Some takeaways after the South Carolina Republican primary and the Nevada Democratic caucus, with voting on the Strip, produced clear winners on Saturday: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
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Jackson added that he thought most of the people in the room knew who Sanders was, though he conceded that Clinton “would be the more popular face, the more familiar name” if she were to walk in.
Although Clinton’s 5-point win was relatively narrow, it was enough to blunt Sanders’ momentum. That strategy was partially successful at best, with an entrance poll suggesting Mr Sanders had in fact won 53 per cent of the Latino vote – a figure quickly disputed by Ms Clinton’s team.
Nevada’s Republican caucus is Tuesday night.
In her victory speech, Mrs Clinton devoted her campaign to “hotel and casino workers who never wavered” and “the thousands of men and women with kids to raise, bills to pay and dreams that won’t die”.
“The war on terror… is a creation of United States imperialism”, Alexander said.
In Nevada, Clinton fared particularly well among demographics where she has already established a firm base, including older women and a majority of black voters – a positive sign for the candidate as she prepares to spar with Sanders this weekend in SC. Her win in Nevada gave her a much needed win and now is headed South where Sanders has a tougher road to find voters and most of all delegates.
Bernie Sanders’ high-flying Democratic presidential campaign fell back to Earth on Saturday in Nevada. Fifty-six percent of nonwhite voters also supported her. Black voters in particular helped Clinton win: 76 percent backed her. “I think we’ve got some states coming down the pike that we’re going to do very, very well in….”
Lenski said Edison polled 1,024 caucus-goers – which he called a large enough sample and roughly the same size as the polls in the last two caucuses in Nevada – at 25 caucus locations with a margin of error of plus or minus seven percent. Sanders is a runaway favorite, earning multiples of Clinton’s support.
After declining to take a position on the pact for months, Clinton announced her opposition far more recently.
Sanders said he believed the nation’s real unemployment rate is 10 percent with higher unemployment rates for youths.
The Sanders campaign has played up the photo, taken by The Chicago Tribune, as evidence of his Civil Rights bona fides.
With less than ten days to go before Super Tuesday, the question for Sanders is what’s his end game?
In addition to the Human Rights Campaign, Clinton has won endorsements from the Lesbian Political Action Committee, Equality California, SC Equality Coalition and equal marriage plaintiff Jim Obergefell. Bernie Sanders could become the first Jewish president.
The Fox News national poll is the only poll that resulted in a Sanders lead.
In Saturday’s entrance poll, 38% of Latinos who showed up to caucus were under age 30, similar to the share in the 2012 presidential election exit poll, but nearly double the share of Latino caucusgoers who were under age 30 in 2008, when Clinton narrowly carried the group with 20% support, just ahead of John Edwards and Barack Obama.
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In the final stretch of the Iowa caucuses, Sanders first began the delicate balancing act of drawing sharp contrasts with Hillary Clinton, notably saying at one rally in Burlington, Iowa that Clinton only came out against the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal “kicking and screaming”. Much has been made about Sanders’ appeal to young voters, and he won 82 percent of them in Nevada.
