Marco Rubio needs to study insult comedy from a master, President Obama

“Are you from Mexico?”

The senator brushed them off as the crowd roared over them. Then he looked in front of the stage and asked a woman, “You have a problem?”

Reflecting the votes of state Republican and Democrat party members, the delegates pledge support for the candidates in the party nomination process.

Cruz warned that the “Trump train” could become “unstoppable” if he rolls to big victories Tuesday.

Marco Rubio’s campaign warned that a poor showing during Super Tuesday would mean an effective end to his run. He wrote of an “underside” and “fringe element” of the party, concluding, “I leave the Reform Party to David Duke, Pat Buchanan and Lenora Fulani. A win in Texas is very simple: It is winning Texas”, Cruz said.

The crossfire between Trump and establishment Republicans threatens to rip the party apart at a time when it will need to generate momentum behind a prospective nominee, a prospect that concerns some Republican strategists looking ahead to the nominating convention in July.

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Rubio went further. “We can not be a party who refuses to condemn white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan”, Rubio told a Virginia rally.

In a phone-in interview with NBC’s “Today” show, the real estate mogul was asked about earlier remarks in interviews where he had seemed to stop short of disavowing Duke.

Cruz joined in on the attacks, blasting Trump for his historical support of Planned Parenthood and late-term abortion rights, his promise to “stay neutral between Israel and the Palestinians”, and his “longtime support of expanding Obamacare into Bernie Sanders-style socialized medicine, putting the government in charge of your health care, putting government bureaucrats into a position to ration your care, especially that of seniors”.

Clinton re-tweeted Sanders’ message.

Trump holds commanding leads in many Super Tuesday states, with the exception of Cruz’s home state of Texas, a dynamic that puts tremendous pressure on Rubio and Cruz as they try to outlast each other and derail him.

Clinton turned her attention to the Republican field, all-but-ignoring rival Sanders from campaign events in MA on Monday. “It really undermines our fabric as a nation”.

“If Trump does well (on Tuesday) I suspect it will be extremely hard for any of the other candidates to overcome him at that point”, Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, told Xinhua. Oklahoma’s primary is Tuesday, one of several contests on “Super Tuesday”.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz is focusing his efforts on his home state, which offers 155 of the roughly 600 delegates at stake for Republicans Tuesday.