Posted on 02/24/2016 9:56:08 AM PST by TigerClaws
Following another second-place finish in the Nevada GOP caucus, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) argued Wednesday that candidates don't win presidential primaries simply by winning individual states.
When asked about his loss to Donald Trump in the Nevada caucus on Tuesday on "Fox and Friends," Rubio noted that "this is an unusual election."
"And right now, what you have is a situation where Donald—the majority of the Republican electorate, the majority of Republican voters in this country do not want Donald Trump to be the nominee," Rubio said.
He said that the anti-Trump voters are "divided up" among the remaining candidates. ADVERTISING
"Until there’s some kind of consolidation here, you’re not going to have a clear alternative to Donald Trump, and the argument we’ve made is, I’m as conservative as anyone in this race, but I’m the conservative that can unify the Republican Party," Rubio said.
Co-host Ashley Earhardt asked Rubio if he needs to start winning primaries in order to win the nomination.
"You don’t win the nomination by how many states you win," Rubio responded before adding that he will have to win some winner-take-all states in March.
Earhardt then asked Rubio which states specifically he could win.
"Well, we feel great in every one of those states. We’re going to pick up delegates in all of them," he said, adding that he doesn't want to offer specific predictions.
Watch the interview via Fox News:
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And this is exactly why Common Core math is a bad idea.
You don’t win states, you don’t win the delegates, especially in the ‘winner take all’ states.
Loser justification whine.
Somebody should have told the Memorizer Bunny’s programmers that the nominee has to win at least eight states to even have their name placed into nimination.
Sad. Just sad.
this is a huge hint they’re going to have a brokered convention for the GOPe to pick the nominee.
Well, you sure don’t win the nomination by winning NONE of the states
i guess you win by flipping coins?
a lot more people don’t want Rubio as the nominee, given that he’s broken 30% nowhere. Plus, wasn’t Trump’s ceiling 35%? He smashed thru that hard last night. Not to mention that not everyone who voted for, or would’ve voted for Bush, Christie, Rand, etc, are necesarily gonna vote at all with them gone, thus lowering the nominator in mathematically increasing Trump’s percentage. Sad, on Amnesty Rubio’s part.
This is true, but he needs to win some of the large winner take all states coming up to have the smallest chance to keep his campaign going.
They WANT to have a brokered convention. But Trump is on track to win Ohio, Florida, Texas (within 1 point)....
Amid all the chaff of words he’s spouting, I can hear him whistling Dixie.
Lose the primary to win the election.
Yee haw!
Marcobot needs a reboot!
It looks like Trump is well positioned have more than enough delegates to avoid a brokered convention.
He would be right if he was running in the Democrate Primary. Alas he is not. So his statement makes him a Dumbass.
Go Trump
Sounds like Marco Rubot had the wrong answer loaded.
And this is exactly why Common Core math is a bad idea.
If the party says two plus two equals five, then two plus two equals five.
Politobabble
You don’t win the nomination by playing spokesman for La Raza either.America’s had it’s little experiment with a minority president.I don’t think we’ll try that again in any of our lifetimes.
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