This woman is how Hillary Clinton won Nevada
Clinton and Bernie next face off February 27 in South Carolina’s Democratic primary, where the Republicans on Saturday tapped billionaire Donald Trump as their choice for the nomination.
A Clinton campaign report by Latino Decisions, however, said the results didn’t add up and the former secretary of state balked at Sanders’ claim of winning the Latino vote.
Clinton says many doubted her in Nevada but that she and her supporters never doubted each other.
But whether he won them or not, Sanders was clearly competitive with Latinos, which really shouldn’t be too surprising: A recent SurveyMonkey poll found Sanders closing the gap among Latinos to just 3 percentage points, and a NBC News/Telemundo survey put Clinton’s lead with Latino voters at 17 percentage points.
She had strong outreach to the state’s Latino and black voters; she had endorsements and support from key figures in the state; and she had her campaign manager, Robby Mook, who cut his teeth organizing the state for the first Clinton campaign in 2008, when she beat Barack Obama there.
Lee Miringoff, the director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion in NY, which is not affiliated with the entrance polls, said it is possible, but not probable, with a seven percent margin of error for Clinton to have win the Hispanic vote. That’s a good sign for Clinton’s prospects in SC, where blacks comprise a significant portion of the electorate.
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.
After Nevada, Sanders’ worst loss so far, his analysis was different.
Hillary Clinton’s narrow victory in Nevada’s caucus was not what she expected just weeks ago when the polls indicated she would storm to victory.
A majority of Oklahoma Democrats told pollsters they thought Clinton was better prepared than Sanders to be commander in chief and deal with foreign policy issues. Clinton led in all but two states – MA and Sanders’ home state of Vermont. And we will continue to work hard to make that case and to win over as many voters as possible to get the nomination. Bernie Sanders’ 47.5 percent.
One caveat: the numbers above are based on early exit polls.
Leaving Nevada, Mr Sanders reassured his supporters that “the wind is at our backs”, but there was at least one troubling sign for his campaign’s longevity: his call for a “political revolution” relies on a record turnout, boosted by the young voters he has attracted to his cause. “We do not do well when the voter turnout is not large”. Then she looks supremely poised ahead of “Super Tuesday”, on March 1.
Sanders also suggested that Clinton got the best at him because she’s ran this race before.