“With more than half the delegates yet to be chosen and a calendar that favors us in the weeks and months to come, we remain confident that our campaign is on a path to win the nomination”, he said. During his farewell speech, Rubio spent ample time thanking his supporters for their hard work. “But this has been a nasty one; I guess that’s why your ratings are as high as they’ve ever been”. “There’s nothing more you could have done”, Rubio said with a smile.
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The brash billionaire, who won at least three more states on Tuesday but doesn’t yet have the needed majority of delegates, predicted on Wednesday he’d collect enough support before the Republican convention this summer.
Trump’s landslide victory in Florida knocked Rubio, a U.S. senator from that state and a foreign policy hawk, out of the White House race.
Kasich had little money available in February for contests outside of OH, where he co-opted the state GOP organization to reach voters.
Trump has won 47 percent of the Republican delegates awarded so far, according to the Associated Press delegate count.
“There’s time to prevent a Trump nomination, which I think would fracture the party and be damaging to the conservative movement”, Rubio said.
Boehner, who has endorsed John Kasich, tells the Futures Industry Association that if Republicans can’t agree on the first ballot to nominate Donald Trump, Kasich or Texas Sen.
She added, after being pressed specifically on the word “riot”, “It’s not riot as in a negative thing like what we’ve seen in the past, it’s the fact that you have a large amount of people that will be very unhappy. I think that would be a disaster”, he said. “I think the people would quite rightly revolt”, Cruz told CNN.
Voters in five states head to the polls today as some candidates hope to cement their front-runner status, while others hope to keep their presidential bids alive.
“Winning a general election with a nominee that a significant percentage of the base thinks stole it, even though you did it through the rules of the RNC, would be pretty much fatal for the party”, Rubio said, though he added that many Republicans will not vote for Trump, either…
“The divisions are already there”, said John Jordan, a California-based Republican donor.
Rubio would only say that former rival Ted Cruz’s “positions on issues are conservative – but I don’t have anything further to elaborate”.
“It’s a very unusual year”.
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As his campaign staff tweeted pictures of cleaning out their offices, Rubio said he had no thoughts about how to organize his 169 delegates gained in the early primaries and whether he would try to back one of the remaining candidates to put either Sen.
