Businessman Donald Trump inched closer to the US Republican presidential nomination after easily outdistancing his rivals in the Nevada caucuses, giving him his third win in four early nominating contests.
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Projections on TV networks gave Mr Trump 46 per cent of the vote, with senators Marco Rubio of Florida and Ted Cruz of Texas trailing some 20 points behind.
Donald Trump decisively won Nevada’s Republican caucuses for his third straight victory Tuesday.
Trump’s Nevada victory came days after he handily took SC on Saturday.
Nate Silver’s site, which specializes in analyzing opinion polls, estimates that Trump is likely to win the GOP primary on Tuesday, but his lead over his opponents depends on what you’re taking into account. “Soon, the country is going to start winning, winning, winning”.
He was the leader in the most recent surveys in 8 of the 12 Super Tuesday states, although there have been no major GOP polls taken this year in Alabama and Tennessee, where Trump leads, or in Colorado, where he doesn’t. “We weren’t”, Trump told the crowd in the ballroom of the Treasure Island hotel and casino, as results showed him clearly leading the other candidates with about 45 percent.
“A couple months ago we weren’t expected to win this one, you know that, right?”
Among those who decided who to support in the last week, about 4 in 10 supported Rubio, while about a quarter supported Trump and Cruz. Trump won 14 delegates in Nevada.
The race for the nomination in both major political parties has produced candidates who reflect a deepening anger among American voters with the nation’s political establishment and the gridlock for much of the Obama administration.
Kasich an Carson continue to sit at the bottom of votes and are collecting few delegates along the way.
He not only won by what appears to be his biggest margin yet, he swept nearly every category of voters, including Latinos, CNN notes.
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After that, there will be several more contests spread out in early March, which will culminate in a sort of Super Tuesday II on March 15.
