which is of course their greatest fantasy. i m not going to withdraw. i m actually pretty happy with where we are, and, i think the contrast between governor romney and me is going to get wider and wider and clearer and clearer over the next few weeks. reporter: jamie, he continued going on to say that he is going to be campaigning all the way to the republican national convention, in tampa, this summer. jamie: let me ask you about how things went, calm, not so calm, contentious and i understand there was a dust-up at one of the caucuses last night. what have you learned about that? reporter: that was a special sundown caucus that happened for people of the jewish faith because they could not vote in the morning because of the sabbath. and we understand that there were some tensions flaring at that caucus event and after some folks were upset, they were required to sign documents stating they needed to attend the evening event because the
resounding victory. next on tuesday comes minnesota, missouri, and colorado. but will the win last night in nevada help cement his frontrunner status in the race for the nomination? john roberts live in las vegas with the very latest. good morning, john. good morning to you, eric. certainly mitt romney is beginning to look like he s got it cemented in place, beginning to look more and more like the nominee. these are pictures from last night, that might add to the air of inevitability around mitt romney. he picked up secret service protection a couple days ago. take a look at this. he s shaking hands with the crowd at his victory party last night at the red rock casino. does that look like a guy who s the candidate? sure looks like a nominee at this point. 47.6% of the vote for mitt romney at this point, compared to 22.6 for newt gingrich, ron paul and rick santorum behind that, but vote problems in clark county, where we are in las vegas. only 50% of the vote has been counted. we re
of inevitability, whether or not it will last we ll see, because three more contests coming up on tuesday, eric. we ll talk about minnesota in just a moment with norm coleman. john in las vegas, thank you so much. let s take a look at some of the gop contests that are still ahead. on february 7th, 48 hours from tuesday, minnesota and colorado holding their caucuses, and missouri holding a nonbinding primary. then next saturday, maine announcing the results of their week-long caucuses. we ll have all of that four. taking a look at where the candidates stand in this race, mitt romney has 97 delegates. newt gingrich at 30 after his victory in south carolina, and a win in iowa helped rick santorum secure 16 delegates. ron paul rounding out the pack with a total of seven. the candidates need 1,144 delegates to clinch the republican nomination. as we ve been saying in about 48 hours from now, voters in
we should also point out the numbers that we re giving are not all of the precincts reporting. a little more than 70% of them are reporting at this hour. much of clark county, we do not know the results of, right now. and that is the most densely populated part of the state. and we are expecting those numbers to start trickling in later this morning. now, to speaker newt gingrich, he knew he was heading into n nevada with a disadvantage, mitt romney is wildly popular here, the former massachusetts governor won the state in 08 with 51% of the vote. and he knew that ron paul does well in caucus states particularly picking up a high number of the conservative tea party vote. we were here at the venetian hotel last night, where speaker gingrich held a pros conference and dismissed any claims that he is dropping out of this race. every primary day, caucus day, the romney headquarters in boston sends out the rumor that they believe i will withdraw
relation with hezbollah. maybe it could attack u.s. forces in afghanistan or cause problems in iraq, but it doesn t have a military like the u.s. has a military. we can pick any point in the globe any way we want at anytime we want, more or less, and iran, most of its military is focused on maintaining domestic control, not forced projection overseas. yes, they ll retaliate, cause problems, but not the sort of regular, you know, troops line up and fight each other in a traditional military battle that might happen in other parts of the world. it s going to be more what they call assays symmetrical. and my question is whether they would go for civilian targets or military installations somewhere. i hope we never have to ask the question or know. jim walsh, thank you so much. thank you. eric? jamie, it was another big night for mitt romney last night. the republican candidate for president walking away from the nevada caucuses with a