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Delegates. marco rubio, can he not win on super tuesday and still win say on march 15th? what does the path look like for marco rubio? >> rubios plan is to win enough delegates of the state, hes been in oklahoma, hes been in tennessee. in the suburbs where the more affluent voters are. where he can pick up enough votes to win, peel off a few delegates for each state. and thats his campaign. that keeps him in the game, march 15th is when florida votes, winner take all. if he wins that, hes back i...

That school with a degree. >> senator, on tuesday, how do you make a claim to the nomination [ inaudible ]? >> we are in the proportional part of the process. as long as we are picking up delegates. the bottom line people need to focus in on takes 1,237 delegates to be the nominee of the republican party. donald trump will never have 1 thoi 237 delegates. it will not happen and i will be in this race as long as and as hard as i need to be to make sure it never happens and i get the delegates. >>...

Tax returns any minute now. this is a live picture in kenesaw, georgia, where rubio is speaking before a football field of supporters. moments ago, he talked to reporters and made this prediction about this nomination fight. >> my pickup truck and drive around the country like i did when he ran for the senate. donald trump will never be the nominee. it takes 1,237 delegates to be the nominee of the republican party. donald trump will never have that many delegates. >> on tuesday, georgia will ha...

Fix, contributor and founder of the "washington post" fix blog and here within in columbia, south carolina, my friend, joy reed, national correspondent. first to you, lets talk about the quinnipiac poll. how real is that? i mean, if rubio doesnt win florida, its pretty much curtains, isnt it? >> yeah, i would say andrea, its a problem for marco rubio, but its problem for anybody not named donald trump. if donald trump wins florida, its going to be very hard, i think, to stop him. florida gives o...

Isnt that a little ding. huckabee won iowa, look what happened. santorum won iowa, look what happened? pat robertson won iowa, look what happened? does it matter. he will take on new hampshire, south carolina and man, oh, man, what can happen then. >> right. i think that is a very good point. to put everything in perspective the combined delegates allocated from iowa and new hampshire are 53. you need 1237 to secure the nomination. that is 53 compared to say super tuesday headlined by florida, o...

Party beats hillary clinton. >> but in fairness, donald trump tweets out polls about an independent run by himself. thats not tamping down speculation. >> but when asked about it hes been very clear about it. look, your question is am i confident that hes going to either be the nominee or support the nominee? yes. >> okay. so reports at this point in time, and this is the first debate where youve really faced this, talk about whether theres going to be a brokered or a contested convention for re...

Capitol. private off the record gathering. it started out about logistics for the convention in cleveland but about two hours in near the end of the conversation it devolved as many attendees describe it to me. it became a conversation of angst and what to do if it actually had a convention where no one had enough delegates. what would be the second ballot strategy. how would the establishment take control. that was the discussion. so the numbers were talking about here, you need somewhere a lit...

Lets get some political analysis now from experts. we have cnns senior political e have rebecca berg of real clear politics and jeffrey toobin. so nia, this idea thats getting a lot of traction is the idea that republicans could have a brokered or contested convention. that we could get to the point where no one has enough delegates to seize it. this is not something that happens everyday. >> it happens in a lot in the fantasies of political nerds but not in reality. only three times, 1948 with ...

Buckle up, we just got the official map for the road to the republican nomination. and its going to be a bumpy ride. today the rnc laid out how the states will award their delegates in 2016. there are 2,500 delegates up for grabs in total, and the magic number to get the nomination is going to be 1,237. 5% of that total will be at stake in iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, and nevada, the early states, more than 55% of the total are going to be up for grabs in the month of march. by the end o...

Economists were predicting. this is tied to the rate of inflation just released this morning by the bureau of labor statistics. with a lower inflation rate comes a slight increase in the social security checks. 56 million recipients of social security see the checks going up just a little bit and it is about half of what last years increase was. so its down considerably. this is among the lowest increases since automatic annual adjustments were adopted back in 1975 and reflects very low inflatio...