Sanders cracks Clinton's Nevada firewall
Hillary Clinton has been vigilant but the state that was supposed to stop Bernie Sanders' momentum might be in play.
By Annie Karni
01/06/16 08:31 PM EST
Updated 01/07/16 12:49 AM EST
LAS VEGAS — Hillary Clinton has been on the ground in Nevada since last April. Bernie Sanders only began building up his organization here late in the fall.
But the state that’s been touted as Clinton’s firewall against the Vermont senator in the event he generates any momentum out of the whiter and more liberal states of Iowa and New Hampshire is suddenly looking like it’s in play, potentially opening another unexpected early state front.
Sanders is playing catchup — and fast.
He has now hired almost twice the number of staffers on the ground in Nevada — 40 to Clinton's 22, as of July. The campaign would not provide an updated number of paid staffers on the ground. And he has opened nine field offices across the state compared to Clinton’s six (the campaign said it is opening its seventh office, in Elko, on Thursday).
Sanders also has invested heavily in ad buys on English- and Spanish-language television and radio, spending $767,539 to date compared with Clinton's recent $162,490 ad buy.
Eight years ago, Nevada was also supposed to be Clinton’s firewall against Barack Obama. She won the popular vote here 51 percent to 45 percent, but Obama ended up taking home more delegates than Clinton and tainted what was supposed to have been a clean win for her.
Now, it is Sanders who is proving resilient as all three Democratic candidates descended on the MGM casino Wednesday night for a state party caucus dinner hosted by Sen. Harry Reid.
There, Clinton offered a hyper-local version of her stump speech, showing a mastery of local Nevada politics and issues. She went after Nevada’s Republican Attorney General Adam Paul Laxalt, “who seems to have made it his mission to tear apart hard working American families.” And she singled out Republican Rep. Cresent Hardy for saying “Mitt Romney was right about the 47 percent, and that people with disabilities are, and I quote him, are a drain on society.”
Clinton pitched herself as a candidate who is not only running for President, but “raising millions of dollars for our state parties to help you build the infrastructure you need,” a difference from Sanders. It was a strong pitch for a local crowd. . For his part, Sanders revved up a crowd who came equipped with ear-piercing vuvuzelas with his standard stump speech about a political revolution "against the billionaire class whose greed is destroying our economy." But he put no distinct local spin on his remarks.
But in recent days, Sanders has won over some of Clinton’s most stalwart supporters in the state. Erin Bilbray, a member of the Democratic National Committee from Nevada who was so loyal to Clinton in 2008 that she refused to support Obama at the convention, has endorsed the Vermont senator.
Bilbray said in October she was planning to support Clinton. But she changed her mind after a friend dragged her to an organizing meeting hosted by the Sanders campaign.
“I started getting more and more excited as I was watching his volunteers, how organized they were, how in the trenches they were,” she said. “His supporters here are passionate. The situation with super PACs and unregulated money is the biggest concern for the future of democracy in this country and Bernie is the only candidate addressing it.”
She said the Clinton campaign wrote her a cordial note after she switched allegiances.
“When I hosted Bernie at my house last week, I called friends who I was positive were Clinton supporters only to find out they liked Bernie, but just didn’t think he had a chance to win,” Bilbray said. “Here in Nevada, I think I gave people permission to support what they cared about.”
The Sanders campaign is aware that while Nevada has been thought to be Clinton’s firewall, it might also serve a useful function for the insurgent’s campaign — even a tight loss would demonstrate that the Vermont senator can compete in a diverse state.
“She needs a decisive win here,” said a Democratic strategist from Nevada. “It may not be the firewall people think it is.”
“I think it’s the beginning of the explosion of the myth that Bernie has a limited appeal and he’s a one-state wonder,” said Sanders’ top strategist, Tad Devine, of a strong showing in Nevada. “If we do well, a lot of doors open very quickly.”
There are several factors suggesting an opening for Sanders to mount a strong challenge to the Democratic front-runner — if he plays his ground game right.
The powerful Culinary Union that represents 60,000 members, multiple sources said, is expected to remain neutral and offer no endorsement until after the caucuses. In 2008, the union backed Obama about three weeks before the caucuses.
Same-day registration for Democrats here also means more nontraditional voters can participate in the process if Sanders campaign manages to turn them out on caucus day. To that effect, National Nurses United launched a “Bernie Bus” on Wednesday, making multiple stops in Las Vegas to rally supporters ahead of the Democratic dinner. The bus made stops in front of the Tropicana Las Vegas and the MGM Grand Conference Center to turn out Nevada registered nurses for Sanders.
But Clinton has learned from the mistakes of 2008, focusing her resources on the state’s rural areas — a correction from its approach eight years ago, when Clinton technically won the balloting but lost the delegate count to Obama, who campaigned hard in rural areas and Carson City and took 14 delegates to her 11.
This time, the campaign has zeroed in on Elko, a small, conservative city in eastern Nevada, placing a staffer there months ago and opening a new office there this week. (In the 2008 general election, Obama was the first Democratic candidate to open a field office in the Republican stronghold).
The Clinton campaign also spent the summer conducting rural listening tours spanning 1,250 miles of terrain across the state.
Clinton’s top brass also understand the lay of the land here: Her campaign manager, Robby Mook, ran her Nevada operation eight years ago.
“Nevada is hugely critical for us because it’s the most diverse of the early states, and not just in terms of Hispanics, but also African-Americans,” said Clinton Nevada state director Emmy Ruiz. “It basically sets the tone for all the primaries that are coming right after it.”
Clinton operatives are hopeful the makeup of the state will play to their advantage. Hispanics now make up about 23 percent of registered voters in Nevada, up about 5 percent since 2008, in part because of a massive voter registration drive in 2012. Ruiz notes that the campaign has seen an uptick in Latino volunteers since Donald Trump’s rise in the polls.
“The rhetoric coming from the other side — not just Trump — is really, really motivating people,” she said.
The state will serve as the first real test of Clinton’s appeal among Latino voters who will be crucial in a general election and in Super Tuesday states. Sanders’ appeal to Latinos remains a question mark — at a rally here after the first Democratic debate, the crowd that came out to support Sanders was noticeably white for a diverse state, as was the senator’s pre-dinner rally Wednesday.
But Sanders supporters said they are hopeful that his message will resonate in a state that was hard hit by the 2008 financial crisis, and where wages have not kept pace with the rising cost of living.
“When you give people the power to fight for you,” Bilbray said, “they will fight for you and that’s what I've seen from the Sanders campaign.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-nevada-217432#ixzz3wbmcE5Qn
Hillary Clinton has been vigilant but the state that was supposed to stop Bernie Sanders' momentum might be in play.
By Annie Karni
01/06/16 08:31 PM EST
Updated 01/07/16 12:49 AM EST
LAS VEGAS — Hillary Clinton has been on the ground in Nevada since last April. Bernie Sanders only began building up his organization here late in the fall.
But the state that’s been touted as Clinton’s firewall against the Vermont senator in the event he generates any momentum out of the whiter and more liberal states of Iowa and New Hampshire is suddenly looking like it’s in play, potentially opening another unexpected early state front.
Sanders is playing catchup — and fast.
He has now hired almost twice the number of staffers on the ground in Nevada — 40 to Clinton's 22, as of July. The campaign would not provide an updated number of paid staffers on the ground. And he has opened nine field offices across the state compared to Clinton’s six (the campaign said it is opening its seventh office, in Elko, on Thursday).
Sanders also has invested heavily in ad buys on English- and Spanish-language television and radio, spending $767,539 to date compared with Clinton's recent $162,490 ad buy.
Eight years ago, Nevada was also supposed to be Clinton’s firewall against Barack Obama. She won the popular vote here 51 percent to 45 percent, but Obama ended up taking home more delegates than Clinton and tainted what was supposed to have been a clean win for her.
Now, it is Sanders who is proving resilient as all three Democratic candidates descended on the MGM casino Wednesday night for a state party caucus dinner hosted by Sen. Harry Reid.
There, Clinton offered a hyper-local version of her stump speech, showing a mastery of local Nevada politics and issues. She went after Nevada’s Republican Attorney General Adam Paul Laxalt, “who seems to have made it his mission to tear apart hard working American families.” And she singled out Republican Rep. Cresent Hardy for saying “Mitt Romney was right about the 47 percent, and that people with disabilities are, and I quote him, are a drain on society.”
Clinton pitched herself as a candidate who is not only running for President, but “raising millions of dollars for our state parties to help you build the infrastructure you need,” a difference from Sanders. It was a strong pitch for a local crowd. . For his part, Sanders revved up a crowd who came equipped with ear-piercing vuvuzelas with his standard stump speech about a political revolution "against the billionaire class whose greed is destroying our economy." But he put no distinct local spin on his remarks.
But in recent days, Sanders has won over some of Clinton’s most stalwart supporters in the state. Erin Bilbray, a member of the Democratic National Committee from Nevada who was so loyal to Clinton in 2008 that she refused to support Obama at the convention, has endorsed the Vermont senator.
Bilbray said in October she was planning to support Clinton. But she changed her mind after a friend dragged her to an organizing meeting hosted by the Sanders campaign.
“I started getting more and more excited as I was watching his volunteers, how organized they were, how in the trenches they were,” she said. “His supporters here are passionate. The situation with super PACs and unregulated money is the biggest concern for the future of democracy in this country and Bernie is the only candidate addressing it.”
She said the Clinton campaign wrote her a cordial note after she switched allegiances.
“When I hosted Bernie at my house last week, I called friends who I was positive were Clinton supporters only to find out they liked Bernie, but just didn’t think he had a chance to win,” Bilbray said. “Here in Nevada, I think I gave people permission to support what they cared about.”
The Sanders campaign is aware that while Nevada has been thought to be Clinton’s firewall, it might also serve a useful function for the insurgent’s campaign — even a tight loss would demonstrate that the Vermont senator can compete in a diverse state.
“She needs a decisive win here,” said a Democratic strategist from Nevada. “It may not be the firewall people think it is.”
“I think it’s the beginning of the explosion of the myth that Bernie has a limited appeal and he’s a one-state wonder,” said Sanders’ top strategist, Tad Devine, of a strong showing in Nevada. “If we do well, a lot of doors open very quickly.”
There are several factors suggesting an opening for Sanders to mount a strong challenge to the Democratic front-runner — if he plays his ground game right.
The powerful Culinary Union that represents 60,000 members, multiple sources said, is expected to remain neutral and offer no endorsement until after the caucuses. In 2008, the union backed Obama about three weeks before the caucuses.
Same-day registration for Democrats here also means more nontraditional voters can participate in the process if Sanders campaign manages to turn them out on caucus day. To that effect, National Nurses United launched a “Bernie Bus” on Wednesday, making multiple stops in Las Vegas to rally supporters ahead of the Democratic dinner. The bus made stops in front of the Tropicana Las Vegas and the MGM Grand Conference Center to turn out Nevada registered nurses for Sanders.
But Clinton has learned from the mistakes of 2008, focusing her resources on the state’s rural areas — a correction from its approach eight years ago, when Clinton technically won the balloting but lost the delegate count to Obama, who campaigned hard in rural areas and Carson City and took 14 delegates to her 11.
This time, the campaign has zeroed in on Elko, a small, conservative city in eastern Nevada, placing a staffer there months ago and opening a new office there this week. (In the 2008 general election, Obama was the first Democratic candidate to open a field office in the Republican stronghold).
The Clinton campaign also spent the summer conducting rural listening tours spanning 1,250 miles of terrain across the state.
Clinton’s top brass also understand the lay of the land here: Her campaign manager, Robby Mook, ran her Nevada operation eight years ago.
“Nevada is hugely critical for us because it’s the most diverse of the early states, and not just in terms of Hispanics, but also African-Americans,” said Clinton Nevada state director Emmy Ruiz. “It basically sets the tone for all the primaries that are coming right after it.”
Clinton operatives are hopeful the makeup of the state will play to their advantage. Hispanics now make up about 23 percent of registered voters in Nevada, up about 5 percent since 2008, in part because of a massive voter registration drive in 2012. Ruiz notes that the campaign has seen an uptick in Latino volunteers since Donald Trump’s rise in the polls.
“The rhetoric coming from the other side — not just Trump — is really, really motivating people,” she said.
The state will serve as the first real test of Clinton’s appeal among Latino voters who will be crucial in a general election and in Super Tuesday states. Sanders’ appeal to Latinos remains a question mark — at a rally here after the first Democratic debate, the crowd that came out to support Sanders was noticeably white for a diverse state, as was the senator’s pre-dinner rally Wednesday.
But Sanders supporters said they are hopeful that his message will resonate in a state that was hard hit by the 2008 financial crisis, and where wages have not kept pace with the rising cost of living.
“When you give people the power to fight for you,” Bilbray said, “they will fight for you and that’s what I've seen from the Sanders campaign.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-nevada-217432#ixzz3wbmcE5Qn
Hillary Clinton has been vigilant but the state that was supposed to stop Bernie Sanders' momentum might be in play.
By Annie Karni
01/06/16 08:31 PM EST
Updated 01/07/16 12:49 AM EST
LAS VEGAS — Hillary Clinton has been on the ground in Nevada since last April. Bernie Sanders only began building up his organization here late in the fall.
But the state that’s been touted as Clinton’s firewall against the Vermont senator in the event he generates any momentum out of the whiter and more liberal states of Iowa and New Hampshire is suddenly looking like it’s in play, potentially opening another unexpected early state front.
Sanders is playing catchup — and fast.
He has now hired almost twice the number of staffers on the ground in Nevada — 40 to Clinton's 22, as of July. The campaign would not provide an updated number of paid staffers on the ground. And he has opened nine field offices across the state compared to Clinton’s six (the campaign said it is opening its seventh office, in Elko, on Thursday).
Sanders also has invested heavily in ad buys on English- and Spanish-language television and radio, spending $767,539 to date compared with Clinton's recent $162,490 ad buy.
Eight years ago, Nevada was also supposed to be Clinton’s firewall against Barack Obama. She won the popular vote here 51 percent to 45 percent, but Obama ended up taking home more delegates than Clinton and tainted what was supposed to have been a clean win for her.
Now, it is Sanders who is proving resilient as all three Democratic candidates descended on the MGM casino Wednesday night for a state party caucus dinner hosted by Sen. Harry Reid.
There, Clinton offered a hyper-local version of her stump speech, showing a mastery of local Nevada politics and issues. She went after Nevada’s Republican Attorney General Adam Paul Laxalt, “who seems to have made it his mission to tear apart hard working American families.” And she singled out Republican Rep. Cresent Hardy for saying “Mitt Romney was right about the 47 percent, and that people with disabilities are, and I quote him, are a drain on society.”
Clinton pitched herself as a candidate who is not only running for President, but “raising millions of dollars for our state parties to help you build the infrastructure you need,” a difference from Sanders. It was a strong pitch for a local crowd. . For his part, Sanders revved up a crowd who came equipped with ear-piercing vuvuzelas with his standard stump speech about a political revolution "against the billionaire class whose greed is destroying our economy." But he put no distinct local spin on his remarks.
But in recent days, Sanders has won over some of Clinton’s most stalwart supporters in the state. Erin Bilbray, a member of the Democratic National Committee from Nevada who was so loyal to Clinton in 2008 that she refused to support Obama at the convention, has endorsed the Vermont senator.
Bilbray said in October she was planning to support Clinton. But she changed her mind after a friend dragged her to an organizing meeting hosted by the Sanders campaign.
“I started getting more and more excited as I was watching his volunteers, how organized they were, how in the trenches they were,” she said. “His supporters here are passionate. The situation with super PACs and unregulated money is the biggest concern for the future of democracy in this country and Bernie is the only candidate addressing it.”
She said the Clinton campaign wrote her a cordial note after she switched allegiances.
“When I hosted Bernie at my house last week, I called friends who I was positive were Clinton supporters only to find out they liked Bernie, but just didn’t think he had a chance to win,” Bilbray said. “Here in Nevada, I think I gave people permission to support what they cared about.”
The Sanders campaign is aware that while Nevada has been thought to be Clinton’s firewall, it might also serve a useful function for the insurgent’s campaign — even a tight loss would demonstrate that the Vermont senator can compete in a diverse state.
“She needs a decisive win here,” said a Democratic strategist from Nevada. “It may not be the firewall people think it is.”
“I think it’s the beginning of the explosion of the myth that Bernie has a limited appeal and he’s a one-state wonder,” said Sanders’ top strategist, Tad Devine, of a strong showing in Nevada. “If we do well, a lot of doors open very quickly.”
There are several factors suggesting an opening for Sanders to mount a strong challenge to the Democratic front-runner — if he plays his ground game right.
The powerful Culinary Union that represents 60,000 members, multiple sources said, is expected to remain neutral and offer no endorsement until after the caucuses. In 2008, the union backed Obama about three weeks before the caucuses.
Same-day registration for Democrats here also means more nontraditional voters can participate in the process if Sanders campaign manages to turn them out on caucus day. To that effect, National Nurses United launched a “Bernie Bus” on Wednesday, making multiple stops in Las Vegas to rally supporters ahead of the Democratic dinner. The bus made stops in front of the Tropicana Las Vegas and the MGM Grand Conference Center to turn out Nevada registered nurses for Sanders.
But Clinton has learned from the mistakes of 2008, focusing her resources on the state’s rural areas — a correction from its approach eight years ago, when Clinton technically won the balloting but lost the delegate count to Obama, who campaigned hard in rural areas and Carson City and took 14 delegates to her 11.
This time, the campaign has zeroed in on Elko, a small, conservative city in eastern Nevada, placing a staffer there months ago and opening a new office there this week. (In the 2008 general election, Obama was the first Democratic candidate to open a field office in the Republican stronghold).
The Clinton campaign also spent the summer conducting rural listening tours spanning 1,250 miles of terrain across the state.
Clinton’s top brass also understand the lay of the land here: Her campaign manager, Robby Mook, ran her Nevada operation eight years ago.
“Nevada is hugely critical for us because it’s the most diverse of the early states, and not just in terms of Hispanics, but also African-Americans,” said Clinton Nevada state director Emmy Ruiz. “It basically sets the tone for all the primaries that are coming right after it.”
Clinton operatives are hopeful the makeup of the state will play to their advantage. Hispanics now make up about 23 percent of registered voters in Nevada, up about 5 percent since 2008, in part because of a massive voter registration drive in 2012. Ruiz notes that the campaign has seen an uptick in Latino volunteers since Donald Trump’s rise in the polls.
“The rhetoric coming from the other side — not just Trump — is really, really motivating people,” she said.
The state will serve as the first real test of Clinton’s appeal among Latino voters who will be crucial in a general election and in Super Tuesday states. Sanders’ appeal to Latinos remains a question mark — at a rally here after the first Democratic debate, the crowd that came out to support Sanders was noticeably white for a diverse state, as was the senator’s pre-dinner rally Wednesday.
But Sanders supporters said they are hopeful that his message will resonate in a state that was hard hit by the 2008 financial crisis, and where wages have not kept pace with the rising cost of living.
“When you give people the power to fight for you,” Bilbray said, “they will fight for you and that’s what I've seen from the Sanders campaign.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-nevada-217432#ixzz3wbmcE5Qn
Hillary Clinton has been vigilant but the state that was supposed to stop Bernie Sanders' momentum might be in play.
By Annie Karni
01/06/16 08:31 PM EST
Updated 01/07/16 12:49 AM EST
LAS VEGAS — Hillary Clinton has been on the ground in Nevada since last April. Bernie Sanders only began building up his organization here late in the fall.
But the state that’s been touted as Clinton’s firewall against the Vermont senator in the event he generates any momentum out of the whiter and more liberal states of Iowa and New Hampshire is suddenly looking like it’s in play, potentially opening another unexpected early state front.
Sanders is playing catchup — and fast.
He has now hired almost twice the number of staffers on the ground in Nevada — 40 to Clinton's 22, as of July. The campaign would not provide an updated number of paid staffers on the ground. And he has opened nine field offices across the state compared to Clinton’s six (the campaign said it is opening its seventh office, in Elko, on Thursday).
Sanders also has invested heavily in ad buys on English- and Spanish-language television and radio, spending $767,539 to date compared with Clinton's recent $162,490 ad buy.
Eight years ago, Nevada was also supposed to be Clinton’s firewall against Barack Obama. She won the popular vote here 51 percent to 45 percent, but Obama ended up taking home more delegates than Clinton and tainted what was supposed to have been a clean win for her.
Now, it is Sanders who is proving resilient as all three Democratic candidates descended on the MGM casino Wednesday night for a state party caucus dinner hosted by Sen. Harry Reid.
There, Clinton offered a hyper-local version of her stump speech, showing a mastery of local Nevada politics and issues. She went after Nevada’s Republican Attorney General Adam Paul Laxalt, “who seems to have made it his mission to tear apart hard working American families.” And she singled out Republican Rep. Cresent Hardy for saying “Mitt Romney was right about the 47 percent, and that people with disabilities are, and I quote him, are a drain on society.”
Clinton pitched herself as a candidate who is not only running for President, but “raising millions of dollars for our state parties to help you build the infrastructure you need,” a difference from Sanders. It was a strong pitch for a local crowd. . For his part, Sanders revved up a crowd who came equipped with ear-piercing vuvuzelas with his standard stump speech about a political revolution "against the billionaire class whose greed is destroying our economy." But he put no distinct local spin on his remarks.
But in recent days, Sanders has won over some of Clinton’s most stalwart supporters in the state. Erin Bilbray, a member of the Democratic National Committee from Nevada who was so loyal to Clinton in 2008 that she refused to support Obama at the convention, has endorsed the Vermont senator.
Bilbray said in October she was planning to support Clinton. But she changed her mind after a friend dragged her to an organizing meeting hosted by the Sanders campaign.
“I started getting more and more excited as I was watching his volunteers, how organized they were, how in the trenches they were,” she said. “His supporters here are passionate. The situation with super PACs and unregulated money is the biggest concern for the future of democracy in this country and Bernie is the only candidate addressing it.”
She said the Clinton campaign wrote her a cordial note after she switched allegiances.
“When I hosted Bernie at my house last week, I called friends who I was positive were Clinton supporters only to find out they liked Bernie, but just didn’t think he had a chance to win,” Bilbray said. “Here in Nevada, I think I gave people permission to support what they cared about.”
The Sanders campaign is aware that while Nevada has been thought to be Clinton’s firewall, it might also serve a useful function for the insurgent’s campaign — even a tight loss would demonstrate that the Vermont senator can compete in a diverse state.
“She needs a decisive win here,” said a Democratic strategist from Nevada. “It may not be the firewall people think it is.”
“I think it’s the beginning of the explosion of the myth that Bernie has a limited appeal and he’s a one-state wonder,” said Sanders’ top strategist, Tad Devine, of a strong showing in Nevada. “If we do well, a lot of doors open very quickly.”
There are several factors suggesting an opening for Sanders to mount a strong challenge to the Democratic front-runner — if he plays his ground game right.
The powerful Culinary Union that represents 60,000 members, multiple sources said, is expected to remain neutral and offer no endorsement until after the caucuses. In 2008, the union backed Obama about three weeks before the caucuses.
Same-day registration for Democrats here also means more nontraditional voters can participate in the process if Sanders campaign manages to turn them out on caucus day. To that effect, National Nurses United launched a “Bernie Bus” on Wednesday, making multiple stops in Las Vegas to rally supporters ahead of the Democratic dinner. The bus made stops in front of the Tropicana Las Vegas and the MGM Grand Conference Center to turn out Nevada registered nurses for Sanders.
But Clinton has learned from the mistakes of 2008, focusing her resources on the state’s rural areas — a correction from its approach eight years ago, when Clinton technically won the balloting but lost the delegate count to Obama, who campaigned hard in rural areas and Carson City and took 14 delegates to her 11.
This time, the campaign has zeroed in on Elko, a small, conservative city in eastern Nevada, placing a staffer there months ago and opening a new office there this week. (In the 2008 general election, Obama was the first Democratic candidate to open a field office in the Republican stronghold).
The Clinton campaign also spent the summer conducting rural listening tours spanning 1,250 miles of terrain across the state.
Clinton’s top brass also understand the lay of the land here: Her campaign manager, Robby Mook, ran her Nevada operation eight years ago.
“Nevada is hugely critical for us because it’s the most diverse of the early states, and not just in terms of Hispanics, but also African-Americans,” said Clinton Nevada state director Emmy Ruiz. “It basically sets the tone for all the primaries that are coming right after it.”
Clinton operatives are hopeful the makeup of the state will play to their advantage. Hispanics now make up about 23 percent of registered voters in Nevada, up about 5 percent since 2008, in part because of a massive voter registration drive in 2012. Ruiz notes that the campaign has seen an uptick in Latino volunteers since Donald Trump’s rise in the polls.
“The rhetoric coming from the other side — not just Trump — is really, really motivating people,” she said.
The state will serve as the first real test of Clinton’s appeal among Latino voters who will be crucial in a general election and in Super Tuesday states. Sanders’ appeal to Latinos remains a question mark — at a rally here after the first Democratic debate, the crowd that came out to support Sanders was noticeably white for a diverse state, as was the senator’s pre-dinner rally Wednesday.
But Sanders supporters said they are hopeful that his message will resonate in a state that was hard hit by the 2008 financial crisis, and where wages have not kept pace with the rising cost of living.
“When you give people the power to fight for you,” Bilbray said, “they will fight for you and that’s what I've seen from the Sanders campaign.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-nevada-217432#ixzz3wbmcE5Qn
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» Iraqis consume 7 billion eggs annually and import about $900 million
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» The Iranian role complicates attempts at open cooperation between Iraq and Turkey. Turkey is trying
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» Move in Iran to obtain $242 billion from Iraq in compensation for the eight-year war
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» 12 decisions from the Council of Ministers regarding the Baghdad Metro and Najaf-Karbala train proje
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» Sudanese Advisor: The path to development has begun... the Baka and the militias “we silence them wi
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» Not from Kurdistan.. How did Iraq become a source of oil for “Israeli tanks”?
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» Parliamentary Agriculture criticizes the Sudanese and Erdogan agreement: Türkiye will control water
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» The Iraqi government issues new decisions
Yesterday at 2:35 pm by Rocky
» The story of “reduced oil” to Jordan, from “compulsion” to mutual benefit.. Is there a loss?
Yesterday at 2:33 pm by Rocky
» The Council of Ministers takes 12 decisions for the Baghdad Metro and the Najaf-Karbala train
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» utube MM&C 4/23/24 Iraqi Dinar - IQD Update - Development Road Project - Saviour of Global Banking
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» Kidney from pig transplanted into deathly ill New Jersey woman — and begins working almost immediat
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» The most difficult option.. Warnings of the danger of floating the Iraqi dinar without achieving an
Yesterday at 9:48 am by Rocky
» Trade from the “Economic Committee” with Türkiye: It will overcome all obstacles facing the traders
Yesterday at 9:46 am by Rocky
» Washington's hope for stable relations with Baghdad clashes with Iraqi parties' rejection of the Ame
Yesterday at 9:41 am by Rocky
» Karim Badr: Development is America’s will to kill silk
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» Oil: Opening of a new port for liquid gas for vehicles in Baghdad
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» A media advisor warns of corruption in a draft law on the Parliament’s agenda
Yesterday at 9:21 am by Rocky
» Economist: There is serious work to lift US sanctions on Iraqi banks
Yesterday at 9:16 am by Rocky
» Will the agreements signed with the US Treasury reflect positively on the exchange rates?
Yesterday at 7:52 am by Rocky
» Iraq continues its quest to join the World Trade Organization
Yesterday at 7:51 am by Rocky
» Iraq completes the completion of the files for the initial offer of goods and services to join the W
Yesterday at 7:50 am by Rocky
» Economist: Travelers' dollars are leaking into the parallel market...and this is what the Central Ba
Yesterday at 7:32 am by Rocky
» President of the Federal Court: It is not permissible to force anyone to join any party, and the pol
Yesterday at 7:30 am by Rocky
» The Council of Ministers holds its session headed by Al-Sudani
Yesterday at 7:27 am by Rocky
» America weakens Baghdad...and increases Kurdistan's military capabilities
Yesterday at 7:26 am by Rocky
» The Iraqi government plans to build 10,000 schools throughout the country
Yesterday at 7:23 am by Rocky
» American threats close the Iraqi Stock Exchange at a loss
Yesterday at 7:21 am by Rocky
» Increase in external transfers at the Central Bank
Yesterday at 7:20 am by Rocky
» Al-Maliki calls on Britain to cancel restrictions on the entry of its companies into Iraq
Yesterday at 7:18 am by Rocky
» Planning and the European Union are discussing signing a number of agreements in the development, en
Yesterday at 7:16 am by Rocky
» Parliament talks about the mechanism for recovering smuggled funds and hints at the next stage
Yesterday at 7:13 am by Rocky
» Interior Ministry: The number of completed national cards reached 37 million cards
Yesterday at 7:06 am by Rocky
» Amnesty International: Violations of freedom and human rights continue in Iraq and the Kurdistan Reg
Yesterday at 7:04 am by Rocky
» Parliamentary Oil: The government is proceeding with the decision to raise the price of improved gas
Yesterday at 7:03 am by Rocky
» A parliamentary committee in Basra to investigate violations of the port company and the local gover
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» Revealing the 10 most important American exports to Iraq
Yesterday at 5:31 am by Rocky
» A noticeable increase in the rate of Iraq's import of Chinese cooling devices
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» Prime Minister: Working on projects without completing the infrastructure is a waste of money
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» Iraq.. Extending the deadline for registration procedures on plots of land
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» What is the main purpose of conducting the population census in Iraq?
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» A plan to transform Iraq from a barren land to green with 5 million trees
Yesterday at 5:24 am by Rocky
» The Housing Fund announces the acceptance of more than 11 thousand loans through the Ur platform
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» The Bank of Baghdad is moving to increase its capital to 400 billion dinars
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» The electronic payment system will soon be adopted on Iraqi buses
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» “It threatens our interests and destroys our economy.” An Iraqi project “irritates” the Kuwaiti stre
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» Warning from the Central Bank about “misuse of electronic payment cards”
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» Iraq and the Sultanate of Oman are discussing sending capacities through the Gulf countries
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» The fact that a decision was issued to deport Syrian workers from Iraq
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» Rice comes first... America exports 10 foodstuffs worth more than 350 million dollars to Iraq
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» A sixth licensing round for gas exploration
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» Baghdad is preparing to host the 50th session of the Arab Labor Conference
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» Scientific symposium on the future vision of the tripartite budget
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» Five conversion power stations enter service in Najaf
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» Planning: Conduct a population census next November
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» Experts: Spreading misleading information harms development and investment
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» Economists call for tightening money laundering laws and port controls
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