Donald Trump Wins South Carolina, Jeb Bush Drops Out

“There is nothing easy about running for president, I can tell you”. And as long as that 70 percent is being divided up by five people, of course he’s the frontrunner.

When his supporters booed his rivals he said: “Ted and Marco did a really good job and they did quite well as I understand”. “There’s a post consolidation race as people drop out … as it narrows there’s a problem for Donald Trump”, Mullaney said.

Cruz, for his part, stressed his conservative bona fides and said he was the lone “strong conservative in this race who can win”.

“I didn’t just become a conservative two years ago, but I’m a conservative who can unite our party, grow our party”, he said. “And we’re getting closer to that point”, Rubio argued.

But Rubio’s campaign said after Cruz fell short, this a three person race. “I know I’m not almost the only one who feels that way”.

Looking back to Iowa, where Cruz spent ample time and money trying to scoop up the evangelical vote, Trump still performed admirably, catching 22% compared to Cruz’s 34%. Ted Cruz, who had seen a rapid rise in the polls of early nominating states, was ineligible for the presidency because he was not a “natural-born citizen”. He said he will make Mexico pay for a wall along the USA southern border. The Republicans caucus in Nevada and the Democrats vote in South Carolina’s primary. Many states will hold primaries on March 1, a day known as Super Tuesday.

Hillary Clinton, the one-time presumptive Democratic nominee, halted the march of anti-establishment senator Bernie Sanders with a win in the Nevada caucuses on Saturday.

Her rival Bernie Sanders received 47.2pc votes and won 15 seats.

Nevada doesn’t stand up to, say, OH as a bellwether, but it’s far more representative of the rest of the country – and, in particular, of Democratic voters – than New Hampshire.

Clinton stopped the Vermont senator’s momentum from his landslide victory in New Hampshire on February 9th by showing the strength of her ground operation to get the voters out and draw on loyal minority voters – Latinos working on the Las Vegas Strip – in the most populated area of the state around America’s gambling capital. I’m going to do my vert best to answer those questions. He can stay around and hope to catch fire at some point along the way-or at least try to secure enough delegates to deny any candidate an outright majority, and take his claim to the convention. “Trump now has 61 delegates, and he needs 1,237”, he wrote.

Trump, now the clear leader in the race for delegates, cemented his standing as his party’s favorite. No Republican in modern times has won New Hampshire and SC and then failed to win the nomination, notes the AP. “It’s tough, it’s nasty, it’s mean, it’s vicious”.

“It’s lovely. When you win, it’s handsome”, he told his cheering supporters.