Rubio's rocky road ahead

When asked, “Where will you win?” on ABC’s “This Week,” Rubio pointed to his home state.

“When we get to these winner-take-all states, we have to start winning, because they award all their delegates to one person,” he said. Florida, then, is a must win. “I think that’s true for everyone in this race. And it’s always been true. And we feel real good about Florida, especially now that the race has narrowed.”…

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“By March 15, 26 states or territories will have voted, and Rubio does not plan to win any of them,” wrote Cruz campaign chief strategist Jason Johnson in a memo. “Almost 50 percent of the delegates will have already been allocated; Rubio will win almost none, and then he’ll hope for resurrection in Florida. That’s an even less plausible path to victory than Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s ‘wait for Florida’ strategy in 2008.”

Notably, though, the campaign memo came on a difficult day for the Cruz campaign. The Texas senator asked Communications Director Rick Tyler, a longtime GOP operative and key member of the campaign, to resign. Tyler had apologized for circulating an inaccurate video of Rubio questioning the Bible.

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