Both Ohio and Florida are winner-take-all, and Conant said Friday that any vote in Florida not for Rubio “is effectively a vote for Donald Trump”.
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But there were just as many moments where the candidates let Trump slide, including on his acknowledgement that he’s exploited immigration laws to bring skilled overseas workers to the U.S.to work for his companies and on his call for sending up to 30,000 USA ground troops to the Middle East to fight the Islamic State.
The Florida senator emphasized there had not been a discussion between him and Kasich about stopping Trump’s rise.
“What I’m not going to do is validate some notion that the Republican crack-up that’s been taking place is a effect of actions that I’ve taken”, Obama said.
At a news conference in Florida, Rubio said that he has “never talked to John Kasich about this”. I think a Donald Trump presidency, you know, would be more along those lines apparently. “I’m running for president”, Rubio said when asked by CNN’s Dana Bash about the possibility of him joining a Cruz ticket. “Ohioans are consolidating around John Kasich to be our Republican nominee and we appreciate the support offered by the Rubio team”. Rubio now says he regrets his behavior and embarrassed his children.
Donald Trump, the continued front-runner, is expected to be (dare we say it) a little subdued tonight.
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. In Florida, polls show Trump with a large lead over home-state Sen.
On Saturday afternoon, Trump resumed to calling Rubio a “choker”, an insult he’s used before on the Florida senator.
“Presidents can’t just anything they want”.
Needed to win the nomination: 1,237.
So, far from being an altruistic effort to stop Trump, this gesture by Rubio smacks of desperation. Most leaders expected his populist appeal would fade as nominating contests began and largely avoided criticising even his most extreme comments out of fear of alienating his supporters.
A Trump campaign event was canceled in Chicago yesterday when throngs of protesters – many of them blacks and Latinos angered by Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric – massed outside and inside the venue, mingling and in some cases brawling with the candidate’s supporters.
The scenes in Chicago follow a series of recent incidents of violence at Trump rallies, in which protesters and journalists have been punched, tackled and hustled out of venues, raising concerns about degrading security leading into the November 8 election.
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“Winning Ohio and Marco Rubio winning Florida would probably cement the fact that no one will get to the convention with an outright majority”, Sununu said last week.
