When the 24-hour cable news channel picked up the story during a panel discussing the upcoming Florida Primary, anchor Brooke Baldwin asked Trump surrogate Kayleigh McEnany whether or not Bush’s apparent refusal to meet with Trump signaled “a big ol’… can I say this?… middle finger essentially to Mr. Trump?” “They are the system”.
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Kasich will hold town halls Wednesday in the Chicago suburbs. “We want to continue to increase our delegate total and the map only gets friendlier for us after tonight and after Super Tuesday”, said Rubio. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich have struggled to gain traction in a GOP race once thought to be dominated by the former Florida governor.
Less than a week before Florida’s 99 delegate victor take all Republican primary. The Florida senator didn’t pick up a single delegate for the nomination.
Rubio came dead last in four Tuesday primaries won by Trump (Michigan, Mississippi and Hawaii) and Cruz (Idaho).
“We like his youth, his bilingual fluency and the fact that he isn’t one more Republican who’s been standing in line, awaiting his turn to run”, the board added.
Rubio noted that he was holding the event a few hours early in hopes that voters would head to a nearby early voting site and that he’d win “if everyone here votes in the numbers that I know you are capable of”.
“No candidate in this cycle has ridden more ups and downs than Marco Rubio”, the paper wrote. The man who introduced him at the rally, however – Manny Roman, Cruz’s Miami-Dade County campaign chairman – explicitly called for Rubio’s exit. Both are well outside the margin of error.
The “wild card” in the race, Combee said, is Rubio. Republicans will debate Thursday night at the University of Miami.
Rubio’s remarks on Wednesday were a sharp turn from comments he made over the weekend at the Conservative Political Action Conference, when he defended his sometimes racy attacks in an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash.
“These people here in this state have never given up on me, I am not going to give up on them”, he said. “What we see happening is a lot of subterfuge to try to manipulate the outcome”.
She declined to address next steps if Rubio does not pull out a victory there.
But Cruz surrogate Ken Cuccinel said the “theme that nobody likes Ted in Washington has been totally overblown”.
“Agree or disagree with Marco Rubio on various issues, he offers IL voters the framework of a presidency that realistically could exist”, the paper’s editorial board wrote. “He doesn’t have a chance of winning, and right now, he’s taking votes from Cruz”.
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But they also acknowledged Wednesday that the best they may get is a contested nominating procedure at the GOP convention in Cleveland in July. “I am asking you to believe again”. “We lived through seven years of Obama”.
