ABC's "Good Morning America"
Ex-DNC Chair Joe Andrews on his endorsement of Obama: "I'm not calling for the race to end now." While careful not to criticize the Clinton campaign, Andrews noted, "By whatever count Obama has more states, more delegates, more votes.
Terry McAuliffe responded to Andrews' endorsement, emphasizing the need to have the race continue: "We have a lot of contests to go...millions of voters who have yet to go to the polls...we will be ahead in the popular vote, it will be very close in the delegates."
Fox News' "Fox and Friends"
Joe Andrew: "Nobody from the Obama campaign ever called and asked me to do this ... This is my message, my decision as an individual."
"Whoever's got the most delegates is going to be the nominee, plan and simple," said Andrew. "It is mathematically impossible, based on all polling data we know, based on the elections we've had, for Hillary Clinton to make up and win this election, unless superdelegates switch. Unless they do exactly what I did, the other way around. What she wants is more time."
MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
Joe Andrew: "You know one of the reasons I've switched is because Barack Obama has inspired me to get out of this political theater. ... We need to take this game and play it better than the other side."
"This is about my personal decision," said Andrew, "and I made it at a time when people in my home state knew what I felt."
On Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh: "I think [Bayh] is eminently qualified to be president, which is the first qualification to be vice president. And I think it would be great for Barack Obama to pick someone who is a Clinton supporter to heal the rift and bring the party together."
Democratic Strategist Bob Shrum: "What [Hillary] has to do is win Indiana, big, come close in North Carolina, she may do that, and then may take some of those other states she's not supposed to like Oregon and Montana.
Short of big victories, said Shrum, "the Democratic superdelegates will not take this away from Barack Obama."
On Hillary's closing the gap in North Carolina: "I think all these prognostications [that Clinton could win there] are off base....But there is a way forward."
On Andrew's defection: "Superdelegates like Joe Andrew are looking at this thing and saying Obama is very likely to win, so some how or other we have to bring this to close instead of having a brutal fight between now and the convention."
(Greg Bobrinskoy contributed to the Morning Update.)

