Minutes after Donald Trump was projected the winner of Nevada’s Republican caucuses, Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said the billionaire-turned-White House hopeful has put the Republican Party in a precarious position.
“Donald Trump’s victory tonight means he has won the vast majority of the Republican primary delegates to this point, and is well on his way to winning his party’s nomination,” she said in a statement. “After years of pandering to extremists, the Republican Party is now stuck with what it created: a field of extreme candidates with views far out of the mainstream and out of touch with the American people.”
After blasting South Carolina Republicans for handing Trump his second victory last Saturday, Wasserman Schultz suggested that Trump’s leading opponents — Sens. Ted Cruz, Texas, and Marco Rubio, Fla. — would soon become irrelevant as the New York businessman moves closer to securing the GOP nomination. This time around, she said the two first-term senators are “every bit as extreme” as Trump.
“At least with Trump, he’s not shy about exposing what the Republican brand has truly become,” she charged. “Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are every bit as extreme as their party’s front-runner, they just hide it better.”
She continued, predicting that Cruz and Rubio, “the losers tonight,” will undoubtedly “try once again to spin their failure as a victory.”
Trump was named the winner at midnight on Tuesday, with 8 percent of the total votes recorded, as he was carrying just over 40 percent, marking his biggest win yet this election cycle.
