Florida poll: Donald Trump 44%, Marco Rubio 28%

Trump said, “If it weren’t for me …” “I know you’re embarrassed – I know you’re embarrassed, but keep fighting – keep swinging, man”. Not to mention, Donald Trump threw a wrench in everyone’s plans this year.

When Rubio took a swing at Trump’s history of hiring in Florida, the frontrunner again hit back, telling his foe, “I’ve hired tens of thousands of people over my job”.

The debate in Houston, hosted by CNN and Telemundo, is their last before more than a dozen states hold contests on Tuesday, when almost half of the delegates needed to win the nomination are on the line.

“I am beating him so badly that it’s, like, embarrassing even for me to say”, Trump said.

For months it seemed that Senator Ted Cruz had a firewall in place to help stop the momentum building behind billionaire businessman Donald Trump’s march to the Republican presidential nomination.

Without attacking Trump, damaging him, and reducing his support, Rubio would have to claim nearly all of the support that’s now going to other candidates in order to prevail. “I can tell you, when I ran for Senate here in the state of Texas, I ran promising to lead the fight against amnesty, promising to fight to build a wall. You should be ashamed of yourself”. “He was firing Dennis Rodman on ‘Celebrity Apprentice'”. Trump will be center stage with Rubio to his left and Cruz to his right.

The poll of 705 likely Republican primary voters was conducted Sunday through Wednesday, It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.7 percentage points.

Rubio then picked up on a New York Times report that Trump hired foreign workers on immigration visas instead of Americans at a Florida resort.

Mr Cruz joined in the attack, pointing out Mr Trump has made donations to Democrats including former president Jimmy Carter and Vice President Joe Biden. Trump himself is no stranger to confrontation. Ted Cruz of Texas came in third with 12 percent, followed by Ohio Gov. John Kasich with 7 percent and physician Ben Carson with 4 percent. “You sit down in a back room with the parties and work this out”.

In the midst of the debate, Rubio’s campaign was quick to capitalize on the remark, posting a broken “Trump Watch” to his online campaign store for $10 that featured a photo of a shattered Rolex.