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Democrat Bernie Sanders campaign in the South – South Carolina, which holds its party primary this coming Saturday. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. speaks at the Fort Museum Opera House in Fort Dodge, Iowa.
Clinton’s win in Nevada means she will pick up most of the state’s delegates. He played up his success among Latino voters in Nevada, but acknowledged he need to do better among black voters. Just a few hundred of these political elites count for an astounding 30% of the delegates – giving them essentially the same voting power of millions of individual voters. I think there’s an underlying question that maybe is really in the back of people’s minds and that is, ‘Is she in it for us or is she in it for herself?’ ” Clinton said. We go back to war tomorrow morning.
Trump and Cruz, who won the Iowa caucuses, duked it out in the week leading up to Saturday’s primary, with the campaign growing increasingly nasty.
And Sanders is looking at this and saying, look, he’s raising a ton of money.
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Sanders also joked about what he sees as Clinton co-opting some of the issues he has been pushing.
Clinton’s controversy around her private server has been a running theme in recent interviews.
Over on Vox, there’s a nice explainer of who gets to be a superdelegate.
Under the proportional system, avoiding overwhelming losses that can dramatically shift the delegate totals is nearly as important as outright victories.
“But if you do the right things, if you invest in your workers, contribute to your communities, help build a better America – we’re going to stand with you”. Mr Robert Shrum, a longtime strategist for presidential campaigns, said with the Nevada win, “most Democrats will conclude – again – that she will be the nominee”.
“As far as being too far left, I agree with a lot of the stuff he has to say”.
Sanders, meanwhile, continued his dominance among young voters, with entrance polls showing him winning 72 percent of 17-to-44-year-olds.
“I don’t think the Bush vote is going to go to Trump because of the insults”, Roberts explained.
If the Vermont senator cannot quickly find a way to broaden his appeal to minorities and union members, last week’s 22-point rout of Clinton in New Hampshire could prove to be his campaign highlight.
That’s enough to stay competitive and Sanders’ team is eying delegates in March 1 states such as Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma and his home state.
Entrance polls showed that she beat Mr Sanders among women, was competitive among white voters and, most importantly, won the non-white voter bloc decisively.
While Sanders was campaigning in SC on Sunday, he planned to be in MA for a college rally and campaign in Norfolk, Virginia, on Tuesday. Clinton also holds a lead with minority voters. She planned to raise money in California on the week and then campaign in SC.
Trump has now won primaries in two very different states.