johnson, the news continues with alicia menendez. >> hello everyone, i am alicia menendez. it is a busy sunday afternoon here at msnbc headquarters in new york. this afternoon we are following two big stories. first the coronavirus. i will bring you the latest on the confirmed death in cases here in the u.s. and cases from abroad as world leaders try to contain the spread. i will talk to a doctor to separate fact from fiction and bring you the important information you and your family need to know. plus we are watching the race for the democratic nomination after joe biden's big win in south carolina. we will talk about last night's results, how do they change the dynamics as we head into super tuesday. all those of you who have been knocked down, counted out, left behind, this is your campaign! >> we begin with story that's seeping into every corner of american life this week, the spread of coronavirus. as of this hour, nbc news puts

the number of infected americans at 74. just yesterday the first person within the u.s. suck coupled to the disease, a man in his 50s with underlying health conditions died in washington state. worldwide there have been nearly 3,000 deaths so far. a number that continues to rise. on friday, the stock market closed its worst week since the 2008 financial crisis on fear has the virus could reek havoc on world's economy. vice president pence making the rounds on the sunday shows this morning in an effort to ease some of those fears while admitsing it is unlikely we will see a vaccine any time soon. >> now, i want your viewers to know that a vaccine will go lieu the process and will likely not be available for this season. but we are working very earnestly with multiple providers and multiple researchers to develop a vaccine for the irs kroo. we will deal with it this season, from prevention,

mitigation, from treatment. >> let's bring in our correspondent, scott cohen is in kirkland, washington. bill neely is in milan, italy. scott, what can you tell us about the new confirmed cases in washington state? >> yeah, alicia, washington state is rapidly becoming sort of a hot spot at least in this phase of the crisis. we have these two new cases that have been reported today. both men in their 60s with underlying health issues and both in critical condition. one of them critical but stable. and that first u.s. death from the virus occurred here at the every green health medical center in kirkland washington just in the greater seattle area alone officials say there are eight confirmed case asks four more that they suspect. in addition to that -- well, among those eight cases are two people at a skilled nursing facility that's about a mile away from here. one was a resident. one was a worker. there are as many as 50 other people at that facility who have

been exhibiting symptoms who they will be looking at to see if they have contracted this disease. remember, washington state was where the covid-19 and coronavirus first showed up in the u.s. back in january. there are some fears that it has been spreading locally ever since then. but for now, officials are approaching all of this cautiously. >> all right, tell me about the state of emergency when we hear that, what does that mean tactically for the state government? what type of resources does that allow them to bring into the state? >> well, it basically allows them to coordinate the resources as they have been doing, certainly bringing a lot of public awareness to this. then there are also the resources a the federal level, t t centers for disease control are here and particularly focusing

on the nursing home. here in washington there are fears about local transmission. >> scott, thank you so much. bill, i want you to stay with me. we are going to go live now to selma, alabama. we have been watching all day for this commemorative event commemorating bloody sunday. i want to bring back in joshua johnson who has been following the story. we waiting for congressman john lewis to arrive. you have been watching this event all day. what are you watching for? >> the moment that mitts two pieces of history together. one happening today. you can see a large crowd which includes some presidential candidates on the democratic side preparing to march in comember rag of what happened 55 years ago. on march 7th, 1965, a group of civil rights protesters attempted to march across the edmund pettus bridge on their way to montgomery, alabama.

they were pushed become by a crowd that attacked this emwith bats and fire hoses and police dogs. it became known as bloody sunday. an image pushed the nation to put forth the voting rights act which was passed into law by president lyndon johnson. today presidential candidates are taking part in the comember rag of that march along with congressman john lewis who is battling pancreatic cancer. >> what does it tell that you warren is there, that pete buttegeig is there. >> it would be foolish for them not to be there. this was one of those moments that was moved ahead of super tuesday on purpose. the anniversary of bloody sunday is march 7th. today is march 1st. last year the organizers made it clear they were moving this to

today's date on purpose so the presidential candidates would interface with this crowd w this community, with this moment. after south carolina and joe biden's win there it should be apparent to everybody that african-american vote remembers a linchpin of not just the democratic party but the 2020 democratic race. in a way, from a purely cold political calculus it is opportunity for these candidates that they have such a photoon -- i am being crass calling it photoon. but this woekd has a rare moment where black voters hold the life of the democratic party in their hands. >> i believe we have joy reid on the ground from selma. it is alicia menendez, can you hear me? >> i can hear you. we have just a couple of minutes to talk to you. we are just about to original the bridge right now. we are at the a( pecks of the bridge. everyone is here. political candidates, presidential candidates, you have got civil rights leaders.

you have people who were a part of the march in 1965. we are expecting to see john lewis. it is extremely crowded. there are a lot of people. it is bigger, really, than any of the marches that he have seen, at least for this jubilee march. this is the local march. this is actually the community's march. we were just walking. i was holding on to another girl making sure we didn't fall over. reverend sharpton had my other hand. there are a lot of people. obviously this is an important commemoration here. as far as pegs candidates, mayor buttegeig and his husband are here. amy klobuchar is here. elizabeth warren is here. they all met over at brown chapel ame where the original march began. civil rights lead remembers here. he can't tell you how many people are here. >> it looks like a lot of people, joy -- >> this has to be the largest

jubilee march they have ever had. >> i want to ask you -- you are moderating a presidential. >> larger than anything other than the faith in politics march that's the big one that barack obama spoke at three times. but this one is massive. it is absolutely massive. >> joy, you are moderating -- >> i am going to send it back to you. >> send it back to us. thanks so much, think about it, 1965. and john lewis, and the idea of a beloved community, right, and marching across that bridge understanding that inasmuch as it was about that march, it was also about the images that would be broadcast across america, that there would be homes, there would be hearts and mind that for the first time would see this and understand this in a way that perhaps it had not before. 1965, i think there are a lot of people who wonder, how far have we come? how far do we have left to go? what is it that we are really commemorating? >> two parts of this. you mentioned the images. it is important that today we

are seeing this live on television where the images in '65 were kind what have pushed the voting rights act. this voting rights act was -- it had been hoped, part of the civil rights act, back in '64. that got held up. this happens, the nation sees it and goes oh, my god what is going on in the south? that creates this new push, this new urgency that becomes the voting rights act. let's not minimize the fact that woke bet this digital image out of selma, alabama and see this, because images made something happen that maybe the country didn't see or maybe didn't want to see, and then the intersection between history of john lewis who was a young man when this occurred, who literally got his skull cracked on the bridge. >> whose presence we are awaiting right now. >> waiting for right now. and i would be stunned to a person if they didn't know what

happened on the edmund pettus bridge in 1965 and what it means right now. south carolina, which joe biden won, is still a hot topic. the fact that this march is happening a day after that when black voters have been very much in focus has object on the minds of young people here thinking not just about the historical importance of this but the political importance on tuesday when alabama is one of the super tuesday states that will go to the polls. michael bloomberg was at an event earlier today, tried to speak, and there are a number of people, four or five people who stood and turned their backs to him in a silent protest. >> we are waiting for representative john lewis to arrive. we will take a quick break. we'll be right back. doing on ou? what're you doing on your sofa? try wayfair. you got this! woah. yeah! let me try! all alright, get it! blow it up!

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bridge is happening right now. we are waiting congressman john lewis's arrival. i want to take us to another story before announcing the first confirmed coronavirus death in the u.s. president trump laid into democrats for raising alarm calling it a hoax. now the democrats running to unseat him in november are using the president's handling of this crisis as a point of contrast. >> this is a time for honest leadership that respects scie e science, that draws on serious experts, and that delivers real results. >> we need real action in the white house. not -- not more lies. >> you would think that you would have a president of the united states leading. working with scientists all over the world. bringing people together. >> at times like this, it is the job of the president to reassure the public that he or she is taking all the necessary steps to protect the health and well-being of every citizen.

>> part of the job of the president is to make sure that that fear is stopped. >> if i were president, i believe in science. i think this is a really serious matter. >> i want to bring in congressman barra. he is a physician, and he also represents california's seventh district, where is confirmed case is being treated. congressman, i have to ask you, your position, you have a district impacted by this virus. do you have faith that the government, under the leadership the trump administration has a handle on this virus? >> i think president trump was slow to get ahead of this. we have been asking for witnesses and others to come up to congress and testify and inform the public for a while. they finally did last week. but that was a little bit late. you know, in fact, getting things up and running, he's got good people working for him, dr. tony fauci, dr. redfield at the cdc and others, but let them do their job and let's not politicize this. >> do you believe they are able to do their job under the

current guidelines. >> i think the president is starting to realize that we have got a crisis, potentially, here in america. so he's letting them speak a little bit more freely. but that was slow in coming. you know, my sense, my opinion is that he put a muzzle on them. >> congressman, what would you need to have this administration do or say to make you feel as though they are doing everything in their power to contain this virus? >> you know, i think the president needs to step out of the way. he needs to let the scientists and the doctors and his public health officials take the lead here. and be there in a supportive way, be there in a reassuring way. it is hard, though, because the president has a credible problem. >> when you talk to other medical professionals in your district, what are they tell you about the state of preparedness when it comes to treating those who are already infected. >> the risk to the general public still is relatively low. that said, you know, we are

going to see additional community-acquired case. you are seeing them in oregon and washington state. we have had a second one here in california. we just have to make sure we get funding and resources to those public health departments, to the hospitals, to the folks on the front line. that is something that the administration was late in asking for. we pushed them to ask for it five, six weeks ago. let's get those resources to the front lines just in case. >> congressman that brings me to my next question. what is the role of congress in a case like this? >> they have a role in funding supplemental funding. the administration asked for $2.5 billion. we don't think that's nearly enough. the president said he would take what we give him. i think it will be in the 6 to $8 billion range. that may not even be enough to get supplies to make sure the public health workers have the resources that they need. that's the best thing we can do right now? congressman, moments like this have an odd way of bringing public health into focus, right?

i ride the subway with other people. i walk down the street with other people. i send my child to cool with other people. what are the questions we need to be asking ourselves about the way that we as a country approach public health and access to affordable health care? >> you know, what we have to do is we have to make sure everyone has the ability if they get sick to go see a doctor. if they get really sick not to worry about going bankrupt so they feel like they can approach their health care professionals. we also do have to build in per public health measures vaccinations, basic health programs, teaching kids basic hygiene. the best thing we can do right now is wash our hands, practice good hygiene, et cetera. if you are sick, stay home. if you foal like you are really sick go see that doctor. but if you don't have health insurance a lot of people don't get the health care that they need. that's a problem. >> congressman, i appreciate your calm. and so i wonder, what is the line between preparedness,

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rights march where demonstrators were attacked as they tried to cross the edmund pettus bridge. it is known as bloody sunday. video of the 1965 each was so horrific that it led to the passage of the civil rights act that same year. one of the demonstrators there in 1965 and who was beaten to within an inch of his life comingman john lewis. joshua johnson, you have been watching this all day. so important to people that john lewis be there. >> incredibly important. not only that he is battling stage four pancreatic cancer, that alone reason enough for people wanting to see him up and about. also the fact that he is one of the last surviving people who was there, who has memory of it. >> just for folks at home that in the maroon sweater congressman lewis.

the footage is grainy. you can see him there, though, the crowd building around him. >> to the footage again. remember, it is grainy, but for the rest of the country it took a couple of days for them to get the footage out of selma for the rest of the nation to get it. now a crowd of people with iphones are streaming it live bearing witness that he is there. it has to do his heart good to be able to see not only the crowd, but the recognition of what this means, his ability to speak to it. i am wondering what he is saying to the crowd right now. >> let's listen for a second, see if we can hear. >> each and every one of you, especially you young people, the fraternities, the sorority. thank you, brother. go out there speak out, speak up. get in the way. get in the way.

>> there are so many famous, john lewis that line he always uses about we may not have come here on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat now. >> uh-huh. >> his emphasis on this as a generational question of a life aimed beyond her sense, life of community. lets a listen to see if we can hear what he is saying. >> we can do it! selma is a different place. america is a different place. we can make it. we must use the vote as non-violent instrument, a tool to redeem the soul. thank you very much. good to see you. [ cheers and applause ] >> be careful. be careful. >> thank you.

>> i believe he is done talking. i think what we caught there is him saying america is different place, but we can make it much better. and his emphasis of course on using the right to vote to go to the polls as a non-violent form of communicating one's needs and priorities for this country. >> i caught that, too, we must use the vote as a non-violent instrument, a tool. and he described it just in that snippet we could hear over the crowd as a kind of redepartmentive tool which is one of the core issues here of 1965. remember what was going on in 1965. we were almost two years out from march on washington where the "i have a dream" seech was given. not far out from what will be the assassination of malcolm x, who said it is either the battle or the bullet. we have the poor people's

campaign, we are a few years out from the campaign taking a turn from voting rights to economic access. remember what dr. king was doing in '68 when he was murdered in april was advocating for sanitation workers. so all of these issues are interlocked. civil rights, voting rights, economic access, criminal justice reform, equality under the law, in all of these forms. and voting was a linchpin of this, not only because people had gotten their skulls cracked trying to just get to the polls without paying a tack or taking a weird tax but also once that right started getting exercised it had real power. it is the story in south carolina yesterday with vice president joe biden demandingly taking the lead in that state over bernie sanders. the result of this march is what we saw yesterday in south carolina and what we may see on

super tuesday. alabama votes on spl tuesday. a number of the states voting, virginia, north carolina, have significant black populations that all the candidates there want to win partly by showing up today and showing solidarity with this historical moment. >> this is live footage from selma, alabama, where congress john lewis is returning to the edmund pettus bridge. we will continue to stay with us and try to get better sound. stay with us, we'll be right back. for small prices, you can build big dreams, spend less, get way more. shop everything home at wayfair.com the better question would be where do i not listen to it. while i'm eating my breakfast...

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we are going to continue to bring you live footage from selma, alabama. but we are going to turn now to another story. former vice president joe biden needed a big win, and south carolina delivered. msnbc predicting joe biden picked up 49% of the vote with 99% of the results in. where do things stand going into super tuesday? let's bring in jennifer o'malley dillon, the former campaign manager for beto o'rourke's 2020 run. emily ruiz. christina jimenez of united we dream. and janelle ross is a reporter for nbc news blk. janelle, i want to start with you. biden won with 61% of the black vote in south carolina. i have seen a lot of people talking out there about how this vote is not monolithic. how you cannot read too much

into it. what say? what does south carolina tell us about the states we are going into for super tuesday? >> i think what happened in south carolina both confirms something that has beenset said many many times, which is that joe biden has some long standing relationships both with black voters and black elected officials, and in particular, black voters in south carolina that he was really able to i guess galvanize and electrify in ways that really paid off for him in the primary. it also, at the same time, i know i personally talked to probably 15, 16 voters, most of them black voters, and i heard a lot of people with a lot of super in other candidates. >> uh-huh. >> some of whom had resolved to joe biden because they thought it was the practical choice or because they were most concerned about what would then come in november and thought that he had the best odds of perhaps beating donald trump.

but i certainly talked to people who had a lot of interest in one candidate who wasn't on the ballot, michael bloomberg, so that test remains for mr. biden and others on super tuesday. and then i also talked to voters who had some real interest in both poibuttegeig tom steyer an elizabeth warren for all of them because of policy reasons. in addition to that in the super tuesday states it is clear the demographics are ditch from south carolina. there are states with large black voter populations, states with large latino voter populations and the sanders campaign has made some real inroads from what i am gathering from my reporting with latino voters, invested a lot of time and attention there. it will be interesting to see what happens in states like north carolina, virginia, texas, california, all of which have

sizable black and latino populations, which campaigns and what they have been doing will become clear. >> jen, pick up on this question of electability that janelle raises in the minds of voters. if you are a voter in one of the states that is going vote on tuesday, how much are you factoring in who won in iowa, in new hampshire, in nevada, in south carolina, and then predicating who you vote for on the electability that was shown in those four states. >> you know, there is much to talk about electability. i think vote remembers looking to see what happened this their day to day lives and how they are thinking about engaging with presidential candidates certainly on saturday. joe biden had a very, very big night. it wasn't just that he won. he won big. he won every county in the state, across the state, with every type of voter. i think that helps put the rest some concern folks might have had about the previous states and his campaign. you know, certainly, people want

to make sure that we beat trump. there is no doubt about that. but they also want to vote for someone they believe in and they want to vote for someone that they think is going to be a great president. i think people are factoring in all of these things. because south carolina is so close in time to super tuesday i think the momentum coming out of saturday is going to have a bigger input and impact on people's vote than we saw maybe in some of the earlier contests. >> i do want to know if you agree with jen's analysis but i also want to say to you there are a lot of people out here saying this is now a two-person race. do you think it is too soon to be saying that? >> you know, we still have a long way to go. we have 46 states to go, the territories. but vice president biden did win with an exclamation mark yesterday. i think jen's point is exactly right. you know, people are really weighing this, and they feel -- i mean south carolinians definitely did feel a lot of inspiration for vice president biden.

there are many of us who are also looking for somebody would can really take on donald trump. and i think that south carolina, in one night, said resoundingly that they stood with vice president biden. if you look at the first four states, vice president biden now leads the vote total. you know, one night can make a difference. i think that can also happen on super tuesday. >> christina, your organization, united we dream, chose to endorse two candidates, bernie sanders, and elizabeth warren. why split the endorsement that way? >> for us it is clear that this election is about our lives. the trump administration has been separating families, deporting immigrants, children have been dying in detention camps, the entire world has seen the horrifying policies of this administration. so for us it was clear we needed to send a very clear message to our communities. number one, the progressives rise above all the other candidates in this case, senator warren and senator sanders, on

their immigration policy. both of them committed to our lewders at united dream they will stop deportation the first 100 days, they will close private detention facilities and dismamds the law enforcement machine that has been hurting our community so much. beyond that it is not just about the immigration policy that we looked looked at. because we also knew that we had to make it really clear to our communities and voters who trust our voices as organizers, leaders in our communities to give them a sense of direction who to vote for. we wanted to make sure they knew that candidates like biden and bloomberg actually have supported policies that have harmed our communities, whether you think of stop and frisk -- by another was stopped and frisked when he was 11 years old here in new york under the administration of moyar bloomberg and when you think about deportations under the obama administration. >> i want to ask you, christine,

on the bottom of our skrens we are watching footage from selma, alabama and talking about the anniversary of something that happened well before you were born here. yet you stand here, sit here in many ways as a member of the new wave that is fighting for civil rights, right? i wonder for you watching that, thinking of john lewis, someone who agitated from the outside, that was a very long time before he was a member of congress, his role, to agitate from outside. if you do end up with someone like vice president biden as the nominee, how do you agitate to make sure that he comes to where you are on these questions? >> look, here's the clear thing for everyone. this was said by amy and others here. we have to defeat donald trump. it is an existential threat for immigrants, black and brown people in the country. for the country. worry going mobilize our people

to get behind whatever democratic nominee. however, in this moment n this primary, this is the moment we need to define the vision that we want for this country. i think both the progressive senator warren and senator sanders are the best positioned to do that for all of us. seeing this, the multiracial coalition with young voters, voters of color, you look at the numbers in nevada. people are really listening to how these candidates are going to address issues like health care, jobs, immigration, mass incarceration. and they are going to vote. >> jen, you heard christina evoke bloomberg. janelle had talked about bloomberg earlier, and voters still having curiosity and questions about the mayor. have we seen, jen, the full bloomberg effect? >> well, we won't really know for sure until tuesday when he is participating in the first contest that voters will have a chance to vote for him. i think, certainly, the impact of the money that he has spent

has really gone far. there is no campaign that has been able to put together the size the organization that he has. but, certain i think what we have seen in the debates is that with all that money coming into the two debates and having a rough go of it both times, that really impacted his favoritible, impacted hess numbers. frankly it is hard to see right now if we want to trust polling which i am not sure we want to considering not much polling has called any of the races so far. but he is not leading in any contest on super tuesday. without a doubt, an impact, an impact from him that actually was felt certainly in previous four contests even though he wasn't on the ballot. but i think he is going to be struggling more than he expected to just based on the numbers we are seeing right now. >> janelle, there are predictively a lot of calls for consolidation, people wanting the field to slim down, particularly among the moderates in the field. when you talk to voters, do they want to see this field slim

down? >> yes. most definitely. i think there were a number of people i talked to, at least two people yesterday, who were undecided as they walked in to polling site. and i think one of those women sid said something to me that was memorable, that she would have appreciated it if the number of people was narrowed down so she could have focused more deeply on what differences exist between candidates. but with eight different people, shed spent a lot of time on the internet that morning stho all right, jennifer, christina, and janelle, thank you for joining you. emmy you will stay with us. next we put the ut spotlight on texas, one of the biggest prizes up for grabs on tuesday. 'o tell you that liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. i love you! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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lead heading into super tuesday n. two days, more than 1300 delegates are on the line in 14 states, plus american samoa. one of the biggest races is in texas, with 228 delegates. latino voters are expected to have a big voice here. they make up nearly 40% of the population of the state. sanders has a 15 point lead over biden statewide in a new nbc maris poll out today. and the lead is even bigger among latino voters. sanders hassa almost have the latino voters in texas. let's bring in our guests, assistant dean of the lbj school of public affairs at the university of texas and an msnbc contributor. er to devito, of way to win. oscar silva, battleground texas, a group working to register new texas voters. and emmy ruiz is back with you. victoria, i want the start with

you. we look at a lot of polls, i think people are skeptical of a lot of the polls. when you look at the polls coming out of texas who do they tell you? what do they not tell you? >> let's start with the bernie sanders numbers. we have a whole bunch of polls coming out of texas over the last two weeks. what you see is about this ten percentage point wiggle room are some polls have bernie sanders at the top with about 25% of the vote. others have him at about 35. whether he indians ends up in the mid 30s range and really crushes joe biden and everybody else is going to depend on one thing -- latino youth voter turnout. we know that latinos here in texas are the fastest growing population. the average age the latino here in texas and nationally is much younger than the average non-latino white and also african-american. but one thing we do know is that young folks traditionally do not vote. that's question mark of whether we are going to see those higher numbers for bernie, who has the

bulk of that young support, especially among latinos. if young folks perform as they have traditionally, excluding 2018, then i think biden has a little bit of a chance here in texas. if latino youth mobilize, get up and go to the polls this tuesday, then i think for sanders it could be -- really be a crushing victory. >> tory, i want you to peck up with victoria just left off. so often when we talk about youth vote or some of the other communities that don't vote at the rates of other voters, really a lot of that has to do with access, radio it? with their ability to get to the polls w their ability to actually make their voice heard. what type of work have you seen on the ground? what do you think is the state of play going into tuesday? >> well, i am excited to lock at youth turnout, too. i am excited to see what the numbers are coming out of our big counties. harris county, dallas county,

travis county here in austin. this is where folks have been working for many, many years, starting well before beto o'rourke's who forric run in 2018 to register really registe voters. i would be really remiss if i didn't note on this historic day, with news out of alabama, to share a quick story. i was able to go to the memorial for peace and justice that was commemorating lynching in alabama. as a political operative, i'm required to memorize numbers, we know dekalb county, georgia's numbers, miemd koami-dade count. when i walk through the memorial, they have the lynchings organized by state and county. the list in harris county where texas really meets the south and the west, what i realize by seeing this historic memorial

about the lynchings in harris county, i realize we've had multiracial power in our state for a very long time. the power of black voters, the power of latino voters really can transform this state, and i'm looking at the south on tuesday to see those numbers turn out so we can carry this history forward. >> i'm listening to what tory is saying as well as watching this footage from selma, when you talk about this state as big as texas, a big part of what you're talking about is reaching people where they are. as someone who has done work in this state, when you're talking about a state like texas and mobilizing voters that may not have been mobilized in other elections, how much of it is about the message, how much about the messenger and how much is about paid media and how much is actually doing the work on the ground to get those folks to the polls? >> it's all of the above.

i'll tell you what will go a long way and what we'll see on tuesday is the relationships these campaigns and candidates have built with voters across texas. we talked about the youth vote and the incredible work that's been done across texas by groups like battleground texas, move texas and so on. there's also a sizable latino population and african-american population which just yesterday we saw vice president biden do incredibly well in south carolina. this is a state where many of these candidates have built relationships for quite a while. they have organizers from across the state. i know this year for the first time i've heard in the last six months, one of the presidentials has a field organizer in rio valley. i think they've taken upon themselves to get out there and organize. that will be a big component, a bigger component than the amount of money they've spent on the airwaves and the emergency we're

seeing coming out of south carolina. early vote has already ended in texas, it ended on friday. we'll see how much of a bump that creates. i think texas is going to be really competitive come tuesday. >> jessica sis rare rocisneros against henry quayar. how much of that, where you have a congressman that prides himself on bipartisanship is a proxy for what's happening in the rest of the state, how much is happening in that congressional district really a thing we're going to see across texas? >> exactly that. to echo what victoria was saying, it's the story of texas, what's been happening in texas for many years, paired with what's happened in texas since

2016 where we've seen an exponential growth from youth, land tinxs, black voters and the majority of texans which are people of color. when we have already seen 1.1 million texans vote in the top ten counties where the majority of the population are people of color and two-thirds of people who will vote in texas are registered voters live in those counties, we'll see the effect of races like the one you're talking about in, but also in north texas and west texas. it's going to be up to who makes it to the ballot box, which candidates appeal to them the most, which issues are closest to their hearts, health care, immigration, education are topics that affects all of us. texas has had trump-like leadership. now the nation is joining us in this battle. we're not taking it for granted. >> victoria, you look at a lot of polls and a lot of research. i want to know tuesday night as

those numbers start rolling in, what is it that you're looking for? >> again, i'm looking for that turnout of younger folks. i'm also looking at the african-american vote. we've touched on it in this conversation earlier. we've seen very strong support for biden. if that continues to pull through as we've seen it in the texas polling and as we saw what happened in south carolina, i think that could perhaps be biden's secret weapon. if he can peel off enough latino voters and keep that african-american voting bloc in addition to older, traditional non-hispanic white voters here in texas, i think those are the three things i'm looking at. you asked me for one, but i gave you three. >> i'll take it. i appreciate the extra. tory, i have about one minute left. of course tuesday is a big day for texas. how far of what happens on tuesday is going to tell us the extent to which texas is in play for democrats come the general erection will?

>> we've seen turnout -- >> tory, go ahead. >> we've already seen turnout surpass 2016 numbers in terms of the early vote turnout. really i'm looking at jess is a cisneros on the border and christina sen sun in the primary against hagar. if latinos can show when texas turns blue, it's going to be on their terms. that will be massive heading into the general election. >> thank you, victoria, tory, oscar and emmy. that's all the time i have today. i'm alicia menendez. at the top of the hour, politics come to you from selma, alabama, as they commemorate the 55th anniversary of bloody sunday. that's coming up in just a few minutes on "politicsnation." you always drive this slow? how did you make someone i love? that must be why you're always so late. i do not speed. and that's saving me cash with drivewise.

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good evening and welcome to "politicsnation." coming to you live from selma, alabama on the 55th anniversary of bloody sunday when civil rights activists were brutally attacked as they marched across the edmund pettus bridge in defense of black voting rights. earlier today i crossed that very same bridge in commemoration. we were joined by movement survivors and activists of today