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riversedge

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Sun Feb 21, 2016, 02:52 PM Feb 2016

Clinton: Sanders didn't win Latinos [View all]

Glad to see Hilllary and her Team put Tapper and Sanders team in their place.





Clinton: Sanders didn't win Latinos


By Eliza Collins

02/21/16 09:53 AM EST


Hillary Clinton disagreed Sunday with entrance polls in Nevada that showed Bernie Sanders did better than her with Latinos.

“That’s just not what our analysis shows,” the former secretary of state said in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday. “We don’t believe that the so-called entry polls are particularly accurate.”

Clinton, who won the Democratic caucuses in Nevada on Saturday, pointed to Hispanic-heavy precincts where her campaign “dominated.”

“It was a broad based turnout and we dominated of course in Clark Country, where Las Vegas was,” she said.

Nick Merrill, Clinton's traveling press secretary, also fired back at a statement from the Sanders campaign that said the Vermont senator "won among Latino voters by 8 points."

"I don't typically like to swear on Twitter, but by all accounts so far this is complete and utter bull---t," Merrill said as he tweeted a screenshot of the statement from Sanders' spokesman Michael Briggs
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Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/clinton-bernie-sanders-latinos-219583#ixzz40pVyvWNv

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