USA: Biden wins the Democratic primaries in Nevada with 90% of the votes | EUROtoday

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The President of the United States, Joe Biden , obtained essentially the most votes within the main elections that befell yesterday within the state of Nevada, forward of the 2024 presidential elections, based on projections primarily based on 71% of the votes. Biden obtained 90% of the votes (76,000 ballots), due to this fact successful not less than 29 delegates. This is the second appointment on the Democratic calendar, three days after the president had obtained his first official victory within the race for the nomination, within the state of South Carolina. The Democratic primaries have been simply received by President Joe Biden in opposition to the author Marianne Williamson and a handful of lesser-known challengers. Representative Dean Phillips of Minnesota was not on the poll.

Second victory for Biden

For Biden, that is the second landslide victory in 4 days after the one within the primaries South Carolina. In Nevada AP declared Biden's victory at 5.39 in Italy, primarily based on the preliminary outcomes of the votes in Washoe County, the second largest within the state, which noticed him forward of the remainder of the principally unknown challengers. At the time Biden was main with about 89% of the vote, adopted by 'none of those candidates', which was a good distance off at 6%, and in third place by candidate Marianne Williamson at 3%.

Clark County

The outcomes that subsequently arrived from 7 different counties confirmed Biden's victory, particularly in Clark County, the place Las Vegas is positioned and by far essentially the most populous within the nation. Nevada: As of seven a.m. ET, Biden was main in Clark County with about 90% of the vote, a marked enchancment over the 24% he received within the 2020 Democratic caucuses. While the caucus outcomes don't present a precise level of comparability, the outcomes of Tuesday's primaries point out that the president now enjoys a much wider base of assist in Nevada than he loved 4 years in the past. In Saturday's Dem primaries in South Carolina Biden had obtained round 96% of the votes.