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While Clinton&#8217;s campaign once saw Nevada as an opportunity to start pulling away from Sanders, her team was nervously anticipating a close contest with the Vermont senator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We are here to win,&#8221; Sanders declared during a rally on the eve of the caucuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/w2.militarytimes.com\/primary-elections\/\"><em>When is the next primary and caucus? Check on Military Times&#8217; election calendar.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For both parties, the 2016 election has laid bare voters&#8217; frustration with Washington and the influence of big money in the political system. The public mood has upended the usual political order, leaving more traditional candidates scrambling to find their footing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No candidate has shaken the establishment more than Trump. The billionaire businessman spent the week threatening one rival with a lawsuit, accusing former President George W. Bush of lying, and even tangling with Pope Francis on immigration \u2014yet South\u00a0Carolina was still seen as his state to lose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That prospect alarms rival Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor trying mightily for a strong showing in the first Southern state to vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Trump can&#8217;t win, plain and simple,&#8221; Bush told reporters outside a polling place in Greenville. &#8220;This isn&#8217;t about appealing to people&#8217;s deep anxiety, which is legitimate. He can&#8217;t be president. A ton of people would be very uncomfortable with his decisive language and with his inexperience in so many ways.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Trump victory could foreshadow a solid performance in the collection of Southern states that vote on March 1. Victories in those Super Tuesday contests could put the billionaire in a commanding position in the delegate count, which determines the nomination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Texas Sen. Ted Cruz banked on a well-regarded get-out-the-vote operation and 10,000 volunteers to help overtake Trump on Saturday, as well as in the Southern states that follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A failure to top Trump in South\u00a0Carolina could puncture that strategy, though Cruz, who sidetracked briefly to Washington to attend the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia&#8217;s funeral Mass, will still have more than enough money to run a long campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marco Rubio and Bush were fighting to establish themselves as credible alternatives to Trump and Cruz, candidates some GOP leaders believe are unelectable in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neither Bush nor Rubio expected to win South\u00a0Carolina. 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