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The NPR Politics Podcast

Quick Take: Donald Trump Wins Nevada

The NPR Politics Podcast

NPR

Politics, Daily News, News

4.425.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2016

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

That's three primary state victories in a row for Donald Trump. Political editor Domenico Montanaro and campaign reporter Sam Sanders discuss his win and what's next on the GOP side of the race. Find them on Twitter @DomenicoNPR and @samsanders, or email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org.

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0:00.0

Hey y'all, it's the InfiR Politics Podcast. We are here with a very quick take on last

0:07.3

night GOP caucuses in Nevada.

0:09.9

Of course, if you listen to the pundits, we weren't expected to win too much.

0:13.6

And now we're winning, winning, winning the country.

0:19.3

And soon the country is going to start winning, winning, winning.

0:23.5

So Donald Trump has been winning, winning, winning. He won Nevada by double digits.

0:27.7

Marco Rubio, edge-out-dead cruise for second. We're going to talk a lot more about this later

0:31.9

in the week.

0:32.9

But just a quick few minutes on it today. I'm Sam Sanders, campaign reporter.

0:36.4

And now I'm Dominican Montenegro political editor.

0:38.4

All right, Dominicano, let's keep this to three questions. One, what? Two, so what? Three,

0:46.0

now what?

0:47.0

Okay.

0:48.0

What kind of argument in the what? Well, the what is that Donald Trump won his biggest margin

0:51.8

of victory so far.

0:52.8

How big is that?

0:53.8

Five percent of the vote for Donald Trump, 24 percent Marco Rubio, only 21 percent

0:58.8

for Ted Cruz. People said Donald Trump could not get above 30 percent mid 30s. People

1:04.0

started off saying he couldn't get above a quarter of Republicans. Guess what? He got

1:08.7

45 percent. That is getting very, very close to a winning number. There's no question about

1:14.4

it. If he can pull those kinds of margins, he want to cross the board with every age

1:20.0

and demographic group. He even won Latinos last night. So the way what? There you go.

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