good evening and welcome to "politics nation." tonight's lead, tuesday tactics. tuesday another swath of diverse states goes to the polls in the now two-person democratic primary race. 352 pledged delegates in play

across six states coming tuesday. among them, michigan and mississippi where bernie sanders and joe biden are making their respective cases today. the sanders campaign has focused nearly all of its attention on michigan this week, playing to the working class and union voters. and in an hour, it will be youth voters at the university of michigan where he'll be joined by congresswoman alexandra caoh ca -- ocacio-cortez. kamala harris went after biden in her debate, tweeting out her message this morning as biden votes in mississipsouth carolinm the frontrunner again.

there were 652 votes for biden, 575 for sanders. he is tweeting about the coronavirus response as the number of u.s. cases have grown over the weekend. it's approximating 500 cases with 19 known deaths. we'll talk coronavirus later in the show. first with 2020, let's hear from both camps. starting with democratic florida, congresswoman val demings. earlier this week, sthe endorse joe biden. congresswoman demings, most of the nation got to know you well as one of those who led the house on the impeachment and your performance as one that prosecuted the case in the senate. now you come back and tell the nation and your district to vote for joe biden.

why? >> reverend sharpton, it's great to be back with you. when i endorsed vice president biden this week, it just felt good. why is that? because it just felt good after what we've been through the last three years to support one of the good guys. we know joe biden, and i just love the way jim clyburn put it, and he knows us. he was fighting for issues we all care about long before it was popular to fight for those issues, like climate control and marriage equality. and we know what he's done on health care. we know how he's fought for housing, and we know his foreign policy experience is untouchable. when we think about some of the challenges that we have right now, we need somebody with a steady hand, we need somebody who is not a stranger to public service but has been there in the trenches for a long time. and i am just excited about supporting vice president joe biden. >> now, it seems that he's doing

very well nationally with black voters, the vote in south carolina and the vote in many states on super tuesday, and he's in mississippi, which has the largest black voting base in the country. do you feel the sanders campaign has made a mistake by cancelling mississippi and not working there and not going to the selma march last sunday? >> i guess we will all definitely find out if that was a mistake or not. i won't say that. but what i do like about vice president biden, and he said it many times, he takes nothing for granted. he's not going to let anybody outwork him. he takes no voter for granted. he has worked hard. and it's paying off for him. i just would expect him to continue to do that from now through november. >> how influential do you think the unexpected endorsement this

morning of senator kamala harris, who was the only black woman in this race who took joe biden on in the debate, and he's saying regardless of that, i'm endorsing him, and did so enthusiastically. will that mean a lot to people around the country generally, blacks specifically and black women? >> you know, reverend sharpton, people say a lot of things during debates. how much we have heard over the last few months. but i was delighted by someone who has endorsed vice president joe biden to hear senator harris endorse him as well. it's just further evidence. let me just say this. we started out with so many incredible women in this race, and then we saw the last woman, the last viable candidate, elizabeth warren, lead the race. that was a bitter time for us, because we talk about america being ready to elect its first woman. well, we're still waiting. but i think senator harris' support, even after a very

spirited debate or exchange with vice president biden just shows that she believes that he is the right person for the right time. >> listen to senator bernie sanders earlier today on "meet the press." >> the establishment put a great deal of pressure on pete buttigieg, on amy klobuchar who ran really aggressive campaigns. i know both of them. they worked really, really hard, but right before super turesday they announced their withdrawal. what we're doing in this campaign, chuck, is we're taking on not only the entire political establishment, we're taking on the corporate establishment as well. >> i hear a lot of clapback on that because the voters in south carolina is certainly not the establishment. so when you make statements like this, do you feel that anyone pressured you into supporting joe biden? >> reverend sharpton, you know, as i said earlier, there are a lot of things that are said during elections and during

campaigns. i had the opportunity to have several conversations with mayor pete. i know senator klobuchar. i certainly don't believe that either one of them were under pressure to support vice president biden. i can certainly tell you that i was not under pressure. i believe we are all, during these critical times in our nation, during a time when we're so divided, we need someone to bring us together, to unify us, to be a bridge believeuilder. we look at what's happened under the current administration, my vision is pretty clear that the person to bring us together as a nation and get things done that the american people care about is vice president joe biden. >> now, vice president biden has said that he would appoint a black woman to the supreme court. many are wondering about the vice presidential pick. they want to know whether a

black or a woman or an lgbtq member is going to be on the ticket. and as i told you when i saw you in one of the debates, at one of the debates, your name is at the top of the list of people that talk to me. i'm not putting you on the spot, but i am saying that people watched you and saw your performance, people have seen kamala harris. do you think it's important that a woman or a person of color, a black person or an lgbtq person, be on the ticket, whether it be senator sanders or vice president biden? >> reverend sharpton, we talk about diversity of this country. we say we celebrate diversity in this country. and i just believe that it is time. i would love to see the ticket -- and let me say this. i'm humbled by the people that are calling my name. we had that conversation before.

>> my earplug went out. you said you would love to serve orl or love to see? i'm just clarifying. >> i said i'm humbled by the people calling my name, but as we celebrate diversity in this country, i would love to see a ticket that reflects the diversity that we say we celebrate, and my goodness, i would love to see an african-american woman on that ticket, i'd love to see a woman of color on that ticket. and i just think if the time is right for the right leader, i think it's time for a person of color in that vp spot. >> all right. we'll leave it there. thank you, florida congresswoman val demings. now joining me in studio, i'm excited about it, filmmaker michael moore. he's the host of the podcast "rumble" and he is for bernie sanders. certainly there is no question about that.

his home state, michigan, has seen a lot of senator sanders this week ahead of his primary on tuesday. let me start right there, michael, where i left off with val demings. you heard about vice president biden putting an african-american woman on the supreme court. do you think it's important this ticket show diversity? >> oh, absolutely. i can't imagine senator sanders or vice president biden putting a white guy on as vice president. on some level, too, we all have to commit to whether it's in four years or if and when hopefully the democrat wins, eight years from now, that this is the last time we see it comes down to three white guys, you know, that are all -- well, two of them are good and decent people, and the other ones are afraid to speak.

>> why have you decided to come out again for bernie sanders? let me give you the opportunity to first explain that. >> first of all, we have to get rid of trump. i personally believe bernie is the best way to do that. he will generate the most enthusiasm on election day, especially young people who don't necessarily vote, i believe he will do that. they have pointed out that young people vent cohaven't come out much -- they have come out, but the general election is different than the primaries in terms of getting out to vote. and i want to live in an america that i've never lived in where everybody gets to go to the doctor and never have to worry about being in debt, losing their house. i want to live in an america where these rallies, special counsel the one that bernie is having in ann arbor tonight, that nobody has to not go to that because they can't afford child care. i want to live in a country

where, when you graduate from college at 22 or 23 years old, you're not in a debtor's prison for the next 30 years of your life. bernie sanders is the one who is going to truly fight for those things. he has fought for them. and i also believe his history. you know this, he was -- he's the only one who was on that democratic stage that marched with martin luther king. he was on the march in washington in 1963. two days before that march he's getting arrested in chicago at a civil legislation. >> what about the others? >> you mentioned edmond pettus bridge in selma. >> we've seen biden there for a

few years. biden was there last sunday as well. >> but last year, regardless -- because it wasn't a big event with the cameras -- bernie sanders was there marching across that bridge. when you say he canceled mississippi to go to michigan, he canceled jackson, mississippi. the mayor of jackson who endorsed him was there, and they didn't go to michigan, they went to detroit. they will tell you detroit is the capital of black america. people of atlanta will debate that. >> the people of harlem will debate that, but go ahead. >> but that's where he went. then the next day, last night, he's in flint, michigan. no other candidate is going to flint, michigan. not even joe biden's surrogate, the governor of washington, is going to flint. >> he went to a town near flint

and it was mostly white. >> there were six people on the panel. >> i'm talking about the audience. >> the audience, no, the audience was what michigan is, 20% black, 80% -- >> flint is not 20% black. >> no, actually, flint used to be majority black when i was growing up. first black mayor in 1966. now it's become so difficult for poor white people to survive out in the suburbs, people have been moving back to flint. it's now a 50-50 city in a way it hasn't been in such a long time, because this economy -- it's really a class issue. it has not helped white people who are poor as it obviously has never helped african-americans. i don't know, i think bernie -- do you feel that way about bernie, that -- >> i haven't taken a position. i have questions -- >> he lives his whole life this

way. he's always voted directly. that movement has to continue, because if we're going to get rid of trump in november -- i hate when people come on these shows and they say, yeah, yeah, the youth vote. they didn't show up. you shouldn't say it like that. you should say, please, young people, show up, get involved. don't be ridiculing young people. not you, but i'm u.s. saying. >> i have respect for the young people, and i have respect for biden and bernie both have done things that i agree and disagree with. you are a legitimate icon in this country. >> thank you. >> what do you feel most about when this comes to a conclusion and we have a nominee? will we be able to see the bernie supporters support biden if he's a nominee or biden support bernie? how do you feel, as you're one that has supported both sides, even though you've been

supporting bernie? how do you feel that gap will close that naturally happens during races? >> i don't know. that's the honest answer. i would hope so. i'm going to vote for whoever the democrat is on the ballot in november. bernie has said that every single time. it was just two and a half months ago that joe biden said, and had to walk it back, that he didn't know if he would vote for oren do endorse bernie if he wa nominee. that was shocking to me. you would prefer trump over bernie sanders? and then joe biden had to walk that back, but it was really disconcerting. bernie has never had that position. bernie has been very clear about it. but i have to say, that movement that he's built, especially the young people, we will all tell everybody we all have to get out and vote, we have to flip the senate, we have to do these

things, but it's -- if they aren't respected for what they've done, you know, and even when we talk about biden got a tremendous black vote in south carolina, all through the south, we're really talking there is a generational thing going on here. z >> the vote didn't show that, though, last week, because biden did well in south carolina with black voters, including young black voters. >> but nowhere near what the older black voters were doing. the youth -- i would not discount the youth in this. i think it's -- >> i think you've got to put them front and center, you're right. >> and they're concerned. i said this a couple weeks ago. you and i are baby boomers. i think we were born just a couple months apart from each other. you look much better but i'm working on it. but seriously, we boomers, we handed this young generation a planet that is dying.

>> that's right. >> we put them in the debtor's prison. when you and i went to school, college was nothing. it was almost free. look what we've done to them. >> we owe it to them. >> this is their future. bernie is fighting for their future. he's not doing it for himself. he's already in his future. >> he's in the generation ahead of us, almost. >> that's what i'm saying. he's in the future for him. so what is he getting out of saving the planet or making sure everybody has health care, all that? none of that benefits personally. bernie has been fighting for these young adults, teenagers. that's why they're behind him. say all things being equal between biden and bernie, i'm going to throw down on the side of the young people and their future. we are in dangerous times. we do not have a president in that white house. can i ask you just one question? >> you turned this around, but

go ahead. >> i think you have wisdom about this. how much of the people who are voting for joe biden is based on one thing and one thing only, the fear of trump? because i worry that anybody who is watching, when you've made a decision in your life based on fear, sometimes that doesn't work out too well. when you base it on strategy -- >> i think a lot of the leaders for both are based on fear of trump, and everyone i've talked to say they want trump out and they want someone who can do it. >> i don't want him controlling this election anymore. we should all be voting for the america we want to see. >> i think you're right. thank you for being with us. >> thank you for letting me ask you that question. >> michael moore co-hosted the segment with me. i'm glad to have him with me. by the way, you're looking at a live event in tularoo,

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so you're not endorsing anyone yet? >> well, it's tough. maybe i'll just poll the "new york times" for some votes. >> major candidates in the democratic primary race have dropped out. three of them, amy klobuchar, pete buttigieg and mike bloomberg, have thrown their support behind former vice president joe biden. that's in addition to biden endorsements from candidates who dropped out earlier in the cycle like beto o'rourke and now senator kamala harris who announced her support of the

former vp just this morning. with biden enjoying a 77-delegate lead over senator bernie sanders and six more states voting in just two days, are the 352 delegates up for grabs on tuesday the last chance for bernie sanders to get back in the race? joining me now is democratic strategist tara gardell and michael singleton, political consultant and "washington examiner" contributor. let me start with you, tara. does bernie sanders have to score some victories this tuesday, particularly michigan, to recapture some of the momentum he had? coming out of nevada, everybody predicted he would run the table on super tuesday, and something

happened in super tuesday that dramatically went the other way. does he have to restart his steps and come out with momentum and a michigan victory and other states on tuesday? >> most certainly. the most predictable thing is how unpredictable this is. momentum is a real powerful dynamic in politics. you know that. so i think he needs to recapture momentum if he's going to have a path to victory. i think for him he's going to have to really do better with bla black voters. i know we say this over and over again, but as we look at races coming up, black voters overrepresent in the primary system. i will grant this. he is doing well with younger black voters. but he's also contending with voter suppression, because the one piece of voter suppression that people aren't talking about as much is there is a significant amount of it targeting college students

across this country. i have a client who is suing the states of tennessee, wisconsin and florida, and that's a real dynamic that hurts him more than it hurts joe biden, and i haven't seen him speak about that piece as much, and it might show how he's not performing or having the turnout levels among young people that was expected. >> he didn't get the biden got millennial young voters. michael, as a republican looking in on this race, who is an anti-trump republican, i might add, what do you think is the most concerning to the white house as they watch this race? what do you think that the president's reelection team is seeing as potential danger for them and things that they are happy with? >> ideally, they would like to see bernie sanders as the democratic nominee, because from their perspective, he's the easiest to beat. i would imagine they have to be incredibly concerned about joe

biden, not only because of how well he did recently, but if you look at exit poll results, the turnout in many of those states was numbers we saw in 2018 when democrats took back the house. they were numbers that were very similar to 2008 and 2012, which was the obama era. joe biden also performed very well in places like north carolina and virginia with suburban women, a group that republicans conceded to democrats in 2018. so i think if you look at the numbers and you look at the increase in turnout, it's similar to '18, similar to the obama era, but higher than '16 when hillary clinton was the democratic nominee. if you look at the six swing states that donald trump did very well in, most of those states he won by very slim margins, 10,000 votes in a place like michigan, 40,000 votes in some states, 20,000 votes in other states. you look at those numbers, what it indicates is that democrats need a nominee who can surpass

hillary clinton's metrics. i think if you look at the data of the recent contest so far, joe biden has proven that he actually can do that. that has tobt biggest concern for donald trump and his reelection campaign. >> tara, black women, the backbone of the democratic party vote, particularly in the black community. the endorsement today by senator kamala harris, how much significance do you put behind that? >> i think it's a lot of significance. i think one of the things you hear people over and over again is that endorsements don't matter. i think what we've seen. i'm a member of the same thing kamala harris is. i think kamala harris's endorsement has given momentum.

what you look at with these elections is you want to get that earned media, right? that's free publicity that you're getting, you're not taking out ads, right? endorsements bring that. also, even though senator harris ran out of money, she still had donors. at one point she was raising a significant amount of money, an unheard of amount of money az candidate. ly. i do think she brings a nofrl momentum, pushes out any other news and keeps the news focused on him. >> let me ask you, michael, we saw during the super bowl president trump had an ad of a black woman that he commuted her sentence. is the trump angle, you feel, to try and bring down at least black voter turnout if he can't

get them to vote for him, is to use the -- maybe prank people for supporting it. is that the way he'll go or should we see him try to pardon a -- more women? >> typically among african-americans, i'm not sure it really matters. there is such a visceral reaction to donald trump because of his temperament, because of his character traits and because of his inability to lead effectively among many african-americans. i think that is why so many of them are going towards vice president biden.

perhaps he will commute more individuals. i don't think it will matter. i think, you know, it's typical for a republican to get around 10% of the african-american vote. i think he'll probably get around 20-plus percent of them. there has to be supercharging african-american turnout in the states they need it most, also make sure they target, engage and turn out suburban voteout. >> and they have to deal with voter suppression. >> based off the map, i think stleld a positive chance of winning the election. . you only have to look at the exit polls to see that. coming up, voter rights continue to be under attack as

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for this week's "gotcha," we're headed deep into the heart of texas where some voters waited for seven hours or more to cast their ballots on super tuesday. surprise, surprise, the longest lines were concentrated in heavily democratic neighborhoods with high populations of black and hispanic voters. and make no mistake, those lines were by design. in the last seven years, texas has closed over 750 polling places, cutting polling place capacity nearly in half by 2018.

and, of course, those were laser targeted in areas with the fastest growing population of black and brown residents. the long lines in texas were a direct result of the supreme court's 2013 decision to gut the voting rights act. in the majority opinion, chief justice john roberts all but assured us that the vra was no longer needed because racial discrimination in voting was a thing of the past. if only justice roberts had consulted me or, indeed, any other voter of color in america. we could have told him how wrong he was. since that flawed 5-4 decision, the states that used to be constrained by the voting rights act, including texas, have closed nearly 2,000 polling places and put voters at a rate of 40% higher than other areas. this is a transparent power grab for republicans, who are well

aware that their chances of winning go down as voter turnout goes up, particularly among voters of color. republicans are embracing a strategy completely at odds with the spirit of democracy. instead of trying to widen their party's appeal, they're trying to narrow the pool of voters they'll have to convince. but i've got news for all of those who try to silence our voices, texas and elsewhere. it won't work. civil rights leaders fought and bled and died so all americans could exercise our right to vote, and we won't let your underhanded racist tactics stop us now. if you tried to purge us, we'll reregister. if you attempted to dissuade us with long lines, we will look to the example set by hervis rogers of houston, who waited nearly

seven hours to cast his ballot on tuesday, telling reporters, quote, i wasn't going to let anything stop me. his perseverance is inspiring. to be clear, in the united states of america, no voter should be disenfranchised. the poll taxes might have led to strict rmv laws and hour-long waits, but it won't work. we'll keep showing up and waiting in line and climbing over every obstacle you put in our way. and just like hervis rogers got his vote counted on tuesday, we'll be there in november. so vote out every politician who tried to stop us. i gotcha. i gotcha billions of mouths.

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[ inaudible question ] >> we're having tremendous rallies and we're doing very well. we've done a fantastic job with the subject of the coronavirus. we've had tremendous cooperation with other countries all over the world, and we've made it very strong, very stringent quarters. >> are you concerned about the white house catching the coronavirus? >> no, i'm not, not at all. >> with the new data, a coronavirus patient was at the

same republican conference as the president last month. donald trump might finally be learning something about the presidency. it's all fun and games until a crisis hits. coronavirus is claiming lives here and abroad, dampening markets like nothing since the 2008 crash and testing president trump in a way he's never experienced, because he can't deny the growing number of cases more than confirmed in the u.s. as of just minutes ago, and no amount of experience will make the 1 million testing units the white house promised magically available, at least before the deadline it laid out. because that deadline passed friday, and even democrats may get nervous if election deaths result from the virus and

continues to climb. because at this point, no wall can keep it out. joining me now is democratic pennsylvania senator bob casey. senator casey, are we doing a tremendous job, this administration, as we see the numbers continue to rise and we see they failed the friday deadline of the million test cases that they were going to have available for people? >> reverend al, there is no question that the test kit or the testing part of this strategy has been a failure. not just the promises that have not been met, but the initial inability or failure to get tests out. i know folks in the federal government are working hard on this, but they have to -- when they make a pronouncement about the number of tests that are g going out, they got to meet it, and that's causing all kinds of concern about what next will go wrong. here's the bottom line in terms

of separating the two in terms of what we just heard the president say. the president has become, i think, a totally unreliable communicator. i think people should listen not to the president but should listen to the public health professionals in their community, including starting with their own doctor and their own medical provider, as well as the federal government and state government agencies that are working very hard on this. but they've got to make sure that when they make a promise about test kits or anything else, you have to deliver on that. i'm told that the number of test kits going out the door has risen substantially just in the last couple of days. we'll see because we're not going to know the scope and the extent of this problem until enough tests are conducted. >> i know you had a bill that was coming up that would have been useful in this area. what can washington do? let's take trump aside for a minute and not even deal with the politics of it. what should washington be doing

with this growing problem that is costing lives? this is bigger than the incompetence of the president. how do you arrest this growing problem? >> well, the first thing we have to make sure is that the $8 billion appropriations bill that just was signed by the president that congress acted quickly last week to get it through, that's been signed into law, but the administration has to get those dollars out the door within the next 30 days. so we have to push them to do that so that state and local governments can be reimbursed so that there are more dollars in the pipeline, even hundreds of millions, if not a billion dollars, in the pipeline for a vaccine, which we know will take at least a year and a half. as well as investments in preparedness for hospitals and for individuals and especially those brave and committed health care workers who are doing this good work every day. that's the most important thing we can do. now, there may be other issues that arise that require either new legislation or authorization

or new dollars that we have appropriation. but we need to provide the kind of oversight to federal agencies on it is frothe front line of t. >> do your republican colleagues understand the gravity of this problem and have gone beyond just the ineptness of the president, who initially called this a hoax, by the way. have they said yes, we've got to come together and deal with this because this virus does not check a box for what party you're a member of? >> this is as serious as you can get. >> i couldn't say it any better than that, reverend al. that's why i think so many republicans voted in the house and senate for these appropriation dollars. but they have to make sure they continue to give guidance that directs people not to the president's office, not to the white house necessarily, but to

the public health professionals who know what they're talking about. >> are you optimistic that we can, in a reasonable period of time, begin to really create the kind of infrastructure that have tested positive in the united states? >> i'm optimistic. but we have a long way to go. because just in the last half hour we got news in pennsylvania for example, of two more cases. now we are up to six. as late as thursday, we were at zero. just in one state you can see how quickly the numbers are increasing. as more testing plays out and more tests are deployed we are going to see the number go up. but we have to continually monitor not just the numbers, but making sure that the resources are there at the local and community and state levels. so this is -- this is going to be not days or weeks. this will be a while. but we have to make sure that we stay committed to listening to

the professionals, taking the steps we can, all the admonitions about washing our hands and being very careful, avoiding large crowds. i think one of the disturbing stories today was the white house apparently according to "associated press" overruled a recommendation that folks who are senior citizens not travel on airplanes or thing like that. so that kind of -- that kind of white house interference we cannot allow to happen. we have to make sure the professionals are making the decisions and that we should be following their recommendations, not the politics the white house. >> thank you very much for sharing, senator bob casey. thank you for being with us. up next, my final thoughts. stay with us. h us even though i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib not caused by a heart valve problem. so if there's a better treatment than warfarin, i'll go for that. eliquis. eliquis is proven to reduce stroke risk

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millions of americans will be receiving invitations in the mail from the u.s. census containing important information about how they and you can participate in the national count that takes place once per decade. let me tell you why this is so important. it is that count that determines the number of congressional districts in your state. that also determines the amount of state and county legislative seats. we that live in underserved

communities, we depend on this count to get more resources because it talks and shows how the numbers are needed. and therefore, if the numbers are shrunk or if there is a shrinking of the real numbers, it also shrinks the amount of resources put into those areas, and the representatives of those areas. so don't let anyone intimidate you or scare you or tell you don't participate. you must participate. because they are trying to cut down our representation. they are trying to interfere with our participation in having the right resources covering the right am of people in the area you love. be part of the count. it's something all of us can and must do. that does it for me. thanks for watching. i will see you back here next weekend at 5:00 p.m. eastern.

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