Nevada Caucuses Results, Sanders Has Won

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders won the Nevada Caucuses, according to an Associated Press screening.
The victory gives Sanders victories in two of the first three states that were involved in the 2020 Democratic President nomination. His other win was in New Hampshire, and he also ended in a tie near the still confusing Iowa gatherings.

"In Nevada, we have just formed a multi-generation and racial coalition that will not only win in Nevada but will conquer that country," bragged Sanders shortly after media coverage at a rally in San Antonio, Texas wins Caucus.

Sanders now has a clear dynamic and an internal advantage in the candidate field and is entering a critical phase in which most of the delegates will be recognized. It is a remarkable position for a lifelong political stranger who has not yet officially joined the Democratic Party.

At another campaign event in Texas earlier in the day, Sanders pointed out to respond to critics of the key policy proposal that is pushing his candidacy for Medicare for all.
"The idea of universal health care is not a radical idea!" Sanders insisted.

Pete Buttigieg, former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, congratulated Sanders on his victory on Saturday, but warned Democrats at an event in Las Vegas what Sanders candidacy could mean for the party's prospects in general elections.

"The only way to really achieve the progressive changes that interest us is to be a candidate who really cares about the impact from above," on the House and Senate candidates, the policy changes of making health care and immigration, he said.

Buttigieg finished second after Sanders in elementary school in New Hampshire and practically tied him in Iowa, where the results of the caucus are not yet final.

"We can prioritize ideological purity or inclusive victory. We can name people online or we can call them to our movement. We can strengthen a tight and hard base or open the tent for a new, broad and generous American. Coalition" Buttigieg argued.

While Sanders will head to events in South Carolina, which holds its primary next Saturday, his campaign is more focused on Super Tuesday (March 3), as evidenced by the fact that Sanders spent more time campaigning in California and Texas than in Nevada in recent days.

The campaign is betting that the momentum earned by its sustained stretch of early victories, combined with its massive financial war chest funded by small-dollar donations, will give Sanders the edge on a day when about a third of all delegates will be awarded.

Former Vice President Joe Biden, speaking to supporters in Nevada before Sanders was projected as the winner Saturday evening, proclaimed he still had time to shake up the primary race with a win in the next contest. Early results showed him running a distant second to Sanders.

"The press is ready to declare people dead quickly, but we're alive and we're coming back and we're going to win," Biden said, adding, "We're going to win in South Carolina. Then Super Tuesday, and we are on our way."

Nina Turner, Sanders' national co-chair, told NPR that the campaign wasn't ceding the next primary to any other candidate.

"We're running in South Carolina to win," she said.