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Nevada Election Results with CNN's Andrew Yang

Feb 23, 2020
let's think briefly about what we're seeing and Riaan, what do you think so far? Well, it's projected to be a big day for Bernie and I think we were all hoping for one thing that I just want to post. I'm not sure why we still use caucuses in some of these early states that are really bad for turnout. I mean, we're seeing 3% of Nevadans caucusing in 2016, this time it could be as high as four or five percent in In New Hampshire, where the primaries are much simpler, you had over twenty percent. cent, so if you're going to be a democracy and you're trying to empower voters, why would you make it harder for people to vote in your first nomination process?
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To co-sign, I want to say that the problem with the narrative of the Bernie movement is that he is winning by 25, 26, 28 percent and that includes even states like New Hampshire, where he won cleanly by more than 50 percent last time and the other votes are divided between four other candidates, really for me, the action after today is what happens between candidates 2 to 5, because they are going to have very, very difficult conversations and then, if the field consolidates, The question is what percentage of the vote is Bernie getting. I think what's important to recognize is that what seems to be the case, at least looking at these numbers, is that Bernie Sanders is also doing well with moderates, so I feel like that argument was, you know, he could in the In the case of New Hampshire and Iowa, we're seeing it gaining support among moderates and it's less ideological and more about who prioritizes the needs of the job.
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This is the question, but people like winners in general, people who look up are like you. I know I'm starting to sympathize with this guy because after you start putting a bunch of ones next to your name, now back to the panel, this notion of whether Biden comes in second gives it new life. I mean Andrew does that, but is that really a real notion? Yes it is. I mean, the moderates have been trying to figure out who to try to consolidate behind if Joe gets a solid second place finish here, a lot of the donors that have been on the fence could come to him he has relationships with a lot of them and they have I've been waiting for him to show me strength is one of the big

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today is what will happen to Amy Klobuchar if she finishes let's say fifth and I'm friends with all these candidates, so it's hard to talk like that, but if you finished fifth in Nevada and you head to South Carolina and you're Amy Klobuchar and you're not expected to do very well in South Carolina, so it starts generating some really difficult conversations and that's what a lot of people have been waiting for is for the moderates in the field to start to consolidate, so if Jo comes out strong today and let's say a candidate ends up leaving the field in the next few days very frequently. because if you imagine, let's say Amy Klobuchar is dropping out, I don't think those voters are going to Bernie the tough questions, the really tough questions that I think Andrews is referring to is what's the goal here, do the moderate candidates just want to be in? race to show that they can run or want to be in the race so they can see a like-minded candidate advance, and frankly, I think it doesn't seem like any of them are really thinking in those terms. now and as a result Bernie Sanders is taking the race and Michael Bloomberg is waiting until Super Tuesday, where he is likely to have a big impact.
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I'm going to give three key variables for a candidate if you're looking at the path ahead number one, are you in the next debate? Number two, do they have the money to operate? because you're right, Amy's operation is much smaller than Elizabeth's and number three, if you project a contested convention, are you going to end up strong enough for Hoover? increase delegates in the states, which often means something like a 15%+ threshold, when I decided to eliminate it it was partly because I looked at these three variables and said I don't think I could get delegates to advance if I thought I could . get delegates I would still be in the race and I wouldn't be here having this conversation with you really that is the question for each of the candidates if they believe that they can be if not the king or queen but the king or queen doers in the After the convention that they enacted with Trump in 2016, we had the same conversations about which of these people are going to step down for the greater good, but the reality is that these politicians, except for hating babies, I mean, I just wanted to ask. our former candidate here we were talking earlier about the moderates and he said: I think why are these people talking to each other about what to do next or how they are going to behave?
nevada election results with cnn s andrew yang
With Bloomberg or could we moderates meet like we did? talking about it was stupid, the way it works between campaigns is like this, you have a candidate to candidate relationship and a lot of the candidates have cell phones with each other, but we don't make a habit of texting each other saying "hey." What do you think that is? Yeah, most of the communication happens from one team to another and the politics are incestuous enough that everyone on every team knows someone on someone else's team, so if I looked at my team I said, "Hey, I want to talk". so you know Biden's team, but say, oh yeah, I know his xxx is like the chief of staff, right?
So the question is whether the staff of the different campaigns are having these conversations and then, after reaching a certain level, they graduate to the candidates typically and what the conversations were. I guess that's my question. At this point, the teams talk to each other and then occasionally someone tells me, hey, FYI, Joe wants to call you and I'm sure and then he schedules that call and has that conversation, so I have a feeling that communications from campaign to campaign they are already being carried out and then the question is if it reaches the candidates. Do you think they coordinated beforehand to kneel a Bloomberg that was just plain fun? - I think it was organic, it's spontaneous, we may see more of that on Tuesday with the Android panel.
Do you think this affects Bernie Sanders one way or another? But Mayor Buda judges that Bern is already raising funds from this notion of the Russians. supporting Sanders or trying to get him elected I don't think anyone believes for a moment that Bernie is somehow looking for that kind of help; it just speaks to the need we have to protect our social media in our

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infrastructure from Russian interference to want To take note of these vote totals, I would keep an eye on Judge Pete Buddha because this campaign has a knack for getting extra delegates in the rural counties, they did it in Iowa to great effect and since the delegate count will be In the final count here, I have a feeling they can overtake the popular vote a little bit because that strategy worked for them in Iowa.
We tried to do the same in my campaign. We didn't do it as effectively as Pete's campaign. very good for maximizing delegate returns, how do you do that? I mean, what's the way? What you do is go at a minor trot on the roads of rural counties where they have a slightly disproportionate production of delegates based on the number of humans they reach. running for caucus, so what that means in practice is that Pete organized publicity and appeared more in rural Nevada where you get better value for your money instead of Vegas and Reno blaming the Washington Post trying to say who they were the sources. and why this came out the day before the primaries and then like the Washington Post, if they had this story, they shouldn't have reported it or they should have if the source is good, but it's not the Washington Post, It's about who it's about.
The story is genuinely newsworthy. I don't know where Stires will end up or if he'll end up free after this, but and maybe Andrew, you could talk about that, but he's been spending a lot of money in South Carolina and he spent a lot. of money in Nevada, yeah the thing to watch out for is if Tom gets a qualifying poll tomorrow in South Carolina, if he doesn't he'll be on the debate stage the next day and South Carolina is his most strong if you don't. If he gets a poll then he won't be on the debate stage and that will be a source of great frustration for his campaign because they have been investing a lot of resources in South Carolina in particular.
Is this going to be a candidate that just plays to his base or does he become more inclusive now maybe too soon because he's trying to win, but at some point Bernie Sanders is going to have to do something more like he is Andrew, how do you see that? Well, first, I agree with all of that. what you said van, this is why I ran and when I addressed the Democrats, actually no, they're not Democrats, working class Americans across the country, if you have an addy next to your name, it's like a scarlet letter, like they don't think Democrats talk to them and I was talking to truckers and waitresses and I said, in theory, aren't you the ones the Democratic Party should be talking to and defending, but you thought the Democratic Party didn't want to have nothing to do with them and is that a real problem for me? with the Democratic Party you have to do some soul searching if working class Americans think their party is not their party, that's why Iran, Iran, says, look, we have to solve these underlying economic problems that have been festering and piling up. in our communities.
For years and decades, Donald Trump was elected and to me, the Democratic Party never figured out how the hell they lose to Donald Trump, yeah, you know, and then you just blame everything under the sun, like in the establishment, even if you add it up. I know something that people were doing a couple of weeks ago and that is adding support for all the moderates. You still can't catch Bernie Sanders. I'm the mathematician and you write to him for a moment. My question, Elizabeth Warren, is where does he really earn? primaries we have a very large and expensive team and it hasn't paid off at the polls and they're all, you don't believe them, I mean, they're all like we exceeded expectations, says Amy Klobuchar, we had a great night. when you lost, I had a good night, let's talk to the panel, your interim, what do you do what you believe, just go through the top four or five, what did they have to do now, I mean, what is Joe, I mean, clearly, Joe Biden. think South Carolina or are saying South Carolina is going to win well, the rest of the field needs to consolidate ideally and each candidate wants to be the last person standing to absorb the non-Bernie energy.
The problem for Bernie is that you know he's unlikely to get it. an absolute majority of delegates heading to the convention that will set the stage for the superdelegates to emerge and then you're looking at a contested convention that is also the dream scenario for all the other non-Bernie candidates because they will go there with delegates, let's say the superdelegates will not be favorably disposed toward Bernie and then each of the remaining candidates will say that they know I'm the one, so that's the dream that will keep everyone else in the race, but I think what Andrews is trying to say is that everyone must abandon one or more of them, probably closer to probably two or three.
I was going to say Wow, who will be the one? to take a step back, someone needs to do an Andrew Yang. I have done the calculations. No, how hard is it for candidates to have a conversation with themselves and their staff and say okay, this is why you have to hire and no, they won't? It's not going to happen I think it's going to get nasty boy you can answer that then well it's hard to go both ways Gloria because you know we were talking about if you have a bad night you get up in front of a crowd and say it was a great night, You know, I mean on some level it sounds hollow, it's hard to keep beating that drum, so it's hard to quit, but in cases it's hard to keep the girl that you should dump, I mean, honestly, like who do you suppose at this point? . that you have to explain to voters that there is an alternative to the guy who is winning right now and no one has wanted to do that until now.
I think this was very clever of Pete and he was clearly trying to do this at the previous debate stage. this week and it became a bunch on Bloomberg and meanwhile Bernie was kind of setting sail and he did it tonight and I can guarantee you he's going to do it Tuesday night because Pete sees that Bernie is the favorite and he's trying to become the alternative to Bernie . and the best way to do that is to say that I'm the alternative to Bernie, so I think other candidates should probably do the same. I think Amy doesn't read much.
Elizabeth should try to contrast more. I'm a big fan of Elizabeth, but I mentioned this a little bit earlier, they made a very big bet from the beginning in terms of hiring field organizers not just in the early states but across the country and those organizers are not something you can just adjust and recalibrate soquickly. They're not like ad spend, so they have really fixed overheads that are higher than a lot of the other campaigns where they get these resources. They have been playing very close to the bones in terms of their finances. They recently took out a loan that I'm sure they've long since repaid, but two pickups point out that it will be difficult to activate these resources in a way that propels the need toward victory in one of the states that are hopefully coming up.Soon we will get more votes with the panel heroes again.
We are waiting for Senator Elizabeth Warren Henry. I heard you say this while the dinner gallery was reporting that this hurts the candidate, that hurts the candidate, yes, yes I am a candidate. I'm really angry, I was angry after Iowa and I've tried to forgive, you know, it's like a glitch, but imagine being a candidate or a campaign that spent months and months of your time, thousands of volunteer hours, staff, blood, sweat and tears and then have them come and say, hey, we don't know what happened, like it's incredibly frustrating and if you're going to try to push either candidate, you owe the American people quick

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For me, the best process would be ranked primaries. choice voting and this is something I was talking to Vann about, if you had ranked choice voting, Donald Trump would not be our president today because he was consistently getting 30% of the vote or so, when you say ranked choice voting, you just mean voting well, it's just you vote and then you make a list, let's call it your top three candidates and if it is, your votes flow to whoever is left standing, if your first choice, you know, is not a contender and so So, if you had a choice of voting rank, let's say Jeb Bush. like if you were a Jeb Bush frontier your second choice is probably not Donald Trump it would be someone else and the same thing goes on the Democratic side this is actually going to be a massive improvement to the process and for people who are worried about let's say an insurgent come and run the table with 30% of the votes while you have four other candidates splitting the rest, ranked choice voting would help immensely.
Can we say that this has to be the end of these caucuses? I know Harry Reid's Harry Reid will kill me. because he created this for Nevada and it's important for Nevada it's important a Democratic party enough to have three separate sets of yes answers or results for a caucus I mean, this is crazy, it's crazy that Judge Buda's campaign in the Biden campaign claim second place and everyone is putting out their own numbers that are not verified by the Democratic Party and who knows what the Russians can all do to declare themselves winners and I think what we saw and we all do, oh, it's Tom Styer Crater, you could, but you did.
I mean, if you look at what happened tonight, it was expected. I mean, I don't know if I believe the polls that show him, you know, there were some polls that showed he was doing very, very well, but I think people expected him to do it. do it a little better because now he's doing something to be careful with Abbey and this happened to me in Iowa. I got five percent of the popular vote and then the graph showed one percent. I loved it. I'm with Tom, show three points. seven, but he got eight or nine or the popular one, it's just the dynamics of the caucus, he was below viability and as a result it was compressed, so I think his numbers in South Carolina may be closer to his polls in At this point, it seems the most likely scenario.
It's a contested convention in Milwaukee because none of the candidates, including Bernie, are on track to get a majority and if there's one thing I've learned about Democrats, Democrats really like to follow the rule book and you saw it at the end of the last debate where they asked the candidates, hey, if someone comes in with a plurality, what are you doing? I forgot that the candidate said follow the rule book, let the convention run its course, which means the superdelegates will come out, they will come out strong, probably not. for Bernie and then you'll have this journalistic dream come true of a Knesset or a nightmare depending on where you sit, but that seems like the most likely scenario to me because I don't think other Democrats are going to fall in line just because Bernie ends up with more delegates than any other candidate For the money we have in our heads, can we afford it?
Yes, it will cause inflation. Is incredible? Yes, anyone who tries to make it happen.

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