Tuesday in Nevada, Trump received 45.9 percent of the vote, a full 22 points ahead of second-place Rubio.
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Donald Trump celebrated his projected win of the Nevada caucus Tuesday by taking glee in the inaccurate predictions of naysayers after his third victory since Iowa.
“We are going to have, hopefully, a historic night”, Trump had said during a visit to a caucus site earlier in the evening, looking for a victory to follow up his easy wins in the SC and New Hampshire primaries. He repeated his vow to order a Justice Department investigation of the healthcare provider “on day one” of his presidency and took another shot at Trump for saying that Planned Parenthood “does do wonderful things” during a debate in SC earlier this month.
We weren’t. Of course, if you listen to the pundits, we weren’t expected to win too much. “And soon the country is going to start winning, winning, winning”. “We’re gonna bring in so much money and so much everything, we’re gonna make America great again folks, I’m telling you, we’re gonna make America great again”.
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”. “And, the delegate math is close to conclusive: Donald Trump will be extremely close to the 1,237 delegates he needs to formally claim the party’s nomination by the end of the primary process”.
Nevada Caucus registered a record number of people. Mr Rubio won seven, and Mr Cruz got six.
But it was Trump who towered above his two top rivals, almost doubling the support of his nearest competitor with 43.7 percent of the vote. Polls show the former first lady with a huge advantage among African-Americans, which bodes well for her prospects in the Southern states that vote on Super Tuesday. In poll-based matchups, Rubio and Cruz defeat him. On his plane this week, the Florida senator told reporters that as the field narrowed “the alternatives to Trump will get stronger”.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump won the Nevada caucuses.
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Trump was also a candidate who seemed perfectly suited to the blunt-talking, libertarian-leaning, government-loathing voters who live in Nevada, a state that really does sometimes feel like the Wild West.
