Mitt Romney cuts get-out-the-vote robocalls for Marco Rubio

“What I meant by that was in African-American communities, you have people who are living in desperation, often being abused by white police officers”, Sanders said.

On Saturday, Clinton won in Louisiana, the biggest prize of the night, but Sanders won in Kansas and Nebraska.

Even though he later won Puerto Rico’s primary Sunday, this week is still Rubio’s final stand.

The weekend of campaigning in primaries and caucuses will be capped by a Democratic debate Sunday night in Flint, Mich.

– Sen. Ted Cruz’s strong showing Saturday – he won caucuses in Kansas and ME and finished second to Trump in Kentucky and Louisiana – has helped cement his status as the logical alternative to Trump.

Clinton had her own, less-pointed, assessment of the recent GOP smack-down.

But the party’s establishment has not been much happier with Cruz, who has alienated many party leaders in Washington, than they have been with Trump.

Florida is a closed primary, meaning only party members can vote in their respective primary.

All did not go smoothly for Trump when he attended a rally Friday in New Orleans.

Trump paused at each interruption as his supporters simultaneously booed the protesters and cheered on law enforcement.

More than two dozen protesters representing the “Black Lives Matter” movement linked arms as they interrupted his speech.

The GOP’s leadership crisis is evident in the fact that even before voting began, by 2-to-1, Republicans in a YouGov poll said they preferred an “outsider” to a candidate “supported by the Republican establishment”.

Reuters White House correspondent Jeff Mason thinks Trump is right.

Trump’s lead has sparked a flurry of discussions among Republicans about complicated long-shot options to stop him.

GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump celebrated projected wins in two key states – MS and MI – while at the same time disparaging the rival who is emerging as his biggest threat: Texas Sen. Like Kasich, Rubio must win his home state in order to remain a viable contender. “He’s going to do well”. “But when I say, ‘raise your hand, ‘ everybody raises their hand”. Clinton said that from then to Election Day, she worked hard and this year “would hope to be able to enlist Bernie” to enlist his supporters in her campaign.

Rubio acknowledged it had been a odd GOP race so far, and called himself an “underdog”.

However, Mason said Clinton may already be looking beyond Sanders and “pivoting toward the general election” and a possible head-to-head with Trump.

Trump and Cruz, she said, “rather than bringing our country together, would send it the other way”.

In an interview on Sunday, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, 68, played down the legal uncertainty over a federal investigation into her use of a private email server while she was Obama’s secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.

Donald Trump has a woman problem.

Rubio, who finished no better than third anywhere and has only one win so far, insisted the upcoming schedule of primaries is “better for us”, and renewed his vow to win his home state of Florida, claiming all 99 delegates there on March 15.

Time is running out for Trump’s opponents to turn things around before the winner-takes-all states start to vote and the GOP front-runner racks up enough delegates to lock the nomination up before the convention. Clinton, meanwhile, has consistently led in polls of MI voters.

Outside groups have spent more than $10 million on anti-Trump advertising in Florida and $23 million in other states, according to federal records.

The result is a Catch-22 for Rubio, who needs the money to win the March 15 primary in his home state of Florida, while donors wait out those results for signs of his long-term viability.

The competition moves on Tuesday to Michigan, Mississippi, Idaho and Hawaii where Trump hopes to expand his lead ahead of a party convention in July and the election to succeed President Barack Obama on November 8.