Trump previews debate, calls Cruz a ‘nervous wreck’

News outlets in the United States are projecting Donald Trump as the victor of the Nevada Republican caucuses held Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Marco Rubio, around whom dozens of establishment lawmakers have rallied in an effort to disrupt Trump’s growing thrust, claimed that most members of the party don’t want the billionaire to be its nominee and suggested Cruz should drop out to allow for resistance to Trump to build more quickly.

Nevada caucus-goers were also significantly more likely than those in earlier voting states to want a political outsider as the next president, and those who did overwhelmingly supported Trump.

The Nevada caucuses mark the first Republican contest in the West and the fourth of the campaign.

Clinton was looking for a commanding victory over Sanders in Saturday’s SC primary to give her a boost heading into Super Tuesday.

“We’re winning, winning, winning”, he said, adding, “Soon the country is going to start winning, winning, winning”.

“It’s going to be an incredible two months”.

“First of all I think you need to take everything that we’ve applied, the lessons of every other campaign before and throw them out the window”.

The lopsided result underscored the enormous challenge Trump’s rivals face as the candidates head into next week’s all important “Super Tuesday” contests involving 11 states.

Trump won 50 percent of the voters who described themselves as “somewhat conservative”, according to the entrance poll. He has lots of money and a lead in Cruz’s home state of Texas. “The Republican nomination is decided by delegates”, he said.

Trump was supported by an overwhelming majority – almost 9 in 10 – of those caring most about having a candidate who “tells it like it is” and by 6 in 10 who wanted a candidate who can bring change.

Mr. Cruz said only he could beat Mr. Trump in the nomination race and focused his attack on Mr. Rubio. “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters”, Mr. Trump had said. The poll finds that his Republican opponents, Sen. But many of his views – regarding women’s rights, LGBT equality and the official use of torture, for examples – are as reactionary as Donald Trump’s. In a few more weeks, the GOP might not be able to catch Trump.

After finishing third in Iowa, fifth in New Hampshire and then second in SC and Nevada, and ousting his Florida rival, former governor Jeb Bush, which should provide an infusion of money and seasoned political operatives to his team, Mr. Rubio needs to find some states to win.