Republicans in White House race set sights on Nevada

Republican candidates in the White House race will face off in Nevada on Feb. 23 in a caucus that will mark the first significant test of where they stand with Hispanic voters.

The contest will be the fourth for the Republican presidential candidates after Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
 
But it will be their first in the West of the country and is considered a crucial part of the election cycle as nearly 40 percent of the state's three-million population is Latino.
 
Nevada is also considered a swing state, with the state government dominated by Republicans but more Democrats registered as voters.
 
Donald Trump, the billionaire businessman who has consistently held a double-digit lead in the polls, will be going into the Feb. 23 race the front-runner.    

But it is unclear how he will fare in the Silver State given that he has alienated many Hispanic voters with his persistent anti-immigrant rhetoric.
 
Several of the candidates made a final push to win over voters at the weekend, holding town hall meetings and canvassing neighborhoods.
 
The field of Republican candidates, which once stood at more than a dozen, has whittled down to five, with Jeb Bush the latest to pull out of the race on Feb. 20 following his poor showing in the South Carolina Republican primary.
 
Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, both Cuban-Americans, stand to gain from Bush's exit in Nevada, where he had backing from Republican Hispanic leaders.
 
However the two candidates face a formidable foe in Trump, who barreled to victory in South Carolina, his second win of the nominations race after New Hampshire.
         
Analysts are predicting that Trump could get about 35 percent of the vote with...