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Sen. Marco Rubio Tuesday night rejoiced in the Super Tuesday results, saying “his [Trump] numbers are coming down and our numbers are going up!” He was declared the winner in Minnesota with slightly more than one third of the votes and Ted Cruz and Donald Trump at his heels. But he was third in most of the rest of the states. “We never said Super Tuesday was our night,” he said, “Now the map begins to look really good for our campaign.” (snip) Tapper, however, didn't see it. "Senator, you keep saying that," he said, of Rubio's messaging that Trump...

A reader, Ken Fitzpatrick, read about what has been called a secret recording of Donald Trump’s meeting in January with The Times editorial board. On that recording, an article by Buzzfeed’s editor in chief Ben Smith suggests, Mr. Trump says that his extreme position on deporting immigrants is not anything he would necessarily carry out in real, postelection life, but rather might be a starting point for negotiation. (snip) My take: Having agreed to an off-the-record conversation, The Times (both editorial department and news side) was and is obligated to honor that arrangement, as Mr. Fitzpatrick rightly notes. The trouble...

A video has emerged to settle the back-and-forth dispute between Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)97% and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)79% as to how the Florida senator voted on a gun-control proposal in 1999. On Feb. 27, Ted Cruz said Rubio voted to “ban guns from city parks” while a commissioner in West Miami City.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)79% is maintaining a blistering campaign pace, concluding a fourth rally in the state of Virginia last night in Salem, Virginia, in front of a huge crowd of supporters. But he wasn’t finished insulting Donald Trump, mocking the size of his hands — and alluding to the size of his manhood. “He’s always calling me ‘Little Marco’ … and I’ll admit he’s taller than me, he’s 6’2″ which is why I don’t understand why he has hands the size of someone who’s 5’2″. Have you seen his hands? You know what they say about men with small...

Published on Feb 28, 2016 COMPLETE INTERVIEW: Chris Wallace Interviewes Ted Cruz On "Fox News Sunday" (2/28/2016)

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie rallied with Donald Trump in Oklahoma last night, mocking Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)79% for his newfound willingness to attack Donald Trump. “Let’s have one more message for someone who has had a pretty big mouth today — Marco Rubio your campaign is almost over buddy,” Christie said.

Rick Perry, who has twice dropped out of races for the Republican presidential nomination, isn't ruling out another shot at the White House. The former Texas governor told CNN that he wouldn't be surprised if there's a brokered convention for the Republican nomination this year - and hinted if that happened he might be ready to give it another go. (snip) Perry said if there's a "brokered" convention then it would be "a whole new ballgame for everyone." Without a clear consolidation of the field, many have floated the possibility of Republicans going to Cleveland this summer without a presumptive...

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)79% is again floating the possibility that Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)97% , or he himself might fail to earn the necessary 1,236 delegates required to win the Republican presidential nomination. That would mean taking the fight to a brokered convention. During an interview on CBS "This Morning," Rubio was questioned about a CNN report that revealed Rubio's campaign manager had prepared donors in New York for the possibility. "If you look at the way it's going now, no one may have that number of delegates and that in and of itself would trigger a convention...

Marco Rubio has not won a state, a fact that worries allies and pleases skeptics who mock his chances to win the Republican presidential nomination. It doesn't even sound as if the Rubio team knows when it will win one. Can this strategy really work? Could he really lose every state on Super Tuesday and still stand a chance of becoming the nominee? The delegate math says yes. No, it wouldn't be optimal for Mr. Rubio to lose all 12 contests on March 1, Super Tuesday. His chances of amassing an outright majority of delegates, and becoming the presumptive nominee...

Senator Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)79% condemned a recreational gun range that banned Muslims from their facility, during a presidential forum with Fox News host Megyn Kelly. One member of the audience asked Rubio about the incident, where a Muslim-American army reservist was denied access to the facility in Oklahoma, and asked for his reaction to the incident. "The story you just told me is wrong. It's immoral. We should not be doing that to people,""Rubio said. "The bottom line is there are millions of patriotic Muslim Americans." A lawsuit against the gun range was filed by 29-year-old Raja'ee Fatihah, a...

Can he persuade conservatives that his immigration bill is really a reform? What would a President Marco Rubio do about immigration? To attempt to answer this question, let us review the past, analyze the present, and prognosticate about the future. The core framework of the Schumer-Rubio immigration bill (S-744) of 2013 was first developed in the failed Kennedy-McCain legislation of 2005. For example, on amnesty, Kennedy-McCain proposed an immediate "Z visa" for illegal immigrants, while Schumer-Rubio granted immediate "provisional" status. Although technically on "probation," the illegal immigrants were essentially granted immediate amnesty under both bills (including work permits and Social...

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have come to a consensus decision to not have hearings or a vote on a Supreme Court nominee in 2016. "We believe the American people need to decide who is going to make this appointment rather than a lame-duck president," Senate Republican Whip John Cornyn (Texas) told reporters Tuesday after a special meeting of the committee. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said members of the panel reached a "consensus" that there should not be hearings or a vote on President Obama's nominee. "My decision is that I don't think we should have a hearing. We...

LAS VEGAS - Since Jeb Bush's withdrawal from the presidential race on Saturday, endorsements from prominent Republicans have been piling up for Senator Marco Rubio of Florida. Just in the last day, former Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah and Gov. Asa Hutchison of Arkansas have signed on. But there is one endorsement that remains elusive: Mr. Bush's. Leaving Nevada on Tuesday for a day of campaigning in Minnesota and Michigan, Mr. Rubio told reporters that he had spoken on Monday with Mr. Bush, the former governor, who was his mentor in Florida politics. He said...

The founder of the Tea Party of America has abandoned Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump and thrown his support behind Jeb Bush in an effort to boost the establishment candidate's struggling bid for the nomination. Ken Crow, who founded one of the first national tea party organizations in opposition to the policies of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, was an outspoken supporter of Mr. Trump this election cycle until he was repulsed by the billionaire businessman and reality TV star's volatile personality and crude antics on the stump. "I was on the Trump train but enough is enough,"...

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright joins Hillary Clinton on stage and campaigns for her in New Hampshire.

Fox News used a pollster to host a pro-Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)79% focus group after Thursday night's Republican debate, despite the fact that the pollster actually had Rubio as a client. Pollster Frank Luntz got significant airtime to direct a post-debate focus group that unsurprisingly was very favorable to Rubio, the GOP establishment pick in the primary race. "Megyn, you asked probably the toughest question of the debate. You gave the candidates no room to wiggle. You pressed him. And he responded," Luntz gushed to Megyn Kelly, awkwardly referring only to Rubio before even mentioning him by name. "I want...

EXCERPTS Welcome to THE KELLY FILE, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. Just ten night from right now at this very hour, ten republican candidates from a field of 16 will stand on a stage in Cleveland, Ohio. (snip) Joining me now, FOX News digital politics editor Chris Stirewalt who is intimately involved in the debate process, as I can attest firsthand working with you at length and already today, we had a lengthy meeting doing one of the most important things you can do in the presidential process which is to come up with questions for these guys and potentially gal,...

Published on Jan 23, 2016 Republican presidential contender Jeb Bush had a sharp answer Saturday when asked to respond to Donald Trump's tweet suggesting the governor needed his "mommy" to come in and rescue the campaign.

A prominent donor to Jeb Bush pressed the chief strategist of the "super PAC" supporting Mr. Bush over the group's negative ads about Senator Marco Rubio during a closed-door meeting in Manhattan on Friday, according to three people familiar with the encounter. The exchange took place between Barry Volpert of the private equity firm Crestview Partners and the strategist Mike Murphy at a meeting of about 35 donors at the Palace Hotel in Midtown, according to one attendee. Mr. Volpert, who has associates who support Mr. Rubio, the senator from Florida, questioned Mr. Murphy "aggressively" about why the group was...

Officials in a small German community have sent a message to protest the government's open-arms refugee policy: A busload of migrants bound for Chancellor Angela Merkel's office. Bavaria's Landshut district put more than 30 migrants on a 340-mile journey Thursday to Merkel's office in an attempt to highlight the difficulties it is facing in coping with an influx of migrants. "The housing situation in our region is very difficult and there is a good chance these people will become homeless," Elmar Stoettner, a spokesman for the district, told NBC News by telephone on Thursday. All the migrants had chosen to...