Hillary Clinton to visit Elko on Presidents Day

The Democratic presidential hopeful’s comments at a union hall on Saturday morning were a jab at her primary opponent Bernie Sanders, who favors a single-payer health care system over Obamacare and is riding a wave of momentum after strong showings in Iowa and New Hampshire. “If we broke up the big banks tomorrow, and I will, if they deserve it, if they pose a systemic risk, I will. Will that end racism?” “People aren’t dumb”, Sanders said.

Clinton even cancelled an event in Florida on Monday, so she should stay in Nevada to campaign.

The Vermont senator used unusually blunt words to express frustration with his opponent when he spoke to reporters Saturday before flying to Colorado for a Democratic dinner at which both were scheduled to appear. Clinton, then Sanders’ Senate colleague, had voted in 2002 to authorize military force in Iraq.

“We don’t represent Wall Street, we don’t represent the billionaire class, so it ends up I’m the only candidate up here of the many candidates who has no Super PAC”, Sanders said.

Pastor Robert E. Fowler Sr. welcomed both of the candidates telling members of the church, “I’m excited that they are here and I am encouraged that they are willing to sit at the same church, at the same service, at the same time”. “But for Senator Sanders, it’s part of his answer for everything”.

“Some of us believe that what God teaches us and what this world is about is that we do not turn our backs on our brothers and our sisters, that essentially we are in this together”. “No state in America knows more about the impact of the greed and illegal behavior of Wall Street than the state of Nevada”.

“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. “I guess just for the fun of it, they want to throw money around”. “That is why I need you, my friends, more than ever”. This state was decimated.

The two candidates have both ramped up their campaign efforts in Nevada ahead of the caucus next week, and both campaigns are preparing for a much tighter race than originally expected.

It’s one electorate that is very much in play, said Jon Ralston, a Nevada political analyst.