Sanders Gains Ground in Nevada, Testing a Clinton Firewall
- State holds third-in-the-nation Democratic contest on Saturday
- Both campaigns try to learn from 2008 race and reach Latinos
Supporters hold up a poster during a Bernie Sanders campaign rally at at Bonanza High School on Feb. 14, 2016, in Las Vegas.
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Alicia Hernandez sat on a sofa in a re-purposed Las Vegas strip-mall store on a sunny Sunday afternoon listening to a step-by-step explanation from a Bernie Sanders field office director about how a presidential caucus works.
Hernandez, 23, a daughter of immigrants who’s studying floral design at the College of Southern Nevada, received an e-mail about the training session from Sanders’ campaign after liking what she saw on his website. She came to learn how to caucus for the Vermont senator instead of Hillary Clinton.