Clinton Wins Nevada, Trump in SC

A South Carolina Republican, disappointed by Donald Trump’s huge primary win was asked by an MSNBC reporter if she could see herself supporting Democrats Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton if Donald Trump wins the Republican nomination.

Hillary Clinton will win the Nevada Democratic caucuses, the Associated Press is reporting. Bernie Sanders’ 47.5 percent.

“I am so, so thrilled and so grateful to all of my supporters out there”, Clinton told a crowd of cheering supporters in Las Vegas. “And it is a campaign to break down every barrier that holds you back”.

In an interview on NBC on Sunday, Sanders laid out the reasons why he failed to beat Clinton in Nevada, saying his voter turnout operation was not as strong as it should have been. There can be no doubt, however, that the Sanders campaign is making inroads into Hillary’s popularity with minority voters.

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. Sixty-two percent of those ages 30 to 44 also voted for the socialist senator. To that point, Sanders continues to excel with young voters, including non-whites.

“Much like the margin that Bernie Sanders had going into New Hampshire was hard to whittle away at, so the margin she has here is pretty substantial”, commented Brady Quirk-Garvan, chairman of the Charleston County Democratic Party.

After a devastating, double-digit loss in New Hampshire, Clinton prevailed in Nevada with the backing of women, union workers, minorities, moderates and voters who are certain that the former secretary of state will have a better shot at winning in November, according to entrance polls. Still, Sanders is fighting an uphill battle given that many more March primaries have a large African-American electorate.

In 2008, Clinton lost North Carolina to Obama by 14 percentage points.

“What this entire campaign has been about is the issue of momentum [and] the issue of bringing more and more people into the political process”, Sanders said.

Sanders referred to his massive gains in a statement.

Clinton’s campaign considers the overall delegate lead an answer to complaints among some Sanders allies that Clinton has not earned sufficient popular support to justify her support among super delegates. “But at the end of the day, I think she gets 19 delegates, we get 15 delegates, we move onto the next state”. She didn’t answer and instead explained that the only distinctions she wanted to make were between Republicans and Democrats.