Republicans sought to tie Clinton to Reid, calling him the “face of Washington dysfunction.” Michael Short, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee, said that “while Nevadans and the rest of the country want to turn the page on the Reid-Obama era, Hillary Clinton is promising an encore.” “No state reflects the growing diversity of our nation better than Nevada,” Reid said, before joining hands with the three Democratic candidates on stage. Obama won the state in both 20 but it was fiercely contested in both campaigns. Reid has sought to give his home state even greater prominence, noting its growing Hispanic population and role as a competitive state in recent presidential elections. Nevada’s increasingly greater profile in the presidential sweepstakes has been promoted by Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, who has remained neutral in the 2016 race but has encouraged an active caucus campaign. Sanders said the only way Democrats would win elections was through generating enthusiasm and a massive voter turnout. In her speech Wednesday evening, Clinton reminded voters she was raising millions of dollars for state parties in an attempt to strengthen Democrats up-and-down the ballot. But the future president narrowly prevailed in the delegate count with the help of a strong showing in rural areas. 20.Ĭlinton, backed by women and Latinos in large numbers, won the popular vote in Nevada’s 2008 caucuses against Obama. The state party’s caucus dinner at the MGM Grand brought together about 2,200 activists, one of the largest gatherings before the state’s presidential caucuses on Feb. But really, that’s not fair to Ted Cruz.”
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Martin O’Malley, has trailed Clinton and Sanders by a wide margin but won cheers from the crowd with a series of slams against the Republican presidential field.Īddressing Donald Trump, O’Malley said, “I’d like to say that Donald Trump is the most outrageous and unqualified person to ever run for president. The third major Democratic candidate, former Maryland Gov. Nevada follows Iowa and New Hampshire on the Democratic calendar and a split decision by the first two states could place a greater emphasis on the Western state, which features a much more diverse electorate. While the former secretary of state has led Nevada polls, Sanders has poured money and staff into the state in recent weeks in hopes of pulling off an upset.
They seem to have forgotten the conditions they left this country in” when Obama took office in January 2009. Sanders was greeted by a loud cacophony of horns and vuvuzelas in his cheering section, telling supporters that Republicans suffered from “an illness called amnesia.
“In January of 2017, a new president is going to walk into the Oval office and America can’t afford it to be a Republican who will rip away all the progress we have made,” Clinton said, as many of Sanders’ supporters stood silently, holding up signs for the Vermont senator. LAS VEGAS (AP) Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are fighting for support among Nevada Democrats, looking beyond the leadoff contests of Iowa and New Hampshire to a state that could play a pivotal role in the nomination fight.Ĭlinton presented herself Wednesday night as the party’s best choice to defeat Republicans in the fall and preserve the legacy of President Barack Obama, promising Nevadans would “always have a friend in the White House if I am your president.”
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