Primary Updates: Rubio Vows To Press On If He Loses Florida
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 thats 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 cant 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
Maybe he figures, if Christie can bear the humiliation and embarassment of campaigning with Trump...
FBaggins
(26,756 posts)If he loses by double digits in his home state... it doesn't matter whether or not he drops out. He's done.
captainarizona
(363 posts)Oblivian! The donor class must be paying him big $$$
Roland99
(53,342 posts)JFKDem62
(383 posts)Cavallo
(348 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)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
(135,425 posts)Renew Deal
(81,869 posts)riversedge
(70,272 posts)Renew Deal
(81,869 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)The section I posted here is "Presidents who won the election." There is another section for candidates who did not win.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Scalia Supremes simply denied him the damn job.
Cavallo
(348 posts)44 presidents.
44 : 9 = 4.8
Renew Deal
(81,869 posts)Last edited Tue Mar 15, 2016, 04:57 PM - Edit history (1)
What do they mean by home state? Birth place? That shouldn't count.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)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
(81,869 posts)MowCowWhoHow III
(2,103 posts)TlalocW
(15,388 posts)Doesn't want to go back to work in the senate.
TlalocW
hibbing
(10,103 posts)I'm thirsty.
Peace
RandySF
(59,092 posts)maxsolomon
(33,360 posts)He has to say that today. The cold shower from the RNC comes tomorrow morning.
Cruz will become the Establishment Hope!
oberliner
(58,724 posts)He can win Ohio and then become the establishment hope.
MADem
(135,425 posts)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
(6,378 posts)Seedersandleechers
(3,044 posts)Just saying.
book_worm
(15,951 posts)Renew Deal
(81,869 posts)Maybe, maybe not.
forest444
(5,902 posts)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
(58,724 posts)Fourth place seems to be where he is at.
forest444
(5,902 posts)Can't wait for the clamor in Cleveland to start.
Renew Deal
(81,869 posts)1939
(1,683 posts)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
(17,469 posts)sofa king
(10,857 posts)Last edited Tue Mar 15, 2016, 09:32 PM - Edit history (1)
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.