Donald Trump swept to victory Tuesday in Nevada’s Republican caucuses, a third consecutive win that he said would likely propel him to the Republican presidential nomination.
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But it was Trump who towered above his two top rivals, almost doubling the support of his nearest competitor with 45.9 percent of the vote.
Vanderleeuw said it would not be surprising if Trump wins Texas, though, because of the mogul’s appeal.
Co-host Ashley Earhardt asked Rubio if he needs to start winning primaries in order to win the nomination.
Donald Trump wins, wins, wins, just as he said he would.
He has won nominating contests in three very different states: New Hampshire, where more than a quarter of voters described themselves as “moderates;” SC, where three quarters of voters were evangelical Christians; and Nevada, where 15 percent of voters were “non whites”, the highest proportion of minorities to date in the primaries.
On the Democrat side, impatient voters have rallied around Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in Saturday’s SC primary to give her a boost heading into Super Tuesday.
The Midwest gets its first chance to vote on Super Tuesday.
Romney is also calling on Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz to release their tax returns.
While Rubio has not targeted Trump, he has fired back at Cruz at times during the campaign.
Lagging far behind the two senators in the Nevada vote were Ohio Gov. John Kasich and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson.
Mr Rubio, already campaigning in MI as caucus results rolled in, was projecting confidence that he can consolidate the non-Trump voters who have been splintering among an assortment of Republican candidates, saying, “we have incredible room to grow”. Henry Olson, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, cautioned observers not to make too much of Trump’s result among Latinos because the sample side was “too small to trust”.
The Nevada win is the third in a row for Mr Trump in the state-by-state nominating contest for the November election.
The Florida senator later left Nevada, before the caucuses began, to campaign in Minnesota and MI. The fiery conservative, who won Iowa’s caucus, now faces renewed questions about his viability after finishing third in both SC and Nevada.
After Nevada, the real test on where the presidential candidates stand will come on March 1, when 11 states go to the polls in what is known as “Super Tuesday”.
“This is an fantastic night”, Trump told cheering supporters in a victory speech after Tuesday’s vote.
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He noted that the Nevada caucus was taking place as mainstream Republicans are grudgingly accepting the fact that Trump may well end up the party’s nominee given his seemingly unstoppable winning streak.
