Rubio Reacts To Super Tuesday Results: ‘Our Number’s Going Up’

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Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said Tuesday that he was fighting to expose rival Donald Trump as a con artist and was gaining support as he did so.

“Five days ago we began to explain to the American people that Donald Trump is a con artist,” Rubio told a crowd in Miami. “And in just five days we have seen the impact that it’s having all across the country. We are seeing in state after state, his number’s coming down, our number’s going up.”

Rubio, speaking as results from the Super Tuesday contests rolled in, vowed to win in his home state of Florida.

“Two weeks from tonight, right here in Florida, we are going to send the message loud and clear that the party of Lincoln and Regan and the presidency of the United States will never be held by a con artist,” Rubio said.

At the time of Rubio’s speech, he had not been projected to win any of the Super Tuesday states. Trump was projected to win Alabama, Virginia, Tennessee and Massachusetts.

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  1. Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said Tuesday that he was fighting to expose rival Donald Trump as a con artist and was gaining support as he did so.

    Yes.

    More of this please Rubio. You are dead man walking for the nomination, but go down swinging for the fences at Drumpf.

  2. Avatar for deuce deuce says:

    And So It Begins - Trump as the “Con Artist”.

    That long filed lawsuit against Trump and Trump “University” goes to court in May.
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  3. No, no, Senator Rubio, you’ve got it slightly wrong: your number’s simply up, period.

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