Rubio: ‘You Don’t Win The Nomination By How Many States You Win’

Despite Donald Trump sweeping to victory in Tuesday’s Nevada caucuses, Sen.

But in a silver lining for Florida Sen. Marco Rubio has yet to win a state in his party’s first four nominating contests, but dozens of GOP lawmakers have endorsed him anyway.

Each primary race is run by state governments and voting is done in a secret ballot and they earn delegates for the winning candidates who then vote for them at party conventions in July in which the final candidates are formally confirmed.

He swept the Nevada caucuses last night, but they’re still counting votes Wednesday morning.

“You don’t win the nomination by how many states you win”, Rubio responded before adding that he will have to win some winner-take-all states in March.

Cruz won the Iowa caucuses, but came in third in New Hampshire and in SC.

Donald Trump and his wife, Melania Trump, on stage in Manchester, N.H. February 8, 2016.

Speaking after the win, Trump thanked each group of his supporters: “We won the evangelicals”. She explained that when it comes to Donald Trump and his meteoric rise as a non-establishment Republican presidential candidate, his success has very little to do with a real likelihood to become president.

“One week from today will be the most important night of this campaign”, Cruz said after his finish. In poll-based matchups, Rubio and Cruz defeat him.

It was Trump’s first victory in a caucus state, significant because he defies traditional campaigning methods and relies on speeches to huge crowds and dominating the airwaves.

To stop Trump, the opposition must be reduced to a single candidate. Overall, Trump has 81 delegates so far, and Cruz and Rubio have 17 apiece. Winning one or more of them is possible. His message is not politically correct, he has no political spin, and he says things in a manner which ordinary voters can relate to.

In Nevada a smaller number of voters described themselves as born-again Christians (39 percent), but Trump again won those voters, this time with a 15-point margin over Cruz. Immigration and terrorism were each chosen by slightly fewer – about 2 in 10.