Halperin: Everything that Could Go Wrong in the Clinton Camp Is Going Wrong Right Now

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
GEIST: "Mark Halperin, no question that Bernie Sanders has everything going for him right now and no spinning to what happened in New Hampshire as anything but a blowout win for him but the Clinton campaign still believes that that the campaign begins in earnest now, heading to states where there is more diversity demographically, where there’s a majority of the electorate on the democratic side in South Carolina is African-American, they have huge leads in those categories. Do you think the Clinton campaign should still feel like it’s in a good spot."
HALPERIN: "Jon Meacham likes to quote Thoreau, I like to quote Haley Barbour who said in politics “Good gets better, bad gets worse.” Right now Sanders has money, momentum and message. And everything that could go wrong in the Clinton campaign is going wrong right now. There’s distrust between the candidate and the staff, there’s questions about the balance between fund-raising, positive message, negative message. There’s no doubt as a static message, these next two states, Nevada and South Carolina, should be better for her but Sanders has momentum and in those two states the best she can do is come out with victories that stabilize her campaign. The real battle will be in March where she is going to be almost certainly now at a financial deficit and fundamentally all the talk about bringing new people or changing up the message, whatever, she’s going to have to perform as a candidate. She’s going to have to remind people why she was the favorite for so many people in the Democratic Party. It’s hard to do that when you’re on your back feet trying to deal with all the complaints and criticism she’s facing."