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Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Trump Wins Nevada's Evangelical Vote By 17% Over Evangelicals Rubio And Cruz

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Cruz and Rubio’s Finish Far Behind Trump Sets Up Crucial Race in March 1 Contests

The senators must consolidate the non-Trump vote after his third-straight victory

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LAS VEGAS – The battle for second place in the Nevada caucuses left both Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz scuffling heading into the critical March 1 primaries and caucuses next week.
With Donald Trump winning his third straight Republican presidential nominating contest here by a commanding margin, the New York developer will take some of the rationale behind both senators’ argument that they can consolidate the party’s non-Trump support.

Donald Trump won Tuesday’s Nevada caucus, taking nearly 50% of the vote. He easily beat Sen. Marco Rubio, who edged out Sen. Ted Cruz for second place. Photo: Reuters
On Wednesday morning, it was announced that Mr. Rubio had taken second place, 2,000 votes ahead of Mr. Cruz. The difference is less about substance than image, as both candidates will receive five delegates from Nevada.
In his caucus night speech here, Mr. Cruz spoke of his efforts to win over GOP voters who have backed Mr. Rubio, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who remain in the race.

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“If you were one of the 65% of Republicans across this country who doesn’t think Donald Trump is the best candidate to go head to head with Hillary, who thinks we do better when we actually nominate a conservative, then the first four states have performed a vital function of narrowing this race,” Mr. Cruz said at a YMCA here.
But the math does not support Mr. Cruz’s argument. Mr. Trump won 45% of Nevada Republicans Tuesday, his high-water mark for the presidential campaign season.
Mr. Rubio, the second-place finish will add fuel to his campaign’s argument that he is the best option to be the GOP’s chief alternative to Mr. Trump. During his Nevada campaign Mr. Rubio argued that the Republican establishment is coalescing around him.
For the third time in four contests, Mr. Rubio won among voters who decided within the last week, according to entrance poll data.
“These people are realizing, he wasn’t our first choice, but now he’s our best choice,” Mr. Rubio said at a Tuesday morning rally at a Las Vegas casino. “And so I’m proud that we’ve been picking up support and endorsements over the past few days, because it shows what I’ve been saying all along, and that is I am the conservative in this race who can unite this party.”
His distant second-place finish in Nevada comes after the Rubio campaign spent months pointing to the GOP’s first Western contest. Mr. Rubio, who lived in Las Vegas as a child, still has family here and hoped to capitalize on connections to the state’s large Latino and Mormon populations.
On Wednesday morning, the Florida senator congratulated Mr. Trump but noted that Nevada’s caucuses award convention delegates proportionally, so he did not come away empty handed.
“We feel very confident about where we’re going to be come March 15,” he said on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” when Florida holds its winner-take-all primary election.
Before the caucuses began, Mr. Rubio left Nevada Tuesday morning to campaign in Minnesota, one of the 11 states holding Republican nominating contests March 1, and in Michigan, which has a key primary a week later.
“For us, understanding that a week later we have multiple states in play and make sure that we can hit all of them before a week from now,” he told reporters aboard his campaign plane.
For Mr. Cruz, the third-place result is the latest setback after his surprise victory in the Iowa caucuses earlier this month. Heading toward March 1, Mr. Cruz now faces mounting questions about his depth of support in the evangelical community — a constituency that was supposed to be his bulkhead in South Carolina and the other southern states that vote next month.
“One week from today will the most important night of this campaign,” Mr. Cruz said of March 1 here Tuesday night.
Alarmingly for Mr. Cruz, the Trump campaign has made inroads among religious voters, according to entrance polls. Mr. Cruz won 34% of evangelicals in Iowa, but has seen support slip in the next three contests. Mr. Trump beat Mr. Cruz among self-identified born-again Christians in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada. In the Silver State, he had a 17-point lead among evangelicals.
Speaking to reporters earlier Tuesday during a campaign stop in Minden, Nev., Mr. Cruz expressed confidence heading into the pivotal March 1 elections.
“We got a tremendous base of support in Texas, we’ve worked a long time to earn that support and I hope and believe that support will come out and manifest on election night,” said Mr. Cruz, predicting a “very good night.”
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