On Saturday, Clinton scored her first clear win over Bernie Sanders in the Nevada caucuses, and she has strong support from African American voters heading into SC next week and Super Tuesday states just beyond.
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won Saturday’s Nevada caucuses as she led by a 52-48 margin with 92 percent of precincts reporting.
In an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday morning, Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton said she can “understand” questions voters have about her trustworthiness.
Still, the Sanders campaign maintained it had secured a partial victory despite the overall loss, considering the senator had at one time trailed Clinton by as many as 40 points in Nevada, but in the end pulled off a loss of just 6 points. Those surveys also showed that the mass youth support for Sanders seen in Iowa and New Hampshire continued in Nevada, with 7 in 10 attendees under 45 voting for the senator.
“Americans are right to be angry, but we’re also hungry for real solutions”, Clinton said during her victory speech in Las Vegas.
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.
As we know now, that backfired.
Rick Mullaney, works at the Public Policy Institute at Jacksonville University and is a former GOP mayoral candidate in Jacksonville, said the Republican establishment will start coalescing around a candidate who’s not Trump, and this race will drag on.
Mrs Clinton had been far ahead in the polls until recently, when Mr Sanders became better known here and struck fear into the Clinton campaign that he might prevail in Nevada and deal her a serious setback.
Caucus doors are now open in Nevada.
2016 presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. At the Paris casino, the caucusgoers were nearly exclusively Latino and black – and Clinton snagged more than twice the delegates Sanders received. Latinos made up 19 percent of the electorate in Nevada. Sanders will continue on – his money and his message won’t run out anytime soon – and he’ll continue to be a player going forward. Voters picked who they want to represent their parties in November in the Nevada Democratic Caucuses and South Carolina Republican Primary. Polls show she has a much easier path in SC.
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Yet turnout for Saturday’s first-in-the-west caucus contest was estimated at about 80,000 people, a significant drop from the 120,000 people who came out to caucus in 2008. Sanders is a runaway favorite, earning multiples of Clinton’s support.
