Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says his loss to Hillary Clinton in Nevada probably was caused by lower voter turnout.
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Democrat Bernie Sanders campaign in the South – South Carolina, which holds its party primary this coming Saturday.
The FBI is investigating whether classified information passed through Clinton’s homebrew server while she was secretary of state.
Nevada registered Democrats such as students, Peace Corps volunteers, diplomats and members of the military and their families living overseas got on the equivalent of a conference call during caucus time Saturday and cast their vote.
“Some may have doubted but we never have doubted each other”.
In a statement, Sanders said that he had spoken to Clinton to congratulate her on her win.
This projected win at the Nevada caucuses comes following a Democratic primary season that has been a bit of a let-down for Hillary Clinton, who barely scraped by in Iowa and lost to Sanders by 22 points in New Hampshire.
Democratic voters in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada this year were far more likely to describe themselves as liberal than they were in 2008.
“To everyone who turned out in every corner of Nevada with determination and heart: This is your win”. Final results gave her 52.7 percent of the vote against 47.2 percent for Sanders.
Numerous upcoming primaries will feature a much higher percentage of black voters than Nevada did.
“Senator Sanders was a nice January-February blip on the radar screen, but her march to the nomination should be well on its way after she wins here, especially given the SC numbers”, Billy Vassiliadis, a Democratic consultant in Las Vegas who is backing Clinton, said before the vote.
“I wish we had had a larger voter turnout”, Sanders said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press”.
Underscoring the close race, women, college-educated, nonwhites and those living in union households favored Clinton while Sanders fared best with men, voters under 45 and those less affluent. “I shouldn’t hit him too hard though, because if I hit him too hard then he’ll go down, and it’ll be a fight with Hillary, and maybe we want a fight for a while”.
Still, many voters have said they remained undecided before the polls opened. Hispanics were relatively closely divided between the two candidates.
“We aren’t a single-issue country”, she said.
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Thousands of supporters are cheering on Democratic presidential candidate Sen. In Las Vegas, the state’s most populated city, several caucus goers included casino hotel workers who were forced to balance their work schedule and voting efforts. About 10 minutes later, Clinton came in to do the same.
