Hillary Clinton projected as the narrow victor in the Nevada Democratic caucuses

For­mer Sec­re­tary of State Hillary Clin­ton will wind up eking out a nar­row vic­to­ry over Sen­a­tor Bernie Sanders in the Neva­da Demo­c­ra­t­ic cau­cus­es, if pro­jec­tions by cable and broad­cast news net­works are accurate.

With 72.4% report­ing, Clin­ton had 52.3% sup­port, com­pared to 47.7% for Bernie Sanders. When all is said and done, she will prob­a­bly have at least one to two more del­e­gates than Sanders. There are only forty-three del­e­gates at stake.

Neva­da is the third state to hold a Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nat­ing event in the 2016 cycle, fol­low­ing Iowa and New Hampshire.

Clin­ton wast­ed no time declar­ing vic­to­ry, send­ing out texts and tweets thank­ing her Neva­da Demo­c­ra­t­ic sup­port­ers and look­ing for­ward to the South Car­oli­na pri­ma­ry and Super Tues­day (March 1st, 2016).

“The feel­ing is mutu­al, Neva­da,” Clin­ton’s cam­paign tweet­ed.

“To every­one who turned out in every cor­ner of Neva­da with deter­mi­na­tion and heart: This is your win. Thank you. ‑H,” Clin­ton tweet­ed, in a mes­sage signed with her first ini­tial to sig­ni­fy that it was writ­ten by her.

Staffers also changed the avatar of the cam­paign’s Twit­ter account to a graph­ic pro­fess­ing its grat­i­tude for the outcome.

Team Sanders, mean­while, empha­sized cau­cus entrance polling that found that 79% of vot­ers believe Bernie “cares about peo­ple like me.” The Sanders cam­paign announced that Bernie had tele­phoned Hillary to offer his con­grat­u­la­tions on his vic­to­ry, and not­ed that only a few weeks ago, Clin­ton was believed to have a big lead in the state.

“I want to thank the peo­ple of Neva­da for the sup­port they have giv­en us and the boost that their sup­port will give us as we go for­ward,” Sanders tweet­ed.

He added, “I am very proud of the cam­paign we ran. Five weeks ago we were 25 points behind and we end­ed up in a very close election.”

“Proud that we brought many work­ing and young peo­ple into the polit­i­cal process. We have the wind at our back as we head into Super Tuesday.”

Clin­ton and Sanders are each set to speak short­ly, address­ing their supporters.

“This one’s for you… I want to con­grat­u­late Sen­a­tor Sanders on a hard fought race,” a jubi­lant Clin­ton said at her Neva­da cam­paign headquarters.

She took pains to stress that she sup­ports hold­ing Wall Street account­able and tak­ing action to arrest and reverse the flood of dark mon­ey in our elections.

“We aren’t a sin­gle-issue coun­try,” Clin­ton declared mid­way through her speech, in what appeared to be a sub­tle jab at Sanders’ campaign.

“We need more than a plan for the big banks. Amer­i­ca needs a raise.” Clin­ton seemed com­fort­able and poised on stage, touch­ing on a wide array of pol­i­cy direc­tions and bask­ing in the glow of vic­to­ry with her supporters.

“The fight goes on. The future we want is with­in our grasp!” she declared as she con­clud­ed her remarks and was joined onstage by Pres­i­dent Bill Clinton.

Sanders, address­ing his sup­port­ers, also deliv­ered a ren­di­tion of his stump speech, assail­ing big mon­ey in pol­i­tics, income inequal­i­ty, and socioe­co­nom­ic injustice.

“I want to thank all of our sup­port­ers here in Neva­da… I want to thank our staff for the great job that they have done. I am espe­cial­ly proud that we are bring­ing work­ing peo­ple and young peo­ple into the polit­i­cal process in a way we have not seen for a very long time,” Sanders said to loud cheers.

“I believe that on Super Tues­day, we have got an excel­lent chance to win many of those states,” Sanders said, look­ing past the South Car­oli­na Demo­c­ra­t­ic pri­ma­ry to the next set of nom­i­nat­ing con­tests. As he left the stage, he reit­er­at­ed that thought, declar­ing: “It’s on to Super Tues­day! Thank you all very much!”