Hillary Clinton Projected To Win Nevada Caucuses

But it does give her the ability to say that she’s, you know, stopping some of that Sanders’ momentum – Bernmentum (ph) if you will. “I think Hillary is going to take it”.

Hillary Clinton won the Nevada Democratic caucuses after coming in second to Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire.

She got it. And now the narrative becomes about how she appears to be regaining control of the race and looks to be on her way toward exorcising the ghosts of 2008.

But there’s one area where Clinton didn’t so well: Nevada Democratic voters overseas. About the same percentage of union households attended the caucuses that year, but Clinton split the union vote nearly evenly with Mr. Obama, 45 percent to 44 percent.

Days in advance of the notoriously unpredictable contest Saturday afternoon, the former secretary of state’s team had tried to downplay the significance of the Nevada results amid concerns that Sanders would pull off a win. And I do want to mention that he has acknowledged the Clinton victory. Sanders will pick up at least 14.

Clinton won a two-thirds majority of Democratic caucus-goers age 45 and older, and a 57 percent majority of women. The Nevada contest was expected to be an easy win for the former Secretary of State until the race grew much closer from January to February. She has won over a number of the 714 superdelegates as both candidates push toward the 2,383 needed to win the party nod.

The results in Nevada are particularly crucial, because it is the first state with a significant minority population to vote for a presidential nominee, and is expected to set the tone for how influential minorities will be in the race.

Three delegates remain to be allocated, based on votes in the congressional districts. I ran into her campaign manager on the Las Vegas Strip this morning while I was literally out on a run and talked to him.

” Americans are right to be angry”. Bernie Sanders of Vermont waves to hotel workers at MGM Grand hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Feb. 20, 2016.

The surveys were conducted for The Associated Press and the television networks by Edison Research as Republican voters left their polling places at 35 randomly selected sites in SC and as Democratic voters arrived at 25 randomly selected caucus sites in Nevada.