What Went Down In The 2020 Nevada Caucuses

Yep, I think that’s right, Micah. Although it’s also worth noting that Hispanic and black voters aren’t a monolith. In Nevada, Hispanics are quite young, progressive and working-class, which helps Bernie. It’s not necessarily the same in, for example, Florida.

Micah, Sanders can certainly use his Nevada performance to talk up the diversity of his support. According to preliminary entrance poll data, Sanders is at 44 percent among nonwhite voters, well ahead of Biden’s 21 percent, but only winning white voters 28 percent to 19 percent over Buttigieg.

The most impressive part of this performance by Sanders — whatever the eventual margin is — might be his performance with Latino voters. The knock against him for four years has been that his coalition is too white. That’s a much harder argument to make now. Right?