Marco Rubio claims Donald Trump wet his pants, reads misspelled tweets aloud

Rubio reads Trump tweets aloud at rally. — (Image credit: Michael Ciaglo-Pool/Getty Images)

In a post-debate rally in Dallas Friday morning, Marco Rubio tore into Donald Trump with the kind of schoolyard taunting that Trump himself would respect. The insults ranged from openly mocking Trump's misspelled tweets to implying the Republican frontrunner wet his pants at the debate:

It is doubtful that Trump will let the comments go unaddressed, but Rubio's newfound confidence in standing up to the GOP Goliath could indicate that this race just became a whole new ball game.

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Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.