He adds that when Romney asked for his endorsement, “He was so awkward and goofy that we all should have known he could not win!” Marco Rubio. Rubio wasn’t even in the state for the caucus results. It takes 1,237 delegates to win the Republican nomination for president.
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Experts said the focus was on whether Rubio and Cruz would be able to slow Trump’s momentum and which of the two candidates would come in second. Ted Cruz have mixed it up on the campaign trail, but Rubio told television interviewers that’s only because he had to set the record straight after Cruz made false claims about his record.
After touting his numbers in some of the upcoming primary states, Trump stated, “It’s going to be an unbelievable two months”.
The Associated Press is adjusting its delegate count based on final numbers released by the New Hampshire secretary of state’s office and the state Republican Party.
And that reason is persuading Republicans to turn on Trump’s campaign, as most don’t share his political views and courses of action.
Trump and Cruz in particular have found strong support among those voters, who express concerns over terrorism, immigration and an economy whose recovery from the Great Recession has mostly benefited the country’s most wealthy.
The first-term senators from Texas and Florida are locked in a battle to become their party’s alternative to political outsider Trump in Nevada’s caucus on Tuesday, the last Republican presidential contest before the busy voting month of March.
“There’s something wrong with this guy”, Trump said of Cruz in his typically blunt manner during a massive Las Vegas rally Monday night.
Trump said he was happy he was the top vote-getter among Hispanic voters in the caucus.
The remaining two candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson and Ohio Governor John Kasich, came in at about six and four per cent, respectively.
One of the states is Cruz’s home of Texas, where Cruz leads in polls.
Nevada’s caucusing played out in schools, community centres and places of worship across the state – a process that’s been chaotic in the past.
“I think he is well positioned to sweep across the board”, says Caitlin Huey-Burns of Real Clear Politics.
Caucuses are open group sessions between Republican supporters where they can discuss candidates before selecting one in a secret ballot.
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Trump was supported by an overwhelming majority – almost 9 in 10 – of those caring most about having a candidate who “tells it like it is” and by 6 in 10 who wanted a candidate who can bring change.
