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So you want to face Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders?

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Okay, I was all set for Bernie because I thought it was gonna happen.

But, you know, we get ready for things, right?

So mentally, I'm all set for burning Communists.

And then we have this crazy thing that happens right on Tuesday.

So now I'm ready for Bernie, and now all of a sudden, I have a whole different here.

I think it a certain way Bernie would be tougher.

Sure, I'm not the only one surprised by Super Tuesday.

Let's talk about this now on a roundtable joined by Chris Christie, ally of President Trump, former governor of New Jersey.

Rahm Emanuel, author of the new book The Nation's City.

Why Mayors Are Running Now Running the World.

Former chief of staff to President Obama married Chicago.

Also Access National political reporter Lexie McCammon and our deputy political director here at ABC News, Mary Alice Parks.

I don't think anyone could have predicted the kind of finished Joe Biden would have.

They're saying it's the Democratic establishment.

It does seem like the party has closed ranks behind him so fast without it faster than anybody ever predicted.

And I would say one thing that he's already materially benefit of the Democratic Party.

You're all of a sudden head of state that with no Senate race, the Senate's now in play work before was maybe one of the three seed bullets.

Look like he basically split Super Tuesday or done better.

You would not have a Montana race, and that's changed everybody's prediction calculation in the Senate.

I think this happened faster, but I do want to say, with one rule of the last year, whatever you think on Tuesday is not true.

By 30 last decade, Well, I was just being generous, okay.

So I think everything look a month ago, everyone's gonna say, Donald Trump, the economy, Impeachment over Shoo in today, it's a different calculation, given the virus and given all the other things that are happening.

So my view is, until we get through about three or four more turns in the battle, I still believe Vice President Joe Biden will be the nominee.

But I do also believe it's gonna be a little more choppy that my insurance post under my protection.

Dave Bullock Running for Senate is a good example of Joe Biden campaigns theory of the case that Joe Biden as the nominee, would be better for down ballot Democrats in someone like Bernie Sanders.

He points in places like North Carolina, Virginia, Colorado, even these places that help Democrats take back the House in 2018.

That Joe Biden helped campaign for these candidates in 2018 that he's hoping to help in 2020 with down ballot races in a way that he just thinks Bernie Sanders.

And you saw Bernie Sanders, who just now say he's got Jesse Jackson on his side.

He does seem to be trying to throw it every possible old Joe Biden vote here in these hours before Michigan.

Yeah, Michigan represents more than just Michigan.

To him, it was the state that famously saved his campaign in 2016.

And I think it's gonna have a big psychological impact on him if he wins there.

Even if he loses elsewhere, I think that's gonna be a sign that he's gonna be willing to fight this out because he fundamentally thought in 2016 more Democrats should have seen Michigan as a data point about Hillary Clinton's vulnerabilities.

So if he wins, he's gonna be making the same argument all over again.

This is 2020 and running against Joe Biden is fundamentally different than running against Hillary Clinton.

And I'm just not convinced some of those same arguments about trade and manufacturing are gonna land.

And Chris Christie listening to Bernie Sanders right there.

Clearly, he's gonna fight hard through Tuesday and be on.

But he also seemed to start the signal that maybe he might not take this all the way if the numbers just aren't there.

Yeah, I think again there is a difference here.

One of the differences here in 26 2016 for the Democrats is in 2016.

Republicans wound up getting behind Donald Trump because we can't have Hillary Clinton's presence.

The exact opposite is happening this time.

Democrats are looking at Donald Trump, and he's the Boogeyman to them.

And so even somebody like Bernie Sanders, who you know, is never gonna run for president again.

He knows this is his last shot, but he also doesn't want to be the guy who's blamed for re electing Donald Trump.

And I say one last thing about Michigan is I do think there's still great potency to the trade issue.

And if I were the Sanders people, that's all I'd be talking about as opposed to the gay rights aboard E.

And that is what the president's talkingabout, too.

He continued there to talk about trade with Joe Biden.

He sounded a lot like Bernie Sanders about job.

Right here is the one thing that Joe Biden has.

Bernie doesn't Joe the auto bailout, which was came out of the top three sources.

Santa's voted against TARP and the resource is to save General Motors.

Chrysler came out of the fact that we used untapped resource is to save the auto industry and all the manufacturing jobs that are left in the auto industry and the suppliers all came from the resource is that in fact, there was a bailout with quote unquote Wall Street.

Is Biden smart enough and adept enough to do that?

And that's the other point I want to make.

Is that Yeah, Joe Biden is clearly the frontrunner now, but there's no theme to the Biden campaign.

There's no no organizing principle behind the other than I could beat Donald Trump.

He better come up with something, and that's an auto todo to the question like me come in there.

One of the things we saw on Tuesday, Turnout increased in Virginia.

We saw Democrats come out, and that was less a pro Joe Biden vote than an anti Trump vote.

I think an anti trump voted, maybe to an extent, an anti Sander's vote.

These folks are seeing the ways in which the party or a large section of the party is coalescing around Joe Biden and giving them a riel valuable alternative to someone like Bernie Sanders to vote for who they think can beat Donald Trump.

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