Sanders attributes Nevada loss to low turnout

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says his loss to Hillary Clinton in Nevada probably was caused by lower voter turnout.

The Vermont senator says on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday that “We will do well when young people, when working-class people come out” to vote. He adds: “We did not do as good a job as I had wanted to bring out a large turnout.”

The state party estimates that 80,000 Democrats caucused Saturday. That’s about 10,000 more than most expected but still well below the nearly 120,000 who showed up in 2008.

Hillary Rodham Clinton says she understands that independent voters in particular have questions about whether they can trust her.

She says on CNN’s “State of the Union” that voters have an “underlying question…is she in it for us or is she in it for herself?”

She adds: “That’s a question that people are trying to sort through…I know that I have to make my case.”

The FBI is investigating whether classified information passed through Clinton’s homebrew server while she was secretary of state.

— AP