‘Morning Joe’: Bernie Sanders Can Win in the South

BRZEZINSKI: “Our both leading Democratic candidates were in South Carolina yesterday at a ceremony at the state capital commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. And from there Sanders traveled to Birmingham, Alabama where he addressed an overflow crowd of about 7,000. [crosstalk] While Clinton headed to Iowa where she pitched a quote sensible —“ [crosstalk]
SCARBOROUGH: “By the way, that’s in Alabama. And we keep hearing that Berniw Sanders is weak in the south. That doesn’t look weak to me. I’m telling you, it sound one more narrative. We keep hearing, ‘Oh, well maybe he’ll win New Hampshire because is a neighboring state.’”
BRZEZINSKI: “What was Clinton’s crowd?”
SCARBOROUGH: “Maybe he’ll win Iowa because they’re just crazy Democratic populists and they love socialists but he’s not going to win the south. He has 7,000 people down in Birmingham. And John Heilemann this is a lot like, you know, the Trump stories that we’ve been hearing, that ‘New York Times’ interactive, so has Donald Trump at number 14. You know, and you just kind of wonder, you look at that crowd in Birmingham —“
BRZEZINSKI: “OK.”
SCARBOROUGH: “— and you go wait a second, oh, so that’s where he’s weak?”
BRZEZINSKI: “This is incredible.”
SCARBOROUGH: “I would hate to see where Bernie Sanders is strong if I’m in the Clinton campaign.”
HEILEMANN: “And just to put a finer point on that. There are a lot of African-Americans in that crowd that I see. And one of the things that the Clinton campaign says is, you know, Bernie Sanders, he can win in all white Iowa, he can win in all white New Hampshire maybe, but Secretary Clinton’s strength with African-American and Hispanic voters make it impossible for him to win in more diverse states.”
BRZEZINSKI: “Yeah.”
HEILEMANN: “It’s true that she’s stronger with those voters than he is. There are no doubt about that. But the idea that he has no inroads with those communities and the idea that he could get greater inroads in those communities if he win the first [indecipherable] of contest, that’s just wrong, I think”
SCARBOROUGH: “I remember Mika, I think he flew at Iowa, you were talking to Michele Obama. One of the great frustrations of the Obama campaign was they weren’t doing well with black voters and Hispanics. And Michele Obama told you just wait.”
BRZEZINSKI: “Yeah.”
SCARBOROUGH: “So people still thinking, you know, everything is static and this is never — this is game on.”