Get ready to rumble.
Via The Daily Mail:
Donald Trump called on Florida Sen. Marco Rubio to drop out of the presidential race on Saturday night after splitting the day’s primaries and caucuses with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
‘I think Marco Rubio had a very bad night,’ Trump said in a post-election press conference, ‘and personally I’d call for him to drop out of the race. I think it’s time.’
‘He has not been able to win,’ Trump said, adding: ‘I want Ted one-on-one, okay?’
Cruz, the hard-charging Texas tea partier, was declared the caucus winner in Kansas and Maine early in the evening.
‘He should do well in Maine because it’s very close to Canada! ‘Let’s face it!’ Trump joked, referring to Cruz’s place of birth.
Trump dismissed his two losses, saying he had ‘spent two hours in one place and two-and-a-half hours in the other.’
The Donald won Louisiana’s primary election and then built a lead in Kentucky that seemed to dwindle by the minute before he squeaked out a win.
When a CNN anchor on the country club’s TVs announced that Kentucky belonged to Trump, a cheer went up and an announcer gave reporters a two-minute warning.
Rubio finished third in three states; Ohio Gov. John Kasich took the bronze medal in Maine.
Saturday’s voting leaves Rubio on the ropes, desperately needing a second win to add to his lackluster Minnesota victory five days ago in order to bolster his insistence that he’s not quitting.
Florida’s primary, a winner-take-all contest on March 15, has become a must-win race for the man Trump dismisses daily as ‘Little Marco.’
Trump took credit Saturday night for a surge of ‘millions of millions of people’ voting in Republican primaries so far, compared with totals in 2008 and 2012.