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| Nevada caucuses: Clinton narrowly beats Sanders after tight race – live | |
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| 11.39pm GMT | |
| 23:39 | |
| Bernie Sanders is speaking | |
| To adoring cheers and chants of “Bernie! Bernie!” from the crowd, Sanders thanks Nevada for “the extraordinary support we’ve recieved today. | |
| “You know, five weeks ago we were 25 points behind in the polls,” he says. The audience erupts again. | |
| 11.38pm GMT | |
| 23:38 | |
| Dan Cantor, the director of the Working Families Party, a progressive political party which has endorsed Bernie Sanders, released the following statement in response to the results of today’s Nevada caucus: | |
| 11.36pm GMT | |
| 23:36 | |
| Maria L La Ganga | |
| Who needs a candidate when there’s loud music, a happy crowd and a victory to be celebrated, Maria La Ganga reports from Hillary Clinton’s victory party in Las Vegas. | |
| Joy Silver, a Hillary Clinton volunteer from Palm Springs, got to the former secretary of state’s post-caucus fete at Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas strip long before Clinton herself. And what did Silver do to fill the time? Dance. And dance. And dance. | |
| “I door knocked, canvassed, helped during the caucus, registered people,” said the silver-haired woman in jeans and a Clinton tee who traveled from California to help the campaign. “I’m so happy. This is a thrilling, thrilling moment.” | |
| 11.34pm GMT | |
| 23:34 | |
| Richard Wolffe | |
| From Guardian US columnist Richard Wolffe: | |
| This is the start of a big week for Hillary Clinton. After the traditionally quirky first two states of Iowa and New Hampshire, this week’s contests took the Democratic race to a national level. | |
| With the win in Nevada, and a commanding lead in the polls in South Carolina, Clinton can switch to a national campaign – a switch that started with her victory speech that checked off a list of target groups that she hopes will be her coalition moving forward. | |
| She talked about grandparents forced to choose between paying rent or paying for medicine; African-American families denied mortgages; small towns and rural communities. She even found time to talk about “coal country, Indian country”. It was like she was hop-scotching through the groups that she hopes will win her the next batch of primaries. | |
| Then came the punch to the Bernie Sanders message: “The truth is, we aren’t a single issue country” she said. “We need more than a plan for the big banks.” | |
| Clinton talked about “real solutions” – and by implication, not “fake” ones. She talked about jobs. And most of all, she talked about not tearing each other down: “We are all in this together” she said at least twice. | |
| The clearest sign of rising confidence in the Clinton campaign was her victory speech in Nevada: it was a national message for a candidate who hopes and believes she can now build a national lead. | |
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| at 11.35pm GMT | |
| 11.29pm GMT | |
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| Hillary Clinton gives her victory speech in Las Vegas pic.twitter.com/Z1wNxTAYBd | |
| 11.29pm GMT | |
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| Maria L La Ganga | |
| Decked out in red and standing beside her beaming husband, Clinton look happy and relieved but was more resolute for the race ahead than jubilant about what her tearful Nevada state director called a “big, big win.” | |
| But her supporters were happy enough for the whole campaign. They were boisterous when Clinton took the stage and interrupted her victory speech with cheers and applause. | |
| They booed at her mention of Flint, Michigan, where lead in the municipal water source has poisoned children. And they cheered lustily when she promised to appoint a Supreme Court justice who supports Democratic positions on the issues. The applause was loud when she dinged Sanders without saying his name -- “we aren’t a single-issue country” -- and even louder when she pledged to raise the wages of the middle class. | |
| 11.28pm GMT | |
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| “Now I am heading on to Texas, Bill is on his way to Colorado - the fight goes on, the future that we want is within our grasp; god bless you,” she finishes. | |
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| 11.26pm GMT | |
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| “It can’t just be about what we are going to give to you - it has to be about what we are going to build together,” Clinton continues, echoing (slightly clumsily) Kennedy’s famous “ask not what your country can do for you” line from his 1961 inaugural address. | |
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| at 11.26pm GMT | |
| 11.23pm GMT | |
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| “I have never believed in dividing America between us and them,” she says. “I believe we all have to do our part.” | |
| 11.23pm GMT | |
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| “Some country is going to be the clean energy superpower of the future - either Germany, China, or us,” she says, her speech taking on something of the shape of a State of the Union address. “And I want it to be us.” | |
| 11.21pm GMT | |
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| She goes over points of agreement with Sanders without mentioning him by name - touching on the influence of dark money on politics, and Wall Street. The effect Sanders has had on this campaign is very visible. | |
| 11.20pm GMT | |
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| “We look at our country and see so much that isn’t working the way it should,” she continues. She strikes out at price-gouging by pharmaceutical companies; predatory mortgage lending. “We see a generation of young people coming of age in a world where opportunity seems out of reach.” | |
| Here in Nevada, a young girl told me how scared she is that her parents might be deported. ... and then there’s Flint, Michigan, where children were poisoned by toxic water just because their governor wanted to save a little money. | |
| 11.18pm GMT | |
| 23:18 | |
| “Thank you Nevada, thank you so much!” Clinton begins. The crowd chants “Hillary! Hillary!” | |
| I am so thrilled, so grateful to my supporters out there. Some may have doubted us, but we never doubted each other. | |
| I want to congratulate senator Sanders on a well-fought race here. | |
| She thanks “hotel and casino workers ... students and small business owners who never go off the clock.” | |
| “This is your campaign.” | |
| 11.16pm GMT | |
| 23:16 | |
| Hillary Clinton takes the stage in Las Vegas | |
| You can watch a live-feed of her remarks here: | |
| 11.11pm GMT | |
| 23:11 | |
| Interesting to note the drop in turnout from 2008: | |
| I'm hearing state Dems estimating turnout at 80,000. It was almost 120,000 in '08. | |
| 11.07pm GMT | |
| 23:07 | |
| Here’s the full statement from Bernie Sanders’ campaign on Hillary Clinton’s victory in Nevada: | |
| Bernie Sanders on Saturday congratulated Hillary Clinton on her victory in Nevada’s closely-contested caucuses and looked ahead to carrying his campaign for the White House to primaries and caucuses across the country. | |
| “I just spoke to Secretary Clinton and congratulated her on her victory here in Nevada. I am very proud of the campaign we ran. Five weeks ago we were 25 points behind and we ended up in a very close election. And we probably will leave Nevada with a solid share of the delegates,” Sanders said. | |
| “I am also proud of the fact that we have brought many working people and young people into the political process and believe that we have the wind at our back as we head toward Super Tuesday. I want to thank the people of Nevada for their support that they have given us and the boost that their support will give us as we go forward,” Sanders added. | |
| The close Nevada outcome follows Sanders’ 22-point victory on Feb. 9 in New Hampshire and a virtual tie on Feb. 1 in Iowa. The contest moves next to South Carolina, where Democrats vote on Feb. 27, and then to states across the country. | |
| 11.02pm GMT | 11.02pm GMT |
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| And Sam Levin is still speaking to people in Reno, as Clinton prepares to speak: | And Sam Levin is still speaking to people in Reno, as Clinton prepares to speak: |
| Michael Rudokas, a 24-year-old graduate student, was initially undecided, but he ultimately decided to join the large Sanders group. | Michael Rudokas, a 24-year-old graduate student, was initially undecided, but he ultimately decided to join the large Sanders group. |
| “I just feel like she isn’t going to change,” he said. “She is a career politician.” | “I just feel like she isn’t going to change,” he said. “She is a career politician.” |
| He said he was at first worried about her viability and about moderates not supporting Sanders. “But I decided I should vote for what I believe in.” | He said he was at first worried about her viability and about moderates not supporting Sanders. “But I decided I should vote for what I believe in.” |
| Some of the Clinton supporters tried - unsuccessfully - to sway him. “The Hillary supporters answered questions well and put up a good fight, but they were severely outnumbered ... I just think it would be another four years of the same.” | Some of the Clinton supporters tried - unsuccessfully - to sway him. “The Hillary supporters answered questions well and put up a good fight, but they were severely outnumbered ... I just think it would be another four years of the same.” |
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| at 11.03pm GMT | at 11.03pm GMT |
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| Maria L La Ganga | Maria L La Ganga |
| Maria La Ganga has been speaking to Clinton supporters at her victory party in Las Vegas. | Maria La Ganga has been speaking to Clinton supporters at her victory party in Las Vegas. |
| Jeff Eggleston wore his emotions on his sleeves Saturday. And his pant legs. And around his neck. And on his feet. | Jeff Eggleston wore his emotions on his sleeves Saturday. And his pant legs. And around his neck. And on his feet. |
| Caucusing at Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip, the 33-year-old senior producer for the Animal Planet show Tanked was decked out in bright red slacks, a blue blazer festooned with stars and a red-white-and-blue bow tie. | Caucusing at Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip, the 33-year-old senior producer for the Animal Planet show Tanked was decked out in bright red slacks, a blue blazer festooned with stars and a red-white-and-blue bow tie. |
| His shoes appeared to be of the blue-and-white saddle variety, but it was hard to discern the color in the dark ball room where Hillary Clinton’s post-caucus party was going to be held once the caucus results were out. | His shoes appeared to be of the blue-and-white saddle variety, but it was hard to discern the color in the dark ball room where Hillary Clinton’s post-caucus party was going to be held once the caucus results were out. |
| Eggleston said he arrived at the casino caucus sort of undecided. He’s been a Hillary Clinton supporter for years, but he said he “wanted to hear from Bernie Sanders supporters’ mouths” why they thought he should be president. They were unpersuasive. Eggleston caucused for Clinton and ended up at the former secretary of state’s fete. | Eggleston said he arrived at the casino caucus sort of undecided. He’s been a Hillary Clinton supporter for years, but he said he “wanted to hear from Bernie Sanders supporters’ mouths” why they thought he should be president. They were unpersuasive. Eggleston caucused for Clinton and ended up at the former secretary of state’s fete. |
| Sanders’ supporters’ “biggest argument is that he’s more trustworthy and not in the pocket of Wall Street,” Eggleston said as he waited for his victorious candidate to appear. “That’s debatable. He’s a politician.” | Sanders’ supporters’ “biggest argument is that he’s more trustworthy and not in the pocket of Wall Street,” Eggleston said as he waited for his victorious candidate to appear. “That’s debatable. He’s a politician.” |
| Eggleston said he’s been a Clinton supporter since “back in the day. I’m from New York. She’s always had my same share of social rights and equal rights. She’s been fighting for them since before Bill Clinton was governor.” | Eggleston said he’s been a Clinton supporter since “back in the day. I’m from New York. She’s always had my same share of social rights and equal rights. She’s been fighting for them since before Bill Clinton was governor.” |
| And today, he said, “Feb. 20, 2016, she’s the most prepared and experienced human being America has ever seen for this office.” | And today, he said, “Feb. 20, 2016, she’s the most prepared and experienced human being America has ever seen for this office.” |
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| at 11.01pm GMT | at 11.01pm GMT |
| 10.54pm GMT | 10.54pm GMT |
| 22:54 | 22:54 |
| CNN is reporting that Bernie Sanders has called Hillary Clinton to congratulate her on her victory in Nevada. | CNN is reporting that Bernie Sanders has called Hillary Clinton to congratulate her on her victory in Nevada. |