Who’s Left Standing for Super Tuesday?

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🗓️ 3 March 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The Democratic primary field has been dramatically re-shuffled since Saturday. After Joe Biden swept up votes and delegates in South Carolina, moderate candidates dropped out to strengthen his challenge against front-runner Bernie Sanders. So, with over a thousand delegates on the table across a slew of states, are Democrats inevitably headed for a contested convention?

Guest: Jim Newell, Slate’s senior politics reporter

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0:00.0	Hello, Slate listeners. Do us a favor and help us make a better slate by answering our survey.
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0:12.0	Hey, just a heads up before we start the show. There is like the tiniest bit of salty language right at the end.
0:18.9	You should listen anyway.
0:26.8	Pop quiz for you, Jim.
0:27.8	Oh, God.
0:32.5	Name all the states that are voting today.
0:38.3	Okay, let me try to, I'm not going to cheat and look at the map.
0:40.3	I'm going to visualize it from west to east.
0:41.3	California.
0:42.2	Ding.
0:43.1	Texas.
0:44.4	Arkansas.
0:45.8	Alabama.
0:48.6	Jim Newell is the senior political writer here at Slate.
0:53.0	In other words, he is our go-to guy for all things Super Tuesday.
0:54.6	Is that, do I have enough?
0:55.6	You're at 11.
0:57.8	American Samoa, is that this time?
1:01.2	American Samoa? It is this time.
1:06.1	Tonight, there are more than a thousand Democratic delegates up for grabs, coast to coast.
1:14.4	It's been a dizzying week in which Joe Biden staged a comeback and moderates tried to clear a path for his nomination.
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