“I am very proud of the campaign we ran”, said Sanders in a statement. “We’re moving, we’re making progress”.
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“The truth is that for a campaign that started out as a fringe campaign at 3% in the polls we have enormous momentum”, Sanders told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday’s “State of the Union“. “He represents a political revolution”.
Nevada, the conventional wisdom said, was supposed to be a Clinton “firewall” state, which would help the former Secretary of State bounce back after Sanders’ landslide victory in New Hampshire last week.
Yesterday, Sanders downplayed, Clinton’s win in the Nevada caucuses, her first pronounced triumph, as she grabbed up about 53 percent of the vote to Sanders 47 percent.
“This was a state that Bernie Sanders was surging in and he had the ability to pull off an upset in the first diverse primary state, frankly”, former Arizona State legislator Chris Herstam said. Entrance polls show Clinton netted 76 percent support of the black vote – a firewall for her in the next primary Saturday in SC.
Clinton is polling at 46 percent in Oklahoma, while Sanders is polling at 44 percent, with 9 percent still undecided.
The Nevada Democratic caucus results are in and Hillary Clinton made her victory speech shortly after 6:30 p.m. ET on Saturday.
Numerous most delegate-rich states have large minority populations, including Texas, Georgia, Alabama, Illinois and Florida, giving Clinton an inside track to accumulate delegates in March.
In total, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Colorado, Vermont, and Oklahoma account for 356 of the 865 delegates at stake on Super Tuesday.
Helping out at the Nevada caucus as a precinct captain, Nathan Bacal, a UA junior studying law and history, traveled with the Wildcats for Hillary’s group to rally support for the Democratic candidate.
Many fans talked about her fight for women’s rights, but said her gender alone is not the reason to back her. Let’s see if he can make further inroads into the black community.
“I think that is a question that people are trying to sort through”.
Almost half of primary voters supporting Trump said they would not be satisfied with any other candidate as the nominee, while more than 7 in 10 Rubio and Cruz voters said they could be satisfied with a different candidate. In Oklahoma, pollsters interviewed 542 likely Democratic voters.
Considering Clinton’s massive 451-19 lead among unpledged superdelegates, Kondik says Sanders will need to continue to win states to keep the pressure on, and maybe more than that.
“HRC now takes (national) delegate lead”, tweeted Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon.
But what makes yesterday’s developments so important has less to do with these precise totals and more to do with the impact on the Democratic race overall. Sanders on a hard-fought race here, and I want to thank each and every one of you.
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“I don’t know if that’s going to be enough to get him the nomination”, he said.
