How Biden Made His Comeback
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🗓️ 5 March 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Super Tuesday gave Joe Biden a blowout, in part because of a surge from black voters. While white voters tended to split their votes more evenly between Biden and Bernie Sanders, black voters overwhelmingly chose the former Vice President. So, what does Biden’s base see in him as a candidate? And what would they expect from him as president?
Guest: Errin Haines, editor-at-large for The 19th, a news outlet launching this summer.
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| 0:00.0 | So what has your travel schedule been like over the last few weeks? |
| 0:09.8 | Well, you know, I have been pretty much following the primary calendar. |
| 0:15.0 | I was on the ground in Iowa, I was on the ground in New Hampshire. |
| 0:18.7 | Erin Haynes covers politics for the nonprofit news service the 19th. |
| 0:22.9 | Like a lot of political journalists, we are, you know, living out of hotels and living at campaign events these days. |
| 0:31.1 | But Erin, she's looking at this primary season through a very particular lens. |
| 0:36.3 | I get to cover how themes of race and gender are playing out in the 2020 campaigns. |
| 0:42.7 | Over the last month, that means she's been to Shrimp and Grits dinners in South Carolina. |
| 0:47.1 | She spent the anniversary of Bloody Sunday with Michael Bloomberg in Salma, Alabama. |
| 0:52.6 | And when the results began to roll in on Super Tuesday, |
| 0:55.6 | Aaron was one of the first people I wanted to get on the phone. |
| 0:59.0 | This race is not about Joe Biden. |
| 1:00.3 | It's about who can beat Donald Trump. |
| 1:02.3 | And the coalition is coming together. |
| 1:03.9 | It said if it's between Biden and Bernie, we're leaning with Biden, right? |
| 1:07.9 | Biden didn't just win these states. |
| 1:09.6 | Biden ran up the score in these states. |
| 1:12.0 | Look at this, a 30-point win last night for Joe Biden in Virginia, where by and large, black voters |
| 1:18.9 | are saying, we're going to determine who the nominee is going to be. We're going to pick the person |
| 1:24.1 | that we think is the best to beat Donald Trump. And the Democratic Party is honestly going to follow our lead. |
| 1:29.3 | How would you describe, if I asked you to describe in one word, like what has happened to the Democratic field in the last week? |
| 1:38.6 | Like, is it a reshuffle or like turn completely upside down? |
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