WE’RE ALIVE AND WE’RE COMING BACK AND WE’RE GOING TO WIN.
>> WE HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO
VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN
SPEAKING IN NEVADA, AND WE ARE
PROJECTING THAT BERNIE SANDERS,
NBC NEWS PROJECTS BERNIE SANDERS
THE WINNER IN NEVADA.
BRAND NEW BREAKING NEWS NUMBERS
COMING RIGHT OUT OF NEVADA.
OUR SPECIAL TEAM IS HERE AND I
WANT TO GO DIRECTLY TO STEVE
KORNACKI AT THE BIG BOARD.
WALK US THROUGH WHAT THIS MEANS,
A PROJECTED WINNER HERE,
ACCORDING TO NBC NEWS, BERNIE
SANDERS TAKES NEVADA.
>> WE CAN TELL YOU, ARI, THIS
HAS BEEN AN UNUSUAL AFTERNOON IN
REACHING THIS POINT.
FOLKS WHO HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING
THE COVERAGE HAVE KNOWN THAT
EARLY ON, WE GOT ENTRANCE POLL
RESULTS THAT SUGGESTED AN
OVERWHELMED SANDERS VICTORY.
OF COURSE, IT’S AN ENTRANCE
POLL, NOT OFFICIAL VOTE.
WE WANTED TO WAIT FOR OFFICIAL
VOTE.
VOTE. BEFORE WE GOT OFFICIAL VOTE, WE
STARTED GETTING REPORTS IN FROM
OUR SPOTTERS, FOLKS THAT WORK
FOR THE MEDIA, WE HAVE SPOTTERS
AT THE PRECINCTS AROUND THE
STATE, THEY WERE TAKING DOWN THE
RESULTS AS THEY WERE ANNOUNCED
AND SENDING THEM TO US AND SO WE
WERE SEEING THAT SANDERS SEEMED
TO BE AHEAD.
BUT EVEN AT THAT POINT, WE
REALLY DIDN’T HAVE ANY OFFICIAL
RESULTS FROM THE STATE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY, WHICH RUNS
THIS.
THIS. NOW WE’RE STARTING TO GET
RESULTS HERE.
RESULTS HERE. YOU SEE, THIS IS ABOUT 100
PRECINCTS, LESS THAN 100, THAT
HAVE NOW BEEN REPORTED OUT BY
THE STATE DEMOCRATIC PARTY,
THESE PRESIPGTS SCINCTS IN LINE
EVERYTHING WE’VE SEEN IN THE
ENTRANCE POLLS, WITH EVERYTHING
WE’VE BEEN TOLD BY OUR SPOTTERS
HAS BEEN HAPPENING AROUND THE
STATE AND THEY JUST PAINT A
PICTURE HERE, VERY CLEAR AND
VERY DECISIVE VICTORY FOR BERNIE
SANDERS.
SANDERS. YOU SEE 44% RIGHT NOW,
STATE-WIDE.
STATE-WIDE. WE’LL SEE, 4% HERE, WE’RE GOING
TO HAVE A LOT MORE THAT COMES
IN, SO, THE NUMBERS CAN MOVE
AROUND A BIT.
BUT THEY ARE POINTING TO A
SANDERS VICTORY.
SANDERS VICTORY. REALLY, ONLY TWO COUNTIES HERE
IN NEVADA THAT HAVE A LOT OF
VOTE IN THEM, THIS IS THE BIG
BIGGIE, THIS IS THREE-QUARTERS
OF THE VOTE, JUST FROM THE LAS
VEGAS VALLEY.
VEGAS VALLEY. AND SANDER PIERCE RUNNING CLOSE
TO 50% EARLY ON.
WE HAD TALKED ABOUT BERNIE
SANDERS DOING EXTREMELY WELL,
OUR ENTRANCE POLL SAYS, WITH
HISPANIC VOTERS.
HISPANIC VOTERS. AN OUTRIGHT MAJORITY OF HIS PABP
SUPPORT IN THIS THING.
RUNNING SECOND TO JOE BIDEN
AMONG AFRICAN-AMERICAN VOTERS.
WE SAW DOING WELL FROM OUR
REPORTERS, DOING VERY WELL IN
THE CASINO CAUCUSES WITH THE
CULINARY WORKERS UNION --
>> STEVE, AS WE LOOK AT THIS
BREAKING NEWS HERE, NBC NEWS NOW
FORMALLY PROJECTING BERNIE
SANDERS WINNING NEVADA FOR THE
FIRST TIME HERE TODAY, WHAT DOES
IT TELL YOU, WHAT SHOULD VOTERS
UNDERSTAND AS WE LOOK AT THIS
NEWS, THAT WE CAN, WITH OUR
ELECTION EXPERTS, PROJECT THIS
WITH SO LITTLE OF THE NUMBERS IN
WHAT DOES THIS SAY ABOUT THE
SCALE OF THE VICTORY?
>> OUR ENTRANCE POLL WAS SAYING
PROBABLY ABOUT A TWO TO ONE
VICTORY FOR SANDERS OVER HIS
NEAREST RIVAL.
NEAREST RIVAL. NOT ENTIRELY CLEAR WHO IS GOING
TO BE IN SECOND PLACE, BUT THE
ENTRANCE POLL WAS SAYING ABOUT
TWO TO ONE.
ALL THOSE PRECINCTS, ABOUT 300
OF THEM AROUND THE STATE, THAT’S
ONE-SEVENTH OF THE STATE WHERE
WE HAD SPOTTERS WERE SAYING
ABOUT A TWO TO ONE SANDERS
VICTORY.
VICTORY. AND THAT’S BEEN REPORTED OUT BY
THE STATE PARTY IS SHOWING THAT,
AS WELL.
AS WELL. I CAN ALSO SHOW YOU, WHAT YOU’RE
SEEING HERE, THIS IS -- LET ME
JUST -- IS THIS THE NATIONAL
DELEGATE COUNT?
DELEGATE COUNT? OKAY.
OKAY. OUR DECISION DESK HAS, IN
ADDITION TO SAYING THAT BERNIE
SANDERS HAS WON THE NEVADA
DEMOCRATIC CAUCUSES, THEY’RE
BEGINNING TO PROJECT THE
ALLOCATION OF NATIONAL
CONVENTION DELEGATES.
CONVENTION DELEGATES. REMEMBER, THERE ARE 36 THAT WILL
BE AWARDED BY NEVADA.
36 PLEDGED DELEGATES.
RIGHT NOW, THE DECISION DESK IS
CONFIDENT THAT AT LEAST FIVE,
THIS NUMBER WILL CLEARLY GO UP
CONSIDERABLY, BUT AT LEAST FIVE
ARE GOING TO GO TO BERNIE
SANDERS.
SANDERS. NO CONFIDENCE THAT ANYBODY ELSE
IS GETTING ANY SO FAR.
SO, FIVE OF THOSE 36 OUR
DECISION DESK NOW SAYS GOES TO
BERNIE SANDERS.
BERNIE SANDERS. AND I CAN TELL YOU, COMING INTO
TONIGHT, IN THE NATIONAL
DELEGATE COUNT, IT WAS 23-21
BUTTIGIEG, FROM IOWA AND NEW
HAMPSHIRE.
HAMPSHIRE. JUST WITH THESE FIVE, SANDERS
NOW LEAPFROGS.
NOW LEAPFROGS. WE EXPECT THAT NUMBER TO GROW