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LAS VEGAS — Bernie Sanders won a commanding victory in the Nevada presidential caucuses Saturday, marshaling a broad multiethnic coalition to solidify his stance atop the still-large Democratic field.

1. A few days after that entertaining debate in Las Vegas (Mike Bloomberg is still recovering), the Nevada Caucus has arrived. Follow all the results below. Let's hope it goes more smoothly than Iowa.
2. In the 2016 Republican primaries, Donald Trump won Nevada Democratic, earning 14 delegates. Marco Rubio came in second with seven delegates earned.

While Sanders’ victory was no surprise — Vermont’s senator was the heavy favorite to prevail in the caucuses — his huge margin and depth of support delivered a strong jolt of momentum after two less-than-overwhelming performances.

Nevada’s caution in reporting results meant that only about 60% of results were announced the day of the caucus, leaving Democrats waiting for the final outcome and complete delegate reckoning.

Former Vice President Joe Biden was running a distant second, setting up a high-stakes competition Saturday in South Carolina, where the two will fiercely compete for black voters poised to usher the winner into a crucial blizzard of balloting on March 3, Super Tuesday.

Sanders — his wife, Jane, at his side — greeted supporters in San Antonio, Texas, one of the Super Tuesday states, as they cheered wildly and waved blue and white “Bernie” signs. Ignoring his Democratic rivals, he took aim at President Donald Trump.

“The American people are sick and tired of a government which is based on greed, corruption and lies,” Sanders hollered. “They want an administration which is based on the principles of justice. Economic justice, social justice, racial justice and environmental justice.”

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Though they trailed far behind, Sanders’ opponents showed no signs they planned to quit the race or cede the nomination.

With only a tiny fraction of ballots counted, Biden took the stage in Las Vegas to declare victory, of a sort, before a crowd of supporters.

“I know we don’t have the final results yet, but I feel really good,” an exuberant Biden said. “The press is ready to declare people dead quickly. But we’re alive, and we’re coming back and we’re going to win.”

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Former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who tied Sanders in the Iowa caucuses and finished a close second in the New Hampshire primary, used his remarks to lace into the Democratic front-runner.

“Before we rush to nominate Sen. Sanders in our one shot to take on this president, let us take a sober look at what is at stake for our party, for our values, and for those with the most to lose,” said Buttigieg, who was battling Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren for third place.

Sanders “believes in an inflexible, ideological revolution that leaves out most Democrats,” Buttigieg asserted, “not to mention most Americans.”

Speaking at a Seattle rally and looking at the prospect of a fourth-place finish, Warren said, “We have a lot of states to go, and right now I can feel the momentum, so let’s stay in this fight.”

Sanders had been the strong favorite to win the caucuses, given his ardent following among younger voters and Latinos as well as residual support from his strong 2016 White House bid.

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But his victory went much further than that.

The 78-year-old senator not only won the youth and Latino vote by crushing margins, according to entrance polls, but also carried white voters, those with and without college degrees, male and female voters and caucus goers of every ideological stripe.

Chris Winchester, a 23-year-old casino card dealer, backed the senator after his first choice, self-help guru Marianne Williamson, dropped out several weeks ago.

“I just think that power needs to be given back to the people,” said Winchester, who caucused for Sanders at a community center in East Las Vegas. “It’s time for that and he stands for every single point that everyone who I feel with common sense has.”

The first-in-the-West contest, the third on the 2020 political calendar, took place strictly on the Democratic side; Republicans canceled their caucuses as Trump glides virtually unopposed to the GOP nomination.

Perhaps no candidate had more riding on the outcome than Biden, whose assertions of electability suffered grave damage after poor showings in Iowa and New Hampshire. With signs that his support was rapidly ebbing, Biden was counting on a turnabout in Nevada to restore the faith of black voters, who had been his staunchest backers and make up well over half of South Carolina’s Democratic electorate.

Entrance poll interviews showed Biden winning more than a third of Nevada’s black vote, but Sanders was not far behind with more than one-quarter support.

Thea Thomas voted for Biden without much enthusiasm but a healthy dose of pragmatism. She cited his decades in elected office, service as President Barack Obama’s vice president and foreign policy expertise. Besides, the 45-year-old computer programmer said, she had her doubts about other candidates.

“His math doesn’t add up,” she said of Sanders’ health care and free-college proposals. “And neither does Elizabeth Warren’s.”

With large populations of black, Latino and Asian American voters, Nevada presented candidates with a more challenging and diverse electorate than they faced in overwhelmingly white Iowa and New Hampshire. More than 3 in 10 caucus goers were people of color, according to entrance polls, with Latinos making up the largest portion of the electorate, at nearly 20%.

Buttiegieg, in particular, was trying to show he could broaden his appeal beyond the more affluent white voters who have been his base of support but fell well short; he drew only 7% support among Latinos and 2% among black voters.

Warren, who shares many of the same positions as Sanders, failed to benefit much from a fiery debate performance Wednesday night in Las Vegas, perhaps because so many voters had already cast early ballots.

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who placed a surprisingly strong third in the Granite State, was nowhere near as competitive in Nevada. Still, she told supporters at a home-state rally she had no intention of exiting the race.

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“As usual, I think we have exceeded expectations,” Klobuchar said. “I always note that a lot of people didn’t even think I would still be standing at this point.”

Billionaire Tom Steyer, who is richly funding his campaign, finished far back despite vastly outspending his rivals on Nevada’s television airwaves.

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who bore the brunt of attacks in his debating debut Wednesday night, was not competing in Nevada, choosing instead to focus on California and 13 other states that vote on March 3.

Nevada is a relative newcomer to the opening phase of the presidential race, holding its early caucuses only since 2008. (By contrast, New Hampshire this year celebrated the 100th anniversary of its first-in-the-nation primary.)

Still, Democrats responded with enthusiasm. Nearly 75,000 cast ballots during an early-voting window that ended Tuesday, making it virtually certain the overall number will top the 84,000 who turned out in 2016. That was reassuring to party leaders anxious to see if the political energy that helped Democrats win control of the House in 2018 has stayed strong.

But that high number also presented complications.

On Saturday, the ranked-choice preference of early voters — who could select up to five candidates — had to be calibrated with those voting in person to determine which candidates achieved either a 15% or 25% viability threshold, depending on the precinct, making them eligible to win delegates.

(The balloting Saturday was part of an attenuated process that will ultimately result in the awarding of 36 pledged delegates to this summer’s Democratic nominating convention.)

The caucuses are run by volunteers, not professional staff or government employees, and organizers were desperate to avoid the mishaps that left Iowa’s results inconclusive after nearly three weeks. Nevada quickly abandoned the software that had been used in Iowa and instituted other precautions aimed at avoiding a similar fiasco.

Despite its early place on the calendar, Nevada has been something of an afterthought for much of the campaign, drawing the full measure of candidates’ attention only after Iowa and New Hampshire cast their ballots.

Some Democratic leaders waited until those results came in before choosing whom to endorse, or deciding not to endorse at all. Among those who stayed neutral were Gov. Steve Sisolak and Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader and architect of the early caucuses.

Perhaps most consequentially, the Culinary Workers Union — which is 60,000 members strong and a powerhouse in state politics — remained neutral. The union’s leadership did, however, make known its opposition to “Medicare for All,” one of Sanders’ signature proposals and a plan embraced by Warren, fearing its implementation would take away the gold-plated health care benefits the union spent years negotiating and securing for its members.

Sanders fought back by insisting his plan would not take away workers’ coverage but rather make health care better and cheaper for all. His argument appeared to carry weight: He prevailed in five of seven caucuses held along the Strip, where the culinary union wields its greatest clout.

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(Barabak reported from Reno and Mehta from Las Vegas. Times staff writers Michael Finnegan in Los Angeles and Melissa Gomez in Las Vegas contributed to this report.)

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Buttigieg says Democrats are in trouble if Bloomberg, Sanders are the only choices

2020 Democrat hopeful Pete Buttigieg talks to Fox News in the spin room after the primary debate in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Citing 'irregularities' in vote results, Pete Buttigieg’s campaign questioned his third-place finish in Nevada’s caucuses and called for the state’s Democrats to release a more detailed breakdown of votes and address reports of more than 200 problems allocating votes Saturday.

The request from the campaign of the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., came just weeks after the debacle of the Iowa caucuses, which were derailed by unclear and inconsistent results. But, the Nevada State Democratic Party suggested that Buttigieg's campaign seek a recount if it wanted to challenge results.

In a letter sent to the state party late Saturday night and provided to Fox News on Sunday, the Buttigieg campaign claimed the process of integrating four days of early voting into in-person caucuses held Saturday was “plagued with errors and inconsistencies.”

Campaign officials also said they received reports that volunteers running caucuses did not appear to follow rules that could have allowed candidates to pick up more support on second rounds of voting.

The Buttigieg campaign called for the party to release more details from the votes, including a breakdown of early votes cast by home precincts.

“First, release early vote and in-person vote totals by precinct. ... Second, correct any outstanding second alignment errors identified by presidential campaigns, including ours. ... Third, explain anomalies in the data,” the letter read.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders won Nevada’s caucuses, with former Vice President Joe Biden a distant second and Buttigieg in third.

“Currently our data shows that this is a razor-thin margin for second place in Nevada, and due to irregularities and a number of unresolved questions we have raised with the Nevada Democratic Party, it’s unclear what the final results will be,” Buttigieg’s deputy campaign manager Hari Sevugan said in a statement.

Nearly 75,000 people cast votes during four days of early caucus voting — almost as many Democrats who participated in Nevada’s 2016 caucuses. Their votes, cast at sites anywhere in the county, had to be routed by the party back to each voter’s home precinct and added to the in-person votes cast Saturday by neighbors.

Buttigieg’s campaign claimed it received more than 200 reports of problems merging the early votes, including cases in which the early votes weren’t used, were read incorrectly or the wrong early vote data matching another precinct was used to calculate whether a candidate had enough support.

The claim matched that of a Biden campaign precinct captain who told The Associated Press he witnessed two precincts on Saturday where caucus organizers announced midway through that they had switched the vote numbers for the precincts, before switching them back and forth at least four times.

State party spokeswoman Molly Forgey said the Democrats were continuing to verify and report results and would not offer a more detailed breakdown than they already planned to provide.

“We laid out our early vote and Caucus Day processes step by step and we communicated these processes to all campaigns,” Forgey told Fox News. “We are continuing to verify and to report results. We never indicated we would release a separate breakdown of early vote and in-person attendees by precinct and will not change our reporting process now. As laid out in our recount guidance, there is a formal method for requesting a challenge of results.”

According to the party’s rules, any request for a recount must be filed by 5 p.m. Monday.

The Buttigieg campaign did not immediately comment on whether it intended to seek a recount.

Fox News' Jacqui Heinrich and The Associated Press contributed to this report.