Trump’s win in Nevada cements him as the bully with the big stack in this year’s no-limit presidential poker game.
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Donald Trump won the Nevada Republican caucuses on Tuesday sweeping almost every demographic group.
According to the final returns after all polls’ results were collected, Trump, who garnered 45.9 percent of the votes, was 22 percent over his nearest challenger, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, with Texas Senator Ted Cruz trailing in third place.
But a chief investigative reporter with the USA political reporting organisation Politico, Ken Vogel, has told the ABC it could already be too late for the party to stop Mr Trump.
“We’re winning, winning, winning the country”, Trump declared.
Trump wasn’t supposed to win Hispanics, but he appears to have won them.
A victory by front-runner Donald Trump in Tuesday’s contest would knock the wind out of Cruz’s bid for the nomination.
But after finishing third in Iowa, fifth in New Hampshire and second in South Carolina, Rubio needs a win soon to support the idea he can beat Trump. It also knocks assumptions that he’ll hit a ceiling of voters willing to back him, allowing whoever is the last man standing to coalesce the anti-Trump vote.
“We will win in Florida”, he said, noting that his prospects were boosted there since former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush dropped out of the presidential race.
While Rubio has dismissed concerns about his primary strategy – and continues to insist that the fractured GOP field has contributed to Trump’s dominance – failure to win a single delegate in his home state’s winner-take-all contest would seriously undercut his viability as a candidate. Marco Rubio among his home-state Republicans. “Trump is competing in Texas, although not with paid media”. Rubio and Trump are tied for those who say “honesty and trustworthiness” are the most important trait.
Nevada was a critical test for Rubio and Cruz, who are battling to emerge as the clear alternative to Trump.
“Predicting victories in upcoming primaries, Trump said: “It’s going to be an fantastic two months… we might not even need the two months”.
In the run-up to Nevada, most of Trump’s rivals left him alone, opting to struggle with each other in a bid to be the last surviving challenger to the front-runner.
Following another second-place finish in the Nevada GOP caucus, Sen.
Donald Trump won New Hampshire, a moderate Northeastern state that prides itself on its sober analysis of the candidates at hand.
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He earned 46 percent of the vote in the Nevada caucus.
