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So, it'll just grow back, then? Marco Rubio senses SWEET VICTORY just ahead.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/marco-rubio-primary-calls-drop-out-220318
Battered Rubio vows race ‘only gets better for us’
Rivals call on the Florida senator to drop out after he took a shellacking on Saturday night.
By Sarah Wheaton
03/06/16 12:10 AM EST
Saturday night was not kind to Marco Rubio. The Florida senator, badly trailing Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, lost every state and even failed to pick up delegates in some of the contests.
Despite the dismal news, Rubio offered a rosy picture of the race going forward, especially in the winner-take-all Florida primary.
“We’re going to win Florida, and you’ll find out on March 15 how confident we are,” Rubio said, in Spanish, to supporters in San Juan, Puerto Rico, which holds its primary on Sunday. “Tonight we will have more delegates than we did last night,” Rubio promised. “This map only gets better for us.” Cruz’s campaign, however, said it’s all but over for Rubio.
“It’s devastating. The Florida-or-bust strategy hasn’t worked in the past and it won’t work this time,” Cruz’s spokeswoman Catherine Frazier said. “Cruz continues to amass delegates as conservatives rally behind him and gets closer and closer to making this a two-man race between him and Trump.”