Clinton tells Nevada workers she’s about more than 1 issue

The Democratic mayor of Atlanta criticized Bernie Sanders on Friday for claiming at a recent Democratic debate that race relations would be better if he is president than they are under President Barack Obama.

While he may have benefited from New Hampshire sharing a border with Vermont, this early upset in Ms. Clinton’s presumed-unassailable lead has thrust Mr. Sanders’s campaign into fourth gear and energized his supporters across the U.S. Importantly, his victory has put the Democratic Party establishment, which until now has thrown its weight behind Ms. Clinton, on notice. “And I know how hard he worked against implacable hostility at every single turn”. “That is why I need you, my friends, more than ever”.

“We are talking about focusing on the outrageously high rate of youth unemployment in the African American community”.

“Over the last seven years in this country, we have made enormous progress under the leadership of President Obama and Vice President Biden”, Sanders said. This state was decimated.

Sanders also doubled down and released an ad Saturday noting that he attended Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 March on Washington after Georgia Rep. John Lewis said Thursday he never saw Sanders at civil-rights events.

“Last I heard, a United States senator had the right to disagree with the president including a president who has done such an extraordinary job”, he retorted at Clinton. That’s what I said.

Democrats vote next in Nevada on February 20.

Latinos make up about a quarter of Nevada’s voting-age population, and black people account for nearly 9 percent.

Clinton’s campaign had long said the Nevada would be a state where they could perform well, but her aides are now lowering expectations.

Across Tennessee, Sanders’ devoted army of organizers and grass-roots volunteers – “Bernie Bros” and “Bernie-bots”, as they’re sometimes mocked in the blogosphere – sense the political winds are shifting in Sanders’ direction since his 22-point rout of Clinton in New Hampshire.