Bernie Sanders Wins Nevada Caucus, 65 Percent Of Young Vote

The results are finally in: Sen. Bernie Sanders won the Democratic primary caucus in Nevada, with 46 percent of the vote and 60 percent of sites reporting, according to the Associated Press. President Donald Trump won the Republican caucus, as expected.


Former Vice President Joe Biden came in second to Sanders with 19.6 percent of the vote, followed by Mayor Pete Buttigieg at 15.3 percent, Sen. Elizabeth Warren at 10.1 percent, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar at 4.8 percent. Sanders will take 10 delegates, and is now winning in nearly every sort of voters, according to the Washington Post's entrance polls. He not only overwhelmingly won with voters under the age of 30, nevertheless he also won with boys, females, Hispanic/Latino voters, first-time caucus-goers, and voters without a college degree. He also did well among Black voters and moderates, yet Biden won both of these groups.


"In Nevada," Sanders mentioned, according to NPR, "we have just put with each other congregated a multigenerational, multiracial coalition that isn't only going to win in Nevada, it's going to sweep this country."


Young people aged 18-29 comprised 16 percent of caucus-goers, per the Post; in entrance polls, an overwhelming 65 percent of those aligned themselves with Sanders. (Buttigieg was the second choice for the age group, at 11 percent.) Sanders also won the age sort in 2016: According to a CNN entrance poll, voters aged 18-29 comprised 18 percent of the vote that year, and 82 percent of those aligned themselves with Sanders.


All eyes were on the Silver state this year for a few reasons, key among them the aftermath of the Iowa caucuses on February 3, whose results were delayed for days soon after caucus workers experienced several issues with the app the Democratic party had intended to use to tally results. As Vox reports, the Nevada Democrats had initially planned to use the same app, which was created by the corporation Shadow Inc., For their caucus, however abandoned those plans shortly immediately after things fell apart in Iowa. Instead, the Nevada Independent announced that the state party planned to use an iPad calculator tool — and it also appeared to come through without a hitch.


That Nevada is a significantly more diverse state than either Iowa or New Hampshire also took into effect; according to the United States census, 29 percent of Nevada residents are Latinx and 11 percent are Black. (By contrast, 85 percent of Iowa's residents are non-Latinx white, and 92 percent of New Hampshire residents are non-Latinx white.) And it also was young Latino voters who brought in the win for Sanders.


The next vote will be on the other side of the nation in South Carolina, where Sanders has been polling second to Biden. But the senator will be going into the election strong, leading with 34 of the total delegates. Currently, Buttigieg is in second with the delegate count at 23, followed by Warren with 8, Klobuchar with 7, and Biden with 6. A candidate would need 1,991 delegates to secure the Democratic nomination, so this road is in no ending yet.