Bernie Sanders and his wife, February 22, 2020 in San Antonio. - Eric Gay / AP / SIPA

Bernie Sanders is moving more and more firmly into the favorite position to challenge President Donald Trump in the US presidential election on November 3. The Democratic Party nomination contestant won Nevada's primary vote on Saturday. According to the American television channels, he arrives very largely head in front of the trio made up of the former vice-president Joe Biden, the moderate Pete Buttigieg and the senator Elizabeth Warren.

With 11% of precincts now reporting, here are the latest results from the Nevada caucuses. Bernie Sanders has already been declared the winner.

We'll have more live results as they come in. https://t.co/4hP0Er98zh pic.twitter.com/XN1anhCc7v

- The New York Times (@nytimes) February 23, 2020

NEW: ABC News estimates that Bernie Sanders will pick up at least 12 of Nevada's 36 pledged delegates.

These are ABC News' pledged delegate estimates so far:
Sanders: 33
Buttigieg: 23
Warren: 8
Klobuchar: 7
Biden: 6
Everyone else: 0 https://t.co/eO7kuiTIZ0

- ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) February 23, 2020

"Super Tuesday" on March 3

Congratulating Bernie Sanders on his victory, Pete Buttigieg however issued a firm warning against the danger, according to him, of designating to wear the colors of the party a socialist for whom capitalism is "at the origin of all evils". "Senator Sanders believes in an inflexible ideological revolution that forgets most Democrats, let alone most Americans," said Pete Buttigieg.

This third round of the Democratic primaries therefore places the socialist senator Bernie Sanders, 78 years old, in a very favorable position before the avalanche of "Super Tuesday" on March 3, when fourteen states will vote. Triumphing before the crowd who came to acclaim him by shouting "Bernie", the senator was already on Saturday campaigning in Texas, a heavyweight with the California states that will vote for this big election day.

Buttigieg and Biden as outsiders

But the race is long until the nomination of the candidate. After Iowa and New Hampshire, Democratic candidates ran in Nevada, which has a more diverse population, with a third of Hispanics. A difference which represented a test for the moderate candidate Pete Buttigieg, 38 years old and revelation of these primaries, but which struggles to convince voters from minorities. Long-time favorite, 77-year-old Joe Biden praised his results, which seem to place him second in Nevada, after two humiliations in the first votes. Popular with minorities, the former right-hand man of Barack Obama contests with Pete Buttigieg the status of best moderate alternative to Bernie Sanders.

The sharpness of the results in Nevada made it possible to avoid the chaos of the publication of the results of Iowa at the beginning of February who had suffered from a computer bug. These two states vote by a system of "caucuses", assemblies of voters who regroup under the banner of their candidate. In addition, this large victory of Bernie Sanders shows that he did not suffer from the embarrassing revelations published Friday evening on an interference by Russia in his favor, via messages online and on social networks.

For his part, Republican President Donald Trump observes, ironically, the Democratic battle: "It looks like Bernie the Mad is making a good result in the Great State of Nevada. Biden & the others seem weak ”.

Looks like Crazy Bernie is doing well in the Great State of Nevada. Biden & the rest look weak, & no way Mini Mike can restart his campaign after the worst debate performance in the history of Presidential Debates. Congratulations Bernie, & don't let them take it away from you!

- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 22, 2020

The multi-billionaire Michael Bloomberg has meanwhile skipped the first states to enter the contest during "Super Tuesday". The fortune of the former mayor of New York allowed him to rise to third place in the average of the national polls, with advertising spots financed with already more than 360 million dollars since November.

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