Clinton, Sanders Clash on Latino Vote as He Claims 8 Point Edge
The Latino vote is still in dispute among the different camps of the presidential candidates. Hillary Clinton's group is rebutting the claims that rival Senator Bernie Sanders won Nevado's Latino vote by 8 percentage points.
Clinton's spokesperson Nick Merrill went on Twitter and dismissed the reports of entrance polls that revealed a Sanders victory in the Nevada caucuses.
"I don't typically like to swear on Twitter, but by all accounts so far this is complete and utter bull----," Merrill tweeted. "But the finding that Mr. Sanders won the Hispanic vote is at best extremely questionable -- and, at worst, wrong."
The Saturday caucuses in Nevada were won by Clinton who got 53 percent of the vote compared to Sanders' 47 percent. The Latino share is still currently in dispute as the entrance polls showed that the latter secured the bulk of the demographic vote despite the loss in Saturday.
Arturo Carmona, deputy political director for Bernie 2016, explained what the win means for the candidates at this point in the presidential race.
"What we learned today is Hillary Clinton's firewall with Latino voters is a myth," Carmona said in a press release. "The Latino community responded strongly to Bernie Sanders' message of immigration reform and creating an economy that works for all families. This is critically important as we move ahead to states like Colorado, Arizona, Texas and California."
Clinton also fired back at the reports and dismissed the entrance polls in a CNN interview recently. She said that her own team's analysis pointed that the data of the polls weren't completely true.
"We don't believe that the so-called entry polls are particularly accurate," the former secretary of state stated.
Meanwhile, it has also been discussed in reports that there is no foolproof way to determine which candidate emerged with the most Latino votes during a caucus, even with entrance and exit polls implemented in the different sites.
There are two ways to estimate the numbers of ethnicity or race -- whether this is regarding Latinos or not. One is to look at the entrance polls from Edison Research for Associated Press and television networks. The other method is to see the results of the precincts with a high number of Latino voters and determine the majority winner from there.
The first method supported Sanders' claims while the second one backed Clinton, but neither offers a definite and indisputable answer for the ultimate winner of the Latino vote.
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