Hoping that they would be able to dislodge Donald Trump as Republican presidential front- runner, two of his top rivals, Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz have claimed that majority of voters in the USA do not want the real estate tycoon to be the nominee. Rubio can clearly see the risk in openly attacking Trump before Trump attacks him, which is smart given what such an approach cost co-Floridian Jeb Bush.
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“We’re winning, winning, winning the country”, Trump declared on Tuesday.
“I think I’m going to accumulate enough delegates that I’m going to win”, he said to cheers.
After racking up three consecutive primary victories, Donald Trump is feeling bullish on his chances of capturing the Republican nomination.
“The whole thing it’s going to be an awesome two months”, he added, referring to the next primary contests. “We need a president we can trust”.
Donald Trump wins, wins, wins, just as he said he would.
Rubio and Cruz finished second and third, respectively, in both the SC primary Saturday and Nevada’s caucuses on Tuesday, both far behind Trump. John McCain, who had previously called for a route to citizenship for the undocumented – Hispanic voters indeed clustered over in the Democratic camp. After Super Tuesday, states begin to allocate delegates on a winner-take-all basis. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas fell from second place in last month’s poll to a close fourth, with 12 percent.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a caucus night watch party at the Treasure Island Hotel & Casino, Feb. 23, 2016, in Las Vegas. Cruz received the support of 37 percent of those polled, Trump polled at 29 percent and Rubio was at 8 percent.
Overall, Trump has gotten 32.7 of the votes cast-24.3 percent in Iowa, 35.3 percent in New Hampshire, 32.5 percent in SC, and 45.9 percent in Nevada. Republican establishment heavyweights have been flooding to Rubio in recent days, including several senators and governors, but that might not help win over an angry Republican base looking for a political outsider like Trump. From ultra-conservative fringes to the Republican mainstream, the White House hopeful is assembling a formidable coalition of angry voters that could carry him to the party nomination in July. The balance is tilted toward contests in the first two weeks of March, starting with March 1, when 11 states hold contests.
Dr Ursula Hackett, junior research fellow in USA politics at the RAI, says Nevada’s result “does make a Trump candidacy more likely”.
Cruz also reminded voters that he is the only candidate so far to prove he can beat Trump, having won the Iowa caucuses with the strong support of evangelical Christians.
The election calendar suggests that if Trump’s rivals don’t slow him by mid-March, they may not ever.
O’Connell, who isn’t backing anyone in the GOP presidential race, said Rubio or Cruz needs to drop out soon to deny Trump the nomination. You ask people to vote for you, and to not vote for other people, and if more people vote for you than vote for other people, you win.
Nevada’s caucusing played out in schools, community centres and places of worship across the state – a process that’s been chaotic in the past.
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With victories now under his belt in the West, the South and Northeast, a gleeful Trump was oozing even more confidence than usual Tuesday night that the GOP nomination is within reach.
