mandate and now the justices will be taking it up. nice to see you, sara, appreciate it. "inside politics" with john king starts right now. thank you, kate, and welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. the coronavirus plans a second life here in the united states. new york, florida and rhode island announces their first cases. president trump said he will push pharmaceutical companies today to push a vaccine. plus the future of the affordable care act is unconstitutional. president trump supports that challenge that could abolish obamacare, but the high court's decision likely won't come until after the 2020 election. and 14 states vote tomorrow, super tuesday.

bernie sanders hopes to open a big delegate lead while joe biden is hoping to act on the momentum of his big win in south carolina. >> israel is small, we know, but resilient and surrounded by adversaries. if you caught the last couple presidential debates, you know that i can empathize. we can't even agree on who is the funniest new yorker, jerry steinfeld, larry david or me. >> we begin the hour with a global coronavirus crisis and new trouble signs here at home. the weekend brought the first two confirmed coronavirus deaths here in the united states, two men from a nursing facility in washington. this morning confirmation from new york's governor that the virus is in new york city, and a guarantee from the governor that it will spread. >> we will be testing for community spread. i fully expect to find community

spread. you can't have it in this many places on the globe and in this many places in the country and it not be in new york. that is going to happen. >> the number infected here in the united states now approaching 191 cases so far, according to the centers of disease control, who has patients on both coasts. officials now warning scientific evidence suggests the virus could have spread undetected in washington state for weeks. the president today promising to push big pharmaceutical companies to speed up work on a vaccine, while insisting united states government response is going as planned, and the president says his early action has saved lives. but there are some noticeable hiccups and complaints from the front lines of the virus, like this one, an emergency physician. >> before i came here this morning, i was in the emergency room seeing patients. i still do not have a rapid diagnostic test available. i'm here to tell you right now, at one of the busiest hospitals in the country, i don't have it at my fingertips.

i still have to call the department of health. i still have to make my case, plead to test people. this is not good. we know there are 88 cases in the united states. there are going to be hundreds by middle of the week, there are going to be thousands by next week. this is a testing issue. >> cnn medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us. elizabeth, this is a complaint we have heard and the government had some issues with the first test. where are we? where is the government and the medical community in getting these testing kits to the front line asap? >> we heard the doctor from new york say when he wants to test a patient, he has to call the new york department of health. a couple days ago it was worse, you had to call the cdc in atlanta. everyone in the country did. it is getting better. tests are getting out to state departments, oregon and other tests were diagnosed by local testing, not by the cdc in atlanta. but still, understandably, and they're right, doctors should have that testing available to

them like any other test right there in their hospitals. >> elizabeth, you had some eye openers over the weekend. doctors are saying they're not getting the treatment guidance they need? >> that's right. if a patient were to walk into any given hospital in the u.s. with coronavirus, here's what we know about how to treat it, what to do, what the course of the illness is. almost all that information comes from china, so doctors i've been talking to and medical experts say, what is going on here? we have had many, many patients in this country recover. why can't we write that up and publicize it for doctors to see? we did it for one patient, the very first patient. the cdc and others wrote that up and it was published in the new york journal of medicine on january 31st. but a lot of time has passed. they want to know why haven't we done this for the mothother patients. the more everyone knows the better. >> the president is going to meet with major pharmaceutical companies. he says he wants it to go as quickly as possible, but define as quickly as possible.

we're still months away from a vaccine, correct? >> more than months away. what experts have told us, including tony fauci, it's a year and a half at the very least. it's not that it takes that long to come up with a vaccine, that's sometimes the easy and quick part, it's that you have to test it. you can't just unleash it on the public, it has to go through testing, and that's what takes that period of time. >> elizabeth cohen, i appreciate the facts. that's what we have to do as we go through this the next several months, at least. to share their reporting and insights, margaret talev with "axios," to louis olorunnipa with the "washington post." the president meets with pharmaceutical companies this afternoon trying to project the image of, we got this. however he tweeted this morning, i was criticized by the democrats when i closed the country weeks ago, but it saved

many lives. with the impeachment hoax, they didn't have a clue. now they are fear mongering. be calm and vigilant. >> this is a president who is completely focused on his reelection bid. any time he hears criticism, he sees it in a political realm and he sees people trying to take him down and trying to keep him from winning reelection. the fact that he is holding a rally today and focusing on trying to rally his troops and rally his base, he tries to show he's interested in showing that he doesn't want this virus to spread, while also spreading his political interests, going to rallies and taking a position as a victim in all of this, not as a person who is actually a victim of this actual virus. the president is comfortable being portrayed as a victim, and he's likely to continue to go on the attack and not do what we've

normally seen presidents do in natural disasters and public health emergencies which is focus completely on the issue and not on politics. >> you can't take away the fact that we are in a campaign here, is to we're in the president's reelection year. however, i was going to put this map up of the states where we have cases in the united states, and i was told they now have their first presumptive case in new hampshire as well. you have it on both koercoasts, little bit in the midwest, florida. it is going to spread. there is no way around that. >> that map is going to look yellow pretty shortly. this is a crisis happening in the social media age in which you're seeing a lot of disinformation being spread about this virus on twitter, on facebook, everything else. that is also heightening the anxiety. you're seeing people -- a run on purell at all the cvss, and i think it creates an anxiety in the country, and when you have this political back and forth, it doesn't help anything to do

that. >> i think mike pence is trying to step in. he's done a lot of media talks and meetings. but can he stick to the script? there seems to be a conflicting dynamic in the trump administration wanting to contain this virus but also wanting to downplay the threat of it. >> is the government really well enough organized and capable and structured to be able to deal with this? my team over the weekend reporting that they're actually concerned about the possible contamination in the cdc lab where these tests were originally run out of, and that testing has been moved now. but even as they try to ascertain how big of a problem was that, how connected was that to the actual delays. nonetheless, everything from how an individual lab is run to how all the individual agencies are talking to one another to getting a handle on testing is going to be crucial to

understanding, how widespread is this in the united states? are we panicking when we talk about constraining travel or schools, or is that what we should be talking about? until we understand those issues, try to politicize this at rallies or try to use political advantage is really something that should be kept off to the side. there needs to be a hands-on, nonpartisan effort to try to understand how broad the spread of this is now and how much of a risk it really is. >> and democrats should heed that advice as well. we picked up on that tweet about the democrats. the democrats should pick up the slack. specific policy responses, raise them. to your point, this is the beginning. february. here's where we are, at 91. they just found the case in new hampshire, so that is likely 92. there is nothing you can do about the virus and the spread. this is going to keep going up. the question is, there was some talk at the beginning of the

week that you would get a bipartisan agreement to spend $7 million up front to answer questions about the test kits, about the cooperation of state and local governments to help them. will they get there, or will the government cause a hiccup there, too? >> what we're hearing from capitol hill, they are closing on a deal of a $7 million package, which is far higher than what trump had originally requested, but lawmakers on both sides don't just want to hand over a check. they want to make sure trump can't spend the money on other things in the future. they also want to make sure this vaccine is going to be affordable and come to market in a relatively quick manner. those are the details being hashed out right now. >> the president didn't mention coronavirus specifically, but he went at the federal reserve today. it's been a far better day at the markets today, i believe, when we came on air. but the president worried about this, and neil irwin writing in

the "new york times" over the weekend, the recession fighters would be like a fire brigade low on supplies, fighting among themselves, and probably lacking the right chemicals to quench the flames, anyway. the point is the expectation is very low. what more can the fed do even if the president yells at them? >> not too much. interest rates have been low and the president has been complaining about that for weeks and months, before this virus took over, and i'm sure the president will continue to berate his own handheld fed chair, and there's not much that can be done and i'm sure we'll see that in the president's tweets over the next several weeks. >> she said all you need is to have a shock crumble. the coronavirus is a shock to the system and she's trying to use that as an issue to revive

her campaign, but she's been taking trump on and released a very detailed plan about what she thinks ought to be done. >> you see that in the campaign as well. when we come back, tomorrow is super tuesday. one candidate just left the race, but will pete buttigieg still try to make an impact? every night. ne,t right after dinner. definitely after meatloaf. like clockwork. do it! run your dishwasher every night with cascade platinum. a load with as few as 8 dishes, is all it takes to save water. an energy star certified dishwasher uses less than four gallons per cycle. while handwashing uses that, every two minutes. so, do it. run your dishwasher every night with cascade platinum. the surprising way to save water.

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to the 2020 presidential race now, the final sprint to super tuesday. here's a look at where the candidates are today. according to voters in the 14 states holding primaries on the biggest day of the democratic nominating contest. more than a third of the party's pledged delegates are up for grabs tomorrow, and bernie sanders is looking to open a healthy delegate lead. blowout win from south carolina. buttigieg buttigieg is now weighing a biden endorsement.

buttigieg is seeing senator sanders as the wrong choice. >> we need to hale a divided nation, not drive us further apart. we need a broadbased agenda that can truly deliver for the american people, not one that gets lost in idealogy. we need an approach not only strong enough to win the white house, but to hold the house, win the senate and send mitch mcconnell into retirement. that broad and inclusive politics, that is the politics we have attempted to model through this campaign. that, i believe, is the way forward for our eventual nominee. >> cnn's jeff zeleny joins us live now. jeff, tell us what you're learning about from the buttigieg campaign about joe biden? >> we know when he made that speech in south bend, indiana, he had two very important phone calls. one was from joe biden, and the former vice president congratulated him on a strong campaign and a good race. he also asked him for his support. i'm told mayor buttigieg is essentially going to sleep on it. he's going to give it some time

to figure out what the best timing is for an endorsement like this. a variety of people around the former mayor's campaign believe that at some point he will, indeed, endorse joe biden, but the question is will he do it in the coming hours before super tuesday. there is a mixed thought on this. the biden campaign believes this is setting up as a choice between joe biden and bernie sanders. they're not necessarily sure that an endorsement would help at this point, so the biden campaign also controls some of the timing of that. but look, i think it would help, and the reality here is that joe biden needs all the help he can get. we will find out in the coming hours if he's going to do an endorsement before super tuesday or not. we simply do not know. we do know that the former mayor is on the phone with his campaign employees, thanking them for all their work. this is a process they have to get through. and just thinking back to buttigieg and biden, they went after each other quite a bit. that's common in these races. remember the acrimony from hillary clinton, barack obama and other campaigns. it never reached that level at

all. so pete buttigieg is not supportive of bernie sanders' policies, so biden would be a good choice for him. we're just not sure when that will be. he called joe biden to congratulate him but he's still staying on the sidelines. he believes he is the unifying factor. >> he's going to have to wait at least a bit longer. jeff zeleny, appreciate the reporting there. let's talk about super tuesday. buttigieg out. i'll come back to biden in a minute, but i want to start with bernie sanders and go through the candidates in the next few minutes and go through where they are. bernie sanders has the lead right now with 16 plus delegates. he was first in nevada, first in new hampshire, first in iowa. if you're bernie sanders, you're looking to run it up big in

california, the biggest prize on super tuesday. you're hoping to lead in texas, the second biggest prize on super tuesday. north carolina more interesting. joe biden is competing there, but if you're sanders you're still thinking you'll get a decent amount of delegates out of north carolina. that leaves massachusetts and maine. bernie sanders is going there today, aim klobuchamy klobuchar state, but i guess the question is how big. >> that map favors bernie sanders. he probably will come out with the most delegates, but is biden able to keep it close or does he run away with it? >> sanders knows biden has a little bit of a bounce coming out of south carolina, so listen to this rally where he wants to remind voters, maybe you're giving biden a second look. please don't. >> please do not forget joe biden voted for the war in iraq.

joe biden voted for a bankruptcy bill which hurt the working families of this country big time. my point here is not to just be negative about joe. my point is to ask you all, what campaign is going to defeat donald trump? >> not a coincidence he gets tougher on biden after biden -- >> now he thinks he needs to be tougher on biden again, right? there's been a lot of recalibration since the results saturday night and the breadth of the results saturday night in south carolina. in a really huge state, the size of a crowded rally tells you nothing about anything. the crowds are important, but in a massive state with 35 million people or whatever, it's much more about how you're reaching people at home, on their tvs, in social media. the ad penetration is important, but there are other things that are important also.

i think we're going to see the latino vote, the really important factor in california and in texas, and we're going to see whether michael bloomberg's bid to hit 15% thresholds in congressional districts all over super tuesday states has had an impact. on the one hand, it could take away votes from biden, but on the other hand, it would take away votes from sanders and that's really the game that sanders has to play again. there are a few different ways to watch these numbers, but the latino vote is going to be important. huge populations around the country will be very important. what biden has to do, it seems to me, is work on the other states where the african-american vote can be very important, southern states and states where he may have more impact with less money. he has had no money to compete in places with -- like california. >> he has had no money for super tuesday. joe biden gets a big one in south carolina. bernie sanders turns up the

heat. he has 53 pledged delegates. he almost caught up with bernie sanders in the delegate hub there. he was fourth in iowa, disappointing, 5 in new hampshire, even more disappointing, second in nevada, first in south carolina, but to your point, only 1.5 million spent in eight states. that's nickels and dimes, really. if you look at the map, he's in texas today. joe biden hoping to do some business in texas. there is a big latino population and a big liberal population, but you also have moderate democrats in a state like texas. if you look at these southern states, arkansas, alabama, north carolina, virginia and tennessee -- i'm making a mess of the map here. let me come back and do it this way, draw the line bigger. there are a lot of states in the south here. bernie is hoping in south carolina he can get african-american votes. he needs some wins. the challenge is to run it up in other states. don't they expect a big win in

south carolina especially? >> african-american voters, a lot of modern white voters, some suburbanites, and he needs that coalition in states where it's more competitive, north carolina and texas, and trying to build his turnout with conservative voters, moderate voters, hopefully late-breaking voters. we've seen a lot of late-breaking voters in 48 states that made up their minds in the final days of the campaign. that could help biden. he could get a little bit of a bounce out of south carolina. that's what he has to hope for because he hasn't been on tv, he hasn't spent a lot of money to get his message out there, so he has to hope the addition from south carolina hopefully, for him, he's got to hope that will help him because he hasn't really had the money to compete yet. >> part of that, just as bernie sanders looks back at joe biden's vote for the iraq war, joe biden urging voters that he has the momentum in south

carolina, urging democrats, think of joe biden at the top of the ticket. joe biden making the case sanders at the top of the ticket would hurt democrats. >> he has great trouble weighing back the senate and ballot initiatives. so i think it is a stark choice and it's not about whether or not we restore the soul of the democratic party, it's about restoring the soul and unite this country, the whole country. >> i don't doubt that biden believes this, and sanders disagrees, but is that the right argument to make in a primary? talk about health care, talk about yourself and your record, issues and policies as opposed to, that's guy is bad. >> it's a very processing argument and it's one joe biden has made from the beginning. this is a guy who started showing polls in his ads way back in august. he's always made these processing arguments, and whether they motivate voters, we'll find out on tuesday.

the problem is he's so far behind on organization. there was a story just the other week that the day before california early voting, that bernie sanders' office in los angeles was buzzing with activity, whereas joe biden's office was padlocked, nobody there. he is way behind on boots on the ground. he is going to be way behind in media and momentum. >> if it's much bigger than that, it gets hard. we'll do the math as we go through the programming. an exclusive tonight on the eve of super tuesday. interviews with the democratic presidential candidates. it's all live tonight on cnn. when we come back, we'll keep going through the candidates and super tuesday stakes. t-mobile has the first and only, nationwide 5g network. and with it, you can shape the future. we've invested 30 billion dollars and built our new 5g network for businesses like yours. while some 5g signals only go a few blocks, t-mobile 5g goes for miles.

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back now to the super tuesday democrats. we talked about bernie sanders and former vice president joe biden. out in center court today is senator elizabeth warren. she is campaigning out there. 13 states tomorrow, more than 1300 delegates. why california for elizabeth warren. let's show you where she is in the race right now. she has only eight pledged delegates right now. a candidate over the summer has had a struggling primary season. she was fourth in ohio, fourth

in new hampshire, fourth in nevada and fifth in south carolina. her campaign beliefs, there is some skepticism in this, but her campaign beliefs, california is a place she can possibly perform second because of the delegates, and then rack up some other -- she's hoping for a win in massachusetts. but hopefully gate win there and rack up some second places so on wednesday morning she can make an incredible case, i'm in the hunt. >> the war of attrition is hope that maybe the frontrunner scrutiny of bernie sanders, joe biden's other fight that anyone can get the delegation. she has over $12 million on the air from this shadowy superpac that we don't know the donors

of, that she was opposed to dark money for most of this, but it is enlightening joe biden's superpac. we don't know the effect of that, either. >> senator sanders will start to poke her on that. the two candidates who have been mostly nice to each other along the way are getting more prickly. i want to go back to the map. if you look at elizabeth warren, hold out hope, it could be a long, pro tracted fight, but at some fight after coming in third, fourth, fourth and fifth, at some point she could definitely use that. a win at home in massachusetts would help. bernie sanders went in there with two big rallies to try to essentially take away her win on super tuesday. you try to get some here, and then is there a particular place somewhere else? where do we think elizabeth warren can run? is it texas? is it north carolina, virginia? >> her campaign has been focused on texas. california, where she is on that viability threshold. if she gets 15% and nobody else

is viable, that is a ton of delegates for her. and she also sees denver as a huge potential opportunity, and then next week you're going to see washington, michigan, where she's already in advertising. it is a long shot, but there are places where she thinks she can stay in the delegate hunt. >> stay in the delegate hunt. heifer campaign has underperformed so far, so the question is can you produce? what makes tomorrow fascinating, it's the first time michael ploom berg bloomberg is on the ballot. he has a big zero in pledged delegates. however, look at the bottom of the screen there. $173.8 million in tv ad spending in all 14 of the states that are up tomorrow. and yet i have not seen a poll that shows me michael bloomberg is leading anywhere. how does one define success for mayor bloomberg, or if he's a no, meaning no wins, is he done? >> delegates is the way you define success. it is the only way to define

success at this point. the challenge for michael bloomberg is that the paid media has been great for him. good ads, people watch them, they're always on tv, they have women and people of color and all the groups he needs to gain ground with. the problem for him has been the debates have been terrible for him, and there's so much coverage of them that people who are just watching the news are reading negative things about him, and it's clearly eaten into some of the bump that he would have gotten from the ads. so we will see. we will see whether people have been paying more attention to ads or whether people have been paying more attention to the debate coverage and critical things that all the other democrats have piled on him about, particularly the issues surrounding some of his past statements about women 20 or 30 years ago and the whole issue of the nondisclosure agreements, but also black voters. you saw some groups of voters turn away from him or criticize him in selma yesterday. some of the southern states where the african-american vote is really important, that could

hurt him. >> his whole rationale was the big biden win right before michael bloomberg was first on the ballot. that is the worst thing that could happen to michael bloomberg. >> if he underperforms in super tuesday, does he nevertheless stay in for that sort of second super tuesday because he's invested a lot in that 15% strategy in that group of states also. that's a lot of states also. >> he says he's going to. he said on "60 minutes" yesterday he's going to stay in. the problem is he's eating in on joe biden's campaign. ironically, for the guy who came in to stop bernie sanders, he's helping bernie sanders. >> and he spent a whole lot of money to do that. >> they are hurting sanders by staying in through tuesday. the interesting conversation is that bloomberg disappoints across the board tuesday when he says i'm out of here. but we'll see. fifth in iowa.

disappointing. third in new hampshire, which is a surprise performance for her, probably caused pete buttigieg to win there, but then fell to sixth in nevada and sixth in california. you're always an underdog. you had that boost in new hampshire with that showing, but the question now is where do you go on the map? her state of minnesota is obviously one place, but senator sanders is going in again. senator sanders being aggressive. he went into massachusetts to try to take home base away from senator warren. he's going into missouri to try to tie it away from amy klobuchar. is that the test? >> i think she wants to do as well as possible in minnesota to say she is the midwestern to show she can win in the midwest. doing well in minnesota could

help her make the case that i should stay in the race because i can do well in the midwest and we need the midwest in order to win in november. that's her strongest argument at this point. we'll have to wait and see tuesday night and wednesday how she does. >> maybe she has the clear path to make that case but she has to make it by performance. the candidate that's often forgotten is tulsi gabbard. she didn't really compete in iowa. she was seventh in new hampshire, she didn't really compete in nevada, and she's seventh in south carolina. i will note this. she is a congresswoman from hawaii. american samoa votes on super tuesday. the rule as it now stands, if you get a delegate, you're still in the debate. is that correct? >> that's the rule for the debates, but the dnc has not released the official results in phoenix, but it would be likely they're trying to cancel tulsi.

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topping our political radar today, the supreme court is deciding the fate of our affordable care act. the decision will likely come after the presidential election. the supreme court also leading in place the president's so-called ban on bump stocks, denied by support groups and bump stock owners. the united states signed a deal with the taliban over the weekend, saying do not expect unrest to come to a stop right away. he says he plans to bring the number of troops in afghanistan down to 8600 and then discuss the situation. >> i don't know if it will

actually be done, but he had my approval to get it done at his pace, certainly within ten days, because the agreement says within ten days it should begin. it's all conditions based, but we are going to show good faith by beginning to withdraw our troops, and we can pause it based on, again, changing circumstances. >> right now the polls are open in israel for the third time in 11 months. prime minister benjamin netanyahu has failed twice to form a new government. his opponent failed after the last vote as well. also hanging over this election, netanyahu's corruption trial which is scheduled to start in 15 days. or r orrin lieberman is in tel aviv. are they going to break this election this time? >> reporter: the prediction of that answer would be no, but the stalemate over a year now would continue.

election polls are one thing, election day is something very different, and it's important to note on this day that at 6:00 p.m., so just about half an hour ago, voter turnout was up, 6.2 percent rather than 4% two months earlier. israelis have defied expectations for everything this election had going against it. more israelis have come out to vote, the question is for whom? prime minister benjamin netanyahu, the crux of his campaign was based at getting out 300,000 voters to win this election, although that 200 pledge points doesn't count for this election. it would certainly be a strong showing for benjamin netanyahu. enough to get him over the line? we'll see in election polls in a couple hours and actual results. but that's what we're watching as election polls are open for two more hours, john.

>> we'll count the votes and check back in tomorrow to see if they'll get a fourth election or whether we're done. let's come back to the conversation in this country. the supreme court case decided to hear this challenge to obamacare. arguments likely in the fall. the decision kicks over until after the presidential election. but if arguments go into the fall, the president, who supports this challenge, would they go into court and argue right before the election, blow up obamacare? >> this is going to be a huge issue for the gop. remember, democrats ran in 2018 on the issue of health care, raising concerns they worried that the government would gut health care. this is going to renew pressure on the gop if they are going to court to support this. they need to show what their vision would be, what their alternative would be. obviously in 2017 they were unable to do that. but i think the fact we won't get a ruling until after the election could be a potential

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senator bernie sanders takes the democratic nomination is predicting joe biden will win alabama's primary tomorrow. he told me this morning his fears about sanders are very real. >> i'm going to run on my record regardless of who the nominee is, but there are any number of people who see the top of the ticket and that's going to influence the down ballot race. they either win at the top of the ticket or not. there are people who want to bring this victory together with civility and respect, they don't just want an extreme candidate. >> you might remember jones won his seat by just two points back in 2017, and he is considered the most vulnerable senate incumbent on the ballot this year. he is awaiting tuesday's primary to find out who republicans will choose as his opponent. three of the seven candidates are considered to be leading the pack, congressman bradley burn,

former football coach, tommy tuberville and jeff sessions. he's saying, maybe the president won't tweet against me and i'll be okay here. but it looks like a cluster at the top. >> he hasn't been tweeting against his former attorney general who he very much dislikes, but it will be very interesting to see how president trump responds to the vote tomorrow, whether or not jeff sessions is able to eke out a win and whether or not president trump rallies behind him or if he continues to hold that grudge from 2017 and 2018 where he said his attorney general, by recusing himself, really let him down and did not protect him from all the investigations that have plagued his administration. >> this primary has been such an interesting look at the current republican base, because this primary has been all about trump. jeff sessions has been running ads about his loyalty to trump. his opponents have been running, at least one of them has been

running ads against jeff sessions, condemning him for not prosecuting hillary clinton. >> let me jump in on that point, because you're right. they're awesome. let's listen. >> out of 100 united states senators, i was the first to endorse donald trump. i'm jeff sessions. >> jeff sessions? >> he got fired. >> and hillary still ain't in jail. >> what about you, bradley? >> 90% pro-trump voting record. >> the trump-off. >> that's a good way to put it, a trump-off. >> i know we're talking about republican voters here, but to doug's point, it's also true that who the republican nominee is in a state like alabama is

going to have applications across the ticket, and i think not just alabama, but florida, which we haven't talked about that much because it's not in tomorrow's way, but it's not far behind. if you look at how the democrats are spending time in florida, like bloomberg, we'll see biden more now, and the comments from the past, that is really going to come to bear in places like florida and some of the southern states where there are democrats a little bit lower on this ticket in the presidential race. >> one day at a time, margaret. thanks for joining us on "inside politics." we'll see you back tomorrow for super tuesday. brianna keilar is next. have a good week. with tums smoothies. ♪ tum tum-tum tum tums

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