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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 —...

Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz Split Anti-Donald Trump Vote In Florida A Florida Atlantic University public opinion poll released Saturday showed Donald Trump with 44 percent of the vote and Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz with 21 percent each. With the primary just days away, 5 percent of Florida Republicans still hadn't made up their minds. If the numbers hold through Tuesday's primary, the billionaire businessman and part-time Palm Beach resident would win all of Florida's 99 nominating delegates in the winner-take-all primary. If Rubio, Florida's junior U.S. senator, fares as poorly in actual votes in his home state as the...

Supporters of Sens. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) took to social media to slam the freshman senators for blaming leftists shutting down a Trump Chicago rally on GOP frontrunner Donald Trump. “I think a campaign bears responsibility for creating an environment, when the candidate urges supporters to engage in physical violence — to punch people in the face. The predictable consequence of that is that it escalates and today is unlikely to be the last such instance. We earlier today in St. Louis over thirty arrested. That’s not how our politics should occur,” Cruz said Friday....

It is time for conservatives to come together to stop Donald Trump. It is time to unify around Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) . I say this as someone who has refrained up to this point in supporting a specific Republican candidate for President. To my friends who support Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) this is not an easy time. You supported your candidate for all of the right reasons. Conservative. An optimist. Someone who arguably is best positioned in a match-up against Hillary. No doubt, your frustration or sorrow must be great. But the numbers are what they are, and it...

If Cruz and Rubio contest the Winner-Take-All and Winner-Take-Most states, Donald Trump will walk away with all the delegates with 35-40% of the votes, and the nomination. The only way for Cruz or Rubio to win this thing is for one or the other of them to win these crucial Winner-Take-All/Most primaries. So the path forward is for Cruz and Rubio to cross-endorse one another in each of the remaining Winner-Take-All/Most primaries, depending on which one is doing strongest in that particular state. Between the two of them, they have enough support to win all of the remaining Winner-Take-All/Most primaries....

Houston, Texas – The single most important day of the Republican primary season. That’s today, Super Tuesday, according to Ted Cruz, and if he gets his way, it’s also the day the contest will narrow to a two-man race and allow him to square off directly with Donald Trump. After casting his vote in Texas’s primary at Houston’s West Gray Community Center, Cruz told reporters that after 11 states go to the polls today, he and Trump will shoot ahead in the delegate race. “I think tomorrow morning you’re going to see a clear choice with two candidates both...

Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz on Saturday released summaries of the of their tax returns, in an effort to shame front-runner Donald Trump into releasing more of his financial documents. Rubio released summaries of five tax years Saturday and Cruz later released summaries of four years, from 2011 to 2014.

In a very important time – This is must listen audio from Steven Miller for anyone concerned about Trans-Pacific Trade (TPP) or Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), or the comprehensive immigration reform platform as it relates to Globalism -vs- Nationalism.

..."You don't know what he's going to say," Cruz told reporters. "To the parents: Would you be proud of your children if they came home and repeated the words of Donald Trump?" Rubio kept up a barrage of insults aimed at Trump. Speaking at a football stadium at Mount Paran Christian School in suburban Atlanta, Rubio said Trump has "the worst spray tan in America." "Donald Trump likes to sue people," Rubio said. "He should sue whoever did that to his face."

If Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz make it to the White House, it will be historic -- it would mean this country had its first ever Latino president. Both Rubio and Cruz both have a Cuban background, but neither candidate can necessarily count on the support of Latino voters to win. That's because most Latinos in this country lean Democratic, even with no Latino candidate represented in the Democratic field. During Thursday night's Republican debate in Houston, moderator María Celeste Arrarás of Telemundo asked Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas if his and Sen. Marco Rubio's campaigns were missing out on...

"If he hadn't inherited $200 million, you know where [Donald] Trump would be? Selling watches in Manhattan." It was Marco Rubio's big moment, the one that was supposed to damage the GOP front-runner. It wasn't a bad line. The zinger illuminated that Trump wasn't self-made. It made him seem like the avatar of New York's worst values--a street hustler from pre-Giuliani Times Square. Rubio's riposte got a laugh, but that was it. But he administered his blow too quickly, after a dizzying oppo dump of Trumpian facts--bankruptcies, lawsuits against Trump University, hiring illegal workers and so on. Like a hormonal...

Cruz Conservatives Hit Media-Rubio Lies Including Comments from: Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman, ConservativeHQ.com Tony Perkins, President of the Family Research Council Dr. James Dobson, founder of Family Talk Radio Bob Vander Plaats, president and CEO of The Family Leader Ken Cuccinelli, former Attorney General of Virginia and Republican candidate for Governor in 2013 Responding to false reports that conservatives are wavering in their support for Senator Ted Cruz for President, five of the conservative movement's most prominent leaders have issued statements reiterating their support for Cruz and calling on conservatives to unite behind the Texas Senator. Richard Viguerie, Chairman of...

A secret coterie of prominent GOP leaders is considering transferring its support from Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz to his primary rival Marco Rubio, multiple sources familiar with the situation told National Review Online. ADVERTISEMENT Known as “The Group,” the cabal is led by head of the Family Research Council Tony Perkins and Senate Conservative Fund President Ken Cuccinelli. Members voted in December to endorse Cruz, finally reaching a supermajority of 75 percent after five ballots. But in a conference call on Tuesday, watching the Nevada caucus results trickle in, members reevaluated the endorsement in light of recent developments in...

Court challenges seeking to knock Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz and John Kasich off the Pennsylvania primary ballot have been scheduled for hearings in March. The challenge to Kasich was filed by a Marco Rubio activist and will be heard March 9. It questions the signatures collected to get Kasich on the April 26 ballot. ...

As things stand, Donald Trump is the presumptive GOP nominee. That's awful news, and depressing to contemplate. But terrible possibilities don't become less terrible if we refuse to contemplate them. Rather, they become more likely. The GOP's collective desire to look away has been a problem for months. Nearly everyone, including yours truly, believed that Trump's candidacy would exhaust itself on its own terms. There are many reasons why that hasn't happened. Chief among them: Too many people thought it was someone else's job to bell the Trumpian cat. No better evidence for this can be found than the fact...

I just heard the O'Reilly Factor where Cruz and Rubio were interviewed. The first revelation is that their immigration policies when it comes to deporting illegals is virtually identical to Trump's including the part about rounding up the 11 million illegals and deporting them. I was simply amazed. O'Reilly asked both candidates if they would deport the 11 million illegals and they both said that they would. Six months ago they were not this clear about immigration deportations. The more interesting answer was from Cruz. O'Reilly suggested that it could not be done because the illegals were entitled to the...

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said he "effectively tied" Florida Sen. Marco Rubio for second place in South Carolina's Republican primary, as the two senators were separated by a little more than 1,000 votes, but both finished far behind front-runner Donald Trump. Despite only winning one of the early voting states so far, Cruz believes his combined results show he is the "only one strong conservative remaining in this race who can win" the Republican presidential nomination. "Our game plan from day one was do well in the first four states and consolidate conservatives to go forward into Super Tuesday," Cruz...

Ted Cruz may have placed behind Marco Rubio in South Carolina but he's spinning the primary as a bigger loss for the Florida senator. Rubio was "endorsed by a very popular governor of the state, very popular senator, very popular congressman, all the establishment circled their wagons around Marco and yet he still only came in second after his campaign promised everyone they were going to win the state," Cruz said on CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday. Cruz was referring to endorsements that Rubio received from Gov. Nikki Haley, Sen. Tim Scott and Rep. Trey Gowdy. Cruz added: "You...

Republican presidential candidate Florida Senator Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)79% declared, "this has become a three-person race, and we will win the nomination" and "the children of the Reagan Revolution are ready to assume the mantle of leadership" in a speech after the South Carolina primary on Saturday. Rubio, after congratulating fellow candidate Donald Trump on his win, declared, "[A]fter tonight, this has become a three-person race, and we will win the nomination." After praising former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who suspended his campaign earlier in the night, Rubio said, "Tonight here in South Carolina, the message is pretty clear. This...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Hoping to rebound from New Hampshire's crushing fifth-place finish, Sen. Marco Rubio's campaign is preparing to finish third in South Carolina. "To leave here in the top tier would a really nice comeback," a Rubio aide said, adding that some internal polling suggested it could even be a close race for second. But critics - especially the Ted Cruz campaign - suggest that spinning a third-place finish into a "victory" is questionable, especially after Rubio netted the endorsements of Gov. Nikki Haley, Sen. Tim Scott and U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy. "He's got the top three endorsements in...