Hillary Clinton finally gets to make her victory speech in Nevada

Allies of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign continue to push hard on the issue of historically black colleges, arguing that the college affordability plan of Senator Bernie Sanders, Clinton’s rival for the Democratic nomination, would hurt these institutions.

More specifically, she can thank 29-year-old Vanessa McCallum. Among voters 17-44 in Nevada, Clinton lost by close to 50 points. He said her appeal to different demographics in the US will help Clinton’s campaign.

Voters across America, she said, “are scared of the whole democratic socialist thing”. I’m a bit skeptical of those numbers, however, given that Clinton won in heavily Latino precincts in Las Vegas. – Mary Moore, 60, in Las Vegas, on why she’s supporting Clinton.

In Saturday’s entrance poll, 38% of Latinos who showed up to caucus were under age 30, similar to the share in the 2012 presidential election exit poll, but nearly double the share of Latino caucusgoers who were under age 30 in 2008, when Clinton narrowly carried the group with 20% support, just ahead of John Edwards and Barack Obama. “And I’m going to demonstrate that I’ve always been the same person, I’ve always been fighting for the same values, fighting to make a difference in people’s lives, long before I was in elected office, even before my husband was in the presidency”, she said.

Caucus-goers were about evenly split between whether they most prefer a candidate with experience, one who’s honest or one who cares about people like them, and were slightly less likely to say it’s most important to have a candidate who can win in November.

“I think the jury’s out”, said Philip Johnston, former chair of the Massachusetts Democratic Party and a Sanders supporter.

Clinton’s win means she will pick up at least 19 of Nevada’s 35 delegates.

Sanders focused on his core message that United States democracy was being corrupted and destroyed by Wall Street financial power. The most recent poll taken by Florida Atlantic University shows the former secretary of state leading Sanders by 36 percentage points, 62 percent-26 percent. Sanders did best with men, voters under 45 and those less affluent and educated.

Clinton now leads in delegates pledged to her at the Democratic Party’s national convention in July, but only has a fraction of the number needed to secure the nomination.

In addition, Tennessee will hold its Republican primary and Alaska Republicans and American Samoa Democrats will caucus. She planned to raise money in California on the week and then campaign in SC. We go back to war tomorrow morning. The majority of Clinton’s are super delegates. But two-thirds of caucus-going women were 45 and over, and 7 in 10 of them supported Clinton.