Leading Candidates Trump the Competition in Presidential Race

Eamon Connolly, Contributing Writer

The fate of the country rests in the hands of the American people as the 2016 presidential race continues. Although the race seems as if it has been going on for quite some time, it is still in its infancy.

The Democratic and Republican parties have yet to nominate candidates to represent their respective parties, meaning that candidates are working their hardest to earn a nomination. The parties typically make their decisions based on how much support is shown for a given candidate, through state specific votes called caucuses.

The most recent caucus was on February 20th, in Nevada. The leading member of the Republican party is Donald Trump, who stole an astonish 45.9 percent of the vote out from under the noses of the other four candidates, who were left with inadequately low percentages of the total vote. The closest candidate to Trump in terms of support in Nevada is Marco Rubio, who has a significantly lower percentage of 23.9 percent.

The Democratic party had a substantially closer competition, with leading candidate Hillary Clinton winning 52.6 percent of the total vote. She was closely followed by Bernie Sanders, who earned 47.3 percent of Nevada’s vote. In the coming months we’ll see who gets their respective nominations, and it’s still anyone’s game.