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LAS VEGAS — Caucusing at the East Las Vegas community center started late, but without incident, as voters from the heavily Latino part of the city found their precincts. Some precincts attracted dozens of voters, while precinct 4543 had just 14.Conway, an ironworker who said he agreed with Biden’s opposition to Medicare-for-all, made up the entire Biden contingent in his corner. Twelve voters, mostly Latino, supported Sanders, while one backed Warren.
Early vote returns suggest Sanders is gaining the most during the important viability stage of Nevada caucus precincts, in which only candidates with a certain threshold of support in the initial vote tally are eligible to receive county convention delegates. With 216 caucus participants — including 56 in the room — the magic number for viability was 33. Sanders had emerged from the first alignment with 40 supporters, but somehow the app had rendered him not viable after the second and final alignment, awarding him no delegates. After arguing about the numbers for an hour in the stuffy, windowless classroom, a caucus volunteer was finally able to get through to the party hotline and go through the math produced on the app one more time.
LAS VEGAS — In a memo this week, Alana Mounce, executive director of the state Democratic Party, said Nevada Democrats were “committed to executing the most accessible, expansive, and transparent caucus yet in 2020.”And how could it be? Some 2,000 meetings just unfolded across a state that is almost twice the size of Iowa and New Hampshire combined.
DNC Chairman Tom Perez, the DNC chairman, sought to manage expectations this week when he refused to commit the party to releasing Nevada results Saturday. But Molly Forgey, a spokeswoman for the state party, had maintained a same-day release was the party’s plan. “If there are any math questions or other issues on caucus reporting sheets, they will be addressed subsequent to caucus day according to our established results review procedures,” she wrote.Two hours after the Nevada caucuses began, the state Democratic Party still has not released any official results. It is unclear when it will do so.
“When I look out at an audience like this and I see the diversity and beauty in this audience,” Sanders said to screams. “Let me tell you, you do look beautiful from here. When I look out, I have absolute confidence we can create a government based on compassion, based on love and based on truth, not what we have now of greed, corruption and lies."
HENDERSON, Nev. — At Coronado High School, a precinct site about 15 miles southeast of Las Vegas, everything went smoothly caucusing with the state party’s new app. At Precinct 7530, also in Henderson, there was confusion about how to apply the early votes to the in-person votes in the room. Precinct chairs didn’t know answers to basic questions about the rules of the caucus, telling voters that they were relying on the app to carry out the voting. Caucus participants were not sure whether they could combine votes to take a candidate from non-viability to viability. And they didn’t know how the early votes would be applied during the final alignment.
Sanders’s steady support with union voters comes despite criticism of his Medicare-for-all plan by Nevada’s large and influential Culinary Union. The union did not endorse any candidate but issued a flier that said Sanders’s signature plan would “end Culinary Healthcare,” a reference to the health insurance plan provided to workers and their families.
The entrance poll found that just over half of Hispanic caucus-goers supported Sanders as their first preference, almost four times that of his nearest rival, Biden, whom about 1 in 7 Hispanics supported. All other candidates were at or below 10 percent among Hispanics. An outright majority of caucus-goers under age 45 said they supported Sanders, while fewer than two in 10 backed any other candidate. Roughly two-thirds of voters identified as liberal, and Sanders led all contenders by more than two to one among this group. He also earned the support of about half of all voters who called themselves “very liberal.”
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