Christie endorses Trump as Rubio and Trump square off for Republican nomination

While Donald Trump supporters were cramming into the Fort Worth Convention Center, The Donald picked up an endorsement from former candidate Chris Christie.

The Republican Party’s favored presidential candidate, the senator adored by the media and pundits, has apparently decided if he can’t beat Donald Trump, maybe it’s time for Marco Rubio to become Donald Trump – right down to jokes about his foe sweating. “And we’re about to turn over the conservative movement to a person that has no ideas of any substance on the important issues”, Rubio said in an interview Friday on “CBS This Morning”. Rubio asked a crowd Friday morning, smiling fans behind him. “He’s talked a lot about the veterans, I’m really taking his word for what he’s saying and I hadn’t heard what Rubio is saying about it, but I’m there still you know”, Warren said.

Rubio essentially called Trump a phony when Trump argues that he is for American workers and little guys.

“If he hadn’t inherited $200 million, you know where Donald Trump would be?”

During his Twitter routine, Rubio also mocked Trump for “having a meltdown” during commercial breaks at the debate, and said Trump was sweating, pacing and gesturing wildly.

Referring to Trump’s proposal to build a wall along the Mexican border, Rubio added: “If he builds the wall the way he built Trump Towers, he’ll be using illegal immigrant labor to do it”. He said he would continue to gain support on Tuesday and predicted a win in his home state of Florida on March 15. Donald Trump has never punched anyone in the face.

Meanwhile, Rubio leads Trump, 39 to 29 percent, among Republicans who most want someone who shares their values. Early in the campaign season pundits expected Trump, a twice-divorced New Yorker, to not be able to connect with religious voters. “He meant to say lightweight, but he spelled it L-E-I-G-H-T, so he got that wrong”.

The remaining five Republican presidential candidates took to the stage Thursday at the University of Houston in the final debate ahead of the all-important Super Tuesday primaries next week. It’s like Rubio finally got invited to eat at the adults’ table on Thanksgiving Day.

When the extended clip of Rubio that aired on CNN was over, it cut back to the studio, where host John Berman said, “Oh. My”.