[Kate Bolduan, Cnn Anchor:] We are continuing to follow some of the breaking news this morning. Mike Bloomberg out of the 2020 race and throwing his support behind Joe Biden. Elizabeth Warren, after a disappointing finish last night, she is now in the midst of discussing the future of her campaign today as well. This all comes as Joe Biden is the new comeback kid at 77 years old, winning big in Super Tuesday states, including a surprise victory in the second-biggest prize of the night, Texas. And that is not the only surprise of the evening. CNN's Tom Foreman is digging into the data. It's so nice to have data to actually start digging into rather than just projections and prognostications. So let's start here, Tom. Biden had three days between his win in South Carolina and Super Tuesday. How did that impact the race? What are you seeing?
[Tom Foreman, Cnn National Correspondent:] It was everything, Kate. Look at the numbers here how Biden showed up here. A median snapshot of the Super Tuesday votes. So 49 percent for Biden, Sanders 18 percent. Bloomberg and Warren stayed static. Bloomberg lost some ground. If you look a little earlier than that, look at this, Biden was a little above half the number he wound up with. Sanders lost half his support in that period of time. Add in Klobuchar dropping out, Buttigieg dropping out, both throwing their weight behind Biden for the moderate vote out there, and that's the result. Something that I think even the Biden camp could have hoped for but couldn't have counted on the past few days Kate?
[Bolduan:] Look, Biden didn't even have the money to spend in some of these Super Tuesday states. How did spending shake out for him?
[Foreman:] Spending is a complete conundrum here. If you think people can buy their way into politics. Look at this, this was Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren's home state, $12.3 million by Bloomberg, $677,000 by Sanders, $58,000 by Warren, $11,000 by Biden. Sanders alone outspent him by a huge multiple, let alone, Bloomberg, and yet, look at the results. Biden came out of Massachusetts with a very solid win there, beating Warren in her home state. That's not something that obviously Warren wanted to see or Bloomberg or Sanders, but Biden did very well there. Look at that, 33 percent of the vote. Look further up north and we look at Wisconsin. We can see what the advertising looked like up there. Same pattern where you're going to see Biden unable to match the dollars of the people who were challenging him, and yet, here he was with $6,000 spent there compared to all the others here, much, much, much bigger numbers. And the results, again, he came through in a big way. All the Democrats out there were saying you can't buy the Democratic nomination. Joe Biden has proven that you can't buy it with money. You may be able to buy it by being around the party for a long, long, long time and making a lot of friends in that party but you can't do it with money alone.
[Bolduan:] An important win there in Minnesota. We've also been talking about turnout already this morning. Can you take us into those numbers what you're seeing there?
[Foreman:] The numbers are absolutely staggering on turnout here. And the real key here seems to be the degree to which there are Democrats out there who are saying now it's getting down to the brass tacks. Up 69 percent in Virginia, up 41 percent in Texas. That's just a snapshot. Only one state was not up. When we say it's down to the brass tacks, for so many Democratic voters, it is coming down to a key simple question: Who will beat Donald Trump? And for many of them, the message right now is they think Joe Biden is that person. Certainly, Sanders supporters are fervent and they hope they can surge back here and ultimately capture the nomination. But right now, Joe Biden has all the momentum. And Mike Bloomberg for all of his money just got a half-billion-dollar goose egg.
[Bolduan:] Good to see you, Tom. Thank you so much.
[Foreman:] Good to see you.
[Bolduan:] So amid all of the fallout from Super Tuesday, folks are also they also need to keep an eye on California where votes are still being counted and hundreds of delegates are yet to be decided. Right now, Bernie Sanders is ahead and the fight is still very much on. Let's focus there. Joining me right now is Democratic Congressman from California, John Garamendi. He endorsed Joe Biden a few months back. Congressman, thanks for coming in.
[Rep. John Garamendi:] Good to be with you, Kate. How are things looking in your state this morning? When do you think you'll get a final result there?
[Garamendi:] It will be a while. It's a big state. There were voting issues in southern California and L.A. is always late. We had early voting. The rest of it will be counted. When will it be done? Take a deep breath, be patient and we'll eventually find out. It will be close at the top. Probably Sanders will be ahead, Biden right behind him, and we'll go from there. What I'm really, really excited about is people came back to Biden. Way back in November, when I endorsed him I know Joe. I've known him since 1998. I know that he came from the middle class. I know that he cares about people, about health care, about jobs for the working men and women. And the public simply wasn't sure that he could put it together. Keep in mind that the entire impeachment was about Trump trying to do Biden in. Way back more than almost a year ago, Trump figured Biden had to be put down. That's where the impeachment, Burisma and all that came from. A lot of doubt back in November. But Biden weathered the storm. He weathered the storm, came back with a roar and with a solid, solid victory all across this nation. We're going to consolidate. We're going to be behind Biden. Sanders has done a good job but, at the end of the day, he's not going to be our nominee.
[Bolduan:] Talking about some of that consolidation, Sanders is ahead and could very welcome out as the delegate winner from Super Tuesday when all is said and done in terms of delegates. Does that dampen Biden's comeback, if Sanders is still it could all be in California.
[Garamendi:] Well, the California delegates are going to get split. In my district, which is a conservative purple district, Biden won that district. He'll get half of the delegates in the district. Beyond that, he will certainly get a good share of the overall delegates. This is the 15 percent statewide. He'll get those. Will Sanders get more? Possibly. But when you take in all the other states, which was a blowout in some states by Biden, he'll get a large number of those. At the end of the day I know going forward that the Americans want somebody in the president's office that can put this government back together again, that can settle down the chaos of the Trump administration, that can put the right people in the right places, that can actually run things like CDC, like the Department of Health Services. We need that kind of stability, and there's one person that has it, and that's Biden. Sanders is a very interesting, very dynamic candidate, but president? I don't think so. It's a different game, being a great candidate and being a great president are really two different things. Biden will be a great president. He knows it. He knows what needs to be done.
[Bolduan:] Congressman
[Garamendi:] Yes?
[Bolduan:] let me ask you about the news this morning. Mike Bloomberg bowing out, endorsing Joe Biden. What role do you see him having in helping the Biden camp? What role do you want to see him having in helping the Biden campaign?
[Garamendi:] First of all, it's absolutely clear that in some of these states Bloomberg was taking Biden votes. That will cease going forward. Beyond that, Bloomberg has pledged that he will help the Democratic Party all across this nation. The issues that he spoke to unsuccessfully, but nonetheless spoke to are critical issues for Democrats, health care, gun violence issues. Those kinds of issues, criminal justice and the rest, are Democratic issues. Undoubtedly Bloomberg will not only speak to those but he'll put his money behind those issues as he has already done in previous elections. That's going to be helpful to the Democrats going forward. And, of course, Bloomberg's votes I believe will now move over to Biden.
[Bolduan:] We'll soon be able to find out because onward
[Garamendi:] Yes, we will.
[Bolduan:] with voting coming next week. Thank you so much, Congressman.
[Garamendi:] Yes. It's very exciting. I'm very, very happy about what's going on here. Thank you.
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