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To: markomalley

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/us/politics/marco-rubio.html?_r=0

Marco Rubio Suspends His Presidential Campaign

MIAMI — Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who ran for president offering his youthful optimism and Cuban-American heritage as the embodiment of a new and more diverse generation of Republican leadership, but ultimately failed to galvanize voters in a much darker mood, said on Tuesday that he was suspending his presidential campaign.

Mr. Rubio made the announcement during a speech at his campaign headquarters in Miami after losing his home state by a large margin to Donald J. Trump.

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20 posted on 03/15/2016 5:25:18 PM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief

Such an ass ...

“After tonight it is clear that while we are on the right side, this year we will not be on the winning side,” Rubio said.

He also delivered a rebuke to Trump’s heated rhetoric, saying he was proud that he did not run his own campaign by preying on Americans’ anxieties.
“America’s in the middle of a real political storm,”

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/rubio-suspends-presidential-campaign-220827#ixzz431NZtcbe


37 posted on 03/15/2016 5:27:51 PM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief
...ultimately failed to galvanize voters...

Oh, I don't know -- I think that he galvanized voters, just not in the direction he had hoped.

70 posted on 03/15/2016 5:38:50 PM PDT by Bob (No, being a US Senator and the Secretary of State are not accomplishments; they're jobs.)
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