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After her disappointing finish in New Hampshire, Sen. Elizabeth Warren sounded the alarm to her supporters that she needed to raise “critical funds” to compete in the primary. She wanted to raise $7 million in the 10 days between New Hampshire and Nevada.
She raised $14 million in those 10 days, her campaign said Saturday, just as caucuses sites began to open in Nevada. Ms. Warren’s burned through cash in January leading up to the Iowa caucuses and her standout debate performance Wednesday has given her finances a much needed boost. Her attacks on former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, which garner widespread attention and aides credit for her fundraising boom, have become a key part of Ms. Warren’s electability pitch on the campaign trail. “Every time somebody tells you a woman can’t beat Donald Trump, well, I don’t know about a woman, but I’ll tell you: Elizabeth warren can beat Donald Trump,” Ms. warren told a caucus-eve crowd in Las Vegas on Friday night. “And if anyone doubts whether or not I can fight him on a debate stage, I think we have the video from Wednesday.”The Nevada State Democratic Party said it had processed all the roughly 75,000 early vote ballots, and data entry was completed ahead of its caucuses Saturday. State party spokeswoman Molly Forgey, in a statement Saturday morning, said the results from four days of early voting will be included in caucus day results today as planned. "When Nevadans show up to their precinct today to caucus, their neighbors’ early votes will be counted alongside them," she said. "Massive turnout, particularly on the final day of early voting, has meant lots of time-consuming data entry." For Nevada Democrats, the pressure is on to ensure the third Democratic presidential nominating contest this election season goes off without a hitch following Iowa’s debacle earlier this month when a custom app malfunctioned and a coding error delayed reporting of the caucuses' results. Backup phone system also jammed and paper records were used to tally the results, which are still being finalized. As of Friday night, campaign aides in Nevada said they had not received early voting names from the last day of early voting on Tuesday. More than 75,000 people voted early during a four-day window that concluded Tuesday, a large number when compared with total turnout of about 84,000 four years ago. Those votes won’t be shared until they are blended with support registered Saturday at roughly 250 locations hosting 2,097 caucuses. For Saturday’s caucuses, the party is letting volunteers ditch the tablets and digital Google form calculators and stick to paper if they feel more comfortable doing so. "Instead of using the app or vendor responsible for what happened in Iowa, we implemented a lean, low-tech, largely paper-based system," Ms. Forgey said. "We did it the hard way -- because we understand just how important it is that we get this right and protect the integrity of Nevadans’ votes."
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