10 things you need to know today: February 22, 2016

Cruz and Rubio battle for anti-Trump votes, Denny Hamlin wins the Daytona 500, and more

Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio talk after a Republican presidential primary debate, Jan. 28, 2016, in Des Moines, Iowa
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1. Cruz and Rubio jostle over who can beat Trump

Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio battled on Sunday over which GOP candidate offered the most viable alternative to billionaire Donald Trump, the decisive winner in South Carolina's Saturday primary. Rubio, who edged out Cruz for second place, attracted 3,000 supporters at a rally in Tennessee, the biggest crowd of his campaign. "Last night was truly the beginning of the real Republican primary," Rubio said on CNN. Cruz, who won the Iowa caucuses, said, "If you want to beat Donald Trump, you've got to go with the only campaign that has demonstrated that they can beat Donald Trump."

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.