Super Tuesday Special: Biden's Big Night. Bernie's Long Fight.
The Mother Jones Podcast
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🗓️ 4 March 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Our Super Tuesday Mother Jones Podcast special is all about the knock 'em down, drag 'em out battle for the Democratic party! If you're a math nerd, you might be in heaven. But if you thought tonight was going to provide some simple answers, no such luck. Because just as we're releasing this, it's all about the numbers—a bare knuckle-fight for delegates in a race for who will be the Democratic nominee. After a broad field and innumerable debates the race has basically boiled down to two men: former Vice President Joe Biden, and Vermont senator Bernie Sanders So on this week's Mother Jones Podcast, we're counting votes and analyzing the results with our Senior Reporter Tim Murphy, who joins the show from where Bernie's political career began in Burlington, Vermont. Also in the show: Inside Bernie Sander's California ground operation that he hopes will turn out a historic turnout of nonvoters and new voters determined to kick Trump out. Fernanda Echavarri reports from the Coachella Valley, California, where a band of young Latinx activists are knocking on doors, phone-banking, nagging their relatives, and trying to unleash the kind of wave of enthusiasm Bernie touts as his biggest strength. Did these efforts make a difference in the Golden State on Super Tuesday?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Mother Jones Podcast. I'm Jimmy |
| 0:03.2 | King in New York. |
| 0:04.4 | On today's show, |
| 0:11.4 | on today's show, Super Tuesday, I suppose if you're a math nerd, you are in heaven. |
| 0:20.0 | But if you thought tonight was going to provide some simple answers, |
| 0:24.0 | sorry. |
| 0:24.8 | Because as we're recording this, it's all about the numbers, |
| 0:29.0 | an all-out brawl for delegates, |
| 0:31.9 | in a race for who will be the Democratic nominee that has |
| 0:35.7 | basically boiled down to two men. Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders. Hi it's Tim Murphy |
| 0:41.8 | here reporting from just outside of Burlington, Vermont, where Bernie |
| 0:45.5 | Sanders held his victory rally tonight. |
| 0:48.3 | California has just been called for Sanders. |
| 0:50.8 | You'll hear from me shortly about the delegate math and Sanders's battle for the nomination. |
| 0:54.8 | On today's show, Bernie's big theory about winning in 2020, the much vaunted ground game |
| 1:01.6 | operation in California. |
| 1:03.9 | It's our special Super Tuesday show. |
| 1:06.5 | Stick around. |
| 1:07.5 | As we're recording this, it's Tuesday night. |
| 1:17.0 | Voters who were waiting to decide who to go for, they appeared to vote for former Vice President Joe Biden, and he cleaned up in early states. |
| 1:30.0 | Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, Biden locked in huge gains in the South. |
| 1:36.1 | But as votes are being counted out west, the delegate math is still up in the air. |
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