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Hillary Clinton eked out a narrow win over Bernie Sanders in Nevada on Saturday.
Clinton scored her second victory in the third contest of the primary-caucus season — 53 percent to 48 percent, with 85 precincts reporting — by weaving together a coalition of women, union workers, minorities, seniors and wealthier Democrats.
“Some may have doubted us but we never doubted each other,” Clinton told supporters in Las Vegas. “This one’s for you.”
Exit polls showed Sanders attracted younger voters and won Latino votes 53 to 45 percent.
Clinton also beat Sanders among black voters, 76 percent to 22 percent, polls showed.
And voters who favored Clinton worried Sanders would have trouble winning a general election against a Republican.
“As far as being too far left, I agree with a lot of the stuff he has to say. But the problem I have is that all the stuff he is promising is never going to happen,” said Marvin Teske, 53, a Reno casino security guard.
With a quarter of precincts still not counted, Clinton had secured 19 delegates to Sanders’ 14, and three of eight superdelegates.
Clinton added to her overall lead, 502 delegates to 69, as both campaigns shift focus to South Carolina’s primary next Saturday.
It takes 2,383 delegates to win the Democratic nomination.
Clinton maintained a double-digit lead over Sanders in 2015 polls, but the race narrowed to a virtual tie in early February.
Although Sanders had more staff on the ground, the Clinton camp concentrated its voter-mobilization efforts in northern Nevada and in the Las Vegas area, a strategy that was a key to her victory.
One third of caucusgoers said the economy was their major concern, while a quarter cited income inequality, the crux of the Sanders campaign, polls showed.
“If Ronald Reagan can smash the American Dream from right field, then Bernie can build it back up from left field,” said Dale Quale, 60, a unemployed slot machine tech who made 800 calls for the Vermont senator.
Sanders told supporters Clinton ran an “aggressive campaign” and vowed to push onwards.
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