A fundraising message from a pro-Marco Rubio super PAC is doubling as a CliffsNotes guide to the Harry Potter series, with Rubio cast as the boy wizard and Donald Trump as Voldemort.
Written by super PAC leaders Warren Tompkin and Jon Lerner, the letter was sent on Sunday, one day after Trump won the South Carolina Republican primary and Rubio came in second, slightly ahead of Ted Cruz. Although Trump trounced the competition, Tompkin and Lerner wrote the "media speculation that Donald Trump is unstoppable is flatly wrong," Politico reports.
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