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LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – Republican front-runner Mitt Romney cruised to an easy victory in Nevada on Saturday, crushing his three remaining rivals and taking firm command of the party’s volatile presidential nominating race.
With support from a broad cross-section of Republicans, Romney won by a big double-digit margin over former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Representative Ron Paul and former Senator Rick Santorum.
The victory was Romney’s second in a row and his third in the first five contests in the state-by-state battle to find a Republican challenger to President Barack Obama in November’s general election.
It propels Romney into the next contests – in Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri on Tuesday – on a growing wave of momentum.
Gingrich held a news conference after the results to head off speculation that he might put an early end to his campaign.
“I’m not going to withdraw,” Gingrich told reporters, repeating his frequent vow to continue all the way to the Republican nominating convention in Florida
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