BOISE, Idaho — “I turned down Saturday Night Live to make sure we got to Idaho in time!” Marco Rubio told a cheering crowd of about 2,000 people in an airplane hangar in west Boise on Sunday evening.

That may be a first for Idahoans: a presidential primary candidate picking them over appearing on the sketch comedy show. They usually just grimace politely whenever their state is mistaken for Iowa in conversations with outsiders. Now, they suddenly find themselves relevant in a presidential race. Tuesday’s biggest contest is in Michigan, and Mississippi may be the one that proves whether Trump’s scare in Louisiana was part of a real Cruz surge. But Idaho might well be Rubio’s last chance to show has some relevance before the race goes back to his home state.