PBS "News Hour with Jim Lehrer" - Transcript: 2004 Campaign

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JIM LEHRER: Now, politics. In five days there will be primaries and caucuses in seven more states. The Democratic candidates were in several of them today. Kwame Holman reports.

KWAME HOLMAN: Front-running Senator John Kerry began his day by picking up a key endorsement in South Carolina, where voters go to the polls Tuesday. Veteran Congressman Jim Clyburn said Kerry has the qualifications to beat president bush. Clyburn is the only black member of Congress from South Carolina.

REP. JIM CLYBURN: I'm pleased to be here today to say to the people of South Carolina, to the people in the other six states that are having primaries and caucuses on Feb. 3, to the people of this nation, that John Kerry has the right stuff to not only take us forward, economically and socially, but he has the right stuff to help us secure our nation, to help us make our nation a safer place, and to help us bring our people back together so that we will have real meaning when we say "One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." Ladies and gentleman, my choice to be next President of the United States, John Kerry.

SEN. JOHN KERRY: I am deeply honored that Jim Clyburn has decided to join me in this fight to have a government that is on the side of working people in America.

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