Live Blog: Hillary Wins Nevada!!! Will Trump take South Carolina?
Posted: February 20, 2016 Filed under: Live Blog | Tags: Nevada Democratic Caucus, Republican Primary 105 Comments
Hello from one of the Krewe Of Hillary!
It’s the first day of early voting here in Louisiana!
It’s also the day that Madam Secretary won the Nevada Caucus!
Tonight we’ll see if Trump manages to win the Republican Primary in South Carolina.
Hillary Clinton will win the Nevada Democratic caucuses, CNN projects, a crucial victory that could ease concerns about her ability to secure the party’s nomination.
With 72% of the expected vote in, Clinton was ahead of Sanders 52.2% to 47.7%.
The win provides a jolt of momentum to the former secretary of state as she heads into the February 27 South Carolina Democratic primary and Super Tuesday on March 1.
Clinton faced a surprisingly spirited challenge here from Democratic rival Bernie Sanders. The two were in a virtual dead heat in recent days. A win by Sanders, who trounced Clinton in the New Hampshire primary, would have dealt Clinton a dramatic setback.
Clinton relied on strong turnout from Latino voters to hold Sanders at bay. Her surrogates fanned out across the Silver State this week, attempting to portray her as the more trustworthy candidate for Latinos.
We’re waiting for the Victory Speech!!
Polls close in South Carolina in ONE HOUR so stay tuned and join us!!!
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I switched from MSNBC to CNN for awhile, but they were even worse.
All the Bernie bros are sad. Bring on South Carolina!!!
Has Hillary started speaking yet? MSNBC folks are commiserating. Brian Williams to Andrea Mitchell: “What do you think about this win that Clinton has managed to pull out?” Slanted much?
Right now
Yay!!! This one is for you!!!!
The media have been trying to throw a wrench in her campaign since day one. And now they are trying to figure out what went wrong!
You look like you’re having fun Dak, keep it up!!!
Yup. Lotsa great Hillary Supporters! I’m in my 2007 shirt … This is for everyone who’s been counted out … With her silhouette in a pants suit
Great photo!
Thx!
I love it!
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It’s on Huff Post now: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-english-only-dolores-huerta_us_56c8f49de4b041136f174654
They must not realize who they disrespected? Reminds me of similar re John Lewis. Telling that his campaign has not responded or apologized yet.
A Bernie Babe posted a tweet soon after America Ferraras’s post questioning “this Dolores person”‘s honesty.
No better illustration of the stateless state (as in protocol) of Bernie’s millennials.
Bernie followers showing their true (whites-only) colors.
Did Brian Williams actually just say that Hillary has not talked about Flint or college costs before and maybe she was influenced by Bernie to do that?!
Yes. Yes he did.
I can’t watch this shit anymore.
And Rachel just had a melt down over Super Delegates. I wonder why she wasn’t crying about that in 2008? Fuck Rachel Maddow!!!!! Sorry about my language, but watching MSNBC and their total sellout to Sanders makes me furious. So Fuck MSNBC, Too! 🙂
Maddow has destroyed her credibility period.
She surely has. I’m so put out with her that I’ve been burning down her email inbox for months. My last email I added a P.S. “Rachel, go easier on the eye shadow, mascara and eyeliner, it’s way too much”. 🙂 She wears so much eye makeup she looks like Elvira.
She can fuck off with the others.
Mouse, you speak for me too!
And the joy is ruined…fucking assholes.
I’m joyful. Fuck these assholes. Hillary will fight for every vote and she is going to be the next President of the U.S. It’s going to happen, JJ!!
Joyful is exactly what I feel. We’ve been fighting for our rights for decades and Hillary, to my mind, is a symbol of our struggle. She will not stop fighting and neither will we. Fuck Rachel Maddow, Brian Williams and all of the other MSNBC and CNN pundits who are cheering for Bernie. Bernie by the way will be 75 in September. In my opinion he’s to old for the job. As an old person I can say that!!! 🙂
I am too. I’m elated. I went to see the movie “Race” with the fam and then out to eat but got the news on my phone after I came out of the movie. I can’t contain how happy I am. Bernie is done. Stick a fork in him.
Hey JJ, just think about enjoying the exploding heads at Hillary keeps winning most of the states!
Bernie’s speech: I see white people.
And mostly white people with a third leg.
That’s about it, except for the white young women who don’t have a clue.
Maybe they’ll get a clue if the GOP wins the Presidency and attempts to legislate away their right to contraception with a GOP House, Senate and POTUS. I could happen.
Whoops I meant “It could happen”.
It’s not going to happen with Hillary as the nominee.
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Stick a fork in him. He’s done. The Party is going to go all out for Hillary now. Sanders has dug his own grave with his disgraceful behavior and that of his followers.
They should … He attacks them. Harry Reid getting the culinary folks out was big.
It was huge.
LOL! I just used that phrase above before I saw yours! Great minds…
LOL It’s the truth.
I am now trying to figure out whom I want Hillary to run against. They mentioned a Gallup Poll today which had her losing to every Republican. I’m not that worried about such a poll at this stage, but clearly the constant derogating of her by the media and by Sanders supporters, is not helping. It has occurred to me that Rubio, for all his callowness, and his non-grasp of any major issue, is the kind of candidate that Joe and even Jane Sixpack might vote for. We saw it with Bush vs. Gore in 2000. A candidate who talks solely in platitudes, tells everyone how much he loves America; stays away from ever discussing issues, even in debates.
Thus I am beginning to think that I want Trump to be nominated. Oh, he is scary, but so are all of the Republicans. If we lose this election, it is going to be a dreadful time for the country.Thus, I want Hillary to run against someone who has no record, and who doesn’t even know what the issues are, much less how to solve them. Of course, one could make the argument that if Trump doesn’t get the nomination, he will run as a third party candidate, but I don’t think he will.
Yep, I think Trump would be walkover for Hillary. But I think she’ll beat any republican when the country has the opportunity to see her debate them.
Mouse, I think you are right–but we saw Bush essentially avoid discussing anything substantive with Gore in debates. He kept saying things like “Leaders lead.” The general election debate rules, which the Republicans insist on to even have debates, are so constrained in terms of time to respond, that anyone can simply run out the clock and blather on for 90 seconds. It is not at all conducive to an exchange of opinions. I really anticipate that a Rubio campaign would consist of billions of dollars of anti-Hillary ads, and very little else, except for him saying how much he loves America. The Republicans can’t win a debate on issues, so they will just avoid them if possible, in favor or soundbites and ads.
I agree. Just watching the GOP debates proves your point. Republicans rarely answer the questions they are asked. As for Al Gore, I think he did himself in when he refused to embrace Bill Clinton. Al spent the entire campaign trying to calmly addressing the Love Story accusations, the “he invented the Internet” lie and lies about his pot use in his 20’s. Donna Brazile was a horrific campaign manager in not allowing him to really take a dagger to his fight against the many smears the GOP put out. I was so upset with Brazile I wrote her a number of emails and she even responded to one of them defending their decisions to play nice. It was just a pitifully run campaign and Al Gore is a terrible debater, especially the debate where he combed his hair like Ronald Reagan and even adopted some of Reagan’s mannerism. Still, I believe Al Gore won the election and was screwed out of the Presidency by Scalia and the other right wingers on SCOTUS.
If Bill Clinton had been allowed to campaign for Gore, we would not have had Dubya as president.
Right on all counts.
Hillary is not Al Gore. Not even close.
No she isn’t. Al was timid and lacked the energy to fight to win. Hillary won’t stop fighting.
Hillary will have Bill campaigning for her. And Obama.
Wow. I was just saying the opposite earlier. I would rather Rubio than Trump. I think Hillary can crush Rubio but Trump (although I think she would beat him too) is almost never criticized. He stands on the stage and throws shit like a monkey and his followers and the media barely notice it and move on. It will be interesting no matter which one it is but I still think Rubio is too much of a light weight. Kasich would be stronger than Rubio IMO.
My money is on Trump with Rubio getting the VP slot.
That’s assuming Trump has any grasp of logic.
Kasich is the most worrisome, in that he is not insane, and he has some grasp of issues, just the wrong position of all of them. I could definitely see him on the ticket.
Hillary is by far the most intelligent, most capable person out there. But as my father told me once, the Republicans can run just about anyone, and have a good chance to win, because they have the money and most of the media. I honeslty do not know whom I’d rather have her face. I just hope that somehow the media covers this election with some degree of fairness, rather than trying to control the outcome, and come up with a bunch of ridiculous issues like the ones Mouse mentioned below, and like those used in 1988 against Dukakis.
Tonight we will celebrate Hillary’s victory, and a good path ahead to the nonination. But like everyone, I tend to worry, because it so incredibly important that she win.
No one seems to notice how dumb Rubio is …
I just saw Chris Matthews, who should know better, talking about Rubio’s youth and energy, and how he is the voice of a new generation; and how people can identify with his story of being first generation American, and… Of course, the fact that he is a far right-wing Republican who is much worse than Romney with regard to social and economic issues, is not in the discussion. THe media, and then the public, is just so deluded by these “personal narratives,” and do not seem to realize it is primarily about governance. We are not picking the winner of some talent show. They seem to think we are, though.
The final results are not in yet but it looks like Cruz is gaining on Rubio. They are less than 1k votes apart at this point and Cruz is up there speaking like he won. So we aren’t done with him yet.
MSNBC becoming an arm of the Bernie Sanders campaign has influenced this race. They needed viewership and keeping this race going does that. And Sanders concession speech implied that he’ll be fighting against a Super Pac in SC that is funded by Wall Street. Demagoguery Much Bernie? What a little weasel.
I can’t stand him and his one note campaign. But she did it and she did it against the media bias.
Love, love, love this lady!
Me too Pat, she is a fighter of the highest order and she will continue to fight to win the Nomination until the last vote is counted.
Media bias and he outspent her 2 to 1. This is a big victory for her, and Bernie knows it.
Bernie outspending the “Wall Street candidate” and losing. Priceless. Hillary won because she had the votes of the people.
Don’t forget that MSNBC is also an arm of the Trump campaign. They are becoming Fox News.
They’ve called it for him.
Ugh. Still I think Cruz and Rubio are both worse than Trump.
From a Latino icon:
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Without Latinos and African Americans, Bernie is finished. And he has alienated both groups.
As that “English only” video gets around, Latino/a followers of Sanders will wake up and support Hillary.
They mostly already do support her.
The MA primary is March 1st. Sanders ads are playing every 5 minutes. Ugh!
That’s why I only watch TV on my computer. They don’t run those ads.
Sanders campaign appears to be conceding South Carolina. Big mistake.
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Yeah. He’s on his way to Texas.
LOL. Well he’ll go over big in Austin anyway.
With teary eyes, I can’t help but celebrate one woman who was truly a friend, and like so many of us, she was there every step of the way for Hillary.
Please I can’t look online. Did Hillary take SC?
Never mind. I see, it isn’t until next week.
Bernie isn’t even going to contest SC it seems. He’s going to focus on Super Tuesday. After that, he may go on, but it will be over.
That’s next week. Jeb just quit.
Fannie, thank you for this beautiful tribute. It brought back so many memories.
This was great! I hadn’t seen it before.
She was a powerhouse and a strong true woman for her constituents and the country!
What a good day this was! I’m going to logoff and relax with a mystery. Thanks, everyone, for being here.
Jeb! suspended his campaign.
Jeb._
Lol
In other news, Rubio is #2 – yet another impressive Rubio victory.
A semi-victory. Only in a GOP Primary is 2nd place treated like a win.
Well, unless Hillary Clinton comes in first as in Iowa, Nevada. Did you notice that Bernie didn’t even congratulate Hillary? And then he claimed to have won the Latino vote?
Ugh. I used to really respect him.
I just read at 538 blog that the early entry polls had him leading among Latinos, but 538 questioned that poll. They said the sample was too small. But of course Bernie was going to go with that poll because BS, which doesn’t stand for Bernie Sanders, is what he does.
https://twitter.com/davidplouffe/status/701167322996670465
I’m sitting here at 10:48 central time and watching Hillary speaking live in Houston, TX. Tweety thinks her age is going to be an issue. She’s older than I am and I’m ready to go to bed. She won Nevada caucus, gave victory speech, flew to TX and is bringing the house down. I’m heading to bed. I’m getting tired just thinking about her schedule.
Remember her schedule as SoS? She has stamina and then some!
Congratulations to Hillary on her win in Nevada. Enjoy your celebration, Skydancers. You and Hillary have earned it. xoxo
Thank you, Beata!
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/20/hillary-clinton-narrowly-clinches-nevada-caucus-donald-trump-wins-big-south-carolina-primary
“Narrowly.” Not biased or anything like that, are we, Guardian writers? Heh. 🙂 If Hillary’s A-A support is “more durable than that of Latino voters” we have win after win ahead!
Casting doubt on Latino voter “durability,” eh? Who are they going to vote for — Trump? Hahaha!
Bernie’s camp (and therefore the media) is making a big deal out of the fact that Bernie beat Hillary among hispanics in nevada. The problem nobody bothers to explain is that it was a caucus. The hispanics working in Las Vegas and elsewhere couldn’t get the day off to attend a caucus. There were what, around 11,000 total votes? I’d go out on a limb and say Hillary wins when it comes to working hispanics without any data to back me up.
He didn’t win with Hispanics. They are basing that on entrance polls. The final count showed that Hillary won them by 20%. She wouldn’t have won at all if she had lost them.
Bernie and his crew are liars!
Yes they are!!! And they’ve been using dirty tricks all along the way and the MSM with smirking Rachel at the wheel refuses to call them out, but Rachel didn’t hesitate to attempt to call out Debbie Wasserman Shultz over Super Delegates. I feel a new email to rachel@msnbc.com, coming on!!!!
Luna, the final result was Hillary between 5 and 6 points ahead of Bernie. That is not a “narrow” win.
Exactly right!!! Even a solid win for Hillary is portrayed as a narrow win. I wonder how Rachel is going to dress up his next smashing defeat in SC? Let me guess. She’s going to say he narrowed her lead significantly and that at one point she was beating him by 40%. That should make the berners feel better.
I was being sarcastic about the “narrowly” which was the Guardian’s adverb. Guess that didn’t come across very well.
I was wondering if Al Jazeera would be less biased than the Guardian about Hillary. Apparently not. And here is this ludicrous “truth” from an opinion writer who think Hillary is taking Black voters for granted.
Oy. Is this person out of her teens yet?
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/12/hillary-clinton-is-not-entitled-to-black-votes.html
I’m sorry to see Al-Jazeera’s joined the Boyz. The only international media I’ve found in English so far that isn’t mostly business or hasn’t been all bro’d up is the Toronto Star.
This is how they covered today:
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/02/20/hillary-clinton-wins-nevada-democratic-presidential-caucus.html
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation used to be a beacon for women, especially for those of us lucky enough to pick up direct radio or TV. “As It Happens” in particular was a welcome relief to the increasingly misogynist NPR. But a massive 2008 budget cut and a conservative prime minister later, CBC news leads with the likes of Neil MacDonald – a Hillary hater from way back and an ongoing rape apologist. Half the time their articles are written by AP anyway, with -that- bias against women going back at least twenty years.
The Star has yet to be swept up in the retreat to the 1950s in journalism. It was the home of the legendary Michele Landsberg until her retirement. There are still some very good opinion columnists there (just avoid Rosie DeManno).
Thx for the link, Early.
Quite welcome.
I just put up a fresh thread as a placeholder till JJ puts up her post. Come on up!