Donald Trump wins Nevada Republican primary

 – Outspoken property dealer Donald Trump has won the latest round of the U.S. presidential election.  – He stormed to a comfortable victory in Nevada after recently winning the Republican primaries in New Hampshire and South Carolina.  – If elected as president, Trump has pledged to ban all Muslims from entering the U.S.. Controversial property dealer Donald Trump has won the latest round of the Republican primaries in the U.S., taking him one step closer to securing the party’s nomination as their choice to become the next president of the world’s most powerful nation. He stormed to victory in the state of Nevada, home of the gambling and tourism destination Las Vegas, with 45.9% of the vote, meaning he has now won three out of four states to hold primary elections, “We won with highly educated, we won with poorly educated, I love the poorly educated!” Trump said in his victory speech, which was met with huge applause.

His closest rivals, moderate and presumed establishment nominee Marco Rubio, and combative arch-conservative Ted Cruz, trailed behind with 23.9% and 21.4% respectively. However, Trump’s victory was marred by some accusations of vote tampering, after some reports emerged of double voting and ballot stuffing. Nevada is often a battleground in U.S. presidential elections as it is a swing-state which has voted for different parties in various elections throughout American history.

The state has a large ethnic Hispanic population as well, who despite Trump’s pledge to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border if elected, turned out in droves to vote for the firebrand New Yorker. He has also promised to ban all Muslim immigration to the U.S. and increased military action against the so-called Islamic State.

Primaries are the first contests in the US presidential race in which states decide who becomes each party’s official candidate. Each primary race is run by state governments and voting is done in a secret ballot and they earn delegates for the winning candidates who then vote for them at party conventions in July in which the final candidates are formally confirmed. After each party has chosen a candidate, the nation will vote on who becomes the next president on November 8 this year.