– Marco Rubio indicated Friday he wouldn’t mind if his supporters in OH back John Kasich in Tuesday’s primary, if that’s what it takes to stop Donald Trump.
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“If you are a Republican primary voter in OH and you want to defeat Donald Trump, your best chance in OH is John Kasich, because John Kasich is the sitting governor, he’s very close to Donald Trump in some of the polls there”.
The ad also comes after Trump, who once said he would not release attack ads, released two ads going after Marco Rubio earlier this week.
He has said that voting for Ohio Gov. John Kasich or U.S. Sen.
Florida voters are increasingly voicing a similar take on Republican front-runner Donald Trump: “Dice lo que piensa” – Spanish for “he speaks his mind”. “That is indisputable”, he added, referring to the USA senator’s home state.
Touting his national security credentials at a synagogue, Rubio stopped just short of explicitly urging OH voters to back Kasich – but his meaning was clear.
He said only “two of us” can get the delegates to win – meaning Trump and Cruz – and “two of us” cannot, referring to Rubio and Kasich.
Hispanic GOP voters in Orlando and south Florida, both areas are major pockets of Hispanic voters, share in the anger at government that Trump has so skillfully roused as a political outsider.
Former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson, left, center, speaks with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump after a news conference at the Mar-A-Lago Club, Friday, March 11, 2016, in Palm Beach, Fla.
Trump, meanwhile, repeated: “We would not do the deal unless it would be a very good deal for us”.
Indeed, though both Rubio and Kasich’s campaigns are in terrible positions right now, Rubio appears worse off despite his bigger delegate lead.
“I think frankly the Republican establishment, or whatever you call it, should embrace what’s happening”, he said. Everyone assumes that Trump will come out ahead tonight, perhaps by quite a lot, but there is still more than one road to the nomination and it’s not yet settled.
When Thursday night’s GOP debate was over, Trump pronounced it an “elegant” discussion.
Ted Cruz, seeking to emerge as the primary GOP alternative to Trump, hit the billionaire over previous comments that he wants to remain “neutral” about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict so he could broker a deal as president.
“Donald Trump is basically a Floridian”. Rubio made his home stand in Florida, and Cruz was shuttling from Florida to IL.
Trump accused Cruz of flip-flopping on ethanol while campaigning in Iowa and for favoring amnesty for illegal immigrants.
“We are going to have to work with people in the Muslim faith even as Islam faces a serious crisis within it”, Rubio said.
Even under that scenario, the delegate math would make it hard for Cruz to overtake Trump before the party’s July convention.
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Cruz criticized Trump for threatening a 45 percent tariff on trade with China and other countries to end unfair competition, saying the plan ultimately would hurt American consumers who would be forced to pay higher prices.
