[Blitzer:] Looking at live pictures coming in from the Biden campaign headquarters in Las Vegas. We anticipate that the former vice president will be speaking there shortly. We'll have coverage of that, of course. Dana, it's interesting. They're in Nevada, Las Vegas. There have been some ties, and they break those ties Vegas style.
[Bash:] They sure do. Look, there's so many quirks in any caucus. But in the question has been, how do you break a tie. In Iowa they flipped a coin, and there were lots of viral pictures about that. This is so fascinating how they do it. They do it Vegas style, but it's not just that. They leave nothing to chance forgive me. But they have very specific instructions. Each if there was a tie, each precinct has to shuffle the deck. They each get a deck of cards seven times. And then after that is done, they pull the cards. So look at this. This actually happened in Reno. First of all, the headline here is the jack of hearts, that's Elizabeth Warren. She won. So this is Elizabeth Warren right there. And then the four of clubs, that was Bernie Sanders. He came in second. Excuse me, I'm having trouble with the stylus here. And then Pete Buttigieg, he came in at third. I'm going to go back to you, Wolf, because I think Joe Biden is coming up.
[Blitzer:] Yes. He's speaking now in Las Vegas. Let's listen in.
[Joe Biden  Presidential Candidate:] Hello, hello, hello, hello!
[Biden:] Thank you, thank you, thank you. Well, y'all y'all did it for me. Now we're going on to South Carolina and win and then we're going to take this back. I'll thank everyone that caucused for us, but I particularly want to thank the precinct captains, all of our volunteers that are here, all the people who made all of those phone calls. By the way, I plan on coming back to win this state outright. Look, you know, I couldn't have done it without I want to start off, I've got to recognize a few of the congresspersons here. You know, Dina Titus has been incredible, incredible. There's a guy named Horsford. You ever hear of him? That man can campaign, man. He can campaign. I know, I see him right there. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? And also, you know, there are fellow named Cardenas from that little state called California's young Where is he? And Phil Velve. Phil, thank you. Thank you for coming from Texas. Right there. And Hilda DeLace. Where's Hilda? She was just there. Maybe she's coming back here. Okay. And so, so, so many of you, you know, I tell you what, man.
[Unidentified Male:] The comeback kid.
[Biden:] Well, you're sending me back. And I want to tell you something. And we're in labor's house. The IBEW stepped up in a big, big, big, big, big, big way as did a bunch of you. Look, we've got some of the best union support, I think better than anybody in the whole [APPLAUSE] But look, I heard there are some guys called firefighters around here, you know. To you, iron workers. [APPLAUSE] And by the way, I heard that we probably did awful well with [inaudible] workers. [APPLAUSE] Look, you know, I know we don't have the final results yet, but I feel really good. You put me in a position. You know the press is ready to declare people dead quickly. But we're alive and we're coming back and we're going to win. [APPLAUSE] By the way, I want to thank I want to thank all the folks at 226. You know, they've been incredible to me. They've been incredible the way they've treated me and I want to tell you that, you know, the choices that they had to make were ones that made a big difference. Look, I want to get right to the point here. I think we're in a position now to move on in a way that we haven't been until this moment. I think we're going to go [APPLAUSE] We're going to win. We're going to win in South Carolina. [APPLAUSE] And then Super Tuesday and we are on our way. Look, we're here in an IBEW Hall and I want to tell you, they stepped up in a moment like at the just incredible right moment. And when that the ironworkers, firefighters, teachers, culinary, the ATU, and so many others, I've said a hundred times. You're the reason why I'm in this. You're the ones who built the middle class. You're the ones who brought us back. By the way, this time when we rebuild the middle class, we've got to bring everybody along everybody along black, brown, women, men, straight across the board.
[Wolf Blitzer, Cnn:] All right, we're going to continue to listen to the former Vice President Joe Biden. Dana, he sounds pretty upbeat right now. The numbers that are coming in, 10 percent of the popular vote shows him in second place behind Bernie Sanders, but he is clearly upbeat about what's going on.
[Dana Bash, Cnn Chief Political Correspondent:] It's all relative, Wolf. He is doing much better here than he did in the first two contest states. To be fair that's not saying much, but you know what? The fact that he is just looking back at the board there's only four percent reporting at almost 20 percent very, very far behind.
[Blitzer:] Those are the county delegates.
[Bash:] The county delegates which is what matters when it comes to the numbers, very, very far behind Bernie Sanders, but still, he is in the game and in the hunt to at least get, you know, potentially a couple of delegates. I mean, we'll see how that goes. But just in terms of narrative setting, like what Amy Klobuchar, his campaign learned, get out, get out early, you know, sound positive, sound upbeat, because that only helps with fundraising and everything else that comes along with what they need to be able to compete in the future.
[John King, Cnn Chief National Correspondent:] Fourth in Iowa, fifth in New Hampshire, so second in Nevada does taste good.
[Blitzer:] If he winds up
[King:] If those numbers hold up. If those numbers hold up, people will look at the margins. People will debate it. People will say you're the former Vice President, through the first three contests you don't have a win, but, the emphasis on the but here to Dana's point about being relative. The former vice president said himself, twice in the first minute or two, he said, now, we're going to go into South Carolina and win. He has to win in South Carolina. You cannot be a former vice president. You cannot be Barack Obama's Vice President, the most popular Democrat in the country, Barack Obama for eight years and continue to underperform. But he gets a shot here, again, this race, Bernie Sanders has the early momentum in this race. Below that it's who knows. We don't know about Bloomberg yet, who is not on the ballot next week. Joe Biden has one more week before Michael Bloomberg is on the ballot with all of that money. And so Joe Biden needs a win to springboard him into Super Tuesday to get moderates who might be watching all those Bloomberg ads and saying he's got the checkbook. Joe Biden has been stumbling. Do I want to switch? We've seen a number of Members of Congress move over to Bloomberg. We've seen a bunch of other people in the States, former mayors and current mayors that like moved over to Bloomberg. Joe Biden has to stop that. The way to stop that is to perform. Second is not great, but second beats fifth. Now, he has to go to South Carolina and win.
[Blitzer:] What about Pete Buttigieg?
[Bash:] Well, this is going to be really interesting because one of the big raps on Pete Buttigieg is that yes, he does really well in really white states. Well, Nevada is not a really white state. It is a more diverse state and he is keeping up. I mean, he's a distant third from Bernie Sanders, but he's not that far away from Joe Biden whose calling card has been the ability to get black support, to get Latino support. It's very early, again, when you look at the county delegates only four percent in, but at that early number, Buttigieg is, you know, in and around and among those who haven't had that reputation not doing well in diverse states.
[Blitzer:] Pretty soon, John, you and I will be at the magic wall seeing where these numbers are coming in from. There's a lot to assess. Much more of our special coverage coming up. We're waiting for some more numbers from Nevada. We'll be right back.