Trump Wins Nevada Caucus

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump celebrated his resounding victory in Tuesday’s Nevada caucuses, but nearly as soon as he declared “we’re winning, winning”, he was already thinking bigger.

With 100 percent precincts reporting, Rubio received 23.9 percent of the votes, while Cruz won 21.4 percent, according to Bloomberg.

Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz vying for second place.

The Nevada caucuses, which were held late Tuesday night after the Dispatch’s deadline, forced a critical test on the Republican Party’s leading presidential candidates.

Donald Trump celebrated his projected win of the Nevada caucus Tuesday by taking glee in the inaccurate predictions of naysayers after his third victory since Iowa.

He adds that when Romney asked for his endorsement, “He was so awkward and goofy that we all should have known he could not win!”

After touting his numbers in some of the upcoming primary states, Trump stated, “It’s going to be an fantastic two months”. “It’s going to be an awesome two months”.

Trump also celebrated getting the backing of the “poorly educated”, and of the state’s Latinos.

Entrance polls captured the sentiment propelling Mr Trump’s insurgent campaign: Six in 10 caucus-goers said they were angry with the way the government is working, and Mr Trump got about half of them. We won with highly educated.

Trump, who has leveled his harshest attacks against Cruz, once again knocked the Texan on Wednesday, saying Cruz is “changing his stance” on immigration to better compete with Trump, who has struck the harshest tone and some of the most hardline positions on illegal immigration. But Trump was supported by half of those who said they were only somewhat conservative, and more than half of moderates. Even Rubio caught Cruz among that group, with about a quarter of evangelicals supporting each.

If South Carolina, which Trump won Saturday, provided some bits of good news for Trump skeptics – Trump faded over the course of the week and finished with less of the vote than he had in New Hampshire – his victory in Nevada was much more emphatic.

The GOP front-runner’s confidence makes sense: With three straight wins, he looks increasingly likely to be on a glide path to land the Republican nomination.