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Rivals look for answers as Trump registers crushing win in Nevada
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DONALD Trump’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination is building a momentum that may sweep away challenges by Florida Senator Marco Rubio and Texas Senator Ted Cruz, with his crushing win in the Nevada caucuses marking a third straight victory in state contests.
Rubio captured second place with fewer than 2,000 more votes than Cruz as final vote totals were reported yesterday.
Trump, the billionaire New York businessman, now can claim victories in the West, the South and Northeast — a testament to his broad appeal among those mad-as-hell voters. His rivals are running out of time to stop him. “We’re winning, winning, winning the country,” he declared on Tuesday. “Soon, the country is going to start winning, winning, winning.”
Listing the upcoming primary states where he’s leading in preference polls, Trump predicted he’ll soon be able to claim the Republican presidential nomination. “It’s going to be an amazing two months,” he told a raucous crowd at a Las Vegas casino. “We might not even need the two months, folks, to be honest.”
A candidate must have 1,237 state delegates to win the Republican nomination at the National Convention this summer.
The race for the nomination in both major political parties has produced candidates who reflect a deepening anger among American voters with the nation’s political establishment and the gridlock for much of the Obama administration.
Trump and Cruz in particular have found strong support among those voters, who express concerns over terrorism, immigration and an economy whose recovery from the Great Recession has mostly benefited the country’s most wealthy.
Entrance polls captured the sentiment propelling Trump’s insurgent campaign: Six in 10 caucus goers said they were angry with the way the government is working, and Trump got about half of them. After winning in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada, Trump has momentum heading into March 1, or Super Tuesday, when Republicans hold nominating contests in a dozen states.
Nevada was a critical test for Rubio and Cruz, who are battling to emerge as the alternative to Trump. Lagging far behind in the Nevada vote were Ohio Governor John Kasich and neurosurgeon Ben Carson.
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