Mr. T. Lets get to it. Now Shepard Smith reporting live from the fox news desk. First from the fox news desk, not trump its not working. Not only are attacks on donald trump failing to make a big dent, but analysts say by this time next week. Donald trump could be almost mathematically unstoppable. Thats as a series of new polls shows donald trump steam rolling his competition into critical states. First, florida where they vote next tuesday. Theres a new cnnorc survey out that shows donald trump is crushing marco rubio in his home state by 16 points, 40 to 24 . Another new poll from Quinnipiac University look at this it has trump with an even bigger lead, topping marco rubio by more than a 2 to 1 margin. And in ohio where they too vote tuesday, a new survey from quinnipiac shows trump beating the states popular governor, john kasich, 38 to 32 . John kasich says hell leave the race if he doesnt carry his home state. And a loss in florida would likely be a final blow to marco rubios very much struggling campaign. Last night rubio did not win a single delegate in the four states where they voted. Look at the new score card here. Donald trump leads with 458 delegates. Wins in florida and ohio would give trump more than half of what he needs to clinch the whole nomination. Ted cruz picked up some delegates last night by winning in idaho, but hes still about 100 short of the frontrunner trump. And even though ted cruz won in conservative idaho, his crushing loss to donald trump in mississippi could be a big blow. And remember when remember when cruz called the south his firewall. From here on out, the primaries move mostly to more moderate states in the midwest and the northeast where cruz has struggled for support. Today ted cruz unveiled a surprise endorsement from his form rival carly fiorina. She spoke at a rally in miami and went directly after the frontrunner. There are other people in our party who actually are kind of horrified by donald trump. Im one of them. But heres the thing. Were not going to beat donald trump by having leaders at our party tsk tsk over our voters. We have to beat donald trump at the ballot box. The only guy who can beat donald trump is ted cruz. Well, for his part, donald trump seems so confident in his lead that hes not even holding a rally until tonight in North Carolina. After big wins last night, trump barely even attacked his rivals. Instead plugged his trump products. Twitter said it looks like a qvc show. All to take a swing at the critic mitt romney. Mitt got up, and he really shouldnt have done it. It wasnt becoming, honestly. He talked about the Water Company. Well, theres the Water Company. We sell water. And we have water. And its a very successful you know, its a private little Water Company and i supply the water foreall my places and its good. But its very good. Trump steaks, where are the steaks . Do we have steaks . We have trump steaks yes, we do. For the report the Associated Press reports you cannot buy trump steaks anymore. Instead theyre on the menu at trump resorts like the water and the wine. A staffer told the a. P. That a steak supplier the supplier of those steaks is a Company Called of all things bush brothers. Politics 2016 is fox top story. Carl cameron on it live in ft. Lauderdale. The latest numbers for donald trump are impressive by any look. Reporter they sure are. And in the era of trump politics, still anything can happen. All the candidates think they have some sort of a path, though its kind of hard to seat forest through the trees never mind the path in the forest on how they would do that. Donald trump pulled off a big night last night. The polls suggest that hes poised for a huge victory here in florida. And in ohio, you cant necessarily rule out john kasich. Home state governors tend to have the best organizations in their states. And john kasich has made it very clear he intends to win. But its going to take a heck of a surge in the next six days. As for marco rubio, it is a very very tough time. Hes actually going to have a meeting today with jeb bush, the former florida governor, the former mentor and apprentice, shall we say, had been on the outs during this campaign. It became a vicious battle between the two. We now have heard that mr. Bush plans to meet with both kasich and cruz tomorrow. Theres something afoot whereas jeb bush might be making an endorsement sometime before the florida and ohio races. It would appear as though hes going to do it in a fashion that would try to undermine donald trump. It is going to be an intense, intense week for both kasich and rubio. Kasich has said if he loses ohio hes done. Rubio has said repeatedly for the past almost a month that should he lose florida he will still continue to campaign in all 50 states, all the way to the convention if necessary. He argues hes the best person to beat Hillary Clinton. There are some polls that illustrate that. So come what may in florida in some polls it looks like it could be a blowout rubio says hes still going to continue, shep. Whats the cruz game plan today, carl . Reporter well, hes picked up the endorsement of carly fiorina. He is outwardly courting all of his rivals supporters and saying come to me come to me. Hes demonstrated that he can beat donald trump. And he makes the argument that if he were to gain the support of perhaps some of kasichs voters or rubios voters that he would be able to then consolidate the nontrump vote, take it to the convention or perhaps even come back. As you pointed out just a moment ago, the race shifts to new england and the midwest. These are states where the evangelical vote is not anywhere near like it was in for instance mississippi where its the highest in the country. And so in that kind of a situation where donald trump won mississippi and michigan, its an open question as to whether or not trump might be able to compete just as well in new england and the midwest. And that would be a really big difficult time for ted cruz. Its too soon to say that trump is unstoppable. The convention is a long way away. But the big races that make all the difference, florida and ohio, theyre only six days away. Shep . Carl, carl cameron in ft. Lauderdale. Thank you. Lets turn to the real clear politics reporter rebecca berg now on the campaign trail down in south florida as well. Rebecca, thats marco rubios state. But if youre marco rubio, what is your argument now to floridians . How do you convince people i have a chance . Well, marco rubios argument is really twofold, shep. First of all he would say that hes the only one who has the chance of beating donald trump in florida. He has the home state advanc that ted cruz would not have even if marco rubio was out of the race. And his argument is that he can win in some of these more moderate states coming up as carl cameron was mentioning. The race is going to shift a little bit. And ted cruz is very strong obviously in the south as we have seen, but maybe not as strong in some more moderate states coming up. So marco rubios argument is that he will only get stronger from this point on. But frankly, its just not looking good for him in florida right now. The polling suggests that he could lose to trump come next week. In fact thats probably the most likely outcome at this point. And so its a very tough case for him to make from an electability standpoint and from the standpoint of trying to stop trump if hes not going to be able to win his home state. It felt like trump was hosting a bat mitmitzvah last n. Did it feel like he was toying with them . It felt like with the steaks and wine and products there there was an excellent bloomberg article today about the types held by donald trump. Embers of his club in florida. Not the type of people who are voting for donald trump. Were seeing White Working Class people coming out and supporting donald trump. But he was absolutely responding to mitt romney last night, showing a little bit of his penchant to have thin skin in those responses that he made. But its very much the donald trump show right now. And part of that appeal is were seeing part of that appeal for him in floshd. They love the entertainment value that he brings. Its a very quirky state politically. Hes certainly a quirky candidate. I mentioned in the lead up to this hour, rebecca, there were exit poll stats last night that donald trump probably wont be mentioning. I guess some of that has to do with this ceiling about which everybodys speaking. Right. And so explain that. The point that senator ted cruz is making is that in a twoperson contest he would beat donald trump because they say that donald trump does have a ceiling, that there are so many republicans who would not vote for donald trump under any circumstances that hes limited. And we have seen that in the exit polling. There were about twothirds of republicans who said they would not vote for donald trump under any circumstances. And if that is the case, that does bode well for a candidate in a twoperson race like ted cruz. But we may never seen that actually in practice if it doesnt winnow to a twoperson race. My guess is the concern is not that those republicans would vote for Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton, it is the concern they just wouldnt come out and do much of anything . Right. And so part of the concern with some republicans who support john kasich or marco rubio about this race winnowing to just ted cruz and donald trump is that maybe some of the more moderate republicans would fall out of this race and not show up to the polls. Because there are still moderate republicans, especially to the john kasich end of the spectrum, who might not feel comfortable with some of ted cruzs more conservative positions. And so the question would be do they feel more strongly that they dont want trump to be the nominee or more strongly that they dislike ted cruz and thats kind of an open question. Rebecca berg from real clear politics. Com. Fun to watch. Thank you. Thank you, shem. Youve heard a lot about the importance of next weeks primaries in ohio and florida. They are important. But dont neglect North Carolina. 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So everybody has a chance to pick up some delegates. The Fox Business Network blake berman live in charlotte. Donald trump and ted cruz spending some time there, right, blake . Reporter thats exactly, shepard. Theyve been in and out of this state. Donald trump was in concord a few days ago. Here in charlotte. He will return back to North Carolina later tonight at 7 00. He host as rally in fayetteville. Just down the road from fort bragg one of the largest u. S. Military installations in all the world. Ted cruz was here yesterday. He had two events in North Carolina, one in raleigh, another one in canapolis again this greater charlotte area. Interesting looking forward you mentioned the 72 delegates on the republican side proportionately allocated as well. Also the polling has been incredibly scant here. The last poll was some three weeks ago in the middle of february. It showed donald trump up 9 points. Yesterday when we were with cruz here in the charlotte area, he told his supporters that he feels pretty good about tuesday night. North carolina right now is a Battle Ground state in this primary. We are effectively tied with donald trump in North Carolina. It is neck and neck. Reporter on the endorsement front, shepard, john kasich picked up one today from the former governor here, jim martin. The democrats have a big haul in that state, too. Reporter yeah. Thats exactly right. 72 on the republican side proportional, the democrats are 121. Youre basically talking on both sides about 2 1 2, 3 of the total amount. Hillary clinton will be here in North Carolina tomorrow. Bill clinton was here earlier this week as well. That poll they mentioned that had trump up nine a few weeks ago also had clinton up by ten. Bernie sanders as you know, shepard, there are colleges and universities, public and private, up and down this state that have been a target group of his all across the country. If he were to pull a michigantype upset, it might be with the Younger Voters at those schools all over North Carolina. Blake burrman in carolina, thanks. People in North Carolina have already cast their ballots thousands of them thanks to early voting. In ohio and especially florida where more than 1 million early votes are already in. Extra voter dates maybe more convenient. But what happens to your vote if youre yo your candidate drops out or you change your mind . What happens indeed . Thats next. Hyeah . M. Weve got allstate, right . Uhhuh. Yes. Well, i found this new thing called Allstate Quickfoto claim. Its an app. You understand that . You just take photos of the damage with your phone and upload them to allstate. Really . So you get a quicker estimate, quicker payment, quicker back to normal. I just did it. But maybe you can find an app that will help you explain this to your father. Quickfoto claims. Just another way allstate is changing Car Insurance for good. 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They say trump won 47 in the early voting, which began before he refused to disavow the former kkk leader david duke. Of course, trump quickly did disavow him. And we dont know whether any Trump Supporters would have changed their minds had he voted later. 36 states and the District Of Columbia allow early voting. Supporters argue the process helps increase the voter turnout. Lets bring in james holman the National Political correspondent for the washington post. There are plenty of people who dont like this at all. They want it all to be a one day trying to get fewer people to vote. Yeah, shep. It really could make a difference. If florida could be really close. Weve seen elections there obviously decided by a couple of hundred votes. And all of the delegates go to whoever gets the most votes. So if marco rubio comes up 300 votes short of donald trump, trump gets all 99 delegates from florida. And you mentioned 1 million votes have already been cast early. By next tuesday, Election Officials in the Sunshine State expect 2 million votes will have been cast. So it really is enough to make the difference. A lot of people voted for ben carson before he dropped out, for example. A lot of people might have voted before it became clear that ted cruz was going to campaign really hard in the state. So a lot of votes already locked up. It makes it that much harder for marco rubio to come from behind to possibly defeat donald trump. But if youre floridian who cast your ballot earlier in the carson scenario or changed your mind can you go in on next tuesday and say hey i want to change my mind. No, you cant. Thats the problem. There are a lot of people frustrated theyve cast their ballot and theres nothing they can do now. Down the road, there was thinking that Donald Trumps of course we know that in louisiana, that the exit polling suggests it may have been about the kkk reference. David duke of course someone very wellknown down in louisiana. And frankly didnt play well. But you wonder if that sort of thing if theres anything like that in the ether now for florida. Thats the thing. So i think the fox ne