Bernie Sanders largely won the vote in the US state of Nevada for the Democratic primary on Saturday, firmly anchoring himself in the position of favorite to go and challenge Republican President Donald Trump in the November 3 election. At 78, the independent senator with the marked program on the left had a very large advantage, with 46% of the vote, on results still partial on Sunday morning.
According to these results from 23% of the polling stations, the former moderate vice-president Joe Biden appeared in second place (23%), far ahead of the former mayor Pete Buttigieg (13%). But the latter sought, with a strong speech, to present himself as the best moderate bulwark against a Bernie Sanders whom he judges too far to the left to be able to rally the voters and beat Donald Trump. "Senator Sanders believes in an inflexible ideological revolution that forgets most democrats, not to mention most Americans," he said.
Benjamin and 38-year-old primary revelation, he warned Democratic voters against the risk of choosing a socialist for whom capitalism is "the root of all evil".
Super tuesday
This third round of the Democratic primaries places Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders, 78, 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 cheer him on, shouting "Bernie", the senator was already campaigning in Texas on Saturday, a heavyweight with the California states that will vote for this big election day.