Sri Lanka, Feb. 9 -- Donald Trump won Republican presidential nominating caucuses in Nevada and the US Virgin Islands on Thursday (Feb 8), moving closer to becoming his party's White House standard-bearer and a likely general election rematch with US President Joe Biden in November.

Trump, the frontrunner in his party's nominating race, was the only major candidate competing in Nevada's caucuses and was set to win the state's 26 delegates to the party's nominating convention in July after being projected the winner on Thursday night by Edison Research.

Earlier on Thursday, Trump easily won the US Virgin Islands caucuses, adding four to his delegate haul. The former US president won 182 votes, or 74 per cent of the 246 votes cast there, ...