Bernie Sanders’ Nevada Coalition Gives Him Clearest Path to Nomination
- Unexpected support among non-white voters strengthens his bid
- Democratic rivals already preparing for contested convention
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Bernie Sanders’ commanding win in Nevada dismantled the conventional wisdom about his level of appeal. It broadened his coalition to look more like the Democratic Party as a whole and will make it harder for fearful moderates to impede his path to the nomination.
The knock on Sanders always has been that his energetic but narrow base -- young, mostly white, heavily male and largely disaffected -- would make it easy for President Donald Trump to roll over him come November.