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bernie sanders hopes it is too late to stop biden from opening a big delegate lead. the former new york mayor is on the ballot for the first time today. elizabeth warren is at home, hoping that super tuesday finally brings her a primary win. >> would a third place finish be good? >> you know, there's only three candidates. we can't do worse than that. >> there is elizabeth warren also. >> i didn't realize she was still in. is she? >> we begin there with super tuesday and its crucial map. 14 states, more than 1300 delegates. that's more delegates determined in this map. bernie sanders with a narrow lead over joe biden.

pete buttigieg dropped out of the race. elizabeth warren, you see the math there, 1300 delegates will be decided in 14 states. america samoa also votes today. what are we looking for? number one, what about the regions? bernie sanders and elizabeth warren both in the northeast. massachusetts on the ballot. can warren finally get a win or will sanders sweep the northeast? joe biden just won south carolina. can he put something down here with the african-american vote in the southern states? absolutely critical to him. the two biggest prizes when we go west, north carolina and texas. another question mark, what happens in minnesota now that amy klobuchar is out of the race? bernie sanders claims he can take that one, joe biden making another push. if you think about the race so far and what we have seen, i just want to pop this up on the map for you. this is the population of latin americans and latinos, the

heavier population. the deeper you see green as we go west, the higher percentage of latino votes. thir think about the super tuesday states. virginia down here, alabama down here, den ttennessee as well. all the states where joe biden hopes he gets a bump on super tuesday and people vote for him. joe biden better do well in the east, because as we go west in texas, bernie sanders thinks he will do well with latino voters. in california, bernie sanders thinks he'll do well with latino voters. bernie sanders hopes to stretch out that delegate lead. the expectation is we'll wake up tomorrow and sanders will have a delegate lead. the big question on super tuesday is, how big? >> today is obviously a very, very important day. and we look forward to doing well. if we're going to defeat donald trump, our campaign is the campaign to do that. we have the grassroots movement

all over this country to beat donald trump. we are going to need to have the largest voter turnout in the history of this country. we need energy, we need excitement. i think our campaign is that campaign. >> one of the battlegrounds within the battlegrounds this super tuesday are the fast-growing communities in and around houston. cnn's ed lavandera is there keeping the vote in missouri and texas. ed? >> we're in ft. bend county, texas just south of houston. all eyes are on areas like this in texas. this is an area that for decades had been a republican stronghold and now seems to be very much possibly up in the air. republicans here in texas are concerns about women voters in counties like the suburban

counties of the major cities in dallas and houston, and whether or not they will turn away from president trump in droves, and that's why so many people are paying attention to what voters in counties like this are going to be doing here on this election day. it's also interesting, the republican congressman who represents this area is retiring after only having won the last election by about five points. and again, you're seeing on the republican side that battle between moderates and right wing trump supporters. you have the grandson of president george h.w. bush running for congress here, but the turnout here is really focused on what the democratic primary voters are going to do and which lane of those democratic candidates they're going to support here at the end of the day. john? >> ed lavandera on the ground in texas. it's not just the presidential primaries at stake today. here with me to share their reporting and their insights, julie hirschfeld davis with the "new york times," jackie

kucinich with "politico." i don't know anyone who thinks we won't wake up tomorrow and bernie sanders won't have the lead in delegates. the question is, will it be a modest lead and we'll carry on, or will it be a big lead? >> a couple days ago i would have said it would be an inseizuinsu insurmountable lead. today is the biggest single payoff with texas and california. he looked like he was in the position to open up a lot of space with everybody else. you and i have covered -- probably the most extraordinary 48 hours in a primary in a very long time, and the question is how much does that signalling, as well as momentum in south carolina, allow biden to break some of the demographic patterns that have emerged in the first four states?

>> it was too late when it happened, really. even though he was raising money, he didn't have the money, and joe biden gets a blowout win in south carolina. how many people thought he would win by 30 points? amy klobuchar out, endorses biden. pete buttigieg out, endorses biden. and now we have amy klobuchar saying, vote for biden. >> if you feel annoyed by our politics and if you are tired of the extremes, you have a home with me. and i think you know you have a home with joe biden. >> i'm looking for a president who will draw out what is best in each of us. we have found that leader in vice president, soon to be president, joe biden. >> we need somebody who can beat donald trump. in joe biden, we have that man. we have someone who, in fact, is

the antithesis of donald trump. >> you missed the arms, didn't you? i'm having fun. thls this is a big moment. th this is a big, big moment for joe biden. he wins big in south carolina and he has this momentum. i think it could have a big impact this tuesday and the tuesday after that. could it have a quick impact, a, because it just happened, and if you look at this map, early voting is the norm. only one of the 14 states today, alabama, doesn't have early or in-person absentee ballot voting. california has the second biggest prize, north carolina the third biggest. we know in six of these states more than 32 democratic ballots have already been cast. >> we've talked to them in various states, and so many are so nervous as to who to cast

their vote for. many of them just want to beat president trump and they want to pick the right horse to do that. those are the voters who, people who weren't automatically biden fans, those are the ones that biden might have a leg up on. if people haven't decided if they wanted to go for sanders at this point, perhaps a strong showing in south carolina will change their mind and that will help them today. but he certainly is playing catch-up in all of these states where early voting was going on. blake? >> i was going to say in california, a number of voters did hold onto their ballots, so they haven't sent them in because they wanted to see if the field would winnow ahead of that. on the issue of texas, his campaign members told me they're really thinking they can catch up to sanders there. it may be a long shot, but they see more of a chance in texas for them to win over those delegates that they need as opposed to california. >> texas is not as liberal as

california where it's shaped with the liberal movement like nevada. the potential that some of those suburban counties like ft. bend for the democrats, neither biden nor sanders have been a particularly good candidate for those suburbanites. a lot of them went with klobuchar or warren early. it will be interesting to see where they go. >> texas would be a huge surprise. biden, you could see it. he got his first win in south carolina. now he has these endorsements. he's looser, he's more energized on the trail, and he says voters don't want a revolution. >> democrats want a nominee who is a democrat, a lifelong democrat, a proud democrat, an obama-biden democrat! then join us! this time i got to bring around

everybody, every race, ethnicity, gender, disabilities or economic situation. democrats, republicans, independent of every stripe. >> he has a moment. the question is how much can he seize in the short term as he tries to restructure, raise money and get ready to carry on? >> this is a message he's always wanted to be for the campaign whp he g when he got in the race in the first place. now that people are consolidating behind him, he can make that case behind sanders saying, we don't need somebody who is radical, we need somebody who can bring together the party. as you said, it might be too late to get the kind of momentum he needs to keep going and keep contesting sanders who already has a lead and maybe a difficult lead to su drrks mourmount. you hear sanders saying all

these people are trying to crush him. how much does that intensify people's determination to go out and make sure they show their support for bernie sanders, and how much does that take away from what has been an extraordinary 48 hours. >> to that point, extraordinary. you cannot find the right word for it in what has happened here. in the last second, joe biden decides, bernie sanders is probably going to win minnesota today. let's try to cut the margin. turn on your tv. here's amy klobuchar. >> what i want all of you to do is vote for joe. it is time to turn back the division and the hate and the exclusion and the bitterness. and it is time to work together. >> i don't know how much it can work in one day. people are voting today. but it at least shows a nimble effort by a biden campaign.

many will probably go for sanders. we'll see. but he's in the mix. >> he's kind of been like an aircraft carrier. seeing that, perhaps down the line we're seeing a campaign that is newly energized, that has money, we'll see if it pays off. as julie said, sanders functions very well as an underdog and people really want to get in there. >> he has a bigger ground game. that's another thing biden is battle ng theing in these state in texas. sanders has eight offices, 80 midterm smaller offices. biden can't compete with that in the final days. beto o'rourke was using facebook lightning at what-a-burger. i haven't seen him do that before. before we go to break, a flashback to a time when joe

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that was more than the president wanted, but last night he said he didn't mind. >> six weeks ago, eight weeks ago, you never heard of this. all of a sudden it's got the world aflutter, but it will work out. they asked for 2.5, they asked for 8.5, i'll take it. there . >> there is the largest interest rate cut in the market. the fed chair says the fundamentals of the economy are strong, so why this rate cut? >> john, we did see the fed make its emergency rate cut just early this morning, and this is a way for the fed to go ahead and try to make an impact to lower borrowing costs for businesses and consumers just in case the coronavirus causes the economy to deteriorate.

jay powell also said about an hour ago that the coronavirus risks the economy. we're already seeing closings of supply chains, so he did acknowledge that. it's a threat to traders, to investors, to the market, that the fed has their backs. although the market is hoping for this, they're really wanting it. there is also a realization it will have little immediate effect on the economy because the reality is they can't cure a health kritcrisis. the fed can't fix the issues the country is enduring as we speak, and that's why we see the rates going up and down, john. >> i appreciate it very much. you see the dow down despite the rate cut because of that emergency. dr. sanjay gupta joins our conversation. i want to start, and i'll talk

to julie in a second. mike pence is up there. we've had a political debate, but there does seem to be there is about to be a meeting of the minds, between 7 and $8 billion, something like that. what is the most immediate thing right now we can help with. >> the preparation. the vaccine is a year and a half away and has a certain cost, probably a billion to a billion and a half dollars. there is a larger need in having to take care of these sick patients right now. if you look at the federal government's own projections in terms of what a moderate pandemic might look like versus severe pandemic, you can look at how many hospitalizations are anticipated, how many people will need to be in the icu. on the lower side, 200,000 people. we also know that about 64,000 people will need to be on breathing machines, and we have about 62,000 breathing machines in the country and another 10,000 in the stockpile.

during flu season, many of those are in use. so that's a pressing concern, it's an acute concern, sort of a triage concern. it's going to cost money. the machines need space, isolation, all the stuff to take care of these patients. >> i want to come back to that in a minute. i want to look at the severe scenario, and we hope it won't turn out this way. >> 38 million needing medical care, 1 million needing hospitalizations, 200,000 needing icu. they might need to use hotels because they don't have the beds. what kind of stress scenario are we talking about? >> it's significant, and also that severe scenario is the worst scenario. i hope it doesn't get to that. about a three quarter of a million ventilators are necessary. this is the real sort of brass tacks in terms of how to care

for these patients, and keep in mind, there are patients currently on ventilators. doctors and nurses will have to make some tough decisions about how to care for these patients if they have limited resources. so when you're talking about billions of dollars that they're talking about -- by the way, on top of what the ebola virus was, what h1n1 was, a lot of bulk in terms of dollars. that's what that money will be used for, to take care of these patients in the immediate term. there will be long term care as well, but right now we're talking about taking care of them as they get sick. >> you saw the president saying "aflutter." he minimizes frequently the severity of this. he talked to dr. anthony fau krir ci about how soon they could get this done.

you should never destroy your own credibility and you don't want to go to war with a president. but you got to walk the fine balance of making sure you continue to tell the truth. he's been around a long time, so i guess he understands politics. but essentially saying, i'm going to tell the truth about this, and sometimes i might be running with the president a little bit. >> we've seen this unfold in realtime. you were asked at that briefing yesterday when dr. fauci and other public health officials were saying, it is almost inevitable, it is inevitable this is going to spread, and the president got up and said, i don't think it's inevitable, i think the katcases are going do. but people like dr. fauci are resigned to the fact they're going to give the facts and often at odds with what the president is saying. my colleague at the time confirmed that people like dr. fauci are being asked to clear their statements with the office before speaking out. we don't have any evidence that anyone is being muzzled or being

told what not to say, but the general population don't know whether they can trust the information they're getting out of the white house and the administration. that's also the case in congress. i think a lot of lawmakers are confused about that as well. >> hopefully that situation proves itself as they get their footing be. julie is going to stay with us. to a very deadly disaster in tennessee. 22 people are dead after a storm tore through the city early this morning. dozens of homes and buildings flattened, trucks overturned, trees and power lines down. president trump just announced he will visit tennessee on friday. cnn's amora walker is in nashville. the pictures are so sad. what can you tell us? >> reporter: i can tell you we've seen extensive damage here in east nashville, john. the people i've been speaking

with throughout the day, they've been coming here to survey all the damage and they're in complete shock. right now we're in five points district. this is a business area where there are lots of restaurants and bars and coffee shops, and people say this is a social hub of east nashville, and they're coming to see that some of their favorite spots are gone. there is an ice cream shop in here, there is a juicery, there was apparently an architectural firm on the second floor. if you look inside these broken windows, the businesses are completely hollowed out, the ceilings have caved in. also if you look across the street, you can see the power lines entangled with mangled metal there. that used to be a building, that used to be an in-state shop. obviously that is no more. to the left of that building, this was some kind of disability office, but you can see the shingles on the roof have flown off because of this tornado.

the numbers are going up in terms of the death toll. the confirmed number of deaths so far from this deadly tornado is now at 22. multiple injuries we're hearing about. we know at least 156 people in the greater nashville area were transported to local hospitals with extensive injuries. right now the focus is on finding the survivors because this tornado hit in the middle of the night, around 12:30 in the morning, and as you know, a lot of people are sleeping at that time. there are firefighters, there are search and rescue team members on the ground here now in east nashville, and other neighbors going door to door with what's left of these buildings, hoping to find some survivors. john, back to you. >> amara, i greatly appreciate the live work on the ground. thank you very much. after the break, we turn to super tuesday and the stakes of

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super tuesday carries enormous stakes for both elizabeth warren and michael bloomberg, even though both insist they're in this race for the long haul. bloomberg skipped the first four contests but has dropped over $234 million in advertising into super tuesday states, hoping to make a big impression now that he's on the ballot.

his take today? you don't necessarily need to win states to carry on. >> i don't know whether you need to win. you don't need to win states, you have to win delegates. i think what happens here is nobody gets a majority. then you go to a convention and we'll see what happens. >> do you want to win the delegates? >> i don't think i can win any other way. i don't have any expectation for today. >> elizabeth warren struggled badly in the first four contests and hopes today finally justifies the big investment she's made in campaign staffing. today's test for warren includes her home state of massachusetts where senator sanders is also fighting hard. after casting her vote today, senator warren insists she's not worried. >> it was fun. i really liked voting today. >> for yourself. >> yes. i'm not worried. i am happy to be part of this

democratic process. you know, ten years ago, i was walking here to vote, and i was a teacher. i was not any part of that electoral process other than as a voter. it is the right fight to be in. all those kids who are standing in the window, this is about their future. >> it's interesting to watch both of these candidates essentially concede they can't win a majority of the delegates. both need something today to give them a reason to say, i can stay in, i can amass delegates. let's start with senator warren first. california, she's tried hard, she's fought hard. that's the possibility i look at beyond her home state of massachusetts. we'll see if she loses to senator sanders at home. it's pretty hard to carry on. where else besides california is a place senator warren has a

plausible path, probably not to victory but to get some delegates. >> she is a college white suburban candidate, so you look for states that have that. virginia, north carolina, colorado. those are places where she should do well. you see in our remarks from both warren and bloomberg the possibility of a conventional aura changes it for both candidates in the race. even if you assume you're not going to get to a majority, as bloomberg, i think, quite accurately assumes, you can still have leverage at the end if no one gets to a majority. there is a kind of incentive to stay in if you have the money, and warren certainly has raised a lot of money as well. there is an incentive to stay in on the theory that when you get to the finish line, they will give you leverage on the outcome and possibly a way to gain foothold for yourself. the possibility that no one wins a majority creates an incentive,

if you can afford it, for no one to stay in and get a majority, either. >> warren has had 0 for 4 after the first four contests, she's been trying to go after senator sanders and former vice president biden. >> we find ourselves barrelling to another primary in the same lanes as 2016. one for an insider, one for an outsider. democratic voters should have more choice than that. america should have more choice than that. >> her argument essentially is if you get to a brokered convention, contested convention between biden and sanders, she is more acce acceptable to both camps, partially acceptable to both camps. you can make that case, but don't you need more of the map

to gain authority. >> she does need to amass a decent amount of delegates today, and i think what's interesting is also -- we talked about this earlier, that even with buttigieg and klobuchar dropping out, it doesn't necessarily mean that just because they said we support biden that their voters are going to go to biden. so their voters, because they also did well with affluent white voters, college-educated voters, their voters could decide, well, i don't want to vote fand i'll vote for warren today. >> we'll see what happens today. here's the bloomberg scenario. this is from our reporting on the bloomberg campaign. the bloomberg campaign believes it has viability in most super tuesday states, projecting that bloomberg will have strong

fini finishes in virginia, north carolina, arkansas and texas, said a campaign adviser. the stakes are highest in california. bloomberg's strategy for the final push into tuesday is all about the coronavirus and how bloomberg would handle it. >> they say north carolina and virginia. what is the line for bloomberg to credibly say tomorrow -- i understand what he says about a contested convention. does anybody at the table think you're at a democratic convention where there are at least a third of sanders supporters and they're going to turn to michael bloomberg? >> michael bloomberg has to say that, right? if he's not projecting a way forward, if he doesn't get the delegates his campaign expects to, he has to have a reason. otherwise, what the heck is he doing other than supporting tv stations with all of his ads? >> clearly the campaign believes there is a case for him in some of these eastern and southern

states and that there is a path for him, but he hasn't said what he thinks the threshold is in terms of how many delegates he has to get in order to have a path. he seems to be saying today that that's all irrelevant. that because he is the most effective candidate, everybody knows he has the money to continue to compete, that he can stay in and have a case to make to voters, still, that he is a person they can come to. >> it's just a hard argument when your whole premise is biden is weak. biden gets a 30-point victory in south carolina right before you're on the ballot. we'll come back to this in a bit. as we go to break, some sad news. we note the passing of a past member of our cnn family. anchor bobbie battista died this morning after a long battle with cancer. she was 67.

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topping our political radar today, down ballot super tuesday showdown worth keeping an eye on. several candidates pitching themselves as most loyal to president trump. that includes the long-time senator skbref sessiojeff sessi former attorney general, who is expected to be one of the two candidates if there is a runoff on march 31st. in california 13 candidates are running to fill california senator katie hill's seat. among those running, george

papadopoulos, you might remember him, the trump adviser who spent 12 days in prison for lying. one of the most conservative democrats in the house is facing a challenge from the left by a former intern. justice cisneros looking to kick congressman cuellar from the seat he's held for 15 years. cuellar has the backing of the house speaker, nancy pelosi. >> they sacrificed, they fought for our country. now i fight for them in congress. i bring health care closer to home, care from providers they choose, education from their families and priority for jobs. >> i'm running for congress to fight for health care for everyone and stand up against donald trump's wall and current immigration policies. as we go to break, a live look at some super tuesday

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twelve big states up on this super tuesday voting across the country here as you look. also remember, it's not just the

states voting in 14 states, it's not just the states voting, it's also by congressional districts. you have 15% statewide and then you compete in the congressional districts. there's something interesting about the stakes today. our electorate seem to think it's built for bernie sanders. why do we say that? there are 100 -- 100 -- congressional districts on the ballot today where at least one-third of the voting population is white without a college degree. that tends to be the bernie sanders constituency. one-third has the voting population of latinos. these districts may be more open to joe biden. elizabeth warren also competes here, 21 for whites. and 10 for blacks. i want to go back to 2018. alabama is a super tuesday state. if you look over here for joe biden, you want to win the state, you also want to try to

get delegates district by district. h tami sewell's district over here. joe biden wants to make super tuesday a success there. come to the houston area, and you look in this district here -- here we go -- texas, 18 thr district. a very high population here of latino voters. some african-americans as well, but a heavy population of latino voters. something to keep an eye on as we watch the voting move in texas. the biggest is california. you come down to the l.a. area, the 40th district in california, perhaps the highest latino population nationally. you go congressional district by congressional district. if you look here, critical to bernie sanders. you want to get more than 15% statewide, you also want to compete and win each of these congressional districts to

increase your basket of delegates. one of the reasons, senator sanders is not unique here, but especially in california using spanish ads to try to win over votes and turn them out. [ speaking spanish ] >> this is sort of the battle within the battle, if you will. you want viability, you want 15%, but then you want to be smart within each state to figure out, a, where can i win, and b, what's the difference with the most delegates. >> maybe 183 counting the 14 states. if you look at the democrats with how the voters have done in the first four contests, the group where sanders has done

best, he won among college whites in the 14 states and he did well in nevada. this really does frame the question, though, does the momentum, the endorsements, the consolidation allow biden to change any of these patterns? would he be better among latinos in texas, perhaps, than he's going to do in nevada and california? perhaps even more important, middle class joe, he's the guy that brought back working class white voters, can he underadvantage them? biden is in single digits in every state so far. he's got to change this tonight or this will not go as well. >> or does consolidation energize sanders supporters who would have stayed home because they thought he was golden in texas, and they'll come out because they want to make sure he gets it earlier. >> sanders has spent about 4

million there across english and spanish language tv. biden is not spending on spanish language tv. it's a decision they also made in nevada, and they decided that because they say very few of the latino voters they speak to are actually concrete spanish speakers, they speak more english, they've been here longer, so that's a big decision on that point. whether or not it works is another question. >> 169 different races, and i think again, back to the point about sanders and latinos, good performance in 2016. worked incredibly hard the last four years to improve on it. today is a big scale test over whether all that works. i hope you stay with us throughout the day. thanks for joining us on "inside politics" today. we'll see you tonight. brianna keilar continues right after the break. have a good day. they were immigrants from italy and somewhere along the way

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