2016 Presidential Election Nevada/South Carolina Coverage

Have you been keeping up with 2016 Caucuses? Well if you haven’t, you’re in for a lot of news. Recently democratic front runner secretary of state Hilary Clinton, won the democratic caucus in Nevada by 52.6% over Sanders 47.4%. Her victory, and the looming Democratic South Carolina primary next week in which she is a favorite, doesn’t mean the end for the more liberal Sanders, against whom she seems fated to fight in long war of attrition. But it was Clinton’s best night for weeks in a crisis-scarred campaign and indicated her firewall of minority voters is still intact and raises the chances that she will eventually claim the nomination and head on to a possible battle for the ages between her own establishment political dynasty and Trump. However, a data-driven controversy has erupted over a finding in the entrance poll of Nevada’s Democratic caucusgoers Saturday, with the results of the poll among Latinos seemingly at odds with widely held expectations that the group was a strong one for Hillary Clinton. With the slate of upcoming primary and caucus states shifting from nearly all-white Iowa and New Hampshire to a more diverse batch of states including Nevada, South Carolina and many of the states set to vote on March 1, whether the racial and ethnic minorities in those states would prove a firewall for Clinton’s campaign against Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has been a sharp focus for both campaigns.

On the Conservative side, the unstoppable Donald Trump took the lead in South Carolina by 32.5%, with Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in an effective tie on 22.5% and 22.3% respectively. Bush trailed in fourth at 7.9% just ahead of Ohio Gov. John Kasich and former neurosurgeon Ben Carson. Trump advanced his takeover of the Republican Party. He proved that he can dominate a race in the Deep South. He vanquished the dynasty that ruled the GOP establishment for decades as Jeb Bush dropped his White House bid. And in the process, Trump left no doubt that he is the GOP’s national front-runner and has the most credible path to capture the party’s nomination. Of course, both parties have awarded only a small portion of the delegates that will ultimately be needed to clinch the nomination.

But as he addressed supporters on Saturday night, Trump seemed to appreciate something had changed. “Let’s put this thing away,” Trump roared. For so much of the wild 2016 campaign, the conventional wisdom suggested that Trump, running a campaign based on insults, vague vows to Make America Great Again and laboring under a questionable conservative pedigree, will fade. But after his two massive primary wins, that’s no longer the case. South Carolina, after all, has long prided itself on picking Republican nominees. It has handed victory to the eventual Republican standard bearer every cycle since 1980, with the exception of Newt Gingrich in 2012. And Trump can now bask in the fact that every Republican who has won both New Hampshire and South Carolina has gone on to claim the nomination.

Who do you think will win the 2016 Presidential Election?

Here are two short videos through YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HAnWjcPb2s