Donald Trump Notches Another Win as Nevada Caucus Concludes

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was projected the victor of the Nevada caucuses on Tuesday for his party’s nomination for the November 8 presidential election, several news outlets reported.

“When you listen to the pundits, we weren’t expected to win too much, but now we are winning, winning, winning the country”, Trump told supporters gathered in in Las Vegas. As the primaries go on, delegate are handed out on a winner-take-all basis, which could put Trump out of reach in just a few weeks, if his winning ways continue. On Super Tuesday, which falls on March 1 this year, 11 largely Southern states, including Cruz’s home state Texas, will hold primaries or caucuses. Marco Rubio could be in for a rough night at the next Republican presidential debate Thursday, Trump said in an interview Wednesday with CNN’s Anderson Cooper. The bigger the delegate lead Trump amasses during this phase, the more hard he’ll be to stop.

Trump even won over most of a small number of Republican Latinos in Nevada, despite facing two Hispanic Americans and threatening to build a “great wall” with Mexico to keep out immigrants.

Mr. Cruz said only he could beat Mr. Trump in the nomination race and focused his attack on Mr. Rubio.

These voters tended to back Trump.

“Until there’s some consolidation here, you’re not going to have a clear alternative to Donald Trump”, he said. His closest rival, Texas senator Ted Cruz, has 16.

Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign, took the opportunity of Trump’s victory in Nevada to remind voters about his record and urge support for Hillary Clinton. There are no signs that any of the non-Trump candidates plan to drop out anytime soon. The demographic helped buoy him to a win in the Iowa Caucus, but he failed to carry their vote in the SC primary last week.

“It’s an attempt to show that he is tougher than Trump and more willing to crack down”, said Matt Dallek, an assistant professor at The George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management.

Trump carried voters across the GOP’s ideological spectrum, winning self-described “very conservative” voters by four points over Cruz, “somewhat conservative” voters by 23 points over Rubio and “moderate” voters by 26 points.