Hillary Clinton won Nevada’s Democratic caucuses on Saturday, according to The Associated Press, holding off an unexpectedly hard challenge from Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Nationally, Hillary Clinton used to lead Sanders by an average of about 20 percentage points. Many elections watchers believe that Clinton won on the basis of the minority vote.
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Officially conceding Nevada’s win to Clinton, Sanders said in a statement, “I am very proud of the campaign we ran”. “Five weeks ago we were 25 points behind in the polls”, Sanders said at the start of his concession speech, before listing the large margins by which he was initially trailing in the previous two states.
Unlike Iowa and New Hampshire, Nevada’s more diverse population had always been expected to give Clinton an edge over Sanders.
But exit polls suggest that Latino voters may now be feeling the Bern, with 53 percent reportedly percent backing Sanders in the Nevada selection.
Clinton installed staff on the ground last spring, but Sanders’ message of combating income inequality appeared to resonate in a state where many voters are still struggling to rebound after years of double-digit unemployment.
“She understands what it means to be a woman, a mother, a human being”, Lopez said. Clinton was joined by her husband Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States. With the majority, Clinton earned 52.5 percent of the vote, topping Sanders’s polls, which fell short at 47.4 percent, according to CNN reports.
The Democratic candidates will now turn their attention to SC, where a primary is scheduled for 27 February.
MARTIN: But Bernie Sanders had momentum heading into this contest. Clinton said during her victory speech Saturday night.
With big wins for both candidates across the nation, the SC primaries are the next hurdle that the candidates face.
Throughout the hectic evening for Clinton, she and her team remained as present as ever on Twitter where she sent out tweets of gratitude to her supporters.
From there, Sanders will need to mount a comeback on Super Tuesday on March 1.
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“Taking on the establishment – whether it is the financial establishment, whether it is the political establishment, whether it is the media establishment – is not easy”, he said.
