Bernie Sanders lands in Nevada and increasingly asserts himself as the anti-Trump. The senator wins the caucus with ample advantage, takes home his third victory and launches the sprint to conquer the democratic nomination. "We will win across the country," he says triumphantly. The rivals' attempts to stop the senator's race were worthless.
Pete Buttigieg, hitherto a thorn in Sanders' side, finished - according to preliminary data - only third in Nevada behind Joe Biden and almost 30 points behind the winner. Mayor Pete wanted more and his bitterness, although composed, emerges in commenting on the results. He congratulates Sanders but invites us to carefully evaluate the dangers and consequences of his possible nomination. "Senator Sanders believes in an inflexible ideological revolution that rules out many Democrats, not to mention the many Americans he cuts out," warns Buttigieg. Joe Biden takes second place, far behind Sanders. A result that, in light of the disappointments of Iowa and New Hampshire, satisfies him. In front of his people, he specifies that he is not a socialist, that he is not a plutocrat: "I am a proud democrat. We will win in South Carolina and Super Tuesday," says Biden smiling from the stage of his headquarters in Las Vegas. The city of lights instead offers a new heavy defeat to Elizabeth Warren, nailed only in fourth place. For the senator, considered by many observers now at the last beach, it is a new heavy slap that confirms the difficulties in taking off her election campaign. Amy Klobuchar is also disappointed, as she does not even reach 5% of the caucus preferences.
"We did better than expected," he says in an attempt to console his supporters. "We will continue our campaign," he adds. Donald Trump's vote count follows step by step from the White House. As soon as the first screenings are released, the president is among the first to congratulate "the crazy Bernie" to whom he advises to be careful and not to be stolen from the Democrats' nomination, as happened in 2016. Defining Biden and the other democratic candidates weak, Trump returns to attack Michael Bloomberg, who has not even raced in Nevada. "There is no possibility that mini-Mike Bloomberg could revive his campaign after the worst performance in history in a presidential debate" tweets. The former Mayor of New York, who is warming up the engines for his descent on the Super Tuesday, also follows the vote from afar. And precisely the appointment of March 3 is the crucial test for democratic candidates, the one that could give a decisive shake to the race in the White House by restricting the number of candidates and opening the real clash, the one with Trump.
