First, Cruz’s communications shop sent out an email headlined, “Nevada, Rubio’s Firewall: The Place Where He Would Win Big.” The email quoted a story from National Review two months ago that reported, “Marco Rubio is going all in to win Nevada. Though the Florida senator has eschewed the idea that he needs to hunker down in any particular state, his campaign has quietly and steadily poured resources into the Silver State…”
A few minutes later, Team Rubio sent out an email headlined, “Cruz Went Big In Nevada.” It pointed out the money Cruz spent in the state — $807,463, counting campaign and Super PAC — and said, “Check how much Senator Cruz and his allies invested into Nevada for the past year in the air and on the ground, only to be rejected yet again.”
In a strategy that appears insane to outsiders but seems to make perfect sense to campaign strategists, Rubio and Cruz kept shooting at each other while Trump ran away with the race. It’s unclear whether the two senators will keep it up at the Republican debate in Houston Thursday, the last debate before Super Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Trump is showing a new focus on the upcoming contests that give him an opportunity to kill Cruz in Texas, Rubio in Florida, and Kasich in Ohio, one by one.
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