first tonight a slugfest in south carolina. the 2020 democrats are getting ready for a night that will likely make, break, solidify or sustain a campaign. it is the last debate before south carolina's primary, the last debate before super tuesday and it could be their last chance to take on the front-runner in this race, bernie sanders. the vermont senator will be center stage literally tonight, and he will likely face the kind of pile on like the one michael bloomberg experienced in las vegas. sanders is the delegate leader. he has growing momentum and he's closing in fast on joe biden in south carolina. will joe biden's promised fire wall in the palmetto state hold? what can the other 2020 democrats do, if anything, to stop bernie sanders? let's go right to our road warriors on the ground in charleston, south carolina. shaquille brewster following the sander campaign, mike memoli covering the biden campaign and vaughn hillyard is on the buttigieg beat. shaq, bernie sanders again expecting the kind of incoming that michael blo

biden has said that south carolina is must win for him. and then there is all of this talk about a multicandidate field and what it does after super tuesday. setting aside bank accounts, and resources available, do you think in the perspective of your goal is to beat donald trump, do you think folks need to start dropping out and quote/unquote uniting the party? >> well, i think what we're going to find is that south carolina helps us narrow the field. reality is let's be clear. there are three or four people that have a path to this nomination. and my hope is that the field will winnow not because i'm in favor of one candidate or the other, but because we need to crystallize the focus on who can take on donald trump. i think michael bloomberg's late entry into the race, the fact he spent the amount of money he has, has only complicated matters because it just means that it is even harder for candidates to hit that 15% threshold, which is important in order to get a delegate. so my hope is that going into super tuesday, we really will only

this is our last event in south carolina. statee been all over this and small towns and small cities. we are so appreciative of the hospitality and the support we've been getting, so thank you, south carolina. [cheers and applause] and i'm very proud to have some outstanding members of the legislature here right now. i want to thank representative wendall gilliard. representative justin. representative terry alexander. and a number of other members of the legislature who are not here. let me also thank black-a-lack for their band, for their music. let me thank representative thigpin for all the work he does. thank travis washington for his remarks. thank my old friend, gus newport, former mayor of berkeley, california. and thank somebody who has become an increasingly close friend, a wonderful actor, a great american, danny glover. and let me thank one of the rising young political stars in this country and that is mayor chokwe lumumba of mississippi. and let me thank one of the greatest rap stars, killer mike. and let me tha

to win in south carolina for a long time. there was some question if he didn't do well in the first three contest whether his lead would evaporate. it doesn't look like it has. we'll wait and see for sure on saturday night but the question is whether it will take him anywhere after that, to give him the bounce he needs to catch bernie sanders' level of momentum. we are going into super tuesday, bernie sanders is expected to do very well in california. which has, you know, the lion's share of the delegate on that day, but there are other big states voting that day. if biden does well in south carolina, he may do well in north carolina or texas perhaps but then you have the california result for sanders. then you're moving into a very unknown sort of realm for biden where he doesn't have a lot of money. he doesn't have a big organization. both of which sanders does have. so competing that way sanders is still ahead. >> the other interesting thing on sanders you have folks saying he's going to be a disaster as the general electi

south carolina used to be a caucus state. i got rid of the caucus because i know how caucuses are manipulated. i have been in the caucuses and i know how they are manipulated. we ought not to have caucuses. with -- john: would south carolina be a good place to launch the primary season? yes.clyburn: i was arguing for south carolina to be among the first. the the way it is now, primary season starts on super tuesday. this is the pre-primary window. to caucuses, two primaries in the pre-primary window. we ought to get rid of the pre-primary window, just have a primary season and select that wely and rotate so do not always have one state dictating the outcome or what -- of what momentum may be built. week aboutts this republican groups organizing to use the open primary process in south carolina to skew the results of the democratic primary coming up on february 20 9 -- what do you make of that? 29 -- what do you -- what do youca make of that? clyburn: south carolina's republican party built their primary on the confederate bat

we're going to win in south carolina. and then super tuesday and we are on our way. >> joining me simone sanders senior adviser of biden for president. simon, good to see you, congratulations on the showing last night in nevada. although it reminds me a little bit of bill clinton as the comeback kid because it was a very distant second from bernie sanders. how are you feeling about it? >> well, look, we feel, first, thi thanks for having me. we feel good about last night. i would like to remind folks in the spirit of president clinton, he lost one but 11 contests and he went on to be not just the democratic nominee but the president of the united states of america. we feel good. we're here in south carolina today, as you can see. and vice president biden will be out and about campaigning today and campaigning hard throughout the week. meeting voters where they are because the reality is, ali, this race is just getting started. >> all right, what do you look at when you look at the entrance polls from yesterday. the idea t

of fact in south carolina. for a small state, south carolina has something of an out-sized reputation. it's known for its peaches, its beaches, and its complicated history. one of the first major centers of the african slave trade in north america on the other side of the state-- in "charles towne" today's charleston -- sits in the heart of the carolina low country. more than 300 years later,the lives those enslaved people lived and the culture they brought with them on their forced journey to a new world, still echoes in a community holding onto a pained but proud -- past. in the low-country, our special contributor joie chen found the spirit, and the strength, of the gullah people rising again. >> down here, where the river meets the sea, rises a rich history, of a people who coaxed rice to grow amid these brackish waters, and built a community that's endured for over 400 years. they call themselves 'gullah' a name that likely came with the enslaved people from west africa a name that keeps their , descendent

this is south carolina. tomorrow -- actually tonight you're including bernie sanders, a lot of the candidates looking ahead to what happens on tuesday, super tuesday. this is the money day. over a third of the delegates are going to be counted on march 3rd and that is a tremendous haul. that is why bernie sanders and others, even though they're hoping to do well in south carolina, they're looking at the numbers there. >> 14 states including california and texas, lots of delegates on super tuesday. david, you're taking a look at the exit poll numbers. we're getting more information. >> that's right, wolf. the racial breakdown is going to be a huge component of the story tonight in south carolina. 56% of the electorate today according to our exit poll in south carolina is black. that is unlike any other state we've seen to date. 40% white, 2% hispanic. that black vote is going to be all important tonight and it's going to be a hugely important factor looking at it, projecting forward in these contests. it's hu

>> south carolina is a really important state. no question. >> i think what a lot of people -- when i hear people talk about you, first of all, they see your ads. they like the fact that you're talking very openly about issues that face black voters. but they also say to themselves, boy, wouldn't that money have been better spent in a lot of ways? trying to help one of the other nominees, who is more viable at least in the polls. or trying to put that money into senate races? what do you say to people who say that? >> i say i am also doing that, joy. as you know, i've started one of the biggest grassroots organizations in the united states, next gen america. next-gen did the biggest youth voter mobilization in american history in 2018. and it's proceeding along without me running it but with me supporting it right now. so for everybody who says you should be doing grassroots voter mobilization it's like, well, actually, i'm the person who's doing the most grassroots voter mobilization in america. and people say you should be knock

john: to south carolina. what does a jim clyburn endorsement mean before the february 29 south carolina primary? lisa: this was really interesting and i am glad you asked him about this because we know joe biden is a close friend of mr. clyburn. he has not endorsed anyone but there has been a lot of reporting about the various connections he has. and the ties he had. sarah: one of my colleagues said he showed up at a fundraiser in south carolina where biden was holding an event. i think we are seeing some signs, but if you were to make an endorsement, this would show he believes his candidate is weak heading into the primary and he would need this dditional boost. john: we talked about tapping his network and he needed to inform his network about his thoughts. sarah: but he also signaled there will be risks. he does not want to risk the status of the first in the nation primary by having the -- someone so influential, perhaps the most influential democrat from south carolina, putting their thumb on the scale.

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south carolina primary. particularly crucial, you might say, for joe biden. >> joining us is johnny cordero who has endorsed tom steyer. >> thank you for having me. >> what do you make of the fact that jim clyburn chose the biden camp over steyer's camp? >> other than the fact that it's probably predictable that that was going to be the endorsement, i think the important thing about that to remember is that the endorsement is going to go to assisting those who have already made up their minds basically in south carolina. but the one thing it's not going to do is it's not going to help with those people who are the ones that we really need in order to win in south carolina and those are the people who have not voted but who are registered. >> we had errol lewis on just after the clyburn endorsement. he said clyburn was in effect trying to speak beyond the older generation and speak to younger african-american voters who might have a different view, might want to go a different, more progressive way in this ra

the south carolina republican party some elements in the south carolina republican party have always manipulated their primary by doing stuff like that. you may note that the south carolina republican primary built it on the confederate battle flag. these kinds of things are not new to south carolina republicans. the south carolina republican primary put out all kinds of misinformation about john mccain, accusing him of things that led to his defeat in the south carolina primary. that are some elements would do these kinds of things. there are a lot of good decent republicans in south carolina as there are in the country, but there is an element in that body. >> should south carolina consider going to a closed primary? >> i would not advocate that. i would say if you want to be an independent you should have the opportunity to choose which one you want to caucus with. independence go back and forth and through every election season they have the ability. you just can't participate in more than one in any one election. >> congressman tell us about this field in south carolina, after w

now it's on to south carolina. where the candidates will debate again tomorrow night ahead of saturday's primary, and there is an impending big endorsement expected wednesday for joe biden. joining us from charleston, south carolina, msnbc correspondent vaughn hillyard. vaughn, what's happening? >> reporter: jim clybourne is expected to endorse former vice president joe biden here in south carolina today. we're five days away from this primary and reverend al mentioned. when you looked for years ago here in the state, hillary clinton pulled in about 84% of african-american support over bernie sanders. a big change over the course of these couple of years. this is where you find yourself with pete buttigieg. he said in his speech after results starting coming in, it's time for country to take a sobering look where the race is heading. s s s at the same time, you saw where he came in, in the race. he was on saturday morning, i talked to pete buttigieg. he told me we could wake up march 4th the day after super tuesday

carolina, making a big bet in south carolina. how does that pan out? he's spent a lot of money in previous contests and hasn't done that well. this is where the money could go the furthest. i've talked to voters, particularly black men, who are saying they're voting or voted for tom steyer. we could see a different element of the race today but it's not all in clear he's going to have a really big showing. >> real quick to you, jamie, i want to make sure i read this correctly. i feel like i saw that you had said there are people in south carolina who didn't realize bloomberg is not on the ballot there. if that is the case, and if he were, what do you think south carolina means to him, if anything at all? >> you know, it's been very interesting. particularly when you go to places like rock hill which is the suburb of charlotte, up in the north part of south carolina. or you go out to north augusta, on the border of georgia. or down in beaufort county in jasper, georgia. those immediate areas overlap in georgia where bloomberg is r

south carolina vote for joe biden? >> well, let me -- let me just speak right to the people. everything in this ballot. when it comes to healthcare, when it comes to guns, when it comes to housing. vice president has put forth a bold vision. but the reality is he's done this before, chris. there is only one person standing on that debate stage font that has taken on the nra twice and won. joe biden. and he will do it a third time as president. there is only one person -- >> symone, i hope he has some of your juice tonight. give him some of this. give him some of this. >> when we talk about healthcare, joe biden has done it chris. so, really, we're ready for this fight and i think voters are ready. >> thank you so much. symone sanders has got the fire. thank you. the results of south carolina this weekend will set the trajectory for super tuesday. coming a week from now when the voters of 14 states, a week from now, all get to vote. "the new york times" points out that should mr. sanders defeat or even finish near mr. b

and and how biden does in nevada and south carolina. if he doesn't do well in south carolina he will have to end his campaign. the impeachment effort is going to backfire on him more than it will on donald trump, it has been an interesting election moving forward. >> given the results, being close with sanders and pete buttigieg perhaps people don't view sanders as the outsider he claims to be, that is why warren is dropping and biden is dropping and you have klobuchar and buttigieg sticking in. and socialism is what he claims to be, democratic socialist. medicare for all, something he is campaigning on would cost $36 trillion in the first ten years. free public college tuition. $1.25 trillion a ten years. the green new deal should cost $93 trillion over ten years, this is what people will stand behind or get behind. >> certainly not. the democrat party has become a socialist party, the party if i want free stuff. you watched the debates over the past two month. every candidate out there has been saying, and we will wipe away all their

continues to believe that south carolina will be an interesting place for him. south carolina. it is interesting how the calendar goes. south carolina in a week. different things may happen. the chart may look different. then we have super tuesday. everything can change there too. >> it is important to note that south carolina looks different from nevada, the super tuesday states are extremely diverse slate of states overall. they do look more like nevada. it could look more of something like i have seen here. we need to step back and say it is an enormous credit they have built this coalition here and all over the country. look at the amount of emphasis he has put here and in california and in texas. going back to when he started to run for president the first time, it was only winning over younger white educated voters. >> he couldn't penetrate that. >> but he made it a specific point about talking about issues that matter to communities of color and devoting specific resources. all over the country. he told the crowd that his team had knocked on its millionth door. having th

but it will after south carolina. bret: but it will after south carolina? >> oh, absolutely. if biden doesn't win south carolina, he's dead, isn't he? he's just dead. and there's no point going on to super tuesday. i was thinking back to jeb bush in 2016, who was making a last stand in south carolina, and he didn't make it through the night. chris: also i just think people are going to really run out of money. first of all, there isn't that much money you can get between saturday and tuesday, as you point out, there's no gap at all. but to go into 14 states broke, it is going to be pretty tough when bloomberg has all this air cover, you know, millions, hundreds of millions of dollars in ads. bret: panel, it's been a pleasure on a weekend day. thank you very much. that's going to do it for our special coverage of the nevada caucuses. senator bernie sanders the big winner there called by the fox news decision desk. i'm bret baier in washington. join us next saturday for live coverage of the south carolina primary. i will be back on monday, 6:00 p.m. eastern with "special report

there are 54 delegates at stake in south carolina. and a recent poll from clemson university shows the former vice president with a double-digit lead over his closest primary opponent. mr. clyburn: let me thank all of you for joining us here this morning. i want particularly like to thank my colleague, eddie bernice johnson of texas who is my classmate in the congress. eddie bernice and i first met at the democratic national convention in 1972. i first met at the democratic national convention in 1972. we have maintained a friendship ever since. we had no idea that we would end up getting elected to congress the same year, and i owe a great would have i never been chair of the congressional black caucus were it not for her tutelage, so i thank her for being here today. some of our colleagues wanted to join us here today but when we decided to make this announcement on this day, they had already booked flights back home and back to washington and could not change them. they could have but they wanted to get out in time to make vote thi

south carolina gets to reset this. south carolina gets to decide that maybe what we want is a democrat at the head of the ticket for a democratic party, strange as that may seem. i believe i can do that. i believe south carolina can show that i can pull a diverse party together. i'm asking you to help me do that on saturday. and i believe if we do that and do grassroots that we will not beat the republicans but we will sweep away the republicans which is exactly what we need to do. i know it's friday morning. i said i would take questions. put your hand up and bring you over a microphone and answer your question. mr. steyer: i think everybody is disturbed -- let's put it this way. the democrats are disturbed about the partisanship in this country. i never heard anyone asked mitch mcconnell what are you going to do to get along with democrats. i have been asked a dozen times, what are you going to do to get along with mitch mcconnell. we are going to treat white nationalism as domestic terrorism. it is domestic terroris

nevada and south carolina, the first two diverse states. they more reflect the democratic electorate and the american people. and so i've spent a lot of time on the ground here. i think more than anybody else. i've spent a lot of time on the ground in south carolina more than anybody else really going out seeing people face to face, talking to them, holding town halls, really listening and understanding what's going on on the ground. >> you've enlisted in a lot of time and money in nevada. you're not going to be on the debate stage tomorrow night. mike bloomberg will be. do you respect those rules, the rules they have -- [ cheers and applause ] >> they loved your question, erin. i am in second or third place in nevada and i am in second or third place in south carolina. there have been no polls counted towards those states because it's supposed to be either national polls or state polls. so, the people in the debate can reflect. the democratic national committee basically disenfranchised the voters of nevada and k is south carolina o would

carolina is the business of south carolina. and i'd like to recognize some of our companies that are here tonight. representing odaans cabinetry, mr. jonas hahias, ceo, and his wife, maria mahias, please stand and be recognized. welcome. [ applause ] >> representing ge appliances, a higher company, mr. frank chefle and mr. bill good, will you please stand? welcome. [ applause ] >> and representing spartan motors, their counsel, ms. stephanie few, please stand now. welcome. [ applause ] >> and representing mccall farms, mr. marion swenk, president and co-owner and his wife ms. frances swenk. will you please let us welcome you. [ applause ] >> and representing lockheed martin, mr. ben pete, and mr. nick messenburg, please stand. welcome. [ applause ] >> all right. among the general assembly steps forward last year were a record number of recommendations i made to you, and you accepted. after careful consideration, i offer these to you tonight. last year, our budget from state funds totaled $9.33 billion, this year, we are expecti

talk about south carolina. i want to throw up an entrance poll graphic of african-american voters in nevada, and just because african-american voters vote one way in nevada doesn't mean they won't vote another way. biden at 39%, warren at 10%. it felt like a reasonable south carolina poll going in with a week to go. is that how you would see the spread right now in south carolina? >> i don't know if i have spent enough time trying to figure out exactly who has how much. but all these candidates will get some african-american votes. no question about that. i do believe, however, that if we were having the election tomorrow, that joe biden would have more of the vote. how much more, i don't know yet. i think the debate on tuesday night will have an impact. and i think that some activity after that might have an impact as well. >> are you concerned -- look, joe biden believes you're going to endorse him. a lot of people believe you want to endorse joe biden. you have said you know who you're going to vote for at t

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it's a leap to ask voters in south carolina to back him. we'll see. >> and you have familiar faces like biden and sanders and then every time you look at the tv seeing a bloomberg ad. we'll come back to the story and this programming note and continue our series of town halls from south carolina, michael bloomberg, joe biden, amy klobuchar and elizabeth warren. get some popcorn, that's worth watching. >>> the president says his administration is on top of the coronavirus but his own words have undermined the efforts of the public health professionals. listerine® cleans virtually 100%. helping to prevent gum disease and bad breath. never settle for 25%. always go for 100. bring out the bold™ hello, i saw you move in, and i wanted to welcome you to the neighborhood with some homemade biscuits! >>oh, that's so nice! and a little tip, geico could help you save on homeowners insurance. >>hmm! >>cookies! uhh, biscuits. >>mmmm, is there a little nutmeg in there? oh it's my mum's secret recipe. >>you can tell me. it's a secret. >>is it cinnamon?

like south carolina. what exactly does that feel like, you ask? in politics, it can feel like yikes. it was really the first debate where senator bernie sanders, now the front-runner, was the center of action. his opponents flat-out said that he wouldn't be able to beat donald trump in november, but they went even further saying the democrats across the board would lose with sanders as nominee. they question his praise of the castro regime of cuba and other policies that were branded as socialist or radical. this morning, you're hearing complaints from campaigns about the moderators and the crowd or the questions. you know what, it's not supposed to be easy. it's supposed to be south carolina. >> but you supposed to be able to hear them talk? i mean, there were a few different complaints. >> i heard that they were talking. i could tell -- >> we did know. this is the last debate been super tuesday next week. former vice president joe biden is hoping for a win in south carolina this weekend to resurrect his

first of all i have won races in south carolina. and i have lost in south carolina. trust me, if i could have beat mcmaster by 50% and one vote. i would be in the lieutenant governors house. winning is winning. i don't want to go down that path. with joe biden with all due respect to my good friend. joe biden is going -- all due respect to my friend. >> this is terrible. >> joe biden will win south carolina. this is not a question. with all due respect to everyone watching and waiting, the polls we're not really buying those. joe biden is going to win south carolina. the question is, how much is he going to win south carolina by? to your question, i think that a win for joe biden a five points is good. i think he'll eclipse that. in the ten to 15 point range. which will catapult him. i'm a kamala harris supporter and fan. i'm not in the joe biden camp. i know south carolina well. my daddy called me today and said what are they doing for joe biden today? he's taking people to the polls tomorrow for joe biden. that's just the way it is because of the familiarity with w

in south carolina or some other state? >> he's in some other states tomorrow, massachusetts and he will finish in vermont. >> are you assuming he's not going to do well in south carolina? >> not at all. we typically do this, after the first few states have moved on. >> laura: thoughts? >> i think he has seen some polling and it doesn't look particularly -- why waste the time here to think biden will probably get a victory, but is it going to actually be a springboard or a dead cat bounce where he wins here and then bloomberg has so much money and bernie does well, and not as much money. >> laura: it's interesting to see the generational divide in the democrat party, and it's interesting, and msnbc moment, talking about african-american voters about, who are they going to vote for versus his parents. watch. >> my parents live in south carolina. >> are they going to vote tomorrow? >> yes, they are. >> they were more biden in the beginning but they weren't really following. they just know biden and obamadm along, tuck them al

but you have to get through south carolina. what is the number that you're looking at that joe biden needs to win by, because it's no longer a matter of win or lose. it seems for him and the stakes he's put on this. what are you looking at the margins for him in south carolina? >> i really think that the gap between him and the second place person needs to be in the double digits. that's the only way to run away from this primary, first in the south and actually be able to claim a solid victory that will take him into super tuesday. but when i was talking to voters especially the black voters they're reminding us they're not a monolith. they're talking about joe biden but they're also talking about bernie sanders. elizabeth warren. we saw that the route today went to the agendas for black america. for all of the candidates. tulsi gabbard came in eighth. bernie sanders was number four. and joe biden was just behind elizabeth warren. it will be interesting to see how some of the things play out and i think it really will have to

here to south carolina, but possibly to mar-a-lago. we're fed up with sending people to washington, d.c. and not representing us here in south carolina. >> thank you, sir. jaime harrison, candidate for u.s. senate here. >>> up next, facing one of the biggest crises of the presidency, how is the president choosing to spend his time, this gets a little weird here. he found time yesterday for a long chat with two hollywood actors playing people he doesn't like in the fbi, right? that makes sense during a big crisis. you're watching "hardball." we made usaa insurance for members like martin. an air force veteran made of doing what's right, not what's easy. so when a hailstorm hit, usaa reached out before he could even inspect the damage. that's how you do it right. usaa insurance is made just the way martin's family needs it - with hassle-free claims, he got paid before his neighbor even got started. because doing right by our members, that's what's right. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. usaa you should be mad your neighbor alwa

carolina and he will win south carolina handily. this is a candidate that doesn't just show up on election day or the week before election day. this is a man who has come to south carolina for decades and has shown his support for the voters in the democratic party in south carolina. he's hosted fund-raisers for county democratic parties in years that his support in those counties was irrelevant. he was come to south carolina and endorsed candidates on the legislative level to the congressional level when his support to those people was irrelevant, he wasn't running for anything, he wasn't vice president at the time. that's what voters here in south carolina remember. to quote jim clyburn from earlier this morning, we know joe and joe knows us. that's what matters here. this is someone who has a decades-long relationship with the voters in south carolina. that's why i think you'll see a very, very successful win for him here on saturday. >> so to amanda's point, the vice president, he has had a successful record with african-america

, south carolina. good morning. caller: good morning. host: have you voted yet in today's primary? caller: i'm on my that way to go vote. host: who will you vote for today? caller: i'm voting for bernie sanders. host: i don't know if you just heard the previous republican caller who says republicans are also pushing their voters to vote first bernie sanders -- vote for bernie sanders. is that something that concerns you? caller: no, it don't. i'm tired of the republicans talking about burning is the socialist. do they understand what socialist means? bernie is for the people. that's what i like about him. host: linda, you are in the midlands, in columbia, the capital of south carolina. what kind of support are you seeing for bernie sanders in the midlands and columbia? getting a lot of support, and a lot of the black support. host: in the last presidential democratic primary, bernie sanders was not able to overtake hillary clinton, some say behind the power of the african-american vote. what has senato

south carolina. we're just now settling into -- we heard it time and time again, states that have a diverse population, and that's going to be key going-forward. one thing about the democratic party and going into the november elections. it's not about the popular count, it's about the electoral college, pennsylvania, ohio, wisconsin, florida, a person has the window states. those are the states that vice president biden will do well in, in the general election. and i think most people understand that. especially in the black community. >> if he does not win those states you just listed, should he drop out of the race? >> no, i believe he will win. i believe he will win. i believe he'll do extremely well, and it will start here in south carolina this saturday. >> we'll see if he gets that comeback that he's been taughting. david mack, thank you for joining us. appreciate your time. >> thank you. >>> more on this south carolina primary that could make or break the presidential hopes for several of the

i will end by swearingen, many of you have told me as well, south carolina, south carolina chooses presidents. decided to launch bill clinton to the white house and up to that time it didn't look like he was going very far but you did it. you launched barack obama to the white house and i firmly believe, once again on saturday, holding your hands in south carolina the power to choose the next president of the united states and i am here, heart and soul, with everything i've got, to earn the support of the people of south carolina. nothing is expectable guaranteed. i hope i have earned it. i will continue until the last vote is cast, to convince you all that i want to earn it. i promise you this. if you send me out of south carolina with a victory, there will be no stopping us. we will win the nomination, we will win the presidency, and most importantly, eliminate the fear so many have in this country of a second term of donald trump. because at the end of the day, it is not hyperbole, we have to restore the soul of america and he does not represent it. may god protect our country. ♪ higher

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>>> and we've had such a great time here in columbia, south carolina. all eyes on south carolina. here we are on the eve of the primary. i want to thank everyone here, tell everyone at home, we'll be live back home, anchoring live coverage 4:00 p.m. eastern through 11:00 p.m., tomorrow part of the msnbc special coverage of the south carolina primary. i want to thank everyone here in south carolina, keep it locked here on msnbc. let's see. we did all right. "hardball" is up next. >>> who's watching out for us? let's play "hardball." good evening, i'm chris matthews in charleston, south carolina. there's increasing concern over the scope and impact of the coronavirus tonight. i'm starting the show talking with dr. anthony fauci, leading professional in the u.s. government dealing with the threat of the virus. the u.s. stock

i will win the african-american vote here in south carolina. >> if you don't win in south carolina... >> i will win south carolina. >> juan: his performance did not come without some gas gaffe. >> 150 million people have been killed since 2007 when biden dumbing bernie voted to examine gun manufacturers from liabilit. >> juan: dana, let me come to you on this. maybe he didn't mean 150 million, him and wanted 50,000 or something like that. given what happened at the church in south carolina, it's a powerful point. people are picking on him on the gaffe have something to work with. but i was going to ask you about biden exceeding affectations in the debate. >> dana: i thought he was in a strong position in south carolina. remember, he left new hampshire to go to south carolina because that's as far and he's been there for, what, ten days now, going around the state, he's got a lot of support there. i think it lifted his spirits come and give them a little. i do not understand why he yelled so much. i'll tell you one thing i do think. in 2024, the debates ought to consider not having an

judy:p you, of course, bring south carolina. african-american voters could be as much as 60 percent of the primary there. right now you are pulling very low, 2%, 3%, 4%. that is a big leap for you, isn't it? y >> well, that's exacat we need to do. what i've heard from a lot of black voters is that our plans are appreciated. the frederick douglass plahe most comprehensive plan offered by a presidential candidate to tackle systemic racism. but before anybody cares what's in your pns, they want to know if you're a serious contender. and i think up until we had the results we did here in iowa and new hampshire, it was difficul fous to prove it. w, the process of proving it is underway. and for voters who are laser focused on ensuring d that we win, wnot have the luxury of pursuing ideological purity over an inclusive coalition for victory, they are going to be, i think, very pragmatic and very demanding about demonstrating that the campaigns have a plan to defeat judy: as you know, there are as mayor of south herer record you've had

we're going to south carolina. we're going to win those states as well. >> reporter: and unlike iowa, new hampshire does seem to have had a culling effect on the field. two dropped out last night. andrew yang and michael bennet. we're also expecting to hear from deval patrick who has said he will make an announcement about the future of his campaign this morning. >> abby phillip, thank you so much for being with us this morning. >>> so what are the three major takeaways from the new hampshire primary and what do you need to know as the race moves to nevada and south carolina? that's next. of yourself. but nature's bounty has innovative ways to help you maintain balance and help keep you active and well-rested. because hey, tomorrow's coming up fast. nature's bounty. because you're better off healthy. othroughout the country for the past twelve years, nature's bounty. mr. michael bloomberg is here. vo: leadership in action. mayor bloomberg and president obama worked together in the fight for gun safety laws, to impr

south carolina gets to reset this. south carolina gets to decide that maybe what we want is a democrat at the head of the ticket for the democratic party, strange as that may seem. so i believe i can do that. i believe south carolina can show that i can pull a diverse party together. i'm asking you to help me do that on saturday. and i believe if we do that and we do grassroots that we will not beat the republicans, but we will sweep away the republicans which is exactly what we need to do. so i know it's friday morning. i said i was taking questions. ask a question put your hand up , and we will bring you over a microphone and i will answer your question. >> we have -- mr. steyer: please send your name. >> [indiscernible] we have right now i president in the white house who causes a lot of hatred in america. we have a lot of groups who would like nothing better than to see a nazi-run country here. what can be done by the next president to bring together all of america? we need to bring the democrats together to get a

first south carolina is coming up. that's where that lead, that joe biden has, right now, that is the meat of that lead. and with regards to some of the other candidates and the states looking forward, i don't know if the tom steyer number is real or an artificial number because when you put a ltd. of money into reaching out to voters it is effective if you're up on black radio, putting up signs in barbershops and that -- >> bloomberg number or steyer number? >> steyer in south carolina specifically. the same is true for bloomberg, as well. but i think that bernie sanders and biden actually have credibility in these communities in south carolina and so we'll see how that shakes out but -- but bernie has work to do with the older voters of color. >> joe biden doesn't have a resounding win, a far and above leads the pack win, what is the case moving forward into super tuesday? >> it is always good to win and a win helps shape the conversation. that's important. i think sanders, though, not just consolidating the left. he

he's been in and out of south carolina for the last 30 years. he has friends and allegiances here, and he's such a decent man, and i think that he has the ability to reach across the aisle and in the primary people of color and white people and young people and old people, i think will coalesce behind joe biden. i think it's going to be a resounding victory. say to all those in south carolina make sure you vote on saturday and don't take anything for granted. but i think it's going to be a great day for joe biden. >> if i can, though, ask about senator sanders, what has changed so much between four years ago and now that folks who weren't maybe the biggest fan of senator sanders since he was essentially trounced by hillary clinton seem to be feeling differently about him now? what has been the biggest change on the ground there? >> you know, i really don't know. i was a practicing politician as a mayor. i'm not a political scientist. i'm not sure i understand, but i think that what is happening is the recognition of so many candidates and issue

so you have south carolina. it's clear that even if biden wins it's not going to be by the same margin you saw hillary clinton win so that will cut into any sort of delicate haul he would take. super tuesday, states -- some of those states are white states like colorado has latinos there, too, a state bernie sanders did well in already. california, he didn't lose it by that much. texas has a lot of latinos there. this is really hard. you have these town halls coming up. you have these debates coming up. but this is a train that is fast moving, that has been on this track before, right, sanders has won many states before and put together a grassroots organization so that's hard to stop. >> there's a lot of questions among moderate democrats about the electability of senator sanders. those questions get answered, though, the more he wins. if he does well, incredibly well in south carolina, it's hard to imagine somebody else overtaking him. >> it is and i like to remind people at the end of the day the democrats, t

first tonight a slugfest in south carolina. the 2020 democrats are getting ready for a night that will likely make, break, solidify or sustain a campaign. it is the last debate before south carolina's primary, the last debate before super tuesday and it could be their last chance to take on the fronru

you look at that poll in south carolina, a poll taken by nevada, but up by five in south carolina. biden has been talking for months about african-american voters being his strongest base of support. looking at an electorate in south carolina that will be 60% plus black. there is a question there can biden rally the troops for one stand in south carolina. if he could get a win there, if he could demonstrate strong performance with black voters, could that have a ripple ef flkt that goes over to super tuesday and helps them there? if there's somebody you're looking at to take a shot at sanders, you can say it's biden, having a shot in south carolina. >> if joe biden wins south carolina by three or four points, is that really a win? >> that's the thing. you no who hasn't been spending money in south carolina? it's bloomberg. if it's a narrow victory for biden, he gets to get on the board. a couple days later he's in states against a guy who is dropping $20 million on the airwaves and getting support in the polls with who biden has been targeting. >> that sanders number encroaching on

victor in south carolina. over, we go, to the big board. steve kornacki. and, steve, i note the map is filling in. >> we have results. you know, these caucus states, these took days to get. we are starting to get some real numbers in south carolina. not a lot but you see initially, biden 53%. sanders, very distant second. followed by tom steyer. i can tell you that the vast majority that you are seeing right now, these are absentee votes. we saw in 2016 that the absentee vote, sanders did substantially worse among absentee voters. so if that pattern holds, you might see sanders moving up a bit here. you might see biden falling off a bit. again, i'm not talking about something that is going to change this election or even call it into question. but if it's 39 now, that spread between biden and sanders may get narrower as you start to get to same day. but overwhelming here. biden blue color, get used to it. our exit poll showing, not surprisingly based on what we showed you, biden supporters running particularly

we're going to south carolina. we're going to win those states as well. >> i admired senator sanders when i was a high school student. i respect him greatly to this day and i congratulate him on his strong showing tonight. and thanks to you a campaign that some said shouldn't be here at all has shown that we are here to stay. and a politics of my way or the highway is a road to reeallecting donald trump. if today's washington were serving america well, a guy like donald trump would never have come within cheating distance of the oval office anyway. >> i'm amy klobuchar and i will beat donald trump. we have beaten the odds every step of the way. we have done it on the merits. we have done it with ideas, and we have done it with hard work. >> the biggest change for the candidates going forward, the demographic map. the race now moves from mostly white iowa and new hampshire to far more diverse nevada and south carolina. cnn's phil mattingly at the magic wall with a look at what happened overnight. phil? >> yeah, chri