WASHINGTON (AP) – The Latest on the 2016 presidential campaign as candidates in both parties look ahead to Super Tuesday, the biggest single-day haul of delegates on the election calendar (all times local):
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Whatever the polls, Marco Rubio insists that Donald Trump won’t be the Republican presidential nominee. No way, no how.
But the Florida senator – publicly confident but still trailing the 2016 front-runner – also feels compelled to spell out a doomsday scenario for his party if Trump rolls on to victory.
Rubio tells CBS’ “Face the Nation” that if Trump wins the nomination, “it will split us and splinter us in a way that we may never be able to recover and the Democrats will be joyful about it.”