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Rubio 'Finished' in Florida, Former GOP Chairman Says
« on: March 10, 2016, 08:30:53 pm »
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Rubio 'Finished' in Florida, Former GOP Chairman Says
Thursday, March 10, 2016 08:56 AM

By: Newsmax Wires

With Marco Rubio trailing Donald Trump by 23 points in the latest Fox News Florida poll, the former chairman of the state's Republican Party has declared the Senator's campaign is "pretty much finished."

Rubio is making a last stand in Florida, but many of his closest supporters have told The Washington Post they have little doubt the GOP's once rising star will likely lose in his home state to Trump.

"It's certainly a possibility that he could lose on Tuesday, and perhaps by double digits," John McKager "Mac" Stipano­vich, a Tallahassee lobbyist and Rubio supporter told the Post.

On Wednesday night, Rubio and his wife held a rally at a local football stadium in Hialeah. Members of the press quickly tweeted out photos of Rubio addressing a near empty stadium.

"Those exchanges with Mr. Trump were damaging," Al Cardenas, the former head of the state's GOP and longtime chairman of the American Conservative Union, which hosts the Conservative Political Action Conference each year, said of Rubio's personal attacks on the billionaire front-runner.

Cardenas hired the young Rubio as a lawyer in his influential Miami firm. Now, Cardenas sees little hope for a Rubio comeback.

He suggests that the Rubio attacks on Trump have not been "as damaging as the dismal results [Rubio has shown] in Kansas, Maine, and Louisiana. If you finish under 20 percent in the South, Midwest and Northeast, this far out in the campaign, you are pretty much finished."

Rubio's campaign had long suggested it had a "Florida strategy" — to lose in almost all other primaries and caucuses but win in delegate-rich Florida's winner-take-all primary. Rubio, they said, would emerge as the candidate of both the GOP establishment and the "anybody but Trump" conservatives.

But Rubio seems to have done little to implement such a strategy. According to MSNBC, Rubio opened a campaign office in the state only a month ago. Trump, meanwhile, has had field offices in Florida since November.

And, despite raising $84.6 million of his campaign and Super PACs by late February, Rubio began airing ads in his home state just a few days ago.

Rubio's campaign says he is spending the final days attending a series of fundraisers throughout the state.

A top Republican strategist who supports Rubio expressed frustration to Newsmax. "Why is he spending time now raising money for a campaign that's almost over. He won't be able to deploy those funds before Tuesday. He should be out campaigning for every last vote."

Another Rubio friend told the Post that the attacks on Trump backfired.

"Up until he started talking about how Trump has a small penis, it was brilliant," he said. "Focusing on the size of his hands or the color of his skin — that was stupid."

Meanwhile, Trump struck back, branding Rubio "little Marco." The label stuck as Rubio struggled to show gravitas.

"Beyond the appeal of his personal story, I'm not sure Marco ever grew a constituency that would carry him to the finish line," Stipanovich told the Washington Post.

Despite having the backing of the party's wealthiest donors and the overt support of Fox News. Rubio looks like he will lose Tuesday.
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Re: Rubio 'Finished' in Florida, Former GOP Chairman Says
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2016, 08:57:50 pm »
Maybe we should rename tonight the "Kamikaze Debate" since Rubio has nothing left to lose but can still damage Trump

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Re: Rubio 'Finished' in Florida, Former GOP Chairman Says
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2016, 10:10:43 pm »
Don Meredith: "Turn out the lights. the party's over.
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Re: Rubio 'Finished' in Florida, Former GOP Chairman Says
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2016, 11:06:34 pm »
Don Meredith: "Turn out the lights. the party's over.

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Re: Rubio 'Finished' in Florida, Former GOP Chairman Says
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2016, 11:11:50 pm »
Maybe we should rename tonight the "Kamikaze Debate" since Rubio has nothing left to lose but can still damage Trump

LOL!  True!

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Re: Rubio 'Finished' in Florida, Former GOP Chairman Says
« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2016, 11:18:04 pm »
Don Meredith: "Turn out the lights. the party's over.

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Re: Rubio 'Finished' in Florida, Former GOP Chairman Says
« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2016, 11:27:13 pm »
Maybe we should rename tonight the "Kamikaze Debate" since Rubio has nothing left to lose but can still damage Trump

Trump needs to just smother him in sweetness, ignore him if he gets wild and never take the bait.  Focus on the Cruz/Establishment donors and moneymen connection.  That's the kiss of death this election.
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Re: Rubio 'Finished' in Florida, Former GOP Chairman Says
« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2016, 11:36:36 pm »
Don Meredith: "Turn out the lights. the party's over.

Not so fast:

New polls show Trump's lead over Rubio shrinking in Florida


Last Updated Mar 10, 2016 12:47 PM EST

Marco Rubio trails Donald Trump in Florida by less by 10 percentage points, according to two new polls released Thursday.

A Washington Post-Univision News poll found Trump is leading Rubio by only 7 percentage points among likely voters in the Sunshine State. Thirty-eight percent said they would back Trump and 31 percent said they would support their Rubio, who has served as their senator since 2011 and previously served as speaker of the Florida House of Representatives.

Nineteen percent of GOP voters said they would back Ted Cruz and 4 percent said they would support John Kasich, governor of Ohio, who hopes to win his home state's winner-take-all primary on Tuesday.

The survey found Trump has a double-digit lead over Rubio among white voters in Florida, but Rubio, a Cuban-American, leads Trump by nearly 30 percentage points among Hispanic Republicans. Trump leads among older voters but they are about tied among those under age 50.

While the gap between the two contenders is closing ahead of the critical winner-take-all primary the state will hold on Tuesday, a majority of Florida Republicans said Rubio should drop out of the race if he doesn't win the primary. A third said he should stick it out and keep running. Rumors of Rubio dropping out before the Tuesday primary have been swirling, but it looks like he might stick it out.

The poll surveyed 450 likely GOP primary voters between March 2 and 5 with a 5.5 percentage point margin of error.

A Suffolk University poll released Thursday found Trump leading Rubio by only 9 percentage points. It found 36 percent of Florida's GOP primary voters back Trump while 27 percent back Rubio. Nineteen percent said they support Ted Cruz and 10 percent back Kasich. About 8 percent of voters said they remain undecided.

Asked if their former governor, Jeb Bush, were still in the race, about two-thirds said they wouldn't vote for him while less than a third said they would.

A plurality of voters called Cruz the most conservative out of the remaining four GOP candidates while a majority of voters called Trump the least conservative.

Nearly half of voters said Trump has the best chance of defeating Clinton in November while 19 percent said the same for Cruz, 15 percent said the same for Rubio, 4 percent said the same for Cruz and 10 percent were undecided.

The poll surveyed 500 likely Republican primary voters between March 7 and 9 with a 4.4 percentage point margin of error.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/marco-
rubio-trails-donald-trump-in-florida-by-less-than-10-points/

Both polls are within the margin of error.
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Re: Rubio 'Finished' in Florida, Former GOP Chairman Says
« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2016, 11:52:51 pm »
Many polls as of today shows Trumps lead shrinking into the single digits. And as of late he underperforms the polls, so anything is possible still. I think tonights debate could be a difference maker. But Rubio is going to have to act like he really wants the job, by being presidential, and I think he learned his lesson from the last debate to stay above the insults.
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