Interesting comments on Face the Nation this morning

[question everything]

Amy Walter is national editor at Cook Political Report and host of The Takeaway, Dan Balz is chief correspondent at The Washington Post, Joel Payne is the Democratic strategist and a CBS News contributor, and Leslie Sanchez is a CBS News political contributor

AMY WALTER: The most important person in the Democratic primary has always been Donald Trump. And being able to beat Donald Trump was the key issue, voters had been telling us for the last two years. They just couldn't quite figure out who the best candidate was to defeat him. I think after Nevada, there was this consensus, especially here in Washington, but even among regular voters that the candidate who was seen as the most, quote-- quote/unquote "electable" was not Bernie Sanders, but he was on the path to winning the nomination after Nevada. And you put that in combination with Joe Biden's big South Carolina win, thanks in large part to Congressman Jim Clyburn's endorsement and then to get all of those candidates who dropped out to endorse Joe Biden immediately is really phenomenal. I talked to one Republican who said, well, I guess Democrats are just-- they're just more disciplined than we are, we never could have done that in 2016. I said, they're not more disciplined than Republicans, it's that Donald Trumpers represents a much more existential threat, at least Democrats see it that way, that's what brought them to the table. I don't know if a president Marco Rubio or a president Jeb Bush would have gotten Democrats to do what they did with Joe Biden this week.

DAN BALZ: I think they did. And I-- I totally agree with Amy that-- that-- that the issue was who-- who would they rally around eventually? Because we knew that Senator Sanders had a very loyal base of support but what we saw in both Iowa and New Hampshire and to some extent in Nevada, was that he wasn't the overwhelming choice. He was the choice of twenty-five to thirty-five percent of the popular-- of the Democrats. That meant there was a big group that was looking for somebody else. And they were looking for some kind of cue or clue as to what to do, and African-American voters in South Carolina gave them that cue in a very strong way, and that brought everybody together, you know, in a-- in a way that no one could have anticipated.

JOEL PAYNE: They-- they did. It's not the coalition that you have to build to win in the Democratic primary this time. It's funny, we were told to expect a revolution, you know, Bernie Sanders talks about a revolution except we thought it would be from the left of the party, not from the center left of the party, it was senior voters, it was working class, folks in the middle of the country, it was suburbanites, college-educated women and it was African-Americans. That's the revolution we saw. We saw surges in all of those numbers of voters. We've even seen a surge in turnout in some of these early states, in Nevada and New Hampshire and South Carolina. Big numbers that actually spell pretty well for Democrats this November. And I think the Biden campaign has been saying, as Amy said, the animating issue in this primary is a-- a desire to defeat Donald Trump. And I think that they feel like that is the biggest reason why the wind's at their back right now.

Look, African-Americans are the core of the Democratic base, and particularly African-American women are the most reliable--

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[UncleNoel]

1. The coalition will broaden and deepen after tomorrow. The Biden Coalition Revoution.

it was senior voters, it was working class, folks in the middle of the country, it was suburbanites, college-educated women and it was African-Americans. That's the revolution we saw.

[GulfCoast66]

2. Somewhere President Obama smiled. It used to be called his coalition.

[NYMinute]

3. Very good analysis

This was not a policy driven election. This was a "beat Trump" election.

[Yavin4]

6. I have called it the "Thanos Election".

Yes, there are other villans, but this one represents an existential threat to all life on the planet. It has to be taken out by the people.

[Awsi Dooger]

4. Playing toward the swing voters who enabled 2018

Nominating Sanders would have been playing away from them.

More than anything the past 2 weeks are valuable to deflect the nonsense that swing voters don't exist, and that they don't swing toward moderates.

I wish I had videotaped those debate watching parties I hosted for years. I've never been fooled because every one of those events had people in my living room most attracted to moderate ideas and proposals. It's like when you go to a store. It's easy to recognize a bargain price. It's also easy to recognize a price tag that is obviously wrong and no chance it will be honored at the checkout counter. The Sanders proposals are like those throwaway price tags.

[abqtommy]

5. I'm so proud of our BigTent/Big Family Democratic Party!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. We must address voter suppression.