and this is clinton universe. 92% for clinton, 7% for sanders. you can see equal slices one quarter and one quarter, a swath looking for honest and trustworthy and a swath looking for the right experience and it's all clinton. we've seen this in iowa, new hampshire. the way the qualities are dividing what the voters are looking for, that's what is dividing the democratic electorate. >> it's fascinating. we don't know exactly which of these qualities is driving the most voters. >> right. these two are equal. 25% one -- and when we do the others, cares about people like me or has the ability to win in november, also roughly equal slices of the electorate. one in bernie's camp, one in clinton's. >> it is fascinating. the other 50% we getting any indication what was motivating those? >> the other 50% are looking for a candidate who can win in november, the electability. those are clinton voters, and those that are looking for somebody who cares about me, or people like me, those are sanders voters. >> like it was in iowa and new hampshire. >> the dem

sanders questioning hillary clinton's progressive credentials. clinton calling that a low blow. we're covering all of that. much more this hour with our correspondents. our expert analysts and our guests. they're all standing by. as we again and as we wait to hear from donald trump in little rock, let's go to cnn's sunlen serfaty. sunlen, you're in new hampshire right now but there's a new fight that's taking place about what happened in the iowa caucuses. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. donald trump is on attack, basically calling into question ted cruz's win in iowa. now, the cruz campaign is trying to brush it all off by arguing that donald trump is just being a sore loser. >> what kind of people are we dealing with with these politicians? >> reporter: tonight donald trump is on a new tear against ted cruz. >> he insulted ben carson by doing what he did to ben carson. that was a disgrace. >> reporter: jumping into the controversy over accusations the cruz campaign tried to shift votes away from ben carson in iowa monday night, and declaring fraud, tweeting, quote, the state

clinton's favor. hillary clinton's campaign said she is the winner. looking at that map. no official declaration from the democratic party in iowa. jeff zeleny has just landed. he is traveling with the clinton campaign. >> i think jeff is with sanders. >> he just landed. hi, jeff. >> reporter: good morning. >> how about this news? 4.08 state delegates separating hillary clinton and sanders. do the sanders folks know this or are they still sleeping in first class? >> reporter: not much first class on eastern airlines. they actually did not have an internet connection on the plane. they are probably just learning this right now. senator sanders is declaring a different victory. he said this exactly when he talked to reporters briefly in the flight that was just about two hours long. he said we are in it until the conventi convention. he said we will win some states and we will lose some states, but we are in this for the long haul. he said we began the campaign. we are a fringe campaign. the results of

hillary clinton. terrible. look at the damage she did. >> but the front runner couldn't resist taking a jab at his most vocal gop attacker jeb bush. >> he's a low energy person. i said -- no i said he's a stiff. and i said if he was in the private sector he wouldn't be able to get a job. >> what's left of the gop field now has a target squarely on the brash billionaire's back. >> you imagine donald trump as president of the united states? we'll be worse off than now. >> the hard thing about domd in the short-term is he doesn't have any policy positions. >> the only way to beat donald trump is hyal highlight the simple truth of his record. >> reporter: rubio is taking the high road addressing chris christie's decision to drop out of race. >> i think he was somebody who concluded somehow attacking me would help him in his campaign. obviously it didn't work. he's very talent and would i think he has a future if public service beyond what he's doing now in new jersey. >> i had a chance to catch up with the trump ca

as you go into these counties, clinton getting 20% here, clinton getting 20% here, clinton getting 17% here. obama had a clear victory in the swath where you have the highest american percentage. i could only find one county, lexington county where bernie sanders was getting 40. most of the places when you go through these counties, it's a thrashing. he's in 19, 20, maybe cracking 30. it's an overwhelming victory. it's not just a victory. the reason it's so important, number one, hillary clinton now has something in common with donald trump. she's won three of the first four. a different map. cruz won iowa. trump won the other three. she's won three of the first four. this is the momentum phase of the campaign. a lot of super tuesday plays out down here in states like south carolina where you're going to have and electorate like tonight. the scope of this victory tonight, you saw a very happy candidate there delivering that speech. it sends a message to bernie sanders. it sends a message to any democrats that were nervous about her candidacy. >> similarly in some of the other southern

yes, by hillary clinton. i mean the clinton campaign a month ago would have told us that nevada was not competitive state for bernie sanders. they spent the last week saying well this is a competitive state. there are lots of white people there and young people there. so they have changed the baseline. i agree with michael, if she doesn't come -- if she doesn't win by at least 5 points if it's this close when it's over i think she loses her argument against bernie which is that he is unelectable. >> you don't cover the spread in politics you win or you lose. okay. if she wins this in the state, first thing i said when we started this i said what van was saying talking about the pain. this is the state with the fourth highest unemployment in america. the second highest home foreclosures in america. 30% increase in home foreclosures in the last month. enormous pain. she hangs on and wins a 4-point lead that's a big deal. and i'm sorry if people don't think she covered the spread but there ain't no spread in pol

who's here for clinton? yell out. sanders? yes. clinton? sanders? clinton? sanders? hillary. hillary? you see a very converse crowd. reflects where we are here in clark county. 11% identify at african-american. both side agrees it will be very tight. what they're doing here is lining up, going to go inside, register. then the caucusing will begin. >> what you're saying, jason, 20 minutes to get inside and then the doors close? is that what happened? >> reporter: 20 minutes to get into line. that's why some people here are confused because they think if they're not inside the doors by 12:00 they won't be able to participate. not the case. as long as you're in line by 12:00 you will be allowed to participate. all you need to do, get in line. a very long line. as long as you're in line, you're all right. >> thanks very much, jason. we'll get back to you. dana, what? four years, or eight years ago about 117,000, 118,000 it democrats participated in these democratic caucuses. looks like a big turnout right now. i wonder if that helps hillary clinton or bernie sanders? >> i think b

clinton and sanders tangle over that issue with the cnn town hall. clinton on the defensive. sanders steps up attacks. new hampshire's uphill battle for hillary. what will it take to be considered a success? answers ahead. k of myself as more of a control... enthusiast. mmm, a perfect 177-degrees. and that's why this road warrior rents from national. i can bypass the counter and go straight to my car. and i don't have to talk to any humans, unless i want to. and i don't. and national lets me choose any car in the aisle. control. it's so, what's the word?... sexy. go national. go like a pro. (vo) making the most out of every mile. that's why i got a subaru impreza. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. >>> these town halls, they make a difference. that is the consensus and reaction after watching last night. this time, a very fresh look at clinton and sanders going directly at each other and in response to actual new hampshire voters at last night's town hall, just five days ahead of the nation's first primary. remember, iowa, a very different process. so last night, clint

clinton fatigue. she might be able to right herself, the demographics still favor her in many ways. but this is a new campaign and bernie sanders has tapped into something. we don't know where it's going to go, but it's a different kind of fight, it's for the soul of the party and part of hillary's problem is she has come late to the issues that have been defined by bernie sanders. that's not to say her whole life has been devoted to many of the same causes of being espoused by sanders. but in this campaign, she's late to the party and that's a big party. >> she sort of ticked through that tonight, when i worked through the children's defense fund, here is how i executed on what you're hearing from bernie sanders. chris, looking at hillary clinton and the fact that women 30 years old and younger voted for sanders over clinton tonight in new hampshire by a nearly 4-1 margin, couple that with what carl just said in terms of some of the african-american voters, this so-called firewall for clinton in sout

chris, you were there at the clinton event. how is she trying to take it home not just here but's specially super tuesday. >> we saw a relaxed confident hillary clinton and her speech here was forward looking. it sounded like someone feeling the speech for a democratic nominee. they're very confident coming out of south carolina. that they're going to win and want to crush bernie sanders and get that momentum going into super tuesday. no surprise historically black college, miles college and she talked about issues very important to the african-american community, let's take a listen. >> i know there a lot of people here care about voting rights. we've got to do more to protect them from constant encroachment, where too many states are trying to constrict who gets to hard, make it hard for people to vote. what part of democracy are they afraid of? i know that among the barriers we still have to knock down is systemic racism, too many people who feel left out and left behind and we've got to reform our criminal success system. a

bill clinton won 43%. bill clinton cleaned up 77% of it. so they're hope in the clinton campaign is they get that vote this time, but you could see senator sanders tonight trying to intensify his pitch. he's late to this game. he's from vermont but he's been trying hard to increase his support among the african-americans. >> do we have nevada or this south carolina. >> the latino population comes in there. the white vote was 65% and hillary clinton won and the african-american vote is 15%. senator obama won that, but the latino vote was 15% then and again secretary clinton did very well in the race winning nevada on the ultimately losing the nomination was 15% back in 2008. most people expect it to be higher this time. >> fascinating to look at the numbers. do you see much of in south carolina a generational divide among african-american voters just as we've seen among women voters going for senator sanders overwhelming over senator clinton do you see much breakdown? >> i think there's only been two polls, but i think from the information i

back in 1992 bill clinton they battle-tested this focus group, and when clinton said it, it felt like he said the words. >> speaking of bill clinton, by the way, no one since bill clinton has more declared themselves a the comeback kid after a second-place finish than marco rubio in south carolina last night. i think it's a difficult thing, you know, how does somebody who finished third, fifth and second, you know, now suddenly think they can move on but when you hear the color of benetton that marco rubio is talking to, it's the elite in the republican party who want to move the party forward. they lost hispanics by such a huge margin. i've had democrats tell me, when you see the name rubio, there are going to be a lot of hispanics who will consider him because of the name and it will make democrats work harder to peel below that layer. >> it's also about suburbanites feel comfortable with a party they want to feel proud of the party they're supporting. even if he only makes so much of an inroad in hispanic vote and minority vote, it's about making the more moderate part of the party

but i met hillary clinton. a met president clinton. >> reporter: i spoke with the clinton campaign source today who says she's going to try to draw compelling contrasts on issues that she sees being of import to african-american and hispanic voters, namely that would be crime, immigration and guns. guns perhaps the area where there's the most clear contrast between sanders and clinton, wolf. >> very powerful statement from congressman john lewis there. thanks very much. let's go to jeff zeleny. jeff, you've been on the campaign trail with the sanders campaign. how are they handling expectations, first of all, for tonight's debate? >> reporter: first of all, they're trying to get them in check. it's been a very big week for the sanders campaign, no question about it, bigger than they anticipated. that 22-point win in new hampshire has sort of raised the bar and the stakes for them. i'm told that one senior advisor is going to keep doing what he's doing. it's been working so far. but briana is absolutely right, a

hillary clinton's campaign has declared victory. now, all overnight, the campaigns have been flying to new hampshire. they are just now landing there. that's where the campaign will go on from here. this is where if it hasn't been exciting enough, it get really exciting there. hillary clinton declaring victory. feeling good about it. also bernie sanders coming from lower expectations and nearly tying a candidate who was as some people said, inevitable, he is feeling good as well. there is a bernie sanders event in new hampshire for people who have waited for his plane to land there at this early hour. i don't know if the sun will be up at that time. it will be exciting. bernie sanders and his poll numbers are looking pretty strong in that state. the fight has just begun. >> they are thinking they will raise more money, chris, after his performance yesterday. air bern has landed in manchester. another big day of campaigning. will hillary clinton change her strategy? chris moody, thank you. let's break down the results. the nail bitin

secretary clinton winning over senator sanders there. you don't know the precinct or two that are left outstanding. the bulk of them if you look at 97 me 97%, 98% of the vote count statewide, you're missing 6% in the state's largest yoint. that's where the missing votes are in des moines and the area around it within polk county. >> pretty awkward. pretty embarrassing, john. i've got to tell you. that they didn't have it adequately staffed in those 90 caucus sites. very embarrassing for the democratic party in iowa. we'll see if they can recreate those numbers and do it in a fair and responsible way. even though it's about as close as you possibly can think, it's a virtual tie right now, the bragging rights are important for hillary clinton if she wins or bernie sanders if he were to win in iowa. that would be significant. clearly an embarrassment for the democratic party right now. let's take a closer look at what has happened so far tonight in the iowa caucuses. first on the republican side, cnn projected a while ago ted cruz, the texa

we have seen in the latest tracking poll that sanders has a 30 point lead over clinton, so the clinton campaign has been down playing her chances quite a bit in the last several days, yet she's out in force holding multiple events. don't want to give up on new hampshire. they hope to at least close the gap. she did some door knocking in manchester just before heading to the event in concorde, and as you said, we have seen this before. she was counted out by many people in 2008, came back to win here even after that stunning loss in iowa to then senator barack obama and john edwards. she was able to pull out a victory here. they are saying we may not win here but looking to close the gap. she's also trying to appeal to young voters who are overwhelmingly supporting senator sanders. she has been speaking directly to them, certainly at a speech last night, said directly to people supporting sanders, i hope you can persuade you to give me a look. i want you to know i am glad you're involved in the process, bringing energy and ideas and urgency to shared causes of the democratic party. we e

and hillary clinton looked like she was pushed back. and that tells you a lot about the evening and how this is going to go forward. >> you mentioned bernie sanders and his speech. let's play a little sound from bernie sanders. he spoke to the crowd before he headed to the airport. >> nine months ago, we came to the beautiful state. we had no political organization. we had no money. we had no name recognition. and we were taking on the most powerful political organization, in the united states of america. and tonight, while the result are not known, it looks like we are in a virtual tie. >> so, sally, going back like 20 minutes ago. >> my arms are tired. >> all of me is tired, in fact. you go to the bernie sanders event. and there is passion there. it's palpable. and the voters adore bernie sanders. and hillary clinton needs to be careful. she goes into new hampshire now. and she has to make a choice. does she turn up the heat on bernie sanders? or does she run the disciplined campaign she has been running? you talk about him but you fo

83% sanders. 10% hillary clinton. and showing that sanders is getting people who don't normally participate. 59% of first time goers to him and 37% for clinton guys. >> huge numbers. but first things first. brianna keeler, you get the tiger tough award for perfectelperfect elocution while frozen in the cheeks. >> she looks like she's frozen in front of the kremlin. >> very strong. cnn strong right there. >> and cnn predicted the snow storm and it gave enough time for the caucuses to unfold. >> keeler is not joking around. my nose would have broken off and fallen on my feet if i were in there. thank you. get inside. senator sanders says this is a victory no matter what the iowa state party says that his campaign is real. he'll take this raiser thin margin in the iowa caucuses and come home to new hampshire basically, where he is very strong. and here is his reaction just steps from his plane early this morning. >> what is the party telling you right now. we know they are releasing some information. nothing final there

at least hillary clinton will never run out of money. at least she's got the establishment wing of the party behind her. marco rubio still fighting a war on two fronts and he's fighting them simultaneously and losing both of them. everyone is asking when are the establishment candidates going to track trump the answer is when they're done attacking each other and not until then. they first have to attack each other until there's one left standing and the longer that consolidation takes the more trump benefits and the more cruz benefits and the more all of the republican establishment candidates suffer. >> i was looking at that negative ad spending in new hampshire, it was almost like a circular firing squad, all of them taking fire on each other. we have brand new sound from john kasich on his plane. let's listen to that. >> you know, i was very calm about it. i sort of felt we were going to be in second place, i heard earlier that, you know, there was some word that we were going to be there. and then when i traveled around to the polli

chelsea clinton will speak, bill clinton will speak, introducing his wife. what's the mood over there? >> i can tell you the mood is very joyous here every time the latest numbers come up, this crowd cheers. it's one of the actual smaller size rallies that bernie sanders has had. he came to such program nens with his rallies. his aids are pouring through these numbers. looking at a couple counties in particular. johnson county. polk county in des moines is the only place they can pull out a victory here. it's as close as it could possibly be. .8%. senator sanders is going to try to speak within the next 30 minutes or so, if the results are a little more firm, he is going to declare victory here. he believes that his upstart candidacy has nearly taken down

look, hillary clinton had eight years to prepare for new hampshire, she won here before, it is clinton territory as we know going back to 1992. she had big establishment support. she made avoidable errors on the issue of gender with madeline albright and to jeff's point this is about a feeling. you know, the new liberal progressivism in the country is a feeling and the party in new hampshire was more democratic, it was more liberal. she didn't farewell. he's going to get a new look. >> david, mave. jeff, thank you so much. >> clinton and sanders face off tomorrow night in wisconsin. the pbs news hour democratic debate. guess what, it's going to be simulcast right here on cnn 9:00 eastern tomorrow night. >>> so we know the whippers of the new hampshire primary. who turned out and why did they support who they ended up voting for? what does it mean for the contest ahead? that and so much more when "new day" returns. at safelite, we ky your life can be. oh no this mom didn't have time to worry about a cracked windshield. so she scheduled at safelite.com and with safelite's exclusive "on m

and bill clinton before that. how does he fight that? >> i think you have to recognize one thing we saw last night is with hillary's win but bernie's strong showing, you start 40 points down. no superpac. no wall street money. no establishment support whatsoever, and you almost beat the clinton operation. that's huge. and i think don't discount sanders. i think what we showed is he's a serious candidate. his campaign is for real. they know what they're doing. he's got a message that resonates not just with white voters. it will resonate with african american voters. i think we're going to see a long haul. this is great for the party and the country. i think this could go all the way to the convention. two very j very candidates with a contest of ideas. god bless america. >> i think political people across the country when you said it could go longer. >> sanders said he's taking it to the convention. when a guy like that says that, that's what causes political premi tremors. give me the glass half full? what did wo

bernie sanders and hillary clinton, of course, fighting for every last vote and so far clinton is leading by a wide margin. she spent most of the week campaigning hard, of course. this afternoon she's in alabama before heading back to south carolina for the watch party tonight. after a concert and rally last night, bernie sanders looking ahead to campaigning in texas and minnesota today. cnn correspondent jeff zelledy following their campaigns. jeff. >> reporter: they're certainly not counting on a win. he's been across the country in illinois, minnesota. he's going to spend tonight in minnesota as well. looking ahead to those super tuesday contests next week. but it gave him a chance to reach out to a more diverse part of his democratic electorate. he did not spend as much time here as some of his advisers would have hoped he would. he notice thad to keep going in this contest he needs to do well. we'll see if he does well here, but south carolina is feeling so different than it did eight years ago when it was hillary clinton outside the state not remaining when barack obama won this con

chelsea clinton. we'll find out when he takes the stage here. >> jeff, that was no drive by campaign attack. he went armed with information and to say those things. as you say, it will be interesting to see what he says when he takes the stage in a little bit. we'll take it live when it happens. jeff zeleny, thanks so much. >> let's bring in maeve reston as well as hillary rosa, a democratic strategist. and donna brazil. it is great to have us all together in new hampshire. on this bill clinton issue, why now, hillary? tell me what you think. >> there's very much a view within the clinton camp that bernie sanders has not been defined by the clinton team and that they maybe missed their opportunity to do it earlier. and i think now people are looking. look, sanders has performed well. he has now got to be subject to the same kind of scrutiny that hillary has been subject to. and when you look at some of those things, it infuriates them, like, he did participate in a campaign committee fund raising outr

clinton gained five. sanders says in every interview and in most speeches, he thinks the race is actually closer. >> this campaign is trying to do -- to ask the american people to think big and not small. >> now, if his ideas are big, it's pretty clear who he regards maybe as small. and she takes offense. >> i have spent my entire adult life trying to knock down barriers. trying to even the odds. >> there's the tension between the candidates of late, and listen to this one, the surrogates are turning it up, too. listen here. former secretary of state madeleine albright after saying she doesn't understand why young women are flocking to support senator sanders. >> just remember, there's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other. >> wow. okay. cnn's mave reston and jonathan mann are still with us. we're also joined by molly ball and jeff zeleny. who would have thunk it? madeleine albright, attack dog. >> did you see the look on secretary's face, secretary clinton's face? no expression ther

. >> you reran some of senator clinton's -- secretary clinton's speech tonight. you've been in big crowds. you have a tendency to talk a little louder. no one shouts louder than senator sanders. all night long. he is shouting. he is literally almost the howard peal of this campaign. >> but hillary was so angry compared to sanders. >> i don't know if she was angry. but again, let us not slip into some gender bias here. a man raises his voice, he's enthusiastic. a woman raises her voice, she's angry. let's be very careful about how we characterize some of these things. >> with the iowa caucuses over the race of course moves to new hampshire. we're going to have a very special event this wednesday night, two nights from now. the two democratic presidential candidates, hillary clinton, bernie sanders going to take part in a presidential town hall in derry, new hampshire live on cnn. it is a critical moment for each of the candidates to face the voters in new hampshire. first time they're going to be on a stage on the same night in the same place since what happened h

>> reporter: the clinton campaign is running from behind in a state that famously made bill clinton the comeback kid in 1992. her aides are bracing for a strategic shakeup if things don't go well tonight. >> it would be malpractice not to say what worked, what can we do better, what can we do new and different we have to pull out. >> reporter: the campaign's chief bennenson said any top of a shakeup is overblown but it may be time for a fine tuning. >> we have to challenge our assumptions. challenge what you think you know. >> reporter: sanders' strength has stunned the clinton orbit. his wife, jane, told cnn's "new day" that any margin of victory would be welcome. >> we hope to win by at least one vote. >> reporter: sanders supporters fanned out across the state, his message from election eve fresh on their minds. >> the eyes of the country and a lot of the world, by the way, will bow right here in new hampshire. >> reporter: the race hinges on new hampshire's independent voters, famous for staying undecided until the end. we met julie a week ago at a clinton rally, but she was thinkin

i mean, there was not as if we threw bill clinton or hillary clinton per se under the bus. it was just that we embraced barack obama and even more importantly than that, democrats in south carolina and throughout the south, as we are about to find out, believe this primary is about building on and protecting the legacy of barack obama and there is nobody better suited to do that than hillary clinton and that's what we're seeing today. and after iowa and new hampshire, the demographics do change and people in south carolina, we have this really, really high ferver about making history and we're ready to make history for hillary clinton again. >> mark preston, all i have to say is, politics are really, really weird. so go ahead. >> before barack obama was elected, who did we call bill clinton. it was a very pitch battle. you know, it was really beer knuckle to bare knuckle. but to bakari's point, that was a past campaign. the clintons are being very smart by sending bill clinton ahead to south carolina today to try to make sure that they can solidify that support. because ber

ryan, you saw bernie sanders and hillary clinton and bill clinton out on the campaign trail today. sanders said today, and i'm quoting him, i think we are going to be -- i think we are going to do just fine tomorrow. what's the mood out there at these events? you're in new hampshire. >> >> to be honest, it was a little bit of a reverse of what it's been in the last two weeks. the hillary clinton campaign was a little more boisterous. sanders has a low-energy college crowd. sanders said something, at least to me, that was new, trying to respond to this idea that his plans are unrealistic and that he couldn't pass his agenda in washington. he talked about the fight for gay rights and marriage equality. and basically said that's what his campaign is about. if you want to move things in washington, you have to build a movement like this, trying to answer this criticism from the clintons that she's not realistic and that he would never overcome the gridlock in washington. >> they cast at midnight tonight. what do you expect to see tomorrow? >> well, look, coming out of here tonight, i h

on the democratic side, hillary clinton very early. 4% reporting. 52% for hillary clinton. bernie sanders 46% and martin o'malley is at 2%. these are very, very early numbers. these are the first real numbers, actual votes in this the 2016 presidential race. let's go back to the political director. you are looking at more numbers as well. >> the key numbers on the republican side were evangelical christians who drive the electorate. take a look at this. 63% of the republicans that showed up are evangelical christians. that is higher than they were at 2012. 63%, they have expanded the universe of this force within the iowa gop. take a look at how they break. this may be the most fascinating number. 24% for trump and 21 percent per for rubio and 12% for carson. that is a three-way split among evangelical christians. they love him and we know it was part of ted cruz's base. splitting the vote like that is what is going to make it so competitive. let's look at how the non-evangelicals and how they voted. 32% to rubio's 23% to cruz's 15% among non-evangelicals. that's split amon

also in attendance, former president bill clinton and her daughter chelsea clinton. bill clinton said he is concerned that the campaign has lacked imagination so far, but tonight, hillary clinton called on the people in the audience to imagine the world her campaign is all about. >> i really want you to imagine with me. imagine what we can do together. imagine an economy that does work for everybody again. imagine we finally get to universal health care coverage so that every single man, woman and child has access to the quality health care that he or she needs. this is a huge, huge issue to me personally and one of the contrasts between me and sanders. >> reporter: one question is weather and how that effects the turnout. heavy snowfall is expected to end on tuesday. there could be messy roads and that could be a factor in a state where the voters say the responsibility in the first the nation primary very seriously. john and christine. >> joe, thanks. here is the latest weather report. flurries. we just checked outside. flurries. probably not enough to keep voters

not only do we see hillary clinton wrapping herself in barack obama, but we see the clinton campaign trying to drive a wedge between barack obama and bernie sanders. that he was thinking, perhaps, of maybe primarying him or encourages others to do so, that he called the president weak. the whole litany of stuff that the clinton campaign has been pushing about bernie sanders distancing himself in some way from barack obama being the liber liberal critic of barack obama. this shows why. remaining larger than the universe of voters who want a more liberal direction. we'll see when final numbers come in. that's what they're trying to drive up. >> interesting considering the fact barack obama and hillary clinton were adversaries eight years ago and talking to people at clinton events back in new hampshire and iowa, that a lot of people said that they were going for her because they supported barack obama, and they did agree with the idea that she was going to continue doing what he's doing. >> never thought you'd say hillary clinton is the barack obama candidate, but that's what it is her

hillary clinton was actually in alabama today. she touched down in south carolina a short time ago ahead of this key primary tonight. you know, she and aides are pretty relaxed about this idea that they are going to secure a win here. but make no mistake, they are watching the spread. what they would really love to see is hillary clinton give bernie sanders a shellacking like he gave her in new hampshire. they feel like if she can achieve that they will be well positioned to open up a big lead coming into super tuesday by the end of super tuesday by about 100 delegates over bernie sanders. that's their aim at this point. if she can win and best bernie sanders by as much as 22 points that is something, wolf, that will be sweeter than the strawberry cupcakes that hillary clinton bought baut in birmingham, alabama, today, which i understand were promptly devowed by her staff xh has spent many, many hours on the ground here in super tuesday states, wolf. >> brianna keilar with the hillary clinton campaign. jeff zeleny with the sanders

and hillary clinton? >> my reaction is that john lewis is a hero, in the civil rights movement, and i'm not surprised that bernie sanders and he did not meet. bernie sanders was very active in the congress for racial quality at the university of chicago. he led sit-ins there. arrested protesting the housing policy of his own university. he came to washington when dr. king was there. yes, they didn't meet, but i don't think that in any way diminishes the effort of bernie sanders and hundreds of thousands of other young people who participated in the civil rights movements in the '60s didn't meet but bernie's life and direction of hit life and commit was shaped during those college years. we're very proud of bernie's record, not just as a college student but everything he did in this political dreier advance the cause of civil rights and equal rights. >> was it a fair comment from congressman lewis? a cheap shot? >> listen, i'm not going -- i think congressman lewis has the right to say whatever he wants. h

the clintons flourished -- bill clinton flourished as a centrist, the dnc. barack obama you call him a progressive. when he was in ohio, in northern florida, in the suburbs of denver, he wasn't saying i'm a liberal, i'm a progressive. so this is really good. now, republicans, we have our own little skirmish going on inside our party but more americans define themselves as centrist and slightly more conservative. >> i have not heard blue dog in quite a while. >> everyone, we're coming back, more must-see moments from our democrat being town hall, just days ahead of the new hampshire primary. and we'll talk to anderson coming up. in new york state, we believe tomorrow starts today. all across the state the economy is growing, with creative new business incentives, and the lowest taxes in decades, attracting the talent and companies of tomorrow. like in the hudson valley, with world class biotech. and on long island, where great universities are creating next generation technologies. let us help grow your company's tomorrow, today at business.ny.gov you totalle

hillary clinton is the big winner. she's got 73.5% to 26% for bernie sanders. 92 -- 97% of the vote is in and she's winning by a bigger margin in south carolina than senator barack obama won eight years ago over hillary clinton. let's go over to jake and dana and david. minnesota is an important state for bernie sanders. the primary there is this coming tuesday. that's why he's there tonight. >> that's right. there are about 15 states coming up in the first week of march for the democrats. and hillary clinton will compete hard in all of them, as will bernie sanders. he might actually win more states, but the clinton people say it's likely that she'll win more delegates, just because of where she's competing and the proportional allotment. let's talk more about south carolina and the historic victory that she has this evening and why the voters went for her in such astounding numbers. >> we talked a little bit earlier as we had the first wave of numbers about the candidate qualities. and we talked a little bit about how

hillary clinton win is in south carolina. but only a few hundred votes are in. 87.5% for hillary clinton. only 12.5% for bernie sanders. once again, very early. by all accounts, this is going to be a very, very decisive win for hillary clinton. >> david axelrod, if you're bernie sanders do you commit amount of resources to mississippi, to georgia? >> no. i think he will commit his resources to where he thinks he can win and his time, which is just as valuable. or maybe more so. look, i think one of the things that happened here, tad devine, the very smart strategist who has been running the sanders campaign said in the wall street journal this morning that their strategy was if they could run the table on the first three contests that they felt they had a shot in south carolina. that didn't happen. and so they didn't have the momentum they needed to get the push here. this is a momentum problem today for them going into tuesday. that's what they need to worry about. but they are certainly going to concentrate on tuesday and b

hillary clinton or if you like sanders, you somehow hate obama. bernie is supposed to be the socialist but the clintons are acting like obama's like our dear leader, like in north korea, if you criticize the dear lead are. that's nuts. you can have a critique of the status quo -- >> i can't wait to see the right-wing blogs get ahold of what you said but go on. >> blow it up, blow it up! she's like hillary rodham obama, if you don't like the way things are, you're disrespecting obama. i think a lot of black folks like him better than her. that's just reality. >> one thing that van touched upon is media framing it as if there is one or two or three or four black americans who speak for all of us. le the fact is we don't all get together for one meeting. >> didn't van call the meeting? >> that really needs to change. >> it's true because as i talk to people, right, i see people -- i see african-americans and people who don't believe this on social media, i see african-american hogs support ben carson. i haven't seen many who support ted cruz. it's no

i like hillary clinton. but i'm thinking about bernie sanders or i'm for bernie sanders because he's talking more about tomorrow where he's going to take me, not where he's been. i think that's something she needs to get better at and he's making a connection with people. democrats like hillary clinton and respect her and love their president, but he is connecting with the younger voters by talking about tomorrow and not about you. >> that's why it was so important tonight because it was about breaking down barriers and going further and that was the first time i heard her talk about the future in that way. >> as long as we're talking about identity politics, her answer on women was kind of interesting because one of the moderators, i think it was judy may have pointed out that 55% of women in new hampshire supported bernie sanders and hillary clinton had a very good answer for that which is i want to appeal to you, but i'm just glad that women feel empowered, my least favorite word, but she clearly likes it

hillary clinton's camp just e-mailing out a statement saying quote, hillary clinton has won the iowa caucus, going on to say after thorough reporting and analysis there is no uncertainty and secretary clinton has clearly won the most national and state delegates. that is what clinton's camp is saying. no word yet from sanders' camp. we'll let you know when we have more. ben, this all happens in a state where 43% of the democratic caucus-goers describe themselves as socialists. let's not forget that. >> i do think that it is important. there is one thing we have to look at tonight. there is a big debate on trust with hillary clinton. there has been. most people are saying with just republicans to are bringing this up, it's just republicans that are making benghazi and the e-mail and the server everything an issue. and these polls saying we do not trust hillary clinton. you can't say this is now just a republican or democrat talking point or fight. there are truly democrats now and the majority of them in iowa, and i think moving forward and this may be her vulnerability, is this they

that is how clinton people are casting this. and i think that's an effective argument. >> i think, jake, no matter where your politics fall, democrat, republican in flint, you're happy that the national attention is on you now including you know, one of the front-runners in the race for the presidency because it's been as you know, months and months with not a lot of people paying much attention to the crisis. now they are happy to have that. we'll take a quick break. up next you'll hear from jake's interview with bernie sanders. what did sanders say ahead of tonight and ahead of the big day on tuesday. hey! this is lloyd. to prove to you that the better choice for him is aleve. he's agreed to give it up. ok, but i have 30 acres to cover by sundown. we'll be with him all day as he goes back to taking tylenol. yeah, i was ok, but after lunch my knee started hurting again so... more pills. yep... another pill stop. can i get my aleve back yet? for my pain... i want my aleve. get all day minor arthritis pain relief with an easy ope

and clinton clinton hillary cli coming here, a crumbling schools event. this part of south carolina has been called the corridor of shame because of the situation, the schools, the predominantly african american schools with what you can see behind me, the play sets and the bathrooms that don't work and all the things that come along with it. clinton will try to make the case she's been in the people in this state and the nation for years. her first job out of law school, we'll probably hear was with the children's defense fund. expecting to see her here, talking about an issue near and dear to the hearts of african americans in south carolina. meanwhile, bernie sanders is not here. he is traveling around the country pushing more of a national campaign. in minnesota today, but will also be talking about race and economics at a high school in minneapolis. and attending a dinner there. he's taking a bit of a hit in south carolina in the newspaper from clinton supporters who say he ought to be in this state at this time. the campaign says he is eventually go

because the clinton campaign is looking a the long game. as she said last night during that debate, carol, she said she doesn't think it's such a bad thing to take money for interest groups and noted that barack obama himself had taken money from wall street. so hillary clinton trying to push, or at least trying to defend herself from this fight from the left, this bernie sanders populist idea he's saying that she's too tight and too close to wall street. >> so, errol, she postponed a fund-raiser but during a debate we heard her artful severe comment, booed by the audience. did that have anything to do with her decision to postpone this fund-raiser? >> almost certainly did, and really part of a much larger fight. that booing, that back and forth, that's not just clinton versus sanders in a personal sense. that's hillary clinton arguing what the progressive wing of the democratic party, the progressive base if you want to call it that. it's a valid debate. to say, look, just because i have raised money, want me to win, right? i have to go ou

>>> donald trump and hillary clinton. he swept the republican primary in south carolina, and she won the democratic caucuses in nevada. their wins on saturday are fueling both candidates' momentum as their party's front-runner. meanwhile, jeb bush, he has dropped out of the republican race after a weak fourth-place finish in a state that had always been good for the bush family. it was a pivotal day in so many different ways for republicans. here's a quick look at how it all played out. ♪ >> reporter: in south carolina, the polls are closing right now. the early leaders right now, south carolina and second-tier candidate, cnn projects donald trump, the billionaire real estate magnate, will win the south carolina republican primary. >> getting nearly half the votes here in the myrtle beach area of horry county. a big population center. near 67% of the state population, getting near 50%. whether you like donald trump or don't like donald trump, that speaks for itself this is a trumping. >> he would be the best president!

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clinton. she's been talking about the issues for the past four decades, since being in south carolina in the '70s talking about juvenile justice reform, to health care for millions of kids in the '90s to criminal justice reform in the senate. the list goes on and on. that's why you see a very robust support for mrs. clinton among african-americans including young african-americans, not just in south carolina, but in other southern states, in georgia, in texas, in louisiana, and all of that is going to help her going into super tuesday. >> let me ask you about that. after new hampshire, there was a strong narrative for bernie sanders. does bernie sanders need make a change? >> the loss in nevada wasn't really a loss. two weeks in nevada, he was down by 15, 18 points. and he narrowed that gap to five points. so it's really not a loss. >> there's a winner and a loser. >> i understand. but they expect him to lose by a larger margin. so him losing by 5% to 7%, in my mind, that is a victory for him

sanders at 84%, clinton at 14%. support there in iowa. when it comes to the youth number, which is key in every state. but here in new hampshire, is the goal for hillary clinton -- does it need to be winning them over or just not pushing them away further? >> well, look, i think both sides actually have something -- a couple of red flags when it comes to the youth vote. yes, bernie sanders crushed hillary clinton with young voters and bernie sanders' problem is he's not turning them out. if you look at the difference between this primary and the last democratic primary in 2008, based on what i saw, the young voters were the smallest part of the electorate and dropped by four or five points in terms of their percentage of the electorate. he's not energizing. young people are not being energized to turn out. both sides have work to do. i will say this, new hampshire like anywhere else, it's complicated and unpredictable. i'm not going to come on tv and predict the most unpredictable electorate in the country. bernie sanders' strengths in a

the clinton legacy on free trade. how does she go back on that as president. i don't think she can. so, very interesting to see if on the welfare issue if bernie sanders continues to press that and she backs and take as step back. what you're seeing is that sanders, who is always on the far left of the democratic party is much more in the main stream of the democratic party because the party moved left. >> thank you very much. stay with me. thank you. stay with me. coming up next, a lot ahead, donald trump and marco rubio in the middle of a brawl. >> he bankrupted a casino, how do you bankrupt a casino? >> light weight rubio, total light weight. and little mouth on him. bing, bing, bing. >> we'll have live reports on the mud slingings also senator cruz focused on texas right now. the crown jewel of super tuesday. could his home state be a great win for him or end his shot at being president. and also of course we're staying on top of the democratic primary race, right here in south carolina. 53 delegates up for grabs

hillary clinton faces a similar problem. she's a great record, secretary of state, knows everything there is no know about foreign policy. bernie sanders doesn't want to talk about foreign policy and nobody seems to mind. in this disruptive, very weird, very unique election year the policy wonks are just not selling it and that leaves another opening for the disruptive anger driven candidates. >> donald trump, understands people like you. the exit polls with bernie sanders were overwhelmingly positive for him. one of them was on democratic voters. if you look at just registered democrats who voted in the democratic primary, he actually ties hillary clinton. it's 49/49. eric, you've been covering the sanders campaign going forward. we have 20 seconds left. does bernie sanders know he's got a problem here? he's got to start winning more democrats if he's going to win. >> he does. he's spending his entire campaign on the idea of ee panneding the electorate, bringing new people in. if you go to his events they look like the futu