Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Rubio Suffers Political Meltdown One Week Before Must-Win Florida
  Bloomberg
 March 8, 2016


After finishing second in South Carolina and Nevada, the Florida senator took off the gloves and directly challenged Donald Trump, first on the debate stage and then in a zinger-filled series of campaign stops in which he hammered the front-runner as a “con artist” unfit for the White House and even mocked his “spray tan.”
But Rubio failed to pick up a single delegate in Mississippi or Michigan on Tuesday, placing dead last with single digits in both states and disappointing the elite Republicans who rallied to his side as a way to block Trump from winning the nomination. He placed a distant third in Idaho and Hawaii.




Trump Beats Back Attacks, Tightening Hold on Republican Race 
 BLOOMBERG
March 8, 2016 — 10:43 PM PST




  • Victories show breadth of Trump's appeal to primary voters
Donald Trump beat back a barrage of attacks led by the last Republican presidential nominee and scored major victories in two primaries on Tuesday, strengthening his bid to win the party’s nomination and throwing Marco Rubio’s political future into doubt.

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