Rubio Falters Again As Trump Extends His Lead

yahoo.com ^ | March 1

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Marco Rubio jumped on to a stage in front of a few thousand wildly cheering supporters at an open-air equestrian center Tuesday night, pumped his right fist twice, and bragged that he has been rising in the polls since he started aggressively going after Donald Trump.

“We are seeing in state after state his numbers going down. We are seeing in state after state, our numbers going up,” Rubio said.

The boast came about as close to ignoring reality as a politician can get. Eleven states held primary elections or caucuses Tuesday night, and Rubio lost all but one. He gained his first victory of the entire primary process so far in the Minnesota caucuses, a result announced an hour before midnight.

Now, with one-third of the total delegates that determine the GOP’s nominee awarded, the 44-year-old U.S. senator from Florida trails Trump and fellow Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas in the delegate race. But far more pressing for Rubio is his momentum problem. He has almost none, and worse, Tuesday marked the third time in the primaries that he has appeared to have some wind in his sails, only to run aground when the votes are cast.

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[goldstategop]

He lost VA, a state tailor-made for him, with the kind of upscale, affluent voters that made him unexpectedly competitive with Trump.

It wasn’t enough because while Boobio won the ring of suburban counties surrounding DC, Trump ran up big margins in the rest of the state.

Not a path to the presidential nomination.

[RC one]

He’s betting on a brokered convention. they all are. They all need to be disappointed because a brokered convention will be very painful.

[ETL]

And never hire a power crazed raving maniac to be leader of the best and most powerful country on earth. You can just look at him and know that he is deranged.

[Salgak]

Actually, Marco Roboto won Northern Virginia. But, politically, NoVa is really Minnesota South. . .

[PUGACHEV]

The Tidewater votes from Norfolk and Virginia Beach usually follow those of the D.C. suburbs, including Fairfax, Loudoun, Prince William, and Arlington in national elections, but not this time. Instead, the military voters in Tidewater heavily favored Trump, while the No. Va. suburbs went for Rubio,

[niteowl77]

The GOP-e's Plan A hit a bridge abutment in New Hampshire and had to be towed back to Kennebunkport, and Plan C had engine problems last night, so they are quickly pivoting back to Plan B, which has always been nothing more than "Use Cruz to Dump Trump." Once they've used him, the GOP-e will simply open the sea cocks on the Cruz ship and leave nothing above water but the mainmast. Hillary will take the general election and the usual Uniparty suspects will have pulled another successful con. Simple and effective.

Mr. niteowl77

[Chainmail]

Better looking than your candidate - Hillary.

[tinyowl]

Of those with the unending and repetitive anti-Trump agenda, which consists of 'don't vote for Trump because I hate him,' you are one of the least effective name callers.

Take this tagline ... You can lead a Trump supporter to critical facts & info, but you can't make him/her think ...

So you post a series of unattractive pictures and call it 'critical facts and info'? I don't think so, Marco. How about you go be productive somewhere.

[freeangel]

I keep looking for the “like” button!

[Robert A Cook PE]

So he has only won one.

Thought the pre-March 1 polls had him ahead of Cruz by a little bit.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Seems a rather ugly collection of photos.

[DaveA37]

“......I don’t think so, Marco. How about you go be productive somewhere.”.....

Exactly. There is a lot of used cars and thousands of acres of swampland yet to be sold. Go after it “foam boy”.