In The News: Department of Political Science

Las Vegas Sun

Across the country, Republican politicians have begun distancing themselves from their party’s presidential front-runner, Donald Trump, for fear of what a Trump nomination might mean for Republicans’ down-ballot chances. Not in Nevada.

La Reforma

The debate revolving around the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) contributed to the Michigan victories of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.

Deccan Herald

Donald Trump’s campaign for the Republican US presidential nomination is building a momentum that may sweep away challenges by Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, with his crushing win in the Nevada caucuses marking a third straight victory in state contests. Kasich has six and Carson has four.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Tuesday was a good night for Donald Trump.

Las Vegas Sun

The instructions came directly from the Clinton campaign.

Al Jazeera America

Trump cemented his status as the Republican front-runner and polls show he is leading many of the super Tuesday states.

The Straits Times

Billionaire businessman Donald Trump inched closer to the US Republican presidential nomination after easily out- distancing his rivals in the Nevada caucus, giving him his third win in four early nominating contests.

LifeZette

Donald Trump ran the table in Nevada on Tuesday night, winning nearly 46 percent of the vote to pick up his third win in a row. He won across a variety of subgroups — including Hispanics — which now begs the question: Can anyone halt his march to the nomination?

NBC News

In the continuing battle over the Latino vote, Donald Trump claimed that he won over Hispanic voters in Nevada in yesterday's caucus. The media noted that Latinos who participated in yesterday's caucus favored Donald Trump over the other candidates with 45 percent of the vote. The next largest share of Latino voters went to Marco Rubio, according to exit polls.

NY Daily News

Republican candidate Ted Cruz has fired his campaign communications manager Rick Tyler after he posted a doctored video of rival candidate Marco Rubio.

KLAS-TV: 8 News Now

The Republican National Committee will be scrutinizing Tuesday night's caucus to see how smoothly it goes. This comes after the caucus in 2012 was plagued with problems.

Washington Post

The Nevada caucuses are, of course, party-operated events. When The Fix reached out to the the Nevada secretary of state this week in search of guidelines and standards that each party must meet in order to facilitate voter participation, the agency referred all questions back to the states' Democratic and Republican parties. The only problem is that caucuses in Nevada don't exactly have a reputation for amounting to orderly affairs.