Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders campaigns in Santa Ana and Bakersfield on eve of Nevada caucuses.
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Sanders, who campaigned later in Bakersfield, is hoping for a large turnout of independent voters, called No Party Preference in California to differentiate from the American Independent Party. But just 9% of them have requested Democratic primary ballots so far. More alarming for Sanders is that less than 5% of independents who are Latino and less than 5% of voters under 35 years old have requested Democratic primary ballots, according to Political Data, a nonpartisan election data firm. Those are two of the voter groups that support Sanders the most in California.
At a time when two of his rivals, former Vice President Joe Biden and former New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, have been criticizing his past support of the gun industry, Sanders also promised an assault-weapon ban and other“Let me simply say to you that our gun policy will be written by the American people, not the NRA,” Sanders said, referring to the National Rifle Assn.
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