Will Key Union's Non-Endorsement Help Sanders Or Biden In Nevada? | The 11th Hour | MSNBC

Victoria, what are you going to be watching when Saturday's vote comes around? If we are ever sure about Saturday's vote in Nevada, there are so many unknowns when I look at Nevada. For starters, polls are notoriously flawed given the nature of Nevada's population. tends to be transitory and in the free

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s that people have we also see the fact that caucuses, by their very nature, are not as predictable as primaries like traditional electoral races and, lastly, for me, Braden, and perhaps the biggest problem is the fact that we don't have the core strength of

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support, so in 2008 we had very strong

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support from the culinary union that has the largest membership in Las Vegas and in Nevada in general, backing the president Obama, in 2012 they did not endorse and we saw a There is a lot of frenzy about is it Sanders, is it Clinton who has that support and to this day we really do not know, for example, who were the Latinos who make up the majority of the Union?

Today we again see a lack of support from the Culinary Union, so this makes the question of who is going to reach the top even bigger. We see in the polls that Sanders is doing well, so you know, if I'm a betting woman, I'll say Sanders has the lead, but the real question mark is where

will

Biden land, so I think for me that's it. the most important question and also understand that the Latino population from which Sanders has received a lot of support is young and young people and Latinos are traditionally the ones with the lowest participation rates, we have seen them increase in the last elections, but this It is again another unknown if they are going to walk the path of fame.

I'm going to chime in for this person, Tamara, the professor, she raised a great question there and that is, with the lack of support from the Culinary Workers Union, the men and women who make Las Vegas run and their criticism of Bernie, open Elaine for anyone? Does the lack of

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mean good news for any of the Democrats in this race? Well, somewhat counterintuitively, I would say that it was actually good news for Bernie Sanders that they didn't endorse because, although they were quite direct in their criticism of Medicare for All and targeting both Sanders and Warren to a somewhat lesser degree The fact is that they ultimately didn't come out and endorse someone they didn't pick anyone from.

You know, I'm thinking what if this race is now Bernie Sanders Lane and all the other Lanes and they're not. I don't pick someone from everyone else's pool, so you know there's no certainty on the Culinary Union's part about who they would want their members to support. I went to an early meeting at the culinary union headquarters, interestingly most of the people who came into the caucus early were not members of the Union, but it was just a convenient place for them, but clearly the union is, you know, facilitating the voting center or not polling places, but caucus sites at various casinos on the Strip, making sure that their membership can meet even though it is quite inconvenient and takes place in the middle of the workday for many people on a Saturday, but also this question about turnout and whether polls can be accurate in this state is ruled out even more because what's likely is that caucus-goers already in the first two days of the early caucus had 26,000 people turn out, yeah, so we read Victoria, are we right to construct this as, in fact, the debut of minority voting in the 2020 cycle?

If you look at Nevada, where we have thirty percent of the Latino population, they make up 20 percent of the electorate, this is much more of a mirror of who America is. The African American population is still relatively low compared to the national average, but it is visible. the preference of Latinos who come out and let me say that Latinos are not a monolith, there is diversity within the Latino community ideologically speaking in terms of partisanship, but at least we are making the voice of this segment of the population heard in this Hi, I'm Chris Hayes from MSNBC, thanks for watching MSNBC on YouTube.

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