Clinton Wins in Nevada, Trump in SC

Interviewed on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”, McCarthy said Ohio Gov. John Kasich would be an excellent president. But the attacks haven’t fatally wounded the Florida senator’s campaign.

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz fired his main spokesman on Monday on the eve of the Nevada caucuses over a video that falsely showed rival Marco Rubio dismissing the Bible.

Bernie Sanders’ shot at the Democratic nomination could “bern” down on “Super Tuesday” if Hillary Clinton runs the table on the critical March 1 day of primary contests.

But in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia – all southeastern states with large numbers of African-American voters, who overwhelmingly support Clinton – as well as in Colorado, Texas and Minnesota, the former secretary of state is the far-and-away front-runner according to slews of polls.

On the Democrat side Hillary Clinton still finds it hard to shake off self-declared socialist Bernie Sanders, another candidate whose party leaders believe is not electable – although he could win in a showdown with Trump and Michael Bloomberg standing as an independent. Those who sided with Bush or were reluctant to cross him are now free to back Rubio. He went on to say that was his plan all along, to perform well in the early primaries and have the strongest showing on Super Tuesday. “On paper he seems like the very best”, he said. With 98 percent of precincts reporting, he was ahead by 10 points. Next week’s SC primary will be a test for Clinton, although her win here is nearly certain the big test will be the margin of her victory.

In a sense, Sanders was a victim in Nevada of his own success. Sanders, meanwhile, has one win under his belt, handing a stinging 22-point defeat to Clinton in the New Hampshire primary.

In Las Vegas fashion, ties are settled with a deck of cards, and Clinton was said to have drawn a “lucky” ace, winning one delegate. While much has happened in the race during February, the nomination battle is about to get much more expensive with more states on the map. What’s more, there’s not much evidence that Sanders’ younger voters are more motivated to turn out for him than are Clinton’s older ones. Federal election reports filed as the Nevada results were announced showed Sandershad raised $21.3 million in January and had $14.7 million on hand. For Rubio, it’s not quite the 3-2-1 strategy (third in Iowa, second in New Hampshire, first in South Carolina) his campaign had been going for; instead he’s only managed a 3-5-2.

Mrs Clinton won the backing of voters who said electability and experience were important in their vote.

“Frankly, if she gets indicted (for using personal emails for official purposes), that’s the only way she’s going to be stopped”.