Nevada’s caucuses look like Donald Trump’s to lose

Unlike the Democrats, the Republican caucuses are organized around a secret-ballot presidential preference vote. To win the GOP nomination, a candidate must secure 1,237 delegates.

Recent polling data does show Cruz with a 1-3 percentage point lead over Hillary Clinton in head to head matchups whereas Trump is now losing to Clinton in mano-a-mano matchups in three of the four most recent polls by an average of about 3 percent.

Taking his campaign to Minnesota on Tuesday, Mr Rubio urged supporters to look past candidates who exude anger or a willingness to say outlandish things.

“Wow, Ted Cruz falsely suggested Marco Rubio mocked the Bible and was just forced to fire his Communications Director”.

Mr Trump continued to lash out at rival Ted Cruz, telling the crowd: “This guy is sick”.

“That’s very appealing to Nevada Republicans, or at least a good portion of them”, said Michael Green, an associate history professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has to do it. We need this man in the Oval Office, ‘ ” he said. Besides, a number of the other states that award delegates proportionately, Cruz and Rubio are in danger of slipping below the 20% threshold required to get a share of the delegates. If you combine the primary votes received by the so-called “establishment lane” candidates-Rubio, Bush, John Kasich, and Chris Christie-this year, that Franken-candidate would have squeezed out a win in Iowa by 2 points over Cruz, coasted to victory in New Hampshire by almost 10 points over Trump, and bested the field in SC by more than 5 points.

Campaigning in SC last week, Trump also called Cruz “unstable” and “a basket case”.

Tuesday’s caucus vote is taking place amid increasing recognition that Trump, the political outsider who blasts the Washington establishment as incompetent, may well end up the party’s nominee.

Nevada’s caucus model demands more of a time commitment from voters because it requires participants to have gotten their registration in order more than a week ago.

Cruz, who was campaigning in Nevada for the state’s caucuses on Tuesday, fired Tyler the next day. At Tuesday’s meeting, Democratic co-chair Douglas Kellner questioned the fact that the board was listed as the responding party in the legal action, though Cruz himself was not.

“They know I am going to bring jobs in”.

Rubio, a Florida senator who lived in Las Vegas as a child, is a Nevada long shot, however, and isn’t even planning to be in the state on caucus night. He was also behind retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson in Colorado, though the only poll listed for that state was from November, when Carson soared to first place nationally.