and brian sobel, thank you both. >> first to you, donald trump numbers tonight. what does this win say about him and his supporters? >> that he has to be taken seriously. he did the job that he needed to do tonight. and obviously the rest of the field were trailing him considerably. very interesting result. trump was expected to win, but he performed very really well. >> professor taylor, what does this win mean for bernie sanders on the democratic side? how big a deal is it for him? >> i don't think it's much of a big deal at all. he won in a neighboring state where he was supposed to win. if he didn't do as well, then he would have been a real danger going forward. he doesn't has the demographic combination he needs in south carolina. he's going to have to work hard. he's got leads like nina turner and mike the rapper, making great inroads in the african- american population in general. individuals, bernie sanders, perhaps they can make some inroads. but clinton is relying on the black vote which i think is premature because i think it backfired before with bar

. >> joining us from petaluma is analyst brian sobel. who did the better job tonight? >> reporter: i thought hillary clinton actually won the debate if you want to pick a winner and a loser. i thought she had a lot of energy, she was very well prepared. and i think delivered her message quite well. bernie sanders lacked a little energy tonight. it was clearly a content rich debate. but if you're asking me who had the edge, i think hillary clinton did. >> let's just say hillary clinton wins the nomination. for the sake of argument, how much will this to fight during the primaries hurt her in the general election? >> reporter: it's going to hurt her son, and here's why. she has to fix her positions from the middle to the left even very progressive, to outflank bernie sanders. the longer she has to do that, and, pay attention to the republicans she needs to go over and grab, that is going to be the thing that hurts her as we start moving through this election cycle. >> right now bernie sanders is giving clinton a run for her money. what seems to be giving her the most tro

this is going to be a famous moment in politics. >> james taylor, brian sobel, thanks for joining us tonight. >> thank you. >>> up next, nevada and then the baystate yet to go to the polls, south carolina. both split their primaries with democrats and republicans voting on different days. then on to super tuesday, on march 1, 14 states participating, hundreds of delegates at stake. stay with ktvu fox 2 this election year for complete coverage on here, online and on your mobile device. >>> now to pacifica where we have confirmed a man pulled from the ocean waters this afternoon has died. witnesses told us the victim had been sitting on a beach with his wife when they were swept away by a wave. amber lee joins us now with late information from the coroner. amber? >> reporter: the san mateo county coroner identified the man as larry more of pacifica. it appears moore was trying to save his wife when he drowned. just south of the pacifica pier, the pacific ocean, beautiful and sometimes deceptively calm. >> looks harmless but it is so dangerous. it can pull you out just like that. >> rep

. >> joining us from petaluma is analyst brian sobel. who did the better job tonight? >> reporter: i thought hillary clinton actually won the debate if you want to pick a winner and a loser. i thought she had a lot of energy, she was very well prepared. and i think delivered her message quite well. and i thought in contrast, bernie sanders lacked a little energy tonight. it was clearly a content rich debate. but if you're asking me who had the edge, i think hillary clinton did. >> let's just say hillary clinton wins the nomination. for the sake of argument, how much will this to fight during the primaries hurt her in the general election? >> reporter: it's going to hurt her son, and here's why. she has to fix her positions from the middle to the left even very progressive, to outflank bernie sanders. the longer she has to do that, and, pay attention to the republicans she needs to go over and grab, that is going to be the thing that hurts her as we start moving through this election cycle. >> right now bernie sanders is giving clinton a run for her money. what seems to

joining us now from petaluma is brian sobel. and in our newsroom, james taylor, professor of politics at the university of san francisco. >> thank you for joining us. james, ted cruz and marco rubio, they really went after donald trump tonight. you think they were effective? >> extremely effective in scandalizing trump in terms of his appeal to working-class, especially white individuals. to show the way in which trump university is exploiting a good deal of people causing each individual -- costing $40,000 worth of debt, complicit in taking the people's money, $350,000. invincible as a businessman in terms of the scandals around this. very powerful. so i think rubio did an effective job. so did ted cruz in bringing trump off of his pedestal a little bit. very important ways that going forward if they continue to sustain these attacks, he's going to suffer significantly. >> brian, who came out on top in your opinion tonight? who helped himself the most? >> i think marco rubio probably came out on top. what's occurring here is th

joining us now from petaluma is brian sobel. and in our newsroom, james taylor, professor of politics at the university of san francisco. >> thank you for joining us. james, ted cruz and marco rubio, they really went after donald trump tonight. you think they were effective? >> extremely effective in scandalizing trump in terms of his appeal to working-class, especially white individuals. to show the way in which trump university is exploiting a good deal of people causing each individual -- costing $40,000 worth of debt, complicit in taking the people's money, $350,000. to show that trump is not invincible as a businessman in terms of the scandals around this. very powerful. so i think rubio did an effective job. so did ted cruz in bringing trump off of his pedestal a little bit. very important ways that going forward if they continue to sustain these attacks, he's going to suffer significantly. >> brian, who came out on top in your opinion tonight? who helped himself the most? >> i think marco rubio probably came out on top. w

with us now are political analyst brian sobel to talk about this. tomorrow republicans in south carolina, the derkz ms in nevada. how big of a deal is tomorrow, just to single these two races out, or is it really super tuesday, march 1st? >> i think we're looking at super tuesday. tomorrow in south carolina, trump should do well. and the race will be for number two there, to see how cruz and rubio do. meanwhile, in nevada in the caucuses, that's sort of neck and neck. you can look at a lot of polls. perhaps hillary is out a little bit in front, and a couple of the others, sanders is out in front. i think everybody will be interested in those races, but it's really about march 1. >> tomorrow is not do or die? >> i don't think so. >> we love numbers. let's bring in our political reporter ross palombo. i like to follow the numbers. sometimes they stand true. what's the numbers looking like tore tomorrow? >> i think brian is right. everyone does think that donald trump is going to take south carolina. it's very interesting. this is the poll we showed yo