Ralston: The Behavior of the Clinton Camp in Nevada Shows that Nevada Is in Play

‘Their internal polling must show that, there is no other conclusion’

KORNACKI: "Jon, no longer a lock for Hillary Clinton. Give us your best sense of the lay of the land four days out."
RALSTON: "Well, as you know, Steve, it's very difficult to get a handle on caucuses as opposed to primaries, especially in Nevada since we haven't been doing it that long. But all the behavior of the Clinton campaign trying to make Nevada seem more like Iowa and New Hampshire when it's nothing like Iowa and New Hampshire, the fact that she was, as you pointed out, in Elko, of all places, in rural Nevada, trying to sound like she understands the mining industry yesterday, cancelling events in Florida to do three different events in Nevada yesterday, making all these visits to cover all of her bases, a couple visits to casinos, going to meet with unions, those kinds of things, indicate they think Nevada is in play. Their internal polling must show that there's no other conclusion. And at the Sanders rally a couple days ago, you could see a different kind of crowd, a bigger crowd. There's something going on here. But again, we don't know what the turnout is going to be. A quarter of the turnout, Steve, in 2008, was voters who registered on the same day. I think the Clinton campaign is worried if there's a similar surge in same-day registration, a lot of those voters could be Bernie Sanders voters."

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