What Hillary Clinton’s Nevada Victory Means for Bernie Sanders

Saturday’s decision was hard for her down to the final moments, when she had to decide whether to sit on the Bernie Sanders or Clinton side of the caucus at Caesar’s Palace.

Hillary Clinton became a runaway favourite to win a slew of USA states on “Super Tuesday” following a narrow but decisive victory over her socialist rival Bernie Sanders in Nevada. She dominated by grabbing the majority of African American voters and registered Democrats.

Oklahoma holds its primary on Super Tuesday, along with 12 other states, plus American Samoa.

“He gets a lot of his support from white college students”.

By winning, Team Clinton doesn’t just score delegates-it proves its theory of the race.

“What this entire campaign has been about is the issue of momentum [and] the issue of bringing more and more people into the political process”, Sanders said. So we think, Chuck, we have come a very, very long way.

This makes a second win for the former Secretary of State, along with her razor-thin win in the Iowa caucuses. Perhaps more tellingly, in the statistically weighted average of major polls in sc by the election-predicting site FiveThirtyEight.com, Clinton is firmly in control there with a 25.5 percentage point lead.

How closely to stick to Obama’s policies has been a point of contention in the Democratic debates, with Clinton tying herself firmly to Obama and Sanders offering some criticisms of the president. With Clinton holding a commanding lead among superdelegates, the party insiders who are influential in picking the nominee, Sanders must rack up some significant wins in the remaining contests to catch up.

But, Hillary Clinton badly needed to win the Nevada caucuses.

“I think we have a good shot in Colorado, a good shot in Minnesota, a good shot in MA”, he said.

TAPPER: An area of improvement, I think you will grant me, even if you don’t believe the entrance polls on Latino voters, is potentially independent voters.

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

“But I think the more the African-American community hears our message on a broken criminal justice system, when they hear about the need for an economy that represents all of us, I think you’re going to see us making progress”.

Sanders’ prolific online fundraising has given him staying power and he has pledged to take his campaign into the Democratic convention in July.

Those numbers could change over the coming months but right now they show that Sanders has some work to do.

Clinton has now won two of the first three 2016 votes.

Meanwhile, both campaigns have argued about what the polling from the Nevada caucuses show.

“North Carolina has also disappointed (Bill and Hillary Clinton) in politics”, Guillory said. – Steve Wilbourne, 46, of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, on why he voted for the OH governor.