The president easily won the Democratic race in a state that will be a top battleground in November, just days after dominating his challengers in South Carolina.
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President Biden campaigning on Sunday in Las Vegas, a stop that doubled as a get-out-the-vote effort for the Democratic primary election and a kickoff to the general-election campaign.
President Biden coasted to victory on Tuesday in Nevada’s Democratic presidential primary election, carrying his party’s second recognized nominating contest against token opposition.
The Associated Press declared Mr. Biden the winner shortly after polls closed in Nevada, giving him his second easy triumph in four days, after he took 96 percent of the vote in South Carolina’s primary on Saturday.
“I want to thank the voters of Nevada for sending me and Kamala Harris to the White House four years ago, and for setting us one step further on that same path again tonight,” Mr. Biden said in a statement late on Tuesday evening.
As in South Carolina, Mr. Biden was the only Democratic candidate to mount a visible campaign in the state. He visited Las Vegas on Sunday, a stop that doubled as a get-out-the-vote effort for the primary and a kickoff to the general-election campaign in a state expected to be one of the most competitive battlegrounds in the country.
Representative Dean Phillips of Minnesota, one of Mr. Biden’s long-shot primary challengers, was not on the ballot because he entered the race after Nevada’s deadline for access. Mr. Phillips won 20 percent of the vote in New Hampshire, which Mr. Biden won as a write-in candidate, and then placed third behind the self-help author Marianne Williamson in South Carolina. Mr. Phillips has said he will focus his campaign on Michigan, which holds its Democratic primary on Feb. 27.
While the Nevada primary was not competitive, the state’s general elections are typically very tight. Mr. Biden, who won the state narrowly in 2020, will again need overwhelming support from the state’s heavy concentration of Hispanic voters, many of whom work in Las Vegas’s entertainment and hospitality industries. It was no coincidence that Mr. Biden on Monday paid a visit to unionized casino and hotel employees who had just completed contract negotiations.
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