How to watch Nevada's GOP caucuses tonight
On Tuesday night, Nevada's Republican voters will show up to caucus sites across the state to cast ballots in the GOP's fourth presidential nominating contest.
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Republicans will be able to vote for Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson and John Kasich. Jeb Bush dropped out of the presidential race on Saturday night after failing to make it out of the bottom tier of candidates in South Carolina's Republican primary.
- Watch CBSN coverage of Nevada's GOP caucuses begins at 9 p.m. ET
Caucuses start between 5 and 7 p.m. PT, or 8 and 10 p.m. EST. Caucuses end at 9 p.m. PT or midnight EST. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will be facing off at a CNN town hall Tuesday evening as they prepare for South Carolina's Democratic primary on Saturday. Clinton won Nevada's Democratic caucuses last Saturday.
Nevada's GOP caucuses come just three days after Trump's victory in South Carolina's GOP primary last Saturday where he won by 10 percentage points, ahead of Rubio and Cruz.
Unlike the process for the Democrats, Republican voters will mark their preferred candidate on a secret ballot and they don't have to stay for speeches. But the Nevada GOP allows participation over a long time period, up to a four-hour window in some counties. People can walk in and cast a presidential preference ballot during that window. And some caucus locations open and close at different times, depending on the county.
Nevada has 30 delegates available for the Republican National Convention, and they're distributed proportionally based on the results of Tuesday's primary.
Mitt Romney won the state's caucuses in 2012, but it's difficult to predict Tuesday's outcome because the state is generally hard to poll. Because Trump has won two of the three first nominating contests, however, has led in national polls, and has a strong business presence in Las Vegas he could have another big win.
The caucuses come after bitter battles among the candidates continued Monday over allegations of dirty tricks. Cruz's campaign, for example, pushed an inaccurate video that appeared to show Rubio mocking a Bible. As a result, Cruz fired his communications director Rick Tyler on Monday.
After Tuesday, the candidates wiromll face off at the next GOP presidential debate on CNN Thursday and then they'll keep preparing for Super Tuesday next week in which 11 states will hold primaries and caucuses.
Cruz won the Iowa caucuses earlier this month, and Trump won New Hampshire's GOP primary and South Carolina's GOP primary last Saturday.
