As Super Tuesday wound down with Donald Trump posting a strong night, Marco Rubio stated that “no one” is going to call on him to back the New York businessman.
Rubio explained to Chuck Todd that Trump continues to face difficult delegate math that would prevent him from capturing a majority by the Republican convention in July. As such, he doesn’t regard Trump as much of a “frontrunner”, saying instead that a Trump nomination “means the end of the modern conservative movement and … modern Republican party.” Here is Rubio’s full quote:
Rubio had mixed results Tuesday, winning the Minnesota caucus and nearly overtaking Trump for first in Virginia, but also missing a key percentage threshold in the delegate-rich prize of Texas that left him miles behind Ted Cruz in the state. Although the total delegate allocation is still being updated across all the Super Tuesday states, Rubio looks like he’ll finish a distant third, largely because of Cruz’s Texas dominance.
Rubio is hoping he’ll post his own substantial delegate haul in his home state of Florida – a winner-take-all state, as opposed to a state that proportionally awards delegates – in two weeks.
WATCH: Marco Rubio discusses his #SuperTuesday performance with @LesterHoltNBC, @SavannahGuthrie and @chucktodd. https://t.co/vhHB7CLU2T— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) March 2, 2016
