Trump storms to victory in Nevada Republican caucuses

Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida finished second with 23.9 percent, followed by Sen.

Cruz won the first nominating contest in the state of Iowa, and told his supporters after the Nevada caucus he is the only candidate who has and can beat Trump. Yet he lost both states to Donald Trump, finishing fifth in New Hampshire and second in SC. Bernie Sanders in Saturday’s SC primary to give her a boost heading into Super Tuesday.

Trump said he is now “winning the country”, and he will pick up more Republican supporters as his rivals drop out of the race.

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 GOP nomination.

“It’s gonna be an unbelievable two months”, says Trump, a Republican presidential candidate. “We’re going to bring in so much money and so much everything – we’re going to make America great again, folks”.

These voters tended to back Trump.

With the Nevada win, the billionaire now has three consecutive wins, after victories in New Hampshire and SC.

Surprisingly, entrance polls showed that Trump won the Hispanic votes even though he has campaigned on a hard-line immigration platform, including building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Trump, the GOP front-runner, explained on NBC’s “Today” that he believes that his caustic campaigning style helped eliminate several competitors, so he’s not going to stop just yet.

Despite his personal history in Nevada, where he spent six years of his childhood, the Florida senator lost the caucuses to Donald Trump. A candidate needs at least 1,237 to clinch the party’s nomination and go on to the general election in November. It’s a must-win for the home-state senator.

The event, hosted by CNN and taking place in Houston, is the first to occur since Jeb Bush left the race, shrinking the slate of candidates to Rubio, Trump, Cruz and long shots John Kasich and Ben Carson.

Mr Rubio and Mr Cruz have been attacking each other viciously in recent days, an indication they know Mr Trump can be stopped only if one of them is eliminated.

Stephen Colbert skewered the Republican Party’s increasing acceptance of Donald Trump as the nominee following the mogul’s Nevada Caucus victory.