Clinton pulled ahead of Sanders late Monday, when she eked out the final delegate from Saturday’s Nevada caucuses, giving her a total of 52 caucus and primary delegates.
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Sanders may have beaten Clinton among Latinos in Nevada – the preliminary entrance poll figures show that he did – but that remains somewhat unclear.
“I think that is a question that people are trying to sort through”.
By winning, Team Clinton doesn’t just score delegates-it proves its theory of the race. The Clinton plan, unlike the Sanders plan, does not promise free college for everyone at public colleges, and also includes funds for private historically black colleges and other institutions that serve many disadvantaged students.
“He now goes into Nevada on Tuesday and is expected to win there easily and should be very successful in the south on Super Tuesday”.
That issue nearly certainly will be prominent in the SC primary, where black voters, who overwhelmingly back Obama, make up a majority of the likely electorate.
Clinton will go to SC next Saturday for the Democrats’ primary where she is the presumed favorite, as republicans leave the South and head to Nevada for what’s sure to be a fierce fight between Cruz and Rubio, and of course, Trump. She has captured the support of 451 superdelegates compared with Mr. Sanders’ 19.
But caucuses require a bigger investment of time, making it harder to draw out less committed voters, which could give Sanders a disadvantage.
“Remember we were taking on a candidate who ran in 2008”, hedged the Senator, “She knew Nevada a lot better than we did, she had the names of a lot of her supporters, so I’m proud of the campaign that we ran”.
“North Carolina has also disappointed (Bill and Hillary Clinton) in politics”, Guillory said.
There are more than 1,400 delegates at stake in states such as South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Louisiana, and depending on the outcome and proportional allocation of delegates, Clinton could build a comfortable lead. “I walk in and it’s dead silence except for my wife and kids, and these guys walk in and they say something that is stupid and not even good, and they get standing ovations when they open their mouths”.
“I am a senator from the very small and great state of Vermont”. Big wins in those states for either candidate would put the nomination within sight. Just days later, they will compete in 11 states on Super Tuesday – March 1.
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For Clinton, it was a narrow win in Nevada, but a huge relief. Both the Sanders and Clinton campaigns last week began airing their first television ads.
