Biden on phone call: "I'll be damned if we're gonna lose this nomination"

“I’ll be damned if we’re gonna lose this nomination, particularly if we’re gonna lose this nomination and end up losing an election to Donald Trump,” Biden said on the call, adding that he’s “not sugarcoating” his chances and that he “feels really good.”

“Obviously I’d have rather won both, don’t get me wrong,” Biden said of his performance in the first two nominating states.

Biden pointed to Bill Clinton’s early losses in the 1992 primary before he went on to win the Democratic nomination. He went on cast doubt on the moderates who outperformed him in the first two states.

“I think it’s going to be fairly hard for people like [Pete] Buttigieg to go South. I think it’s going to be awful hard for Amy [Klobuchar] — and they’re good people — to go South.”