Hillary Clinton won Nevada’s Democratic caucuses on Saturday, NBC News projected, scoring a much-needed boost in the nomination race and depriving rival Bernie Sanders of a victory in a racially diverse state.
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Clinton’s double-digit lead among minority voters stemmed from a huge edge, better than 3 to 1, among African American voters. During her victory speech, Clinton thanked her opponent and dedicated her campaign to her supporters.
Entrance polls of voters found that a third said the economy was their major concern, while a quarter cited income inequality – the centerpiece of the Sanders’ campaign.
The FBI is investigating whether classified information passed through Clinton’s homebrew server while she was secretary of state. “This one’s for you”. “And I’m going to demonstrate that I’ve always been the same person, I’ve always been fighting for the same values, fighting to make a difference in people’s lives, long before I was in elected office, even before my husband was in the presidency”, she said.
A large majority of black voters supported Mrs Clinton in Nevada, according to polls, an outcome that bodes well for her in next Saturday’s Democratic primary in SC.
An ABC News analysis said female caucus-goers in the state are favoring Clinton over Sanders.
Sanders did better than expected with Latino voters, entrance polling showed, but Clinton carried off a big win with African American voters – a segment of the population she’s counting on to help her win in the Southern states that vote next month.
“Five weeks ago, we were 25 points behind in the polls, and we have made some real progress”, he said.
But after a not-amazing night, perhaps Sanders and his supporters can take heart that at least they won the vote of Nevada Peace Corps volunteers. The contest moves next to SC, where Democrats vote on February 27, and then to states across the country. Bernie Sanders in Nevada on the strength of her support among women and minorities, the voting blocs that her campaign confidently predicts will carry her toward the Democratic nomination in the next several rounds of primaries. “In the USA Today poll, I beat her by 11 points”, he said on CBS’s “Face the Nation”.
By winning, Team Clinton doesn’t just score delegates-it proves its theory of the race. “It’s time that we need”.
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Sanders won heavily among the roughly one-quarter of voters who said the most important thing was a nominee who cares about people like them. To put that in context, Clinton’s margin is only slightly smaller than Barack Obama’s 83 percent to 14 percent win with black voters in the 2008 Nevada caucuses. With the SC primary on Saturday, his populist pitch needs to reach more than just the 4,800 predominantly white progressives who filled Bon Secours Wellness Arena on Sunday.
