Hillary Clinton won Nevada’s Democratic caucuses Saturday, fending off a strong challenge from a surging Bernie Sanders.
Advertisement
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
“Some may have doubted us, but we never doubted each other”. With 88% of all precincts reporting, Hillary Clinton had the upper hand with 52.6% over Bernie Sanders with 47.4%.
But, Nelsen said, the support from those students will probably not be enough for Sanders to overcome Clinton’s edge with African-American voters.
In a news release, the polling firm noted that Clinton benefited from “overwhelming African American support” in several states across the South. Clinton’s support among black voters ranges from 63-74 percent in those states, while Sanders gets just 12-23 percent among those voters.
Approximately 80,000 people participated in the state’s caucuses, compared with the 117,600 people who showed up to caucus in 2008.
According to entrance polls, 42% of caucusgoers say they want someone more liberal than Obama and 50% said they want someone who will continue his policies – the mantle Clinton has reached for in recent weeks.
“It’s sort of a time where the Republican-led legislature has done their best to discourage voters”, she said.
Sanders meanwhile said he’s optimistic about the Super Tuesday contests on March 1.
Trump’s performance could unnerve the Republican establishment, since SC has sided with the eventual nominee in every GOP presidential race since 1980, apart from 2012.
The second angle is that Nevada was a real opportunity for Sanders to change the trajectory of the race. Chris Cillizza of The Washington Post oozed “Hillary Clinton deserves a massive amount of credit for winning Nevada”.
David Damore, a political science professor at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas and a senior analyst with Latino Decisions, said Clinton’s win in Nevada demonstrates two pockets of strength for the former secretary of state. Clinton was joined by her husband Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States.
Sideck said Clinton and Sanders are both proven progressives who will fight for everyday Americans and Casey has an interesting perspective because he served alongside of both of them in Congress. She said: “I think there’s an underlying question that maybe is in the back of people’s minds and that is, ‘Is she in it for us or is she in it for herself?’ I’m going to do my very best to answer those questions”.
While Sanders outraised Clinton in January, a new fundraising report showed he went on a spending spree at the start of the year and ended last month with about $15 million in available cash – less than half of Clinton’s cash on hand.
Sanders has money for the long haul, although Clinton had more on hand at the end of January.
Underpinning Clinton’s strategy are the painful lessons of her 2008 primary loss to Barack Obama. Reid knew that Taylor would get his swarms of organizers to turn out mostly Latino workers, who would likely vote for Clinton.
Clinton also was spending time in Super Tuesday states.
Advertisement
The movement mirrors the results in Iowa and New Hampshire, and make clear that the party’s leftward drift is here to stay.
