Donald Trump won the Nevada Republican caucuses by a huge margin, chalking up his third straight triumph in the party’s presidential nominating process and building momentum ahead of a critical multis
Donald Trump won the Nevada Republican caucuses by a huge margin, chalking up his third straight triumph in the party’s presidential nominating process and building momentum ahead of a critical multistate vote next week.
With about 90 per cent of the votes counted, US med-ia gave Trump about 46 per cent, with senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz trailing by more than 20 points in a tight race for second.
“This is an amazing night,” Mr Trump told cheering supporters in a victory speech after Tuesday’s vote.
“We weren’t expected to win too much and now we’re winning, winning, winning the country,” Mr Trump said. “And soon the country is going to start winning, winning, winning.” The result und-erscored the enormous ch-allenge Mr Trump’s rivals face as the candidates he-ad into next week’s all im-portant “Super Tuesday” contests involving 11 states. CNN and Fox News had Mr Rubio in second place in Nevada with 23.7 per cent of the vote and Mr Cruz in third with 21.5 per cent.
