Donald Trump on a roll, wins in Nevada by huge margin
Without a clear state to win on Super Tuesday (March 1), Rubio now has all his chips on his home state of Florida, an absolute must-win that doesn’t come until March 15.
Earhardt then asked Rubio which states specifically he could win.
Trump was also a candidate who seemed perfectly suited to the blunt-talking, libertarian-leaning, government-loathing voters who live in Nevada, a state that really does sometimes feel like the Wild West. He’s headed back to his home state of Texas.
Cruz wouldn’t predict he’d do that, saying only that “We are going to do well”. There were 30 delegates at stake in Nevada, and a whopping 595 available one week later on Super Tuesday bonanza. Those delegates will be awarded proportionally. The number of Nevada voters who want an outsider as the next president is significantly higher than it was in Iowa, New Hampshire, or SC. That approach did not work in SC, the only Southern state where it has been tested. Obama says he plans to nominate a potential jurist anyway, citing his constitutional responsibility.
As for himself, Trump said he will “pick up a lot” of the support his current rivals enjoy as the field narrows and said he thinks he could become the presumptive Republican nominee before the Republican nominating convention this summer.
Despite early reports on social media of procedural irregularities at many Nevada caucus sites, the Republican National Committee and the party’s state chapter said voting ran smoothly. Clinton won the contest.
“We remain undaunted”, the retired neurosurgeon said in a statement. We are beating the Governor (John Kasich, who is a presidential candidate), and MI. But Johnson’s agument presumes Rubio won’t do well Super Tuesday.
“We’re all angry, we’re all frustrated”, Rubio said.
The easy win came from a combination of love for Trump and anger at the Republican establishment and Washington.
Marco Rubio is already in Michigan: “We are even going to campaign to people that are fans of Ohio State, everyone”.
Donald Trump won yet another smashing victory in Nevada last night, crushing Marco Rubio by 22 points with voters across the ideological spectrum, and even with Hispanics.
Rubio and Texas Sen. Orrin Hatch (Utah), Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty. Some said they were turned away while others showed up late. The bigger the delegate lead Trump amasses during this phase, the more hard he’ll be to stop.
Hunter sponsored a bill passed by the House past year that would shut down funding for so-called sanctuary cities like San Francisco that shield immigrants from deportation by federal authorities. They are the products of the Republican and Democratic parties. “Everywhere I go it’s like this”.
But there are not yet many signs of a concerted effort to attack Trump. That’s more than twice the 33,000 who caucused in 2012.
He earned 46 percent of the vote in the Nevada caucus. Democrats have seen stronger turnout numbers. With Jeb Bush out of the race and time short, they have begun gravitating to Rubio, long a man of promise in the race but one who has yet to score a victory.
“This was a great evening”, Trump said in his victory speech. Rubio and Cruz both headed for Texas. He and Cruz are set to appear together in Houston later in the day.
That, at least, is what happened Tuesday night in Nevada, stunning the political world.