Not long after the polls closed in many Super Tuesday states, the narrative was already being cast: Marco Rubio was the night’s big loser. Several members of the media promoted it. So did the GOP frontrunner himself, Donald Trump, who spent several minutes of his election night press conference knocking his rival’s performance. “I know it was a tough night for Marco Rubio,” Trump said. “A very tough night.”

Problem was, Trump was speaking before Rubio had won his first nominating contest of the year, Minnesota’s caucuses. Before then, Trump had swept through the majority of the Super Tuesday states, winning Massachusetts, Georgia, Virginia, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Vermont. Meanwhile, Ted Cruz won his home state of Texas and neighboring Oklahoma, and ran second in many of the states Trump won. Even John Kasich, whose path to the nomination is inscrutable, grabbed second place in two states and a handful of delegates.