Post by Logan on Feb 14, 2016 4:53:21 GMT -6
LAS VEGAS -- By the time Bernie Sanders launched his challenge to Hillary Clinton in May, her campaign team had already been in Nevada for a month, knocking on doors, dialing voters and cajoling endorsements from local leaders.
Nevada was supposed to be Clinton's firewall, a state where she could stop Sanders' progress no matter what happened in Iowa or New Hampshire.
But a week ahead of Nevada's Feb. 20 Democratic caucuses, Clinton's sure bet is off.
Fresh off a double-digit win in New Hampshire, Sanders has caught up quickly since launching his Nevada effort in November, opening nearly twice as many field offices as Clinton and outspending her on television. Rallying supporters at a convention center in Reno on Saturday, the senator from Vermont drew cheers with a bold prediction: "We surprised them in Iowa. We surprised them in New Hampshire. We're going to surprise them here in Nevada!"
Meanwhile, Clinton spent Saturday fighting for votes in the southern part of the state, kicking around a soccer ball with Latino youth and meeting with casino workers on the Las Vegas Strip. At a crowded union hall in the Vegas suburb of Henderson, she vowed to go further to regulate banks and get money out of politics than Sanders, whose anti-Wall Street mantra has earned him momentum.
Read more here: www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/article60297001.html
Nevada was supposed to be Clinton's firewall, a state where she could stop Sanders' progress no matter what happened in Iowa or New Hampshire.
But a week ahead of Nevada's Feb. 20 Democratic caucuses, Clinton's sure bet is off.
Fresh off a double-digit win in New Hampshire, Sanders has caught up quickly since launching his Nevada effort in November, opening nearly twice as many field offices as Clinton and outspending her on television. Rallying supporters at a convention center in Reno on Saturday, the senator from Vermont drew cheers with a bold prediction: "We surprised them in Iowa. We surprised them in New Hampshire. We're going to surprise them here in Nevada!"
Meanwhile, Clinton spent Saturday fighting for votes in the southern part of the state, kicking around a soccer ball with Latino youth and meeting with casino workers on the Las Vegas Strip. At a crowded union hall in the Vegas suburb of Henderson, she vowed to go further to regulate banks and get money out of politics than Sanders, whose anti-Wall Street mantra has earned him momentum.
Read more here: www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/article60297001.html