Businessman Donald Trump inched closer to the U.S. Republican presidential nomination after easily outdistancing his rivals in the Nevada caucuses Tuesday, giving him his third win in four early nominating contests.
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Broadcast networks called the state for Trump nearly immediately after voting ended, with the state Republican Party confirming the victory soon after.
Trump’s Nevada win is likely to further frustrate Republican establishment figures who, less than a month ago, were hoping his campaign as a political outsider was stalled after he lost the opening nominating contest in Iowa to Ted Cruz, a US senator from Texas. I don’t think so. “Cruz also trailed among “very conservative” voters in Nevada, 34 percent to Trump’s 38 percent”. To the contrary, it’s growing every week as Nevada proved.
Filipino-born Rolando Dondon, 66, one of the few non-white voters queuing at Bonanza high school, said Mr Trump was the “strong male role model” the United States needed. In the Iowa caucuses, Texas Sen.
And that’s where the frog and the scorpion come in.
After Nevada, the real test on where the presidential candidates stand will come on March 1, when 11 states go to the polls in what is known as “Super Tuesday”. But now they have to live with the consequences, which may mean the end of their party as many know it. The time appears to be running out to stop Trump from gaining the nomination, making the immediate future a belwether for where one of the country’s major parties is going-over the edge and toward a darkening unknown.
Trounces. Crushes. Pummels. Pick a dramatic action verb: This is what Donald Trump does to Marco Rubio in Florida, according to a new presidential poll that shows Trump is more popular than he’s ever been in Rubio’s home state. While the Rubio super PAC ads clearly damaged Chris Christie in the New Hampshire primary, traditional advertising has mostly been a non-factor in the results. In other words, Cruz is finished.
Now it is faced with a front-runner who, in the interval between the two Priebus comments cited above, said of a protester, “I’d like to punch him in the face”.
Republicans then vote by secret ballot, in 130 caucus sites across Nevada.
Trump won Nevada by a margin of 22 percentage points, garnering 45.9 per cent of the vote, the state Republican Party said after 100 percent of all precincts reported results.
Donald Trump said he wanted to punch a protester “in the face” after the man disrupted a campaign rally in Las Vegas on Monday night.
But Rubio said on “Meet the Press” that not only does the ad not matter, “I can put the exact same ad on about Ted Cruz”.
National Review’s Jonah Goldberg confronts this reality and has a bold suggestion today.
I agree. But it won’t happen because of that frog and scorpion problem. Brown noted Florida’s closed primaries – unlike the ones held so far – make it more “uncertain” for Trump. But the egos of each of these politicians won’t allow them to concede that they weren’t the party’s one true savior to which the others should bow. Kasich has six and Carson has four.
Advertising? Political advertising has had less impact this year since when Eisenhower rolled out that catchy “I Like Ike” jingle in the ’52 campaign.
Clinton was looking for a commanding victory over Sanders in Saturday’s SC primary to give her a boost heading into Super Tuesday. Marco Rubio and Texas Sen. “We might not even need the two months, folks, to be honest”.
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“We’ve been built for this day the entire time”, Cruz campaign manager Jeff Roe told reporters on Sunday. Unlike primaries, caucuses are more dependent on the abilities of campaigns to motivate supporters to participate.
