“We love Nevada”, Trump said during his brief victory speech at his party in Las Vegas late Tuesday night.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, arrives with his son Eric during a caucus night rally. Ted Cruz who finished at 21.4 percent. Ask people what economic issues will be important for the next president, and Democ…
“I think the Republican establishment is going to have to hold their nose and embrace Donald Trump”.
The race for the nomination in both major political parties has produced candidates who reflect a deepening anger among American voters with the gridlock during much of the Obama administration.
On Tuesday 11 states, including MA, will have Republican primaries or caucuses.
Among the Republican candidates, Ted Cruz, Rubio and the now departed Jeb Bush were mostly positive, while Chris Christie, who dropped out of the race after the New Hampshire primary, sometimes delved relatively deeply into the negative. GOP Chair Reince Priebus has been making noises about switching up the early primary states for 2020 and beyond, and it looks like the most likely casualty is Nevada. Rubio and Cruz would still legitimately have reason to stick around.
He said earlier he might tone down his contentious rhetoric if he makes it to the White House – or not, since “right now it seems to be working pretty well”.
When it comes to delegates, this won’t be Trump’s biggest victory – he’ll net more from SC, a bigger state that allots delegates winner-take-all style rather than proportionally. In Nevada, the 75,000 GOP caucusgoers doubled the record from 2012. He had already moved on to the delegate-rich states of MI and Minnesota. The list of states on the nominating calendar after that are not in his demographic wheelhouse.
In a more muted address, Cruz gave Trump his due for winning in Nevada and then pressed the argument that he’s the only candidate who can stop the real estate mogul.
Mr Rubio and Mr Cruz have been attacking each other viciously in recent days, an indication they know Mr Trump can be stopped only if one of them is eliminated.
Those pleas could soon extend to Cruz or Rubio, if one of them moves into a commanding second place in the race.
In response to complaints that some caucus-goers had seen vote counters wearing Donald Trump t-shirts and hats, the state office Tweeted “It’s not against the rules for volunteers to wear candidate gear”.
While calling Trump “a good man”, Cruz honed his closing argument that conservative voters belong with his campaign and that his effort is the “one campaign that can beat Donald Trump”.
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But Trump also suggested that could change Thursday during CNN’s Republican presidential debate in Houston.
