host: we're talking with a politico reporter joining us live via skype from charleston, south carolina. when you look at the political demographics of south carolina, it is a solid republican state in a general election, but what about in the primary and where are the democratic votes in your state? guest: the main hotbed of democratic votes is in columbia. democrats have been growing their numbers, certainly in charleston, where a democratic foridate for congress won the first time last year in 2018, in 48 year -- in 40 years. has historically been viewed as the conservative stronghold, but the city of greenville is also starting to add quite a few democrats. columbiaspread out but and richmond county in the middle of the state has been the for frequent campaign stop a lot of these candidates because it does have the most amount of democratic voters. the candidates are trying to get all over the state and south carolina is a state with a lot of rural areas and we are seeing candidates go to these rural towns to demonstrate that they are going to be a president that will work for not j

host: we're talking with a politico reporter joining us live via skype from charleston, south carolinaou look at the political demographics of south carolina, it is a solid republican state in a general election, but what about in the primary and where are the democratic votes in your state? guest: the main hotbed of democratic votes is in columbia. democrats have been growing their numbers, certainly in charleston, where a democratic foridate for congress won the first time last year in 2018, in 48 year -- in 40 years. has historically been viewed as the conservative stronghold, but the city of greenville is also starting to add quite a few democrats. columbiaspread out but and richmond county in the middle of the state has been the for frequent campaign stop a lot of these candidates because it does have the most amount of democratic voters. the candidates are trying to get all over the state and south carolina is a state with a lot of rural areas and we are seeing candidates go to these rural towns to demonstrate that they are going to be a president that will work for not just the

south carolina, i will. but when i have to be there, i will. i have a constitutional duty to be there. we can skypen, we can phone in. >> it sounded like they can go on tv and say this is terrible, this is horrible, i hate it, but just to be human about it, they're ambitious, they're running for president, especially in iowa and new hampshire, you know this well from your experience, voters like to see you. tv ads can help, you can phone it in, skype it in, but they want to feel and touch you. >> they want to be in iowa. we have a very close race with the top four. you have amy klobuchar who is really trying to break in in iowa and this is a key time. i was talk to go someone in klobuchar's camp and they're saying they're doing all they can. they're there every weekend and they have surrogates. her daughter is going to skype in, but certainly that's not the same thing as being in diners and pizza ranches. >> if you're a democratic senator running for president, you're free now. you have to be back in the senate by tuesday morning. monday is the martin luther king holiday. saturday, iowa, warren, kl

from joining us via skype south carolina. as you look at the political demographics of south carolina, it is a republican state in the general election. what about in a primary? where are the democratic votes in your state? hotbed of democratic votes is columbia. democrats will point out there have been growing -- they had been growing their numbers in democratic where a candidate for congress one for the first time last year in 2018 in 40 years, the first time a democrat has represented charleston in 40 years. greenville in the upstate has historically been viewed as the conservative stronghold, but the city of greenville has started to add democrats. they are spread out, but columbia and richmond county in the middle of the state had been the most frequent campaign stops for a lot of these candidates because it does have the most amount of democratic voters. candidates have tried to get all over the state and demonstrate -- south carolina is a state that has a bond of rural areas and we have seen candidates go to towns to de

host: we're talking with a politico reporter joining us live via skype from charleston, south carolina. when you look at the political demographics of south carolina, it is a solid republican state in a general election, but what about in the primary and where are the democratic votes in your state? guest: the main hotbed of democratic votes is in columbia. democrats have been growing their numbers, certainly in charleston, where a democratic foridate for congress won the first time last year in 2018, in 48 year -- in 40 years. has historically been viewed as the conservative stronghold, but the city of greenville is also starting to add quite a few democrats. columbiaspread out but and richmond county in the middle of the state has been the for frequent campaign stop a lot of these candidates because it does have the most amount of democratic voters. the candidates are trying to get all over the state and south carolina is a state with a lot of rural areas and we are seeing candidates go to these rural towns to demonstrate that they are going to be a president that will work for not j