The strongest conservative in the race. And trump winning louisiana primary and the caucus that was held in kentucky. Last night, donald trump calling on marco rubio to drop out of this race. Hoping for a oneonone battle with ted cruz. I would love to take on ted oneonone. That would be so much fun. Because ted cant win new york. He cant win new jersey, cant win pennsylvania. He cant win california. I want ted oneonone. Meanwhile, marco rubio doing no better than third yesterday, falling way behind in the delegate count. A first place finish here in florida is now even more critical for the senator. Just 87 delegates now separate donald trump and ted cruz. Look at the scoreboard here. Trump leading with 392. Marco rubio at a distant third with 130. Then we look at what happened on the left for the democrats. Bernie sanders winning caucuses in both nebraska and kansas last night. While Hillary Clinton won a decisive victory in the louisiana primary. But the Democratic Delegate count is still pretty lopsided. Take a look at this. This morning, Hillary Clinton leading with 1,092 delegates. Bernie sanders, less than half of that, 477. They will be debating tonight test. Test. I think realistically, the strategy of the Cruz Campaign is to put in enough resources and time to keep a lid on marco rubio. Essentially, because if trump takes the 99 delegates in florida, it does potentially set up this twoman race that ted cruz and donald trump, as you heard trump say, are angling for. The two of them head to head. Marco rubio will be fighting very hard to make sure that doesnt happen. His campaign guaranteeing a win in florida, but it makes your state, where you are right now, so, so important. Next week. And i dont know how i get down to florida with you, pal. Im pretty jealous of you. Im stuck in d. C. If you need me to book travel for you, i can do it. I have become a master at booking quick flights. Although youre pretty better at booking quick flights that i am. We welcome visitors here. Ill save a seat for you. Hallie jackson reporting out of d. C. As i mentioned, donald trump is calling on marco rubio, and as hallie talked about there, to drop out of the republican race. This is after rubio finished third in three contests and fourth in another. This morning, truch was asked if it wouldnt be better if he didnt have to go oneonone against senator ted cruz. Take a look. I would like, a lot of other places, i dont think ted can do well there. I would prefer, it cleans it up. I want to bring in nbc embed with the Trump Campaign, ali vitali joining us live from palm beach, where donald trump is this morning before attending a Golf Tournament later today in miami. So, isnt the conventional wisdom that rubio staying in the race at this point actually h p helps donald trump . Well, that is the going thought process. That as long as the establishment candidates, and that kinds of the nontrump candidates alt this point stay together, theyre splitting whatever percentage of the vote isnt going to donald trump. Where that knowledge seems to break down as trump has mentioned in the past, when other candidates drop out, its not a clean going of the voters to the other candidates. Some trickle batrump. I hear, if trump were to drop out, other candidates were appealing to them. So its not just these establishment and nonestablishment lanes were talking about. But at the same time, test. Test. Test. Puerto rico has as many delegates as New Hampshire. Rubio is expected to do well there. Over the next few days, shifting resources to florida. Plenty of stops in the tampa area and orlando tomorrow. Some critics say that rubio hadnt focused enough on florida. So far, the Rubio Campaign shoots back and says it always has been focused on florida. You heard hallie mention the Cruz Campaign says its opened ten Campaign Offices here trying to make a play for florida. The Rubio Campaign shoots back and says they have yet to see that materialize. They have seven Campaign Offices throughout the state. It really will be absolutely crucial for marco rubio to do well here in florida, one of the Big Questions is will former governor jeb bush make any endorsements. And could that potentially help marco rubio if it does indeed happen. What will happen at the debate in miami this week. Might that give some boost to marco rubio, and will his super pac, conservative solutions, thats been running millions of dollars of attack ads against donald trump here, make any difference . Of course, so far, yes, disappointing night for marco rubio yesterday. His Campaign Says it is in this for the long haul and hopes to pick up delegates. The all really will come down to the march 15th primary in his home state of florida. And gabe, when we talk about early voting, its taking place state wide in florida, is that something that they feel is a bonus for them, or is this going to be a net negative for them . Well, that depends on how you look at it, thomas. It could be a detriment to rubio if you take the current polling and extrapolate that to early voting. A quinnipiac poll has him down 16 points. Another has him down seven poins. Already, more than half a million republican primary voters have voted early or absentee here in florida. So it could be that donald trump already has a lot of votes in the bank. The other thing, thomas, is i spoke with one voter yesterday. She was a very interesting story for her. She had voted absentee for jeb bush back when he was still in the race before he suspended his campaign. Now she feels that her vote is wasted. She supports marco rubio now, but of course, its too late. So quyes, the fact that so Many Republican primary voters here, a good chunk of the electorate have already voted here in florida, that could potentially be a detriment to marco rubio, but well have to wait and see. Yeah, maybe people can take some comfort if they did vote for bush if he comes out with an endorsement between noun and the 15th. Gabe gutierrez in jacksonville. Thank you. I appreciate it. Time to go inside the numbers from Super Saturday. So take a look at this. Heres where we stand after 19 states have weighed in on the republican candidates. 12 wins for trump. 6 for cruz, and 1 for rubio. But the delegate count is a lot closer than that. Donald trump now has leads over ted cruz, just by 87 delegates, and then you can see marco rubio there with 130, john kasich on the board with 35. The next week and a half is going to be key, of the eight biggest delegates haul remains in the race, five will vote in the next nine days. Joining me now to crunch the numbers and forecast the calendar, chairman of the Florida Republican party. Patricia mays, Political Writer for the miami herald, and victoria defrancesco. Its great to have you with me this sunday morning. Blaze, let me start with you about the allimportant 99 winnertakeall delegates for florida. How could that contest on the 15th really change the dynamic of this race . Especially for marco rubio, who has said he feels confident he can win this state and that will really be when his Campaign Begins . Hey, thomas. Welcome to the great state of florida. Yeah, floridas 99 delegates, its important. What that affords is an opportunity for somebody to catch up in the delegate count or if its mr. Trump, if he takes the state of florida, it allows for him to expand that lead. Florida is important. We moved our primary to march 15th, so we could be winnertakeall, and did it because florida is important. Itspriving to be so. So when we think about the path forward. Patricia, let me talk to you about what it means for the candidates other than trump to win the 1237 votes necessary for the nomination. When we thing about marco rubio giving a quote yesterday saying this map only gets better for us as we move forward in some other states. He keeps saying wait until you see this, wait until you see that. Is this basically lining up to be a contested convention over the summer . Well, that would be good news for rubio. Thats certainly what they hope. But right now, hes got a bigger problem on his hands, which is florida. And there are some Florida Political strategists woo wish he were spending more time here. I mean, he is in idaho today. He was in puerto rico last night. No one disagreed with the puerto rico trip because thats a play for florida because of floridas large puerto rican population closer to orlando. Its starting to get to the point where with all of the early votes you mentioned, already in the bank, getting to the contested convention, you know, is looking harder and harder for him. So as we think about this, victoria, if rubio were to get out of this race, do you think thats going to help cruzs delegate numbers or potentially john kasichs who says he is going to win ohio, and he is staying in this race until march 15th for that critical day. Thomas, i really do see this more as helping kasich. You know, rubio and kasich have a lot of differences, but ultimately, theyre the establishment lane candidates. One thing i want to say about florida is when we look at the numbers and see marco rubio isnt doing that well or as well as we would expect, we cant forget that florida is a very big state and aside from that, theres a really big difference between the northern part of florida and the southern part of florida. That southern part of florida is what we think of traditionally as rubio territory, where he has a very strong conservative republican cuban constituency, but the northern part of florida is trump country, is cruz country. Its more tea party conservative. Its more of the southerners that we think of in terms of other regions of the south. Going forward, we shouldnt be too shocked to see if marco rubio loses florida, because of those distinctions within the state. When we think about the passion that is behind the candidates, that is donald trump as the outsider and look at the math, i want to read this stunning quote a woman gave to the New York Times saying theres nothing short of trump shooting my daughter in the street and my grandchildren, nothing and nobody that is going to dissuade me from voting for trump. Why do you think he has passionately ignited so many people who would Say Something that extreme about how confident they are in their vote for him . I would say that mr. Trump supporters are very passionate. So is all of the candidates very passionate. I think thats one of the reasons youre seeing record turnout on the republican side. Mr. Trump is a factor in that absolutely, but what you notice is all of the increase in voters coming to the polls arent necessarily voting for mr. Trump. Theyre voting for all of the candidates. Were seeing a lot of enthusiasm on the republican side. Youre not seeing that on the democrat side. That will definitely bode well for us this november. And patricia, if the past is a great indicator and looking at the state of florida in the general election and donald trump is a candidate and say hk hik were the candidate, how do you think it would go . Who would carry the state . I think it would be tight. Trump is a well known figure, especially in south florida. Hes got four properties he owns between miamidade and palm beach counties. Another three buildings that bear his name. This is the biggest source of revenue for him in terms of his businesses, just his single biggest revenue producer is the trump doral resort where hes going to appear today apparently as part of this Golf Championship to give out the trophy. So i dont think he should be underestimated in a general election. Despite Hillary Clintons longstanding ties to florida and the fact that she is expected to carry the state on primary on march 15th. All right, victoria, the last word. If these two candidates, Hillary Clinton and donald trump, are the general election matchup, what do you think that first debate is going to be like . Its going to be raucous and wild, i can tell you that much. I think well see Hillary Clinton try to drill down into the issues with regards to florida, we know it was one of the states that was hardest hit by the recession. Florida also being the swing state, its not solidly democrat or republican, so shes going to try to appeal to that middle. So its fun. 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But he won latinos in texas by 42 . And her Campaign Says that 315,000 texas latino votes for clinton far exceeded the number sanders got from them combined in colorado and nevada. Joining us now is Hillary Clintons Campaign Director of the latino vote, lorella. Good to have you with us. As we look at the primaries and it seems split on the candidates, and they have options that they like, theres this generational split between the two, between clinton and Bernie Sanders, so strategically, what is the Clinton Campaign doing to try to thwart sanders momentum . Well, Hillary Clinton has been fighting for latinos for her whole life. Youre talking about 40 years, history with this community, starting in 1972, registering latino voters in the state of texas. All the way to today when shes talking about the issues and how important it is to break barriers so the latino families and individuals can get ahead. And stay ahead, and so this is who she is. In florida, specifically, were doing we are with our community, which is so critical. Yesterday, we launched a caravan with Puerto Ricans and dominicans going around orlando, carrying her message, delivering her message, by bringing the moussic, by bringing the pamphlets and talking about the issues she cares about. She has this history with the community. They know who she is, that she has fought for us. Thats what we have been doing. So we know what the rhetoric has been like on the right. And seeing how that is helping campaigns like a donald trump. Yesterday, i had an opportunity to speak with a group of clinton supporters here in florida. I asked one of them as we look down the line and potentially to the general, what it would be like to go up against donald trump. Take a listen. I think i want to see her go up against donald trump. Why . Because i think that 30 of republicans are not going to a National Election win. And we see a guy behind you, i dont know if you can see this. Hes making a t with his hands, i think hes a trump supporter. Trying to get his message out that he supports trump. How would they do in a debate against each other. Hell stand there and call her names and shell talk about substantive things. So it will be kind of lopsided. You think lopsided because she wouldnt go below the belt, so to speak . I certainly hope not. Certainly hope not, but lets talk about that, because if that is the contest, and thats the matchup, lorella, do you think Hillary Clinton can stay above the fray against donald trump and hold an intellectual high ground or is she going to have to get in the mud like we have seen marco rubio do . You have seen her all along. She talks about the issues that matter. Shes in there because shes fighting for families. Shes not just trying to make headlines. When i think about the republican and democratic race down the road, even though we first have to win our florida primary and all the primaries we have left, you know, the Republican Party isnt speaking to me. The Republican Party isnt speaking to latino families. I spent 14 years of my life as an undocumented american in the united states. And this will be the first time i get to vote in an election, and i will be casting my vote for her. But when i think about the way that they are talking about us and our families and our contributions in the united states, i feel insulted. So that mobilizes me. That makes me want to get up and fight harder to make su