WEBVTT 00:01.966 --> 00:04.000 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: Now we turn to the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. 00:04.000 --> 00:08.966 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% Our Lisa Desjardins is in South Carolina, and reports on the push to win over voters 00:08.966 --> 00:12.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% there before the stakes climb on Super Tuesday. 00:12.966 --> 00:17.966 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% LISA DESJARDINS: The Democratic march toward a nominee is now a multistate sprint, starting 00:20.500 --> 00:25.500 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% in South Carolina, which votes Saturday, and where billionaire businessman Tom Steyer today 00:26.233 --> 00:28.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% focused on rural votes. 00:28.300 --> 00:31.833 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% TOM STEYER (D), Presidential Candidate: Honestly, this whole state couldn't have been nicer. 00:31.833 --> 00:36.833 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% LISA DESJARDINS: A new Monmouth University poll shows Steyer virtually tied for second 00:36.833 --> 00:41.266 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% place in the state with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders in the state, but both are well behind 00:41.266 --> 00:44.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% former Vice President Joe Biden. 00:44.266 --> 00:46.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Tatanshia Palmer told me why it's Steyer for her. 00:46.266 --> 00:49.633 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% TATANSHIA PALMER, South Carolina Voter: I think that Tom, with his economic policies, 00:49.633 --> 00:52.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% I feel like that he could actually grow this community. 00:52.666 --> 00:57.166 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% LISA DESJARDINS: Also storming the Palmetto State today, former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor 00:57.166 --> 00:58.166 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% Pete Buttigieg. 00:58.166 --> 01:00.233 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% CROWD: Let's go Joe! 01:00.233 --> 01:04.433 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% LISA DESJARDINS: But Biden is seen as the leader here, stressing his health care vision 01:04.433 --> 01:06.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% as an extension of President Obama's. 01:06.466 --> 01:09.166 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% JOSEPH BIDEN (D), Presidential Candidate: I'm not suggesting we start from scratch or 01:09.166 --> 01:12.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% something new. I'm running to protect it and to build on it. 01:12.800 --> 01:16.800 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% LISA DESJARDINS: Last night, at a CNN town hall in Charleston, Senator Elizabeth Warren 01:16.800 --> 01:21.800 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% said she's ready to fight all the way to the convention, even if someone else has more 01:22.400 --> 01:24.433 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% delegates. 01:24.433 --> 01:26.433 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN (D-MA), Presidential Candidate: As long as they want me to stay 01:26.433 --> 01:29.433 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% in this race, I'm staying in this race. That, and I have done a lot of pinkie promises out 01:31.366 --> 01:33.066 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% there, so I got to stay in this. I have told little girls, we persist. 01:33.066 --> 01:35.066 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) 01:35.066 --> 01:38.000 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% LISA DESJARDINS: Otherwise, though, the pack is spending more time on the 14 states that 01:38.000 --> 01:43.000 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% vote on Super Tuesday, like North Carolina, where Sanders made a get-out-the-vote pitch 01:44.133 --> 01:46.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% to his strongest supporters, the young. 01:46.600 --> 01:49.066 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT), Presidential Candidate: On Tuesday, Super Tuesday, you are going to 01:49.066 --> 01:52.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% be voting here in North Carolina. 01:52.966 --> 01:57.933 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% I'm here today to ask not only for your support, but to ask you to bring out your friends, 01:59.366 --> 02:00.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and your family and your co-workers. 02:00.866 --> 02:02.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) 02:02.900 --> 02:06.966 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: I'm asking you to help create the largest voter turnout in the history 02:09.300 --> 02:12.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% of the North Carolina primary. 02:12.133 --> 02:14.166 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) 02:14.166 --> 02:18.000 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% LISA DESJARDINS: And 1,000 miles away in the Super Tuesday state of Texas, former New York 02:18.000 --> 02:21.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is fighting the Sanders' hold. 02:21.000 --> 02:23.766 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% MICHAEL BLOOMBERG, Presidential Candidate: If you want somebody who has the resources 02:23.766 --> 02:26.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% to beat Trump, that's me. 02:26.000 --> 02:28.133 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) 02:28.133 --> 02:32.533 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% LISA DESJARDINS: Indeed, Bloomberg voter Rodney Shipp told "NewsHour" he thinks Sanders' ideas 02:33.266 --> 02:35.333 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% are unrealistic. 02:35.333 --> 02:39.266 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% RODNEY SHIPP, Texas Voter: I get that, when Bernie comes and says all these things that 02:41.266 --> 02:44.733 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% he's going to do, get rid of college debt, and free health care, and free college, and 02:46.433 --> 02:49.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I don't know if all that is practical. 02:49.333 --> 02:54.300 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% LISA DESJARDINS: Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar held events in both North and South Carolina 02:55.733 --> 02:58.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Thursday, including a voting rights roundtable in Greensboro. 02:58.300 --> 03:00.300 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% SEN. AMY KLOBUCHAR (D-MN), Presidential Candidate: We should be making it easier to vote. We 03:00.300 --> 03:02.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% should have national reforms. 03:02.333 --> 03:06.500 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% LISA DESJARDINS: Time is getting sort, and the candidates still are many. 03:06.500 --> 03:09.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% For the "PBS NewsHour," I'm Lisa Desjardins in South Carolina.