Donald Trump reportedly won 45 percent of the Latino vote in Tuesday night's Nevada caucus, but the figure is being scrutinized given that only eight percent of respondents in a CNN exit poll identified as Hispanic.

Univision journalist Enrique Acevedo tweeted that Trump's Latino backers were a fraction of the 75,000 Nevadans who caucused, yet a slew of now-deleted Twitter accounts purportedly belonging to Latinos re-posted Acevedo's tweet word-for-word.

"Trump won around 40% of the latino vote in Nevada, but that accounts for about 1,300 votes. Still, more than the two hispanics on the ballot," read Acevedo's tweet, which was typed -- not re-tweeted -- verbatim by dozens of individuals with Latino surnames.

Acevedo poked fun at the tweets once social media users brought it to his attention. He wondered whether Trump's campaign created the spam accounts.

Trump cruised to a Nevada caucus win Tuesday night with a 22-point margin over second-place Marco Rubio.

The Republican presidential front-runner credited his broad spectrum of supporters for his third election cycle victory -- which include New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries -- making sure to single out evangelicals, young, old, smart, and "poorly educated" voters.

Latinos, the demographic many consider him a long shot to sway, reportedly caucused for him over his Cuban-American rivals Rubio and Ted Cruz.

"You know what I'm really am happy about? I've been saying it for long time -- 46 percent with the Hispanics, 46 percent, No. 1 with Hispanics," Trump said during his Nevada victory speech. "I'm really happy about that."

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