Marco Rubio and John Kasich are both in danger of losing to Donald Trump in their home states on Tuesday.
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Donald Trump spoke to thousands of supports in Cleveland on Saturday at the IX Center.
Turnout appeared robust, with people waiting more than an hour to vote in a line that stretched longer than two city blocks on Saturday afternoon.
“Last night in Chicago we saw images that made America look like a Third World Country”, Rubio told several hundred supporters at a rally in Largo, Florida, on Saturday.
Alex Conant, Rubio’s communications director, admitted on CNN Friday that the best way to stop the real estate mogul in the Buckeye State would be to vote for the state’s governor, John Kasich, while Rubio is best positioned to stop Trump in the Sunshine State. “I’d like to see him win Florida”. “No one is going to have the numbers”, he said on ABC earlier this week. Trump leads the overall race for delegates with 460.
In the process, Cruz added nine delegates to his kitty and Rubio 10 as they now set their sights on the crucial Republican party’s presidential primaries in the key states of Florida, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri and North Carolina on March 15.
The morning after the 12th Republican presidential debate, Trump said he had had enough. GOP front-runner Donald Trump gained one delegate, as did Rubio. Marco Rubio’s suggestion that his supporters should back Kasich in Ohio, Kasich wouldn’t explicitly suggest his backers to do the same in Florida-though he did note that he’s not competing there. Both the Republican and Democratic parties allow Guam and the other US territories to participate in the presidential nomination process, although territories may not vote in the general election. “. So I also think you can walk into a room, John, of 100 people and you can put them in a really bad mood or you can walk into that same room and you can get them to be hopeful”.
In a statement on Friday, Wagner said that Republicans “must unite to win behind a strong, constitutional conservative like Ted Cruz”.
But Ted Cruz is standing by his pledge to support Trump if he becomes the nominee.
Next Tuesday’s primaries have more than 350 delegates up for grabs.
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Seeking to put a break to Mr. Trump’s momentum in the race for the White House, Republican presidential candidates Senators Cruz and Rubio scored victories in the party’s caucuses in Wyoming and District of Columbia respectively.
