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Nevada caucuses: Joe Biden cut off by TV cameras while insisting his campaign is ‘still alive’

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Just as Joe Biden was promising to lick his wounds and navigate an improbable comeback after what was shaping up to be a third successive loss in the 2020 primary season, the former vice president was cut off by a national news channel that had some urgent news: Bernie Sanders had officially won the Nevada caucuses.

The timing of the cutaway by MSNBC was noticed nearly immediately by political observers, who had tuned in or left the channel on as Mr Biden delivered what he seems to have hoped would be an optimistic concession speech in the Silver State.

“You know the press is ready to declare people dead quickly. But we’re alive and we’re coming back and we’re gonna win,” Mr Biden said during his rally as Nevada results were still incoming.

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The crowd laughed in the background in response to his quip at the press’s expense. Then the press interrupted with some news.

“We have been listening to vice president Joe Biden speaking in Nevada,” the announcer said, before proceeding haltingly as a slide came on the screen showing Vermont senator Mr Sanders had won the caucuses. ”We are projecting that Bernie Sanders — NBC News projects Bernie Sanders the winner in Nevada. Brand new, breaking news numbers coming right ouf of Nevada.”

Mr Biden and rival Pete Buttigieg later both claimed to have come second.

Mr Sanders’ win in Nevada marks an historic achievement — he is the first candidate in modern Democratic history to win the popular vote in all three of the first states to vote in the nominating  process — and cements the Vermont senator as a front-runner just 10 days from Super Tuesday, when several states will head to the polls on a day that will allocate more delegates than any other day in the primary.

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Jessica Canicosa, a precinct captain for Bernie Sanders, waits to greet caucus voters at Liberty High School in Henderson, Nevada

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Hotel workers at the Bellagio in Las Vegas get to grips with voting papers during the Nevada caucuses

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A caricature of Bernie Sanders is projected on to a tree during a rally in Las Vegas

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A woman waits to have a photo taken with Elizabeth Warren during a town hall meeting in Las Vegas

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The threat of coronavirus and other germ-borne illnesses was on some voters’ minds at the Democratic caucuses in Henderson, Nevada

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Former vice-president Joe Biden takes a selfie with a voter in Las Vegas ahead of the Nevada caucuses

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Amy Klobuchar changes her shoes backstage after giving a speech in Exeter, New Hampshire

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A warmly-wrapped-up dog attends an Elizabeth Warren event at Amherst Elementary School in Nashua, New Hampshire

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Bernie Sanders, who romped to victory in New Hampshire against Hillary Clinton in 2016, talks to the media in Manchester

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Joe Biden was hoping to improve on his poor showing in Iowa in the New Hampshire primary

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Elizabeth Warren, renowned for giving time to supporters for selfies, works the crowd at the University of New Hampshire in Durham

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Joe Biden takes a selfie with a supporter and his child outside a campaign event in Somersworth, New Hampshire on 5 February

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Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders quarrel after a confrontation in a TV debate in which Sanders claimed that Warren was not telling the truth about a conversation in which she claimed he had said a woman could not win the presidency on 14 January

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Supporter Pat Provencher listens to Pete Buttigieg in Laconia, New Hampshire on 4 February

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Pete Buttigieg speaks at a campaign event in Concord, New Hampshire while awaiting the results of the Iowa caucus

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Elizabeth Warren is presented with a balloon effigy of herself at a campaign event in Nashua, New Hampshire on 5 February

Reuters

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A supporter rides past a rally for Amy Klobuchar in Des Moines, Iowa on 14 January

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A man holds up a sign criticising billionaires in the presidential race in front of Michael Bloomberg in Compton, Califronia. The former New York mayor skipped the first caucus in Iowa and instead campaigned in California on 3 February

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Jessica Canicosa, a precinct captain for Bernie Sanders, waits to greet caucus voters at Liberty High School in Henderson, Nevada

REUTERS

2/18

Hotel workers at the Bellagio in Las Vegas get to grips with voting papers during the Nevada caucuses

AFP via

3/18

A caricature of Bernie Sanders is projected on to a tree during a rally in Las Vegas

EPA

4/18

A woman waits to have a photo taken with Elizabeth Warren during a town hall meeting in Las Vegas

REUTERS

5/18

The threat of coronavirus and other germ-borne illnesses was on some voters’ minds at the Democratic caucuses in Henderson, Nevada

6/18

Former vice-president Joe Biden takes a selfie with a voter in Las Vegas ahead of the Nevada caucuses

REUTERS

7/18

Amy Klobuchar changes her shoes backstage after giving a speech in Exeter, New Hampshire

AFP/Getty

8/18

A warmly-wrapped-up dog attends an Elizabeth Warren event at Amherst Elementary School in Nashua, New Hampshire

AFP/Getty

9/18

Bernie Sanders, who romped to victory in New Hampshire against Hillary Clinton in 2016, talks to the media in Manchester

Getty

10/18

Joe Biden was hoping to improve on his poor showing in Iowa in the New Hampshire primary

Reuters

11/18

Elizabeth Warren, renowned for giving time to supporters for selfies, works the crowd at the University of New Hampshire in Durham

Getty

12/18

Joe Biden takes a selfie with a supporter and his child outside a campaign event in Somersworth, New Hampshire on 5 February

Reuters

13/18

Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders quarrel after a confrontation in a TV debate in which Sanders claimed that Warren was not telling the truth about a conversation in which she claimed he had said a woman could not win the presidency on 14 January

AP

14/18

Supporter Pat Provencher listens to Pete Buttigieg in Laconia, New Hampshire on 4 February

Getty

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Pete Buttigieg speaks at a campaign event in Concord, New Hampshire while awaiting the results of the Iowa caucus

Reuters

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Elizabeth Warren is presented with a balloon effigy of herself at a campaign event in Nashua, New Hampshire on 5 February

Reuters

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A supporter rides past a rally for Amy Klobuchar in Des Moines, Iowa on 14 January

AP

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A man holds up a sign criticising billionaires in the presidential race in front of Michael Bloomberg in Compton, Califronia. The former New York mayor skipped the first caucus in Iowa and instead campaigned in California on 3 February

Reuters

Mr Biden has seen his fortunes falling in recent months, with losses in Iowa and New Hampshire and, now Nevada. He has staked his political fortunes on South Carolina, which votes next week, where African American voters who have been thought to be strong supporters of Mr Biden are likely to be decesive.

Mr Biden leads Mr Sanders in South Carolina by a razor thin margin, according to an aggregate of polls by Real Clear Politics.

In those polls, Mr Biden attracts 23.3 per cent of the vote compared to Mr Sanders’s 21 per cent.

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