Donald Trump’s decisive Nevada win pushes him nearer to nomination

Republican caucus night in Nevada got off to a jagged start, with widespread allegations of voting irregularities, including reports of ballot shortages, double voting, failed ID checks, caucus managers decked out in pro-Trump attire and ballots printed with a sponsorship message from Michele Fiore – the GOP congressional candidate and Ted Cruz supporter best known for supporting the political aims of the Bundy militia.

All told, Trump has now won approximately 420,000 votes.

Donald Trump has now won Nevada, a Western state with its own eclectic mix of Republican voting groups.

When it comes to delegates, this won’t be Trump’s biggest victory – he’ll net more from SC, a bigger state that allots delegates winner-take-all style rather than proportionally. He won SC on Saturday and New Hampshire earlier this month.

“Ted Cruz is popular among Texas Republicans, particularly among the more intense conservatives we expect to show up on primary election day”, Henson said. But in early states, winning or losing one delegate in the final count has less effect on a campaign than having momentum going into the next round of primaries and caucuses – especially when the next round is the multistate “SEC primary” across 11 states (most of them Southern) on March 1.

This is his third consecutive victory in the GOP presidential race.

“He’s gotten laid off for the second time in three years”, Brigida said as she waited in line with her husband, Michael, and their two children at Desert Oasis High School in Las Vegas. Heading into Super Tuesday next week, Trump has what every candidate wants: The Big Mo.

Meanwhile, Trump said he thinks the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case that ushered in an era of 48 million abortions was “wrongly decided.” “Republicans want to beat Trump and Rubio is seen by many of them as the likable, electable alternative”.

The Nevada win is more symbolic than substantial. The Republican Party is absolutely desperate to get the contest down to a one on one showdown between Trump and Rubio.

Ticking off a list of upcoming primary states where he’s leading in preference polls, Trump predicted he’ll soon be able to claim the Republican presidential nomination.

“Tomorrow you’re going to be hearing, ‘If you could just take the other candidates and add them up.’ They keep forgetting that when people drop out, we’re going to get a lot of votes!”

“I love the old days”.

Hubert Llewellyn, 53, who attended both Cruz and Trump events on Tuesday, said he was turned off by the crossfire and would caucus for Rubio. Marco Rubio at 15 percent.

Nevada caucus attendees were more likely than primary or caucus attendees in any state so far to prefer an outsider candidate, the preliminary results show.

“I’m responding to Ted Cruz, that’s different, ” Rubio said.

“To be honest, I don’t see any path for Cruz to the nomination at all”, Diab said.

Trump is the only Republican still in the race who had an obvious campaign presence in Florida, with office space and paid employees on the ground, as of late last month.