With Trump’s Nevada win, the race to Super Tuesday is on

Presidential candidates vying for the White House are turning their focus to Super Tuesday following last night’s Republican caucus in Nevada.

Solidifying his status as the GOP presidential frontrunner, Donald Trump easily won the Nevada caucus Tuesday (Feb. 23) night, seizing three straight victories in early-voting states.

With 20 percent of the vote in, TV networks gave Trump 44 percent, with senators Marco Rubio of Florida and Ted Cruz of Texas trailing some 20 points behind in a tight race for second.

“This is an fantastic night”, Mr Trump told cheering supporters in a victory speech after Tuesday’s vote.

“Now we are winning winning, winning the country”, Trump said, claiming victory to a crowded hall.

‘And soon the country will start winning, winning, winning’.

He came second in Iowa Caucus which was won by Ted Cruz.

“We won with the highly educated”.

Rubio indicated that if it comes down to a two horse race between himself and Trump, polls are putting him well out in front.

Not long after Trump’s win was certified in Nevada, Cruz’s campaign released a statement criticizing Rubio for not winning the state, but did not mention Trump at all.

“When people drop out, we’re going to get a lot of votes”, Trump said at his Nevada victory rally. “I want a businessman to run the biggest business in the world”, Brigida said as she caucused at a Las Vegas high school.

‘The only campaign that can beat Donald Trump is this one.

The anti-establishment fervour within the electorate underscored the enormous challenge facing Rubio and Cruz in the coming weeks as they try to stop Trump.

Nevada marks the first Republican nominating contest in the West and the fourth of the campaign as the candidates try to collect enough delegates to win the party’s nomination at the national convention in July. Marco Rubio says he isn’t planning on more forcefully attacking the GOP front-runner in the race for the party’s presidential nomination.

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.

Cruz in his concession speech said he looked forward to competing in 11 states, including his home state of Texas, on March 1, Super Tuesday, as a way of reviving his campaign.

In response to complaints that some caucus-goers had seen vote counters wearing Donald Trump t-shirts and hats, the state office Tweeted “It’s not against the rules for volunteers to wear candidate gear”.