Axelrod: Sanders Needs To Have ‘Relationship’ with Minorities To Be a ‘Competitive Candidate’

DICKERSON: "Another candidate who gets the authentic label is Bernie Sanders. He's also doing very well in the polls. Give us your sense of his future and what the obstacles and challenges are for him."
AXELROD: "I think he's done a great job. I have to give him a great deal of credit. He's gone farther than anybody anticipated. And it is partly because he comes across as a guy who believes exactly what he's saying and is very passionate about it. But this -- the tests get different, John, and they get harder as the race goes on. And one of those is, do you have the dimensionality to be president? And it's not just about making a speech, it's about how you relate to -- to people. That's -- that's going to be a challenge for him. But the other challenge is the one I mentioned earlier, he doesn't really have a relationship with minority communities because of the state from which he comes. And you can see that in polling in states like South Carolina and Nevada and elsewhere. He's going to need to develop that to become a competitive candidate down the line."