Marco Rubio held a narrow but decisive lead for second place over Texas Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas in Iowa ruining his record. Even so, the broad scope of Trump’s victory paints a dire picture for Republican establishment types hoping his support can be confined to a particular demographic or corner of the country. We won with young.
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“If you listened to the pundits we were not expected to win anything and now we’re winning, winning winning”.
As the crowd went wild, he added that he loves the people who voted for him, including evangelicals and the “poorly educated”. “We won with poorly educated”, he said.
Businessman Donald Trump won the Nevada Republican presidential caucuses on Tuesday night by taking 45.9 percent of the vote.
He said that the anti-Trump voters are “divided up” among the remaining candidates. “They are bad! BE CAREFUL”. Ohio Governor John Kasich and Ben Carson who finished poor in Nevada will come under pressure to quit the race now.
JOSHUA ROBERTS/REUTERS Donald Trump, whose landslide victory in the Nevada caucuses Tuesday night charged his already surging campaign full of even more momentum, showed no signs of letting up on Wednesday.
Overall, Trump has 81 delegates, and Cruz and Rubio have 17 apiece. The Republican race is a three person race. But if the GOP field continues to include at least two other contenders, they’ll continue to split the non-Trump vote.
Monday marked Trump’s third consecutive win after placing second in Iowa, and won on the backs of what exit polls showed was an angry electorate.
Politico says there is one positive to the fierce, increasingly nasty GOP primary battle – it has triggered a record Republican turnout at the polls.
Referring to his flagship policy of building a wall between the United States and Mexico, which drew criticism from the Pope who called it “un-Christian”, he said: “We’re gonna have our borders nice and strong, and we’re gonna build the wall”, insisting that Mexico would pay for it.
In Republican contests, candidates are awarded a certain number based on wins and/or percentages of votes obtained in caucuses and primaries.
The Nevada caucuses mark the first Republican contest in the West and the fourth of the campaign.
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The results underscored the enormous challenge Mr Trump’s rivals face as the candidates head into next week’s all important “Super Tuesday” contests involving 11 states.
