--- title: Nevada Poll Shows Clinton and Sanders in Dead Heat description: Trump holds a solid lead on the GOP side canonical: https://time.com/4227411/nevada-poll-clinton-sanders-dead-heat/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-17T16:45:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T15:09:14.881Z article:section: Politics og:title: Nevada Poll Shows Clinton and Sanders in Dead Heat og:description: Trump holds a solid lead on the GOP side og:url: https://time.com/4227411/nevada-poll-clinton-sanders-dead-heat/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd84b7897b3da9924/69887def196cf49db403a5c2/dem-debate.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: US-VOTE-DEMOCRATS-DEBATE og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Nevada Poll Shows Clinton and Sanders in Dead Heat twitter:description: Trump holds a solid lead on the GOP side twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd84b7897b3da9924/69887def196cf49db403a5c2/dem-debate.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Clinton and Sanders Neck and Neck in Nevada, Poll Finds by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Feb 17, 2016 4:45 PM UTC  US Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders participate in the PBS NewsHour Presidential Primary Debatein Milwaukee, Wisconsin on February 11, 2016. US Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders participate in the PBS NewsHour Presidential Primary Debatein Milwaukee, Wisconsin on February 11, 2016.Tasos Katopodis—AFP/Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Feb 17, 2016 4:45 PM UTC A [new poll](http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2016/images/02/17/topnv1.pdf) on the Nevada caucuses shows Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in almost a dead heat in the state. Clinton held 48% of Democratic support compared to Sanders’ 47%, the new CNN/ORC International Poll found. On the Republican side, Trump held 45% of support, followed by Marco Rubio with 19% and Ted Cruz with 17%; the rest of the candidates ranked in the single digits. The poll consisted of interviews with 1,006 Nevadans from Feb. 10 to 15, including 245 likely Republican caucus-goers and 282 likely Democratic caucus-goers—on the smaller side of sample sizes. The Republican response had a sampling error of +/- 6.5 percentage points, and the Democratic response had a sampling error of +/- 6 percentage points. The Democratic caucus will take place in Nevada on Saturday, and the Republicans will caucus on Tuesday. \[[_CNN_](http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2016/images/02/17/topnv1.pdf)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4227411/nevada-poll-clinton-sanders-dead-heat/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4227411/nevada-poll-clinton-sanders-dead-heat/"},"headline":"Clinton and Sanders Neck and Neck in Nevada, Poll Finds","datePublished":"2016-02-17T16:45:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T15:09:14.881Z","description":"Trump holds a solid lead on the GOP side","url":"https://time.com/4227411/nevada-poll-clinton-sanders-dead-heat/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd84b7897b3da9924/69887def196cf49db403a5c2/dem-debate.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd84b7897b3da9924/69887def196cf49db403a5c2/dem-debate.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-VOTE-DEMOCRATS-DEBATE","caption":"US-VOTE-DEMOCRATS-DEBATE","creditText":"Tasos Katopodis—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4227411/nevada-poll-clinton-sanders-dead-heat/","name":"Clinton and Sanders Neck and Neck in Nevada, Poll Finds"}}]}] ```