Donald Trump ran the table in Nevada on Tuesday night, winning nearly 46 percent of the vote to pick up his third win in a row. He won across a variety of subgroups — including Hispanics — which now begs the question: Can anyone halt his march to the nomination?

Trump continued to separate himself from the pack, at at 45.9 percent nearly doubled his nearest competitor, Marco Rubio, at 23.8 percent. Ted Cruz came in third at 21.4 percent and none of the other candidates got above 5 percent.

Trump sounded triumphant and confident in declaring victory as he looked ahead to the contests over the next several weeks. “It’s going to be an amazing two months,” he said. “We might not even need the two months, folks, to be honest.”

In Trump’s previous two wins, he posted totals of 35.2 percent and 32.5 percent. That fueled speculation that Trump has a “low ceiling” that will do him in once the field contracts. But in the first contest without former Gov. Jeb Bush, Trump reached the mid-40s, with a margin over second place that was much greater than the 10-point spread in South Carolina.

“Tomorrow, you’ll be hearing, ‘You know, if they could just take the other candidates and add them up,’ ” Trump said Tuesday night. “They keep forgetting that when people drop out, we’re going to get a lot of votes.”

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This victory sets up Trump nicely for Tuesday’s mega-primary featuring contests in 11 states. “He’s going to be tough to catch,” said David Fott, a political science professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Sen. Marco Rubio put a significant amount of resources into Nevada, a state where he once lived and where he maintains ties. But the best he could do was second or third place, depending on the final vote count. As a sign that he did not expect to win, he spent Tuesday night 1,900 miles away in Grand Rapids, Michigan. That state holds its primary on March 8.

According to entrance polls, turnout among evangelical Christians rose from 28 percent in 2012 to about 40 percent Tuesday. That should have been good news for Sen. Ted Cruz, who has made appealing to born-again Christians the linchpin of his campaign. But for the second contest in a row, following South Carolina, he lost that group to Trump — this time by a margin of about 15 percentage points.

That calls into question the Cruz strategy of sweeping the conservative, evangelical-heavy Southern states that vote on March 1.

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Trump benefitted from an electorate tailor-made for his anti-Establishment message. Some 58 percent of Nevada voters said they were angry at the federal government. That is higher than the percentages of angry voters in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. Also, 61 percent of voters said they wanted the next president to be from outside the political establishment. That also was a higher share than in any of the first three states.

Needless to say, Trump won both groups handily.

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If there is a silver lining for Cruz, he beat Trump among voters who said the most important attribute in a candidate is someone who “shares my values.” But that wasn’t much, given that he lost even “very conservative” voters to Trump, 38 percent to 34 percent.

Addressing supporters, Cruz made the case that only he, not Rubio, can beat Trump.

“History teaches us that nobody has ever the won the nomination without having won one of the first four primaries,” he said. “And there ware only two people who have won one of the first two primaries.”

Rubio won big among voters who cited electability as the most important characteristic. But at about 25 percent, there just were not enough of those voters for him. That is, voters like Trump so much they are willing to take a chance on him.

Trump made clear he is not giving a free pass to any of his rivals in their homes states. He recited a number of recent polls, including one showing him beating Gov. John Kasich in his home state of Ohio.

“It’s always nice to be beating the governor,” said Trump.