MSNBC’s Welker: Clinton Is ‘Feeling the Heat Amid Senator Sanders’ Surge’

JANSING: “But let’s set the scene for what has turned out to be a race much tighter than anyone expected. At Victory Missionary Baptist Church in Las Vegas they sat two aisles away from each other, spoke to the congregation, but according to reports not to each other. They are on the same page in going after Latino and black voters. Two blocks that will be key in the next two Democratic nominating contests in Nevada and South Carolina. MSNBC political reporter Alex Seitz-Wald is covering the Democratic presidential candidates, but let’s go first to Reno, Nevada and NBC’s Kristen Welker. So Kristen, I thought that Secretary Clinton was supposed to be in Florida today. Has there been a schedule change and what’s behind it?”
WELKER: “There has been. Secretary Clinton adding an extra day of campaigning here in Nevada, Chris. And it’s an indication that she is feeling the heat amid Senator Sanders’ surge. She’s intensifying her focus here, three events in the Reno area today and she’s also intensifying her focus on reaching out to those black and Latino voters that you mentioned in addition to that stop at the Baptist church yesterday, Chris, she also had an event with dreamers. She’s released a number of campaign ads in Spanish targeting that group. And over the weekend, Chris, she’s rolling out a new line of attack that Senator Sanders is a single-issue candidate but she had a new twist on that line. Take a listen to what she had to say.”