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Poor Gov. John Kasich. He can't catch a break. In Arizona's Republican primary, Kasich actually found himself in fourth place, despite there only being three Republican candidates remaining in the race. Arizona allows early voting nearly a month before the actual election day. Thus, a whole lot of people voted for Marco Rubio before he suspended his campaign last Tuesday--enough to propel him to a third-place finish. Rubio received nearly 23,000 more votes than Kasich. This, of course, begs the question: why is Kasich still in the race?

Alex Isenstadt writes in Politico: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)  campaign has been exploring the possibility of forming a unity ticket with ex-rival Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) — going so far as to conduct polling looking into how the two would perform in upcoming primary states. The motivation, hashed out in conversations among Cruz’s top aides and donors: to find a way to halt Donald Trump’s march to the Republican nomination. It’s unclear whether Cruz’s campaign brass views a partnership with Rubio as realistic or quixotic. In Rubio’s orbit, according to three sources, it’s seen as an outright nonstarter —...

A new report from Politico shines light on how Marco Rubio >79% refused to join a proposed “unity ticket” with Ted Cruz >97% , Darwin Deason — made multiple attempts to sway Rubio to drop out immediately following Super Tuesday back on March 1.

A new report from Politico shines light on how Marco Rubio refused to join a proposed “unity ticket” with Ted Cruz, both before and after the Florida senator ended his White House bid. According to Politico’s sources, Utah Sen. Mike Lee has attempted on multiple occasions to broker a shotgun wedding between the former campaign rivals, yet Rubio has declined to partake in the efforts “to halt Donald Trump’s march to the Republican nomination.

Ted Cruz’s campaign has been exploring the possibility of forming a unity ticket with ex-rival Marco Rubio — going so far as to conduct polling looking into how the two would perform in upcoming primary states. The motivation, hashed out in conversations among Cruz’s top aides and donors: to find a way to halt Donald Trump’s march to the Republican nomination. It’s unclear whether Cruz’s campaign brass views a partnership with Rubio as realistic or quixotic. In Rubio’s orbit, according to three sources, it’s seen as an outright nonstarter — with Rubio telling his team that he isn’t interested. Yet...

Top political aides to Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz connected Friday to discuss how delegates currently bound to Rubio might be allocated, a Cruz campaign aide confirmed to RealClearPolitics.Although the conversation between Rubio’s former campaign manager, Terry Sullivan, and Cruz Campaign Manager Jeff Roe was brief and no resolution was reached, the development suggests the two former rivals could be moving toward detente if not an active collaboration.-snip-If Rubio does decide to endorse Cruz, the aide said, that decision would likely be reached between the two of them, not among senior aides. “Marco and Ted are good friends, so...

Carly Fiorina: Ted Cruz can stop Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton I ran for president because I believe it is time to take our country back from Washington and restore power to the people. I still believe that. In fact, I believe it more than ever. It is time to challenge and reform the system that has put too much economic and political power in the hands of too few. It is time to put a real constitutional conservative in the White House. My husband and I live in Virginia where we had a primary recently. While my own name...

(CNN)One year ago this week, Ted Cruz became the first of 17 candidates to argue that he could unite the Republican Party behind him. Now, he has his a chance to prove it. On the anniversary of a presidential launch that knew nothing of a man by the name of Donald Trump, contests and converts won of late will offer the clearest signal yet of whether he can indeed consolidate the anti-Trump movement and eventually defeat the billionaire front-runner. Cruz is favored to win this Tuesday's caucuses in Utah and is hopeful of sweeping the state's 40 delegates by eclipsing...

A screenshot purportedly showing anti-Trump tweets from Republicans Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz is fake. On 17 March 2016, an image purportedly showing two tweets from Republicans Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, each stating that Americans should vote for the Democratic candidate if Donald Trump wins the 2016 GOP presidential nomination began circulating online: Neither of the above-displayed tweets appeared on the official Twitter accounts of Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio. Rather, this image was created with an application such as "Let Me Tweet That For You," which allows users to easily create fake tweets: One way to tell that...

Right, right, national polls aren’t worth much, especially six weeks into state-by-state voting, but they’re interesting as evidence of broad trends that might (or might not) be shaping up. The theory was that Rubio finally getting KO’d in Florida would free up 10-15 percent of the Republican vote, most of which would stampede towards Cruz as the last conservative standing against Trump. That’s … not what we’re seeing here. Cruz is up, but so is Kasich. And in one of these polls, so is Trump. Maybe that Rubio endorsement is worth less than we thought. First, from Morning Consult: Twelve...

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Marco Rubio’s 2016 Presidential campaign is over. Under-performing from the start, never able to get real traction and command serious attention from either the media or Republican Party insiders, Rubio vacated his Florida Senate seat to embark on a fool’s errand, chasing a ghost he never had any chance of capturing. Going in, it looked better: If there was ever a prototypically-perfect Republican candidate for a normal election cycle, Rubio was certainly it: Handsome, youthful and energetic, telegenic, personally likeableGreat verbal acuity, never at a loss for the quick, pithy answer, able to frame arguments in logical, sequential, easy-to-follow paragraphsImpressive...

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)79% exited the race for the Republican nomination on Tuesday, and now sources familiar with both Rubio and his rival candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)97% , indicate that an endorsement is in the works. Those sources told Politico that Cruz will have to ask Rubio for the endorsement and both will have to determine if news of Rubio-endorses-Cruz will effect the outcome of the Republican presidential nomination. An anonymous adviser to the Cruz campaign, quoted in the report, revealed that conversations were going on with “Rubio’s people” and that Cruz would welcome a Rubio endorsement. In the...

Marco Rubio Says He Won’t Run for Re-Election — or Governor in 2018 Rebecca Ballhaus Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is done with politics – at least for now. The former presidential candidate and once-rising star in the Republican Party, who quit the race after losing his home state’s primary on Tuesday night, told reporters on Capitol Hill on Thursday that he is not looking to remain a member of Congress. “I’m not running for re-election to the Senate,” he said. “I’m going to finish out my term here.” Florida bars candidates from running for two offices at once, and Mr....

Senator Rubio says he won't be anyone's VP, not running for Gov in Florida..and will be private citizen in January

Breitbart News recently published a story that quoted The Tampa Bay Times confirming our reporting that Luntz has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments to help shape Rubio’s political career. The scandal raised serious questions about Luntz’s impartiality in conducting his Fox News post-debate focus groups, especially in light of a ridiculously pro-Rubio focus group that he conducted right before the Iowa caucus. National Journal picked up the story in a feature entitled “Luntz Plays Favorites With Marco Rubio..”

Time to ponder......Ted Cruz for Trump VP.......Nah......Cruz lies, cheats, & when he opens his mouth and talks, he turns most folks off as he comes across as unfriendly, cold & evil. The company he keeps, Glenn Beck & Carly Fiorina are not crowd pleasers, to say the least. John Kasich, a liberal, who is not all there...across the board, has won but one state, and, has yet to prove he can run with the big boys. Now....Marco Rubio.....maybe.........young, 44 year old, tough campaigner, Hispanic, comes from Florida, would play very well in Texas, New York & California, etc., attractive, great...

Donald Trump took his opponents apart last night, winning in Florida, Illinois, North Carolina and probably Missouri. As of tonight Mr. Trump has a delegate count of 673. Trump’s first victim last night was Marco Rubio, the South Beach Boy Wonder who was destroyed by the Trumpinator by 19 percentage points and sent packing on a jet ski across Biscayne Bay. Trump then moved north and hammered Ted Cruz. Obviously, George Soros’ plan to bring down Trump in Illinois by causing chaos on the streets imploded. Trump won by 8.5 points over Cruz. Trump was victorious in North Carolina, consolidating...

Marco Rubio's loss is Ted Cruz's gain, a new poll shows. The Texas senator will benefit most from Rubio's exit from the presidential race, according to new Morning Consult polling. Among 412 Rubio supporters polled, 47 percent support Cruz as a second choice. Twenty-seven percent of respondents said they would back Ohio Gov. John Kasich if Rubio dropped out and only 13 percent of Rubio backers said they'd support front-runner Donald Trump....

<p>With Marco Rubio dropping out of the Republican presidential race Tuesday, the Florida senator leaves a large cache of delegates behind. So what happens to them, and the delegates of other former candidates, at the convention in Cleveland?</p> <p>The short answer is: It varies from state to state, but the Republican Party leaves enough wiggle room that the delegates of former candidates could end up being a factor in July.</p>