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The Nevada Democrat issued a plea for his party to consolidate behind Clinton, who has struggled to fend off an insurgent campaign from Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont.

"I think the middle class would be better served by Hillary," Reid said.

"I think that my work with her over the years has been something that I have looked upon with awe. She was the first lady. She started the trend toward looking to do something about health care. She understood the issue well, she was the front on the health care during that administration," he said.

Reid added, "I also think she's the woman to be the first president of the United states that's a female."

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Reid's endorsement makes him the highest-ranking Democrat to get behind Clinton, who won last Saturday's Nevada caucuses and is the heavy favorite heading into the next primary in South Carolina. And his comments marked a shift in tone for the Nevada Democrat, who in a CNN interview earlier this month was critical of Clinton's campaign in his state and suggesting that the race could continue until the Democratic convention in July.

On Wednesday, Reid wouldn't repeat that prediction, but admitted it could continue for a while.

"I don't know about that, you know I had some meetings today and I think the race is moving along very quickly so we'll have to see, we'll have to see what happens next month," He said.

Reid also declined to call on Sanders to drop out if he doesn't do well in the upcoming Super Tuesday contests on March 1st, saying Sanders' advisers need to decide the senator's strategy.

Sanders and Reid have had a close relationship over the years. Despite being an independent with tenuous ties to the Democratic Party, Reid agreed to throw the party's weight behind Sanders when he won his first Senate race in 2006. And it was Sanders' decision to caucus with Democrats that helped give Reid the title of "majority leader" for the first time in 2007.

Reid called Sanders Tuesday to deliver the news personally.

"It was a really wonderful call," Reid said, adding that Sanders was "so magnanimous, so kind and courteous."

Reid also said it was a "call of friendship."

Despite serving in the Senate Democratic caucus since 2007, Sanders has yet to win any support from his colleagues; Clinton, meanwhile, has at least 40 Democratic senators who have publicly expressed their backing.

Initially, Senate Democrats largely wrote off Sanders' candidacy. But as Sanders has gained steam, largely on the support of younger and more liberal voters, Senate Democrats have stepped up their attacks, saying Sanders is not ready to be commander in chief, criticizing his democratic socialist views and contending that his domestic agenda has little chance of ever becoming law.

Reid would not criticize Sanders.

Across the Capitol, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has not offered her endorsement, but she is widely expected to eventually back Clinton. Reid sought to maintain his neutrality through his home state's nominating contest, given the prominent role it has played in the overall process.

While Reid helped bring out union and casino workers to the Nevada caucuses that ultimately helped Clinton, he denied that he was tilting the scales in her favor.

In the interview, Reid wasn't shy about weighing in on the Republican race -- and Donald Trump, who won a landslide victory in Nevada Tuesday night.

"The party of Lincoln has become the party of Trump. And that says it all," he said.

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Hillary Clinton edged out Bernie Sanders on Saturday in Nevada's caucuses, capitalizing on a more diverse Democratic electorate to propel her to a crucial win in her second presidential bid. (Feb. 20) AP

Hillary Clinton greets supporters on Feb. 20, 2016, in Las Vegas.(Photo: Justin Sullivan, Getty Images)

LAS VEGAS Hillary Clinton beat Bernie Sanders in the Nevada caucuses Saturday,her first unqualified win of the campaign for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.

Nevada was supposed to be Clinton country all along, but the former secretary of States seemingly insurmountable lead of more than 20 points had shriveled in recent weeks, raising concerns about the possibility of another embarrassment following her 22-point loss in New Hampshire and her razor thin victory inIowa, which was described as a virtual tie.

Instead, she was on her way to a clear victory, but still within single digits, giving Sanders and his supporters room to to claim the day was not a total loss.

"Some may have doubted us but we never doubted each other," she told supporters at a victory rally. "And this one is for you."

Clinton congratulated Sanders, but then needled him for his focus on condemning the rich for trying to control the political system.

We arent a single-issue country, she said. We need more than a plan for the big banks. The middle class needs a raise! And we need more jobs. We need jobs that pay well and cant be outsourced.

Clinton won all six at-large precincts set up on Las Vegas Strip for on-duty casino and hotel shift workers on Saturday, Nevada Democratic Party results showed. At the Paris casino, the caucusgoers were almost exclusively Latino and black and Clinton snagged more than twice the delegates Sanders received.

Sanders did better than expected with Latino voters, entrance polling showed, but Clinton carried off a big win with African American voters a segment of the population shes counting on to help her win in the Southern states that vote next month.

It was a blow to Sanders, who had hoped Nevada would prove he has what it takes to carry more diverse states.

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Sanders issued a statement shortly after the race was called,saying he had spoken to Clinton and congratulated her on her victory here in Nevada.

In a speech to supporters, he said he still believes he has the momentum in the Democratic contest nationwide."I believe that on Super Tuesday we've got an excellent chance to win many of those states," he said, and his nomination at theDemocratic convention in Philadelphia will mark"one of the great political upsets in the history of the United States."

Nevada Democratic caucus-goers are finding long lines at sites in the Las Vegas and Reno areas as they arrive to make their choices between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. (Feb. 20) AP

Leomia Dillon, a 55-year-old guest service operator at the Paris casino, was ecstatic about Clinton's victory.

I like what she stands for, said Dillon, who is black. She stands for women, and equal pay for women.

The results were a disappointment to Dennis Torh, 47, who works in housekeeping at the hotel at the Paris casino. Bernie Sanders stood with MLK and has great experience. He wants everyone to be able to afford a college education, said Torh, who is black and has no college degree.

Clinton backers said the victory proved shes better at retail campaigning that political observers usually give her credit for. She personally visited the back-of-the-house at casinos to ask shift workers for their votes, including a midnight visit to Caesars Palace after a 16-hour day on Wednesday.

In the final days before the Nevada caucuses, the candidates took turns trying to make a dent in the others popularity, especially with black and Latino voters.Minority voters held the cards in Nevada, where 48.5% of the population is non-white.

Clinton repeatedly stressed her closeness with President Obama, the nations first black president. Sanders this week accused Clinton of pandering to blacks, telling the Black Entertainment Television cable network that she loves the president, he loves her and all that stuff. And we know what that's about. That's trying to win support from the African-American community where the president is enormously popular.

A photograph surfaced on Friday that helped Sanders counter Clinton surrogates claim that he was absent from the civil rights battle. TheChicago Tribune dug outof its archives a photo of a 21-year-old Sanders, a University of Chicago student at the time, resisting arrest during a 1963 protest over racial inequality.

Immigration has been another point of contention this week. Team Clinton attacked Sanders for voting against a 2007 immigration bill; Sanders defended his opposition, saying he believed its guest worker provision to be morally wrong. The dispute prompted a leading Latino rights activist, Brent Wilkes of the League of United Latin American Citizens, to call Clintons criticism unfair. Wilkes told BuzzFeed News: Its hard to separate Hillarys record from (her husbands). The Clintons, when they were in office, werent exactly friends to immigrants.

Clintons trustworthiness, and her closeness to the powerful financial industry leaders of Wall Street, were big themes in the closing days, as well.

Clinton stirred trouble for herself by seeming to hedge when asked in a CBS News interview on Thursday if shed echo President Jimmy Carters pledge to never lie to the American people. She answered that she doesnt think she has ever lied.

I don't believe I ever have. I don't believe I ever have. I don't believe I ever will, she told CBS anchor Scott Pelley.

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Sanders continued to pushClinton to release transcripts of her closed-door speeches to Wall Street. Thursday night, during the MSNBC town hall forum in Las Vegas, Clinton said shed be happy to release anything I have when everybody else does the same. Team Sanders fired back in an email statement Friday: So, OK. Bernie accepts Hillary Clintons challenge. We will release the transcripts of all his Wall Street speeches. Right here. In this email. Bernie's never been paid to speak to Wall Street.

The candidates'relatives also made headlines this week.

Sanders brother Larry caught attention for telling the Daily Beast that voters are too busy debating whether Bill really such a terrible rapist or is he a nice rapist to evaluate his presidential record. A Sanders aide said Friday that Sanders doesnt agree with his brothers characterization.

In Reno on Friday, Bill Clinton blasted Sanders for running a remarkably fact-free campaign, then expressed frustration during the Las Vegas rally later day, saying that these days, hes just a happy grandfather who doesnt wake up mad at anyone, but that has changed in the last few days.

Hillary Clinton criticized Sanders proposals for free stuff such as government-paid public college tuition for all, and on Friday night told Nevada voters she wont overpromise.

I will not make promises I cant keep, she said at her Las Vegas rally.

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Hillary Clinton said in her Nevada victory speech

Not really. But Clinton told a colorful story on Monday in Reno that ended with the former secretary of state barking like a dog.

Clinton was in the middle of a riff about how, in her view, Republicans say things that are not true, when she remembered a radio ad that she said ran in rural Arkansas while her husband, Bill Clinton, was running for office.

"(Republicans) actually, with a straight face, say that the great recession was caused by too much regulation on Wall Street. They actually say that," Clinton said.

Then she launched into her story.

"One of my favorite political ads of all time was a radio ad in rural Arkansas where the announcer said, 'Wouldn't it be great if somebody running for office said something, we could have an immediate reaction to whether it was true or not. Well, we have trained this dog. Well, the dog, if it is not true, he is going to bark,'" Clinton said. "And the dog was barking on the radio and so people were barking at each other for days after that."

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"I want to figure out how we can do that with Republicans. We need to get that dog and follow them around and every time they say these things like, 'Oh, the Great Recession was caused by too much regulation,' arh, arh, arh, arh," Clinton said, letting out a barking noise that caused the audience to laugh and some people to mimic her.

"I think," Clinton concluded, "we could cut right through a lot of their claims."

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Hillary Clinton 67th United States Secretary of State In office January 21, 2009 February 1, 2013 President Barack Obama Deputy James Steinberg William Burns Preceded by Condoleezza Rice Succeeded by John Kerry United States Senator from New York In office January 3, 2001 January 21, 2009 Preceded by Daniel Patrick Moynihan Succeeded by Kirsten Gillibrand First Lady of the United States In office January 20, 1993 January 20, 2001 President Bill Clinton Preceded by Barbara Bush Succeeded by Laura Bush First Lady of Arkansas In office January 11, 1983 December 12, 1992 Governor Bill Clinton Preceded by Gay Daniels White Succeeded by Betty Tucker In office January 9, 1979 January 19, 1981 Governor Bill Clinton Preceded by Barbara Pryor Succeeded by Gay Daniels White Personal details Born October 26, 1947 (1947-10-26) (age68) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Political party Democratic Party (1968present) Other political affiliations Republican Party (before 1968) Spouse(s) Bill Clinton (m. 1975-present) Children Chelsea Residence Chappaqua, New York Alma mater Wellesley College Yale Law School Profession Lawyer Religion Methodism[1] Signature Website Official website

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is an American politician. She is a former United States Secretary of State, U.S. Senator, and First Lady of the United States.

From 2009 to 2013, she was the 67th Secretary of State, serving under President Barack Obama. Before that, she was the junior United States Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009. She is married to former President of the United States Bill Clinton in 1975. When her husband was president, she had the title of First Lady of the United States. She was a candidate in the 2008 election of a new President. She is a member of the Democratic Party.

She is a lawyer and was the First Lady of Arkansas before being First Lady of the United States. She began her first term as Senator January 3, 2001.

Hillary Clinton was the first former First Lady to be elected to the U.S. Senate and to hold a federal cabinet-level position.[2] She ran for re-election to the Senate in 2006, which she won, and was considered by many in the media and politics as having a good chance to win in the race for the Democratic Party's US presidential nomination in 2008, but she lost to Barack Obama.

In April 2015, Clinton announced that she will be running for president once again for the 2016 United States presidential elections.[3]

Hillary Diane Rodham was born in Chicago. She was raised in Park Ridge, a suburb located 15 miles (24km) northwest of downtown Chicago. Her parents were Hugh E. Rodham and Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham. She is of Welsh, English, French and French Canadian ancestry.[4][5] Hillary grew up with two younger brothers, Hugh and Tony.

She studied at Maine East High School and Maine South High School. She finished high school in 1965, and enrolled at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.

In 1969, Rodham entered Yale Law School. She received a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Yale in 1973. Then, she began a year of post-graduate study on children and medicine at the Yale Child Study Center.

When she was First Lady, she tried to change the health care system. Some people did not like it when the planning meetings were kept secret away from the public. In the end, too many people did not want the changes that she wanted.

Another major event during the time she was First Lady was when the public found out in 1998 that Bill Clinton had a sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky in the mid 1990s. There was stress in the marriage partly because Bill had to go to trial (impeachment) because he was accused of lying to the court (during a deposition).

When she decided that she wanted to be Senator, she chose New York even though she never lived there. Some accused her of "carpetbagging" because of this. She went on to win the election and won a second term in 2006.

When the war between the United States-led coalition and Iraq was about to start, she voted in favor of the war. Now she is opposed to the war and wants American troops to stop fighting rebel Iraqis.

Hillary Clinton had raised more money than anybody else in the 2008 Presidential campaign, but later had big money problems for her campaign by May 7, 2008. She was not picked by her party, the person who did was Barack Obama, but she campaigned for Obama after this.

In mid-November 2008, Obama and Clinton talked about whether she could be the next U.S. Secretary of State in his presidency.[6] On November 21, there were reports that said Hillary Clinton had accepted his offer.[7]

During her term as Secretary of State, Clinton used her position to make women's rights and human rights a focus of U.S. initiatives. She became one of the most traveled secretaries of state in American history. She promoted the use of social media to convey the country's positions. She also led U.S. diplomatic efforts in responding to the Arab Spring and military intervention in Libya.

Clinton did not want to serve a second term as secretary. Once Barack Obama won his re-election, he announced that John Kerry would succeed Clinton as secretary. Clinton left office on February 1, 2013.

Clinton did not want to run for president in 2016, but after much of a majority support from the Democratic party, on April 12, 2015, speculation ended as Clinton formally announced her candidacy via email and the release of a video saying, "Everyday Americans need a champion. And I want to be that champion." In recent polls, Clinton maintained her lead for the nomination although she faces several challenges from Senator Bernie Sanders.

While working as a faculty member at the Law School of the University of Arkansas, she married Bill Clinton on October 11, 1975. He was also working as a faculty member at the same university. Both knew each other and were classmates at the Yale Law School. Their only child is daughter Chelsea Clinton, born on February 27, 1980.

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