Clinton’s Nevada hopes hinge on Latinos

“I don’t think we know that now”, she said.

The former first lady has relentlessly attacked the 74-year-old Vermont senator Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, for voting against immigration reform in 2007.

With polling showing a dead heat between Clinton and Sanders among likely caucusgoers, Clinton’s surrogates fanned out across the Silver State this week, attempting to portray her as the more trustworthy candidate for Latinos as they work to ramp up participation by her supporters in the Democratic stronghold of Clark County.

Clinton’s line of attack is that Sanders is offering impractical, pie-in-the-sky ideas.

On the other hand, Clinton has turned more and more toward negative campaigning, calling Sanders a “one-issue candidate” and denouncing his stances on gun violence and his poor relationship with President Barack Obama.

“As president, I will do everything that I can to pass immigration reform and a path toward citizenship for those who today are undocumented”, he said Thursday on MSNBC.

Doors to caucus sites open at 11 a.m. Voters must be registered with the party, but Democrats have same-day registration. In the town hall meeting, they vowed to make reforming the country’s immigration system a top priority of their administrations, should either win the White House.

Clinton has said Sanders’s emphasis on an anti-Wall Street agenda made him a one-issue candidate, and has questioned whether his proposals are politically viable in a gridlocked Washington.

“I’m happy to release anything I have whenever everybody else does the same”, she said.

On the Democratic side, student leaders were asked to give speeches for each of the – then three – candidates, after which we would separate into groups depending on the candidate we chose to support.

Clinton is hoping to use a win in Nevada as a springboard into races in SC on February 27 and a slate of Southern primaries on Super Tuesday on March 1, where she’s favoured because of her strength among African-Americans.

His supporters are convinced that young minority voters will back him, by the same margin as whites did in the first two nominating contests in Iowa and New Hampshire.

“It’s crunch time, folks”, Trump, 69, told voters at a North Charleston rally, his final pitch before the SC primary.

“Bernie, where have you been?” said Dolores Huerta, a civil rights advocate, on a conference call with reporters.

“If the past is any indication of what the future holds, Senator Sanders will continue to let us down and Hillary will be there fighting for immigrants and the Latino community”, Housing Secretary Julian Castro, a possible vice presidential pick, told journalists Thursday.

“Suddenly they’re finding with people being actually involved, and not just the establishment, that they’re in trouble and they’re saying a lot of things which are just incorrect”, he said. But never in my life have I seen a caucus so vicious, or seen my party be so savagely ripped in two. Hillary Clinton took vestiges of his support and remnants of her 2008 political organization and bolstered them by hiring veterans of Obama’s successful campaigns here.

“While I understand that there are people who have differences of opinion with me on immigration reform, there is no justification, no reason, to resort to bigotry and xenophobia when we are talking about Mexicans or we are talking about Muslims”, Sanders said at the Democratic dinner at the Tropicana Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. “This is the future of the Democratic Party”.