Donald Trump won a great victory Saturday in South Carolina, which builds it as a favorite among Republicans, while Hillary Clinton injected air into his campaign by winning Nevada, in the US presidential primary to November.
Wins the bombastic billionaire 69 years and former Secretary of State, 68, comforting these candidates, a few days of March 1, when the so-called "Super Tuesday" eleven states have their primaries.
But the day claimed a victim: the former governor of Florida Jeb Bush's brother and son of Americans-presidents, announced tearfully withdrawing his campaign for the White House, after a disappointing performance in the primaries.
In South Carolina, Trump confirmed at the ballot box what the polls have said since last year, that is the favorite to win the Republican nomination in the race for the White House to replace Barack Obama.
The tycoon, who has won a Republican electorate looking for an "outsider" anti, obtained 32.8% of the vote, followed by Sen. Marco Rubio of Cuban origin with 22.4% and ultraconservative Ted Cruz with 22.1% with 93.5% of votes counted.
"After tonight, the race has become a competition between three and I win the nomination," said a confident Rubio, the youngest of the candidates to the White House 44 years.
Jeb Bush, the candidate married to a Mexican who favored a mechanism for regularizing undocumented immigrants, came fourth, which ended up out of the competition.
Of late the Ohio Governor John Kasich moderate, and the doctor were removed Ben Carson.
To congratulate him on his victory in a speech, Trump said he was confident that some of the followers of his opponents who have withdrawn from the race, now will support his candidacy.
"It's not easy to fight for the presidency. It is hard, unpleasant, is odious. It's beautiful. When you win, it's beautiful. And we'll start making to improve our country, "said the controversial Trump, who lost Iowa against Cruz but handily won New Hampshire, the states that had primaries before South Carolina.
- Needing victory -
Hillary Clinton gave a needed victory on Saturday against rival Bernie Sanders in the "caucus" (assemblies of voters) in Nevada, in the west of the country.But the minimum difference between the two candidates portends an extended primary, amid growing popularity Vermont senator in the country.
With 88.1% of the results counted, Clinton got 52.6% compared to 47.4% for Sanders.
"Some may have doubted us, but we never doubted," Clinton said in a defiant speech in Las Vegas, at Caesars Palace hotel and casino. "Americans have a right to be upset. But they are also hungry for real solutions, "he said.
Sanders congratulated Clinton, but showed his pride for having shortened the distance with former Secretary of State, which from the beginning has been the favorite for the Democratic nomination for November's presidential election."We downwind when we went to the 'Super Tuesday'," said Sanders, 74.
Despite having achieved a needed win, Saturday's results give pause to the campaign of Clinton, whose popularity among Latinos for granted.
According to surveys conducted exit polls, 53% of Hispanic voters opted for Bernie Sanders, against 45% for Clinton.
But three-quarters of black voters supported Yes, good news for the former first lady ahead of primaries in the southeastern states, where blacks make up a large part of the population.
Victory in Nevada gives Clinton a breather after the resounding defeat that struck him in New Hampshire Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose antiélites message and antiWall Street has deepened among young Democrats.
The former Secretary of State scored another very narrow victory in Iowa, the state that launched the presidential primary to November, although it has the support of the Democratic Party remains the favorite to win the nomination.