Nevada GOP Caucuses’ Turnout More Than Doubles 2012

Republican voters are shown in line at 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016, at Western High School, a caucus site.

“He speaks what he really believes”, said Las Vegas resident Shannon Scholten, who voted for Trump.

Texas is the largest of “Super Tuesday” states voting next week.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has endorsed Ted Cruz for president, hoping to give the senator a boost as their home state’s primary looms.

In the Nevada Democratic Caucus on February 20, Hillary Clinton got 74 percent among voters 65 and older and 61 percent among those 45 to 64.

Ultimately, Nevada and SC won out over Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Washington, D.C., Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, West Virginia and Hawaii.

He notes that Rubio hasn’t won a state nominating contest while Donald Trump has won three in a row after Cruz’s Iowa victory. “It’s going to be an awesome next two months and we might not even need two months”.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was a distant second with 24 percent of the vote.

The GOP kingmaker and billionaire Las Vegas casino mogul, who spent more than any other donor in the 2012 campaign cycle, hasn’t made it clear which candidate he’s supporting this time around.

Republican Assemblyman Brent Jones is an outsider among outsiders who’s rankled members of his party by recruiting a slate of fellow anti-tax candidates to run against them.

Elaina Plott captured a screenshot of an image that circulated widely, purporting to show one ballot-collector in a Trump T-shirt. And then the owner of a cafe in his Las Vegas-area district went on a pro-Trump tirade for so long that Jones wondered if he’d get served at all.

Hughes told CNN he reported the violations to Sue Lowden, the former chairwoman of the Nevada Republican Party, who happened to be at that caucus site, and that she scolded the woman. Campaign watchdogs placed at caucus locations claimed that volunteers were dressed in full gear supporting Donald Trump and that they were bullying voters. While many surveyed in the crowd said they had not received any communication from the campaign, others reported receiving frequent emails and phone calls.

“I’m still a little confused”, said Galardi, who has never taken part in a caucus before, but he said he’s planning to attend so he can cast his vote for Trump.

“He’s willing to fight, and our Republican Party is so unwilling to fight”, Jones said.

Candidates pre-emptively politicized problems with the caucus process.

With 100% of precincts reporting, Trump came out the victor with a considerable share of the vote. “The GOP just caves, caves, caves”.