A billionaire businessman and political outsider, Trump’s brash, anti-government talk appealed to Nevada residents, political strategists said before the Tuesday evening caucus. She brought up Ben Carson and John Kasich, saying, “It’s either delusion or vanity driving these campaigns now, not public support”.
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Trump won 50 percent of the voters who described themselves as “somewhat conservative”, according to the entrance poll.
But in a silver lining for Florida Sen.
A candidate must have 1,237 state delegates to win the Republican nomination at the National Convention this summer. After years of pandering to extremists, the Republican Party is now stuck with what it created: a field of extreme candidates with views far out of the mainstream and out of touch with the American people.
The GOP front-runner’s confidence makes sense: With three straight wins, he looks increasingly likely to be on a glide path to land the Republican nomination.
Meanwhile, Republicans will take part in a voter summit hosted by Fox News’s Megyn Kelly, an anchor Trump has had some rough relations with in this campaign season. Winning one or more of them is possible.
“I’m responding to Ted Cruz, that’s different, ” Rubio said. Rubio came in second with both those groups.
Donald Trump continued his winning streak in the Republican primary late Monday after winning the Nevada caucuses.
To stop Trump, the opposition must be reduced to a single candidate.
“We won the evangelicals, we won with young, we won with old, we won with highly educated, we won with poorly educated – I love the poorly educated”, Trump said. “Now we are going to get greedy for the United States, grab, grab and grab”, he said.
“We weren’t expected to win too much and now we’re winning, winning, winning the country”, Mr Trump said. Marco Rubio was leading Sen. Immigration and terrorism were each chosen by slightly fewer – about 2 in 10.
But there are not yet many signs of a concerted effort to attack Trump.
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Cruz was able to notch a victory over tough-talking Trump in the first state to voice its opinion, Iowa, but he has posted two consecutive third-place finishes since then.
