Primary Updates: Rubio Vows To Press On If He Loses Florida

[brooklynite]

Source: BuzzFeed

Marco Rubio says he plans continue campaigning in Utah even if he loses the Florida primary to Donald Trump on Tuesday.

“Tomorrow our plan is to be in Utah campaigning irrespective of tonight,” Rubio told WDBO on Tuesday. “It would be a lot better to go to Utah being the winner of the Florida primary. It would give us a tremendous amount of momentum. It would give us 99 delegates, and that’s the way we want to do it tonight.”

The Florida senator — who said polls were “out of control” and “way out of whack” — said he was not going to lose by 20 points to Trump, as many polls show.

Still, said Rubio, “I can’t guarantee a win, we expect to win tonight.”

Read more: http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeednews/live-updates-we-are-not-exaggerating-tuesdays-primaries-will?utm_term=.soEd3AAJ0E&sub=4181314_8223273#.aoZwokk0Vr

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Maybe he figures, if Christie can bear the humiliation and embarassment of campaigning with Trump...

[FBaggins]

1. I think he's holding out hope that the loss will be close

If he loses by double digits in his home state... it doesn't matter whether or not he drops out. He's done.

[captainarizona]

2. press on to where?

Oblivian! The donor class must be paying him big $$$

[Roland99]

3. Is this like a member of Opus Dei self-flagellation?

[JFKDem62]

4. It is no longer an election. Instead a GOP contest: who can humiliate himself the most. nt

[Cavallo]

5. I wonder if any president ever lost their own state.

[Miles Archer]

10. List of major-party United States presidential candidates who lost their home or resident state

James K. Polk
Zachary Taylor
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Woodrow Wilson
Richard Nixon
George H. W. Bush
George W. Bush
George W. Bush

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_major-party_United_States_presidential_candidates_who_lost_their_home_or_resident_state

[MADem]

12. Didn't Al Gore lose TN? Or am I misremembering? nt

[Renew Deal]

23. He never became president

[riversedge]

27. So, ?? the post above referred to presidential candidates.

[Renew Deal]

28. Where does it say that?

[Miles Archer]

29. Go to the URL I provided.

The section I posted here is "Presidents who won the election." There is another section for candidates who did not win.

[MADem]

35. Well, that's because a certain a-hole was "selected not elected." He WON the job, the

Scalia Supremes simply denied him the damn job.

[Cavallo]

16. Thank you!

44 presidents.

44 : 9 = 4.8

[Renew Deal]

22. Lincoln won Illinois both times.

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What do they mean by home state? Birth place? That shouldn't count.

[Miles Archer]

30. The information I provided was in a table...home states and borth states.

Go to the URL I provided and it's all broken down. George W Bush, for example, lost Connecticut (birth state) twice, and won Texas twice.

[Renew Deal]

21. In a primary...

[MowCowWhoHow III]

6. He must be getting paid top dollar to keep swallowing the humiliations

[TlalocW]

7. Man, he really, really

Doesn't want to go back to work in the senate.

TlalocW

[hibbing]

8. President Obama knows exactly what he's doing

I'm thirsty.



Peace

[RandySF]

9. That'll change within 24 hours.

[maxsolomon]

17. ^^^THIS^^^

He has to say that today. The cold shower from the RNC comes tomorrow morning.

Cruz will become the Establishment Hope!

[oberliner]

19. Don't forget Kasich

He can win Ohio and then become the establishment hope.

[MADem]

11. No insight into this GOP race, really (I'm just amazed at it all), but here's my guess...

If he stays in, he's being PAID to stay in, to be the Attack Dog he said he didn't want to be. To call out Trump, to draw fire, to ball Trump up so he's got to fight on several fronts.

The party has likely promised him something--visibility, a post of honor, something that enhances his stature in the out-years; and who knows, maybe some rich so-and-so has said "I'll pay your bills if you stay in."

[CincyDem]

13. Thank f'ing god. What would we do without Lil' Marco to kick around anymore ? lol n/t

[Seedersandleechers]

14. Ha! He's getting paid to "press on"

Just saying.

[book_worm]

15. He still thinks he could be the nominee from a contested convention.

[Renew Deal]

25. Cruz-Rubio may have enough delegates to steal if from Trump

Maybe, maybe not.

[forest444]

18. He expects Trump to be assassinated, and Cruz to be ruled ineligible.

Narco Rubio's owned by Paul Singer (who recently appointed himself Rubio's campaign finance chairman). That scum doesn't buy into any game that isn't already fixed for him.

[oberliner]

20. He would still lose to Kasich in that scenario

Fourth place seems to be where he is at.

[forest444]

31. Good.

Can't wait for the clamor in Cleveland to start.

[Renew Deal]

24. Keeping all four in gives Trump the best chance of winning outright

http://prospect.org/article/losing-ohio-improves-trump%E2%80%99s-chances-win-nomination

[1939]

26. No, keeping all four in

Means that Trump will have a plurality and not a majority at the convention. Any one of the four could emerge the winner at the convention as the delegates begin to move. Rubio will have enough delegates to be a factor at the convention.

[Kelvin Mace]

32. He will be out by the weekend

[sofa king]

33. Three possibilities, and a fourth certainty:

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1) Rubio is lying in order to project confidence and appear presidential;

2) Rubio is staying in it because he's been privately assured that the nomination will be stolen from Trump at the convention;

3) Rubio knows the story of George Wallace in '72 and he's staying in it just in case Trump catches a bullet.

All three possibilities can be true at once, of course, and all of them are subservient to the overriding and painfully obvious fourth reason, which is now that Presidential candidates can shift campaign cash to themselves without public disclosure, Rubio is paying himself thousands and thousands of dollars every extra day that he stays in it.

That's why all of those dirtballs stayed in it too long--Bush, Christie, Carson, Fiorina. They all stayed in it until donations fell below the administrative level needed to keep banking it at a net profit. So if Rubio gets spanked tonight, he still won't drop out until he's cashed all the checks that are still in the mail--and he surely spammed Florida with donor mail all last week, so right now there are a lot of paychecks still in the mail.

Disgusting, but what else can we expect from Republicans?

Edit: Four hours later, I have proven myself to be full of shit. Can't win 'em all. Said Marco.

[tanyev]

34. He hardly shows up for his job as Senator, but refuses to give up on this lost cause.