacks On Tap

Super Tuesday Recap: And Then There Were Two

Hacks On Tap

David Axelrod & Mike Murphy

Politics, Government, News, News Commentary

4.78K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Turns out Super Tuesday was super exciting. The Hacks spent a day taking it all in and are now ready to sort through the fallout. Where did Biden’s surprise surge come from? Now that the race has narrowed to two, what’s the path forward for both candidates? Are the Democrats still facing the prospect of a contested convention? Plus, Axe and Murphy open the mail bag to take listeners’ questions. Tune in to hear all this and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, Axe Murphy here.

0:25.7

So excited we can talk all about the new results we were going through here two days ago on a very super Tuesday, but first I thought we could make a little news because I think I have found the MacGuffin.

0:37.7

I think I found the secret reason that Joe Biden came back from the dead and one we we got a team of mathematicians at the University of Southern California.

0:45.2

We pulled them out of the rocket lab and we got the great supercomputer fired up and we look at every single veritable of every single candidate.

0:52.7

And their performance and guess what we found out we found the determining fact what is that if you don't do the ax files, you literally come back to the dead and surge out of nowhere to become front runner the democratic nomination.

1:05.7

So it's the curse of death, my friend.

1:07.7

Thank you.

1:08.7

I appreciate that.

1:09.7

Send those guys back to send them back to the rocket lounge with.

1:13.7

Hey, so first of all, let's apologize to our listeners. We were we would have been on yesterday.

1:19.7

The day after super Tuesday, but we were busy burning all the old recordings of of us downplaying Joe Biden's chances.

1:28.7

Right. He's over.

1:31.7

What what was that man?

1:34.7

Have you ever seen you know, we're a bunch of old.

1:39.7

Cod your I've never ever seen anything like what I think I would say with of course the benefit of an eraser machine and hindsight, but seriously, you know, we both been at this a while and there has been a pattern in the past and the old pattern was you break through early, you ride a media wave.

2:00.7

You can operate, you know, it calls the herd and you surf forward less on advertising and money, but more on success, you know, in the early states, which is why people spend so much time and money in the early state.

2:12.7

So, you know, the guy who did the most of that was Mayor Pete who came out of nowhere to win Iowa, but he had that lightning bolt where he didn't get any credit or press attention for him.

2:21.7

And then Amy, you served what looked like a big, impressive media wave coming win in New Hampshire. And then the media got a little bit hustled by Bloomberg, who was a hypothetical candidate to see.

2:33.7

There was no voting involved, but they saw the money and he got a lot of that media.

2:37.7

Well, it's just the media. I mean, it was polls as it was polling is well, the media got hustled by polls.

2:42.7

Yeah, but the media is as we both know, always more interested in polling numbers than anything else is kind of a weakness of the system. I used to joke around a lot that if I were ahead of red Chinese intelligence, I spent on my time bribing media pollsters because you totally can jerk Washington opinion around every, every single day.

2:57.7

And when you get to my point, then Joe who had a base his relationship for which I think he owes some thanks to President Obama and some tremendous thanks to Jim Clyburn with the African American voting block in South Carolina, which showed up by the time the others had kind of been strangled and out of money and Joe, who was dead, got that 50,000 volt shock.

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