The Clinton victory in Nevada underscored the challenge for Sanders as the campaign shifts to Southern states, including SC on February 27.
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Clinton won a two-thirds majority of Democratic caucus-goers age 45 and older, and a 57 percent majority of women.
Sanders, who called to congratulate Clinton, said he was proud of his campaign, which turned a 25-point polling deficit into a close election.
“Some may have doubted us but we never doubted each other”, Clinton told supporters at the Caesars Palace hotel in Las Vegas. Political experts said the clear win in Nevada was a big relief for Clinton and her backers, after recent reports of a Sanders surge.
“I want to begin by thanking the people of SC”. “And this one is for you”.
The competition heads next to SC, which holds its Democratic primary next Saturday. About the same percentage of union households attended the caucuses that year, but Clinton split the union vote nearly evenly with Mr. Obama, 45 percent to 44 percent.
KEITH: Well, Texas is a Super Tuesday state. Also, this is significant because Bernie Sanders had so much momentum coming into this. Lest you think I’m exaggerating, I rounded up the headlines on the morning after.
She also spoke about the economy, saying “the middle class needs a raise and we need more jobs”. But what did he do there? If he could’ve won here tonight, he really would be knocking out all the props underneath her argument of inevitability.
With 79 percent of the Nevada’s precincts reporting, the former secretary of state had 52.1 percent of the vote, and Vermont Sen.
The Clinton camp hoped that her disappointing showing in the predominantly white early nominating states would quickly be erased once the nomination process moved to states with an ethnic makeup more representative of the wider electorate. “When we began in NH we were 30 points behind, and we were way behind here”. Polls close in just a few minutes. “And together we are going to create an economy that works for all of us and not just the top one percent”. And the American people are catching on that we have a rigged economy. Marco Rubio among voters without a college degree, the exit poll showed.
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MARTIN: That’s NPR’s Ron Elving with the latest on today’s presidential contest.
