Donald Trump sees the beauty in winning

“It’s certainly bigger than any one candidate”. “It’s lovely”, Trump declared to his supporters at his victory rally in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Republican voters in Richland and Lexington counties were split among Trump, Rubio and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio who were locked in a battle for second place late Saturday.

Hillary Clinton is shaping up to be Mr Trump’s opponent for the presidency after she secured a vital win for the Democratic nomination in Nevada.

Hillary Clinton won by about five percentage points, which is a legit win – unlike the coin-flipping three-tenths-of-one-percentage-point squeaker that allowed her to dance down Grand Avenue in Iowa three weeks ago.

Nevada was seen as a necessary victory for Clinton, who has been faced with a stiff challenge from Sanders.

He said: “Tonight I’m going to sleep with the best friend I have and the love of my life”.

Sanders pulled into a virtual tie with Clinton Friday after a CNN Poll of Polls released Wednesday showed Clinton’s support at 48 percent with Sanders at 47 percent.

And then coming up is Super Tuesday – March 1 – when voters in a dozen states plus American Samoa pick their presidential favorites. I wondered why they would put that much pressure on themselves.

It is the biggest win to date for Trump as he will capture all 38 delegates.

Trump leads the overall race for delegates with 61.

Speaking to a crowd of supporters in Columbia at the close of the state’s Republican primary day, Cruz said he is the only campaign that “has beaten and can beat” Trump.

The two remaining candidates OH governor John Kasich and neurosurgeon Ben Carson have vowed to stay on in the race despite finishing fifth and sixth with about eight and six percent vote respectively.

Cruz worked to turn out the state’s sizable bloc of evangelical voters, but even among those voters Trump triumphed, according to exit polls.

There were plenty of accusations flying between Cruz and Rubio, too.

He did win among Hispanics by 53 per cent to 45 per cent.

It’s the Republicans now heading to the West and Democrats venturing to the South.

Historically, victory in the Republican primary in SC nearly always ensures that the victor goes on to take the party’s presidential nomination.