Rubio, Now a Zombie Candidate, Under Pressure to Quit
March 9, 2016
There was plenty to take away from the Republican presidential primary results from Michigan and Mississippi, the two biggest states on the ballot last night. Donald Trump won big, John Kasich remained viable, and Ted Cruz came through with enough votes to plausibly claim that he is still the best anti-Trump candidate left in the field.
But the real news is that with his home state primary only a week away, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio looks like a dead candidate walking.
Michigan and Mississippi were the two biggest prizes on the Republican ballot Tuesday, with 59 and 40 delegates, respectively. Both states require a candidate to collect a minimum of 15 percent of the statewide vote to earn any delegates at all, and with the overwhelming majority of votes counted in both states by late Tuesday night Rubio wasn’t even within shouting distance of the cutoff in either.
As of late Tuesday, it was impossible to know how the Florida senator would do in Idaho, Hawaii and the Northern Mariana Islands, which also held primaries Tuesday, but none of the three offered the freshman senator a chance to offset his losses in Michigan and Mississippi just a week before a crucial vote in his home state.
Rubio’s performance last night will intensify calls from other GOP candidates – particularly Cruz – for him to drop out of the race entirely.
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