. >>> lincoln mitchell is the national political kroerd for the new york observer.s townhall meeting it was clear both candidates were making a play for african american voters. can you win the democratic nomination without the support of african american voters? >> it would be very difficult to win the democratic nomination without a substantial chunk. if you are down to 10, 15, 20%, you can't win the nomination. bernie needs to get into that 30, 35% range. and that is doable. he has got to create a generational cleavage, a gender cleavage where he gets more black men, but it is not going to be easy. he has a message on some levels should resinate with african american voters, when he talks about his history in civil rights -- >> there's pictures that show him being arrested, why is not working? >> pictures of bernie sanders being arrested before someone who is well into middle age like me was born -- >> [ laughter ] >> i'm not sure how much that will resinate. but he was the most visible jewish american politician in the country to support jesse jackson. and that'

. >>> lincoln mitchell is the national political correspondent of the national observer, and joins us. both hillary clinton and bernie sanders seem to be making an effort to court the african american vote. but their tactics are a bit different. what is your take? >> they both have a long record in public service. the difference is hillary clinton is much more familiar to african american voters because she has made an effort to speak to them and build relationships with them. and because of who her husband was. many african american voters don't like hearing the issues that are important to you, are really just part of an economic issue. that's something african american voters have been told for years. bernie sanders isn't saying that, but it is implicit in his campaign. if bernie sanders knew he was going to be running for president, where was he when he should have been building those relationships, visiting churches throughout the south, and he wasn't. >> is it too late now? >> yes. you can't come a week before the primary. then that's a campaign appearance. but if you go in june

let's get more on that primary now with lincoln mitchell who is in new york.l political correspondent for the new york observer, thank you very much for speaking to us. so how important is the contest in south carolina in terms of recasting or reframing the battle between donald trump, ted cruz and marco rubio? >> this is an important contest. all of these early contests are more important pan simply the population of the state or the delegate count cigs. what's more important here a second place firn from marco rubio third with bush a distance fourth, more or less bush has to get out of the race, there no viability or rational he's just taking votes away from rubio. that's one thing of critical on import here. th second thing is a victory by trump, eight, 10 points certainly more than that, and we have to be -- trump becomes a front runner in a very strong way, he's won in new hampshire, he's won in south carolina, these are very different states, he has the money to keep going. examinand the party has to wrese with that. immaterial certainlily what you are h

mitchell. lisa: 5:06 right now a lincoln , heights man could spend the rest of his life in prison for contacting dozens of juveniles through facebook. martell lowry' s is set to be sentenced at 11:00 this morning. lowry contacted dozens of boys on facebook and tried to get them to send him nude pictures. and meet him for sex in exchange for money. the woman accused of shooting another woman during an argument in silverton is set to make a plea or have a trial set this gun out of her boyfriend' s pocket and shot the victim in the chest. she was indicted on assault charges last july. >> she was my big sister. she was my best friend. she was my world. mark: a heartbroken family after to death, with her baby in the backseat. britney russell spent the day with her family tuesday in middletown, celebrating her nephew' s birthday. and was found dead. less than 12 hours later, in dayton. dayton police are going over the 29-year-old' s last few days, as they still search for a suspect. while russell' s family is just trying to make sense of who would do this and why. >> i don' t even know why someone wou