Diving Into Hillary Clinton's Nevada Win | Is Sanders' Political Revolution Fizzling?

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Clinton's Nevada Win Shifts Burden Back to Sanders to Stop Her  Bloomberg Politics

Nevada clearly shifts the burden for the next win from Clinton to Sanders, now forcing him to prove he has staying power in more ethnically and geographically diverse states. More than one in four Nevada residents are Latino. Polls show Clinton ahead in South Carolina, where African-Americans comprise about half of Democratic voters, and the contests that follow on March 1, include a swath of southern and heavily minority states where Sanders may have trouble keeping up with Clinton.
Sanders has said he hopes to do well in Massachusetts, Minnesota and his home state of Vermont. But there are more than a dozen contests on Super Tuesday, March 1, and dozens more beyond that, and Sanders will need many more wins that that if he hopes to keep up the promise of New Hampshire, of a people's movement denying Clinton the Democratic nomination.
In her victory speech at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Clinton suggested she's heard the criticisms that her campaign’s messaging until now has been too self-focused and not enough about voters, including younger voters captivated by Sanders.
“This one’s for you,” she told the Nevada audience. “This is your campaign.” She also made a specific pitch to younger voters, saying her campaign “has to be about what we’re going to build together” and applauding their generation for being the “most tolerant and connected” in U.S. history.

Sources: Bernie Supporters Did Chant 'English Only' At Latina Labor Activist BuzzFeed News &

also the Washington Post

"It was mostly the organizers," Huerta continued, "the Bernie organizers were shouting 'no no no.' Then a Bernie person stood up and said said no, we need to have it, I can also do translation or whatever. The person who ran the caucus said, well we won’t have a translator. The sad thing about this is that some of the organizers were shouting 'English only! English only!' The Bernie organizers."
Again, this is what Huerta says happened when she tried to interpret from English to Spanish at a Nevada caucus site. The crowd apparently included a lot of Bernie Sanders supporters. And given that much of the Las Vegas strip's workforce is made up of Latino Americans and Latino immigrants, one would expect that some people in the crowd might have liked to hear what Huerta had to say.
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US Rep Jim Clyburn, the third most powerful Democrat in Washington, acknowledged the influence of his wife and daughters in his decision to endorse presidential candidate Hillary Clinton ahead of the South Carolina's Feb. 27 primary. The females in Clyburn's family are all in for Hillary. 

Previously, Clyburn has remained neutral with endorsements until after the primary, although he tangled with an angry Bill Clinton in 2008 over what the highly-regarded politician perceived as use of racially-tinged comments from the former president in the 2008 battle between now president Obama and Hillary Clinton. 

Clyburn joins his close friend Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, who has also endorsed HIllary Clinton and her commitment to the African American community since the days of America's civil rights movement. 

Jim and Emily Clyburn have three daughters, Mignon, Jennifer Reed, and Angela Hannibal; two sons-in-law, Walter Reed and Cecil Hannibal; and three grandchildren, Walter A Clyburn Reed, Sydney Alexis Reed, and Layla Joann Clyburn Hannibal. Speaking yesterday about his decision to support Hillary Clinton, Clyburn explained that the women in his family pressed him very hard to put his heart and head out there in a public embrace for Clinton. 

Clyburn's daughter Mignon is a Commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission, nominated by President Barack Obama, nominated in June 2009 and sworn in on August 2009. Jennifer Clyburn Reed, Ed.E is a professional educator in Columbia, South Carolina. Angela Clyburn Hannibal is an assistant program coordinator at Benedict College in Columbia. 

Previously this month, Hillary Clinton received the endorsement of the Congressional Black Caucus PAC, and yesterday actor Morgan Freeman endorsed Hillary and released a very special campaign ad. 

Morgan Freeman for Hillary

“Her life’s work has been about breaking barriers and so would her presidency, which is why for every American who’s not being paid what they’re worth, who’s being held back by student debt or a system tilted against them, and there are far too many of you, she understands that our country can’t reach its potential unless we all do," Freeman explains in the ad, which the Clinton campaign confirmed as new. "Together. A stronger country.”

Freeman was candid about his unflinching support for Clinton, telling CNN's Don Lemon that he has absolutely no trust issues with Clinton. 

"Not with me, she doesn't," Freeman said in an interview that aired Friday on "CNN Tonight." "I can't say that she doesn't, because all you need in some cases for people is to say it. Just put it out there and it gets legs. The Clintons have been being beat down ever since way back, so she just was going along 

with that legacy that she's inherited over the amount of time she's been in politics, which is a long time."

Freeman added, "I think this is just made-up stuff, just, you know, it's political hogwash."