Sanders is expected to lose to Clinton in Saturday’s primary in SC – where the Clintons vacationed when President Bill Clinton was in office – with a heavily black Democratic electorate, a key Clinton constituency.
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Sanders argues that she’s made gains by lifting much of his message, saying she’s adopting not only his policy positions but his “phraseology”. “[If] you start handing out two years of free college at public institutions are you ready for all the black, private HBCUs to close down?”
Among voters who said honesty was the most important quality in a candidate, she had only 11 per cent support. “But at the end of the day, I think she gets 19 delegates, we get 15 delegates, we move onto the next state”.
A report filed over the weekend with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) shows the senator from Vermont has received more than four million contributions, raising a total of $94.8 million through January 31st after his campaign launched last April.
“We have come a very long way in nine months”, Sanders told supporters at the Henderson Pavilion outside Las Vegas.
“This was a state that Bernie Sanders was surging in and he had the ability to pull off an upset in the first diverse primary state, frankly”, former Arizona State legislator Chris Herstam said.
Clinton, who won the Nevada caucus with 53 percent of the overall vote, bested Sanders in Clark County where about 630,000 of Nevada’s 790,000 Latinos live.
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton acknowledged Sunday that many voters question whether she is a self-serving politician who is more interested in achieving her own goal of being president than truly helping the country.
And in 2014, Gov. Brian Sandoval, a Republican, carried about 50 percent of the Latino vote, Damore said. “If you look at the precincts, you look at where we dominated, there’s a lot of evidence we did very, very well with every group of voter”.
But after a not-amazing night, perhaps Sanders and his supporters can take heart that at least they won the vote of Nevada Peace Corps volunteers. But for the first time ever, Nevada Democrats set up a dial-in caucus for Nevada Democrats living overseas. That could be good news for Sanders in states like Arizona, Colorado, Florida and Texas that vote in March. Iowa and New Hampshire are overwhelmingly white and Democrats in those states tend to be more liberal than the national party.
Hillary Clinton is hoping for a second shot in North Carolina this primary season after her 2008 loss.
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“Like any other poll, each campaign is going to try to pick out data that helps their cause”, executive vice-president of Edison Research Joe Lenski said.
