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University of Nevada, Las Vegas / Brookings Institution
Professor of Urban Affairs at University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Executive Director of Brookings Mountain West
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Robert Lang
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FROM Robert Lang
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A Tale of Two States in the Race for the White House Tomorrow's contests in South Carolina and Nevada will be an important test of whether establishment candidates still have a shot in this election year. If Nevada voters "feel the Bern," it signals that non-white voters, long considered Clinton supporters, are open to the maverick message. It's also central to tomorrow's Republican primary in South Carolina, where polls show Donald Trump as the frontrunner, despite his lack of evangelical Christian cred and a no-vote from the Pope himself. It's a state that predicted the GOP nominee every election but one in the past 35 years. We go to both states to take the temperature of southern evangelical voters and Latino Democrats.
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