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Marco Rubio: Sorry for the “silly stuff,” but Donald Trump is no joke

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In an email fundraising appeal to supporters on Super Tuesday, Sen. Marco Rubio apologized for his recent antics attacking GOP front runner Donald Trump, but remained firm in his stance that Trump is not serious and unfit for the nation’s highest office. “The media being what it is, most of my back-and-forth with Donald Trump that’s gotten attention this week is the light-hearted stuff. Believe me — I really never expected to be talking about spray tans while running for president,” said…

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Donald Trump leads GOP field with 40 percent support in new poll

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More than 70 percent of Republicans said they believe Donald Trump will be their party’s nominee. According to an NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll, 71 percent of registered Republicans said Trump will win the Republican nomination. That’s up 15 percent from just one week earlier. Trump leads the GOP pack with 40 percent support, followed by Marco Rubio at 21 percent. Ted Cruz is in third with 18 percent. According to the survey, 47 percent of Republicans said they…

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Voters in Florida begin early voting in crucial primary

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The Florida primary is weeks away, but tens of thousands of voters headed to the polls Monday for early voting in this critical contest that could make-or-break the presidential aspirations of native son, Sen. Marco Rubio. Sixteen of Florida’s 67 counties opened for early in-person voting, including some of the state’s most populated areas, with the remaining counties kicking off early voting on March 5. That’s on top of the 600,000 people who have already cast their ballots as absentees,…

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Today on Context Florida: Super Tuesday, alimony reform, death penalty over spending and the benefits of fracking

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Today on Context Florida: Tim Bryce gives us what to expect from the GOP on Super Tuesday. Donald Trump has the momentum from victories in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada. However, Bryce says this is a big contest and no primary should be taken for granted. Trump also has the advantage of holding good polling numbers going into Tuesday’s elections. Cynthia Lee Starnes has spent almost 25 years studying alimony. If she has learned anything, she says it’s that alimony…

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Chris Christie endorses Donald Trump

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie backed Donald Trump in the Republican race for president Friday, a powerhouse endorsement as the billionaire tries to beat back assaults on his character from a newly aggressive rival, Marco Rubio. Christie joined Trump at a Forth Worth news conference and praised him as “the person who will go to Washington, D.C., and be able to absolutely turn the place around.” Christie said Trump was hands-down the better choice than Rubio, a first-term senator who…

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In Florida, Donald Trump looms as cloud in Marco Rubio’s Sunshine State

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Donald Trump is a part-time Florida resident — and a full-time problem for the home-state senator running for president, Marco Rubio. Rubio is counting on Florida to reshape the Republican contest that Trump has dominated by winning three of the first four states to vote. A loss in Florida on March 15 could doom Rubio’s chances, his campaign acknowledges. “We’re going to be fine in Florida,” Rubio said aboard his campaign plane this week. “I feel very good. We know…

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Analysis: Marco Rubio finally makes move on Donald Trump — but too late?

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Marco Rubio unleashed a campaign’s worth of harsh criticism on Donald Trump in the final Republican debate before Tuesday’s crucial primaries. The problem may be that it took 10 debates and three Trump victories to get Rubio fired up. Rubio, along with most of the other GOP presidential candidates, has treated Trump with kid-gloves for months, tiptoeing around glaring questions about the real estate mogul’s business record, political ideology, brash temperament and ambiguous policy proposals. Only now, with Trump threatening…

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