Trump refuses to take responsibility for Jeb Bush’s exit

Trump also laid out his own road map to general election victory, pinpointing two states – MI and NY – that he said he would sweep into the Republican column.

For Republicans, it was another overwhelming victory for Donald Trump while Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio were virtually tied at 10 points behind Trump. The Florida senator’s campaign slammed Cruz after they photoshopped a photo of Rubio and Obama shaking hands.

To the surprise of the pundits and commentators, not to mention the rest of the world, Donald Trump nearly seems unstoppable.

“It’s tough, it’s nasty, it’s mean, it’s vicious”, Trump said of the rollicking presidential campaign. Ted Cruz and Florida Sen. “I think that is a question that people are trying to sort through”.

And he’s not expected to win in Nevada on Tuesday.

The withdrawal of Jeb Bush from the race to be the Republican nominee for US President, after finishing a distant fourth in the SC primary, is another seminal moment in a campaign that has produced one surprise after another. Cruz faces a critical test on March 1, or Super Tuesday, when primaries are held in multiple states, including his home state of Texas and other southern states.

“Well, I didn’t know I was going to win by so much yesterday – you didn’t, either”, Trump said to George Stephanopoulos, host of the ABC News program “This Week”.

Hillary Rodham Clinton defeated Bernie Sanders in the Nevada Democratic caucuses, which was seen as a key contest for the former secretary of state in the race for the party’s presidential nod.

“I’ll win states that Republicans don’t even think of”, he said. The billionaire businessman grabbed a big win, capturing almost a third of the votes, according to early counts, but all major networks projected Trump the victor.

The next Democratic primary is in SC on Feb 27 but there Mrs Clinton has a clear advantage. The South Carolina results marked a major disappointment for Cruz, whose path to the nomination requires strong performances across the South. The Texas senator finished well behind Trump in the state known as the gateway to the South – despite Cruz’s appeal among evangelical Christians and his southern roots. “He has the same number of second-place finishes as Governor Kasich despite spending at least $45 million more”, Mr. Schrimpf said. Both Huckabee and Santorum fared better in SC than Cruz, but both still fell behind other candidates when the race broadened to larger states with fewer religion-centric voters.