Trump says Rubio needs to exit the race so he can take on Cruz 'one-on-one'


Donald Trump used his Super Saturday victory speech to suggest it's "probably time" for Marco Rubio to drop out of the Republican presidential race.
"You have to be able to win, and he has not been able to win," Trump told supporters in Florida. Several networks projected Trump as the winner of the Kentucky Republican caucus and Louisiana GOP primary, and he came in second behind Ted Cruz in the Maine and Kansas Republican caucuses. "He should do well in Maine," Trump remarked. "It's very close to Canada, let's face it." Trump said he would "love to take on Ted one-on-one, that would be so much fun," adding that Cruz won't be able to win in "New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, or California."
Trump also said he's the only candidate able to defeat Hillary Clinton, and mocked her recent statement that she would make "America whole again," calling it "terrible. I think she means we're in a hole. We're in a deep hole, and we're trying to dig our way out." He later said that "any hate group is no good with Trump, I totally denounce," and accused 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney of trying to "destroy" the unity of the Republican Party.
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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