United States election race: Hillary Clinton wins in Nevada

Mr Sanders, the self-described democratic socialist who talks about launching a “political revolution”, has resonated with new and young voters frustrated with Washington. Sanders held a somewhat smaller lead among men, according to the entrance survey, conducted by Edison Research for the Associated Press and the major TV networks.

Las Vegas – Hillary Clinton edged out Bernie Sanders on Saturday in Nevada’s Democratic caucuses, capitalizing on a more diverse Democratic electorate to propel her to a critical win and give her momentum as the presidential campaign shifts toward the South.

The results offered a glimpse of her strength with black voters.

But entrance polling in Nevada showed he badly lost among black voters, by 76 percent to 22 percent, a bad omen for SC and other southern states with big black populations. That includes support from African-American voters. And then we will see who the Republicans nominate, and we will go from there.

“The truth is that for a campaign that started out as a fringe campaign at 3% in the polls we have enormous momentum”, Sanders told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday’s “State of the Union“. “Clinton found a way when she needed to find a way”.

With 84 percent of the precincts reporting, Clinton has 52.5 percent of the vote, compared to Sen. Clinton will continue to have to respond to Sanders’ challenge and reach out to these supporters. Was he gearing up to be this cycle’s Barack Obama, some wondered, denying Clinton a nomination that had once seemed inevitable? Maybe. But Clinton will be favored in the vast majority of those states including delegate-rich ones like Virginia and Georgia.

Under the proportional system, avoiding overwhelming losses that can dramatically shift the delegate totals is nearly as important as outright victories.

“I understand that voters have questions – I’m going to do my very best to answer those questions”.

But the Republican Party will actively campaign against Clinton in North Carolina, said Dallas Woodhouse, executive director of the N.C. GOP.

Few observers had foreseen Sanders as a serious threat to Clinton.

Sanders echoed those sentiments again at his speech Saturday afternoon, saying that when the campaign first set out in Nevada “we were way behind”, but that his surge of support, bolstered by more than 4 million unique campaign contributions, has carried him to this point.

He complimented his opponent on an “aggressive, effective campaign” but said he was still in a position to take the Democratic nomination.

It is conceivable that Bernie Sanders may end up having won in New Hampshire and Vermont, and come in a “close second” in each of the other 48 states.

Clinton also was spending time in Super Tuesday states.

She is far ahead of Sanders in the next contest here on Saturday and is likely to expand her overall lead in delegates. “In the USA Today poll, I beat her by 11 points”, he said on CBS’s “Face the Nation”.