Donald Trump wins chaotic Nevada Republican caucuses

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, arrives with his son Eric during a caucus night rally.

Trump has won three of the four state-by-state Republican nominating contests, including Nevada, in the run-up to the party nominating convention in July and the November 8 general election to succeed President Barack Obama.

“And right now, what you have is a situation where Donald-the majority of the Republican electorate, the majority of Republican voters in this country do not want Donald Trump to be the nominee”, Rubio said. Whether the establishment is coming to grips with this, the answer is still no. They still want to beat him, and their chances for doing so are diminishing drastically as time goes on and he continues to mount these impressive wins. Another disappointing finish in Nevada would raise new questions about his viability heading into a crucial batch of Super Tuesday states on March 1.

That early advantage is significant for this reason: Trump needs only 246 of the 624 delegates available on SEC/Super Tuesday to keep on pace to win the 1,237 delegates he needs to formally secure the Republican presidential nomination, according to calculations by Cook Political Report delegate expert David Wasserman.

At many precincts, poll workers were said to be wearing campaign gear, many of them Trump supporters. The other two Republicans still in the race, Ohio Governor John Kasich and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, attracted scant support. Now, at this point, we’ve had four primaries, history teaches us, that nobody has ever won the nomination, without winning one of the first three primaries.

Mr Trump won 14 delegates in Nevada.

Overall, Trump has 81 delegates, and Cruz and Rubio have 17 apiece.

News outlets in the United States are projecting Donald Trump as the victor of the Nevada Republican caucuses held Tuesday.

Trump said he was happy he was the top vote-getter among Hispanic voters in the caucus. Rubio and Cruz have been attacking each other viciously in recent days, an indication they know Trump can be stopped only if one of them is eliminated.

Trump and Cruz in particular have found strong support among such voters.

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.

Texas, Cruz’s home state is one of those states and its whopping 155 delegates will be up for grabs.

Cruz and Rubio are waiting for Super Tuesday to allow the party to recenter and vote with reason.

The split among age groups has been more dramatic among Democrats in the early states.

As recently as December, Nevada was described as Rubio’s “firewall” – the state he could count on winning, even if all else fails.