Hillary Clinton captured Nevada’s Democratic caucuses today, overcoming an unexpectedly strong surge by Bernie Sanders and potentially easing the anxiety of some of her supporters.
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Clinton led Sanders 52.2 percent to 47.8 percent with 79 percent of votes counted, the New York Times reported Saturday night.
The two candidates will now face off in South Carolina’s Democratic primary next Saturday, where Clinton is widely expected to win, buoyed at least in part by support that she expects from African-American voters. “I am very proud of the campaign we ran”, he said.
The development comes just a week ahead of Super Tuesday (March 1, 2016) when about twelve U.S. states will poll for primary elections.
It’s was a much-needed win for Clinton, who suffered a major upset when Sanders pummeled her in the New Hampshire primary on February 9.
“Clinton’s been fighting for people like me, for women and children and families for decades, that’s one of her common themes, that she’s fighting for us”.
After holding a 30-point lead in the Hawkeye State in November, the favorite to win the Democratic presidential nomination nearly squandered her huge advantage. While the result wasn’t unexpected given that pre-election polls showed Clinton dominant with black voters, Sanders spent a lot of money on television in the state.
By those numbers, Clinton won 74 percent of the support of voters 65 and older, as well as 61 percent among people 45 to 64.
As more precincts continue to report polling numbers, many experts say whoever comes in second and third is important at this stage in the campaign trail. However, that state contained a almost all-white voting block.
Sanders again trounced Clinton among younger voters.
Also, Reid and wife Landra Gould declined to register a vote for either Clinton or Sanders.
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Sanders’s populist success has been staggering, but he has never quite threatened to destroy the Democratic elite in the way that Donald Trump is trampling all over the moribund Republican establishment.
