Rubio builds momentum, Cruz campaign shows signs of struggle

Rubio builds momentum, Cruz campaign shows signs of struggle, Marco Rubio accumulated accretion abutment for his antagonism while Ted Cruz's attack showed signs of attempt as Republican presidential candidates crisscrossed Nevada on Monday on the final day of advancement advanced of the state's GOP caucuses.

Cruz told reporters Monday he has asked his attack spokesman, Rick Tyler, to abandon for tweeting a adventure that falsely declared Rubio angered the Bible.

"We are not a attack that is traveling to catechism the acceptance of addition applicant for president," he said, calling Tyler "a acceptable man" and acquainted that he deleted the cheep already he apparent it was false.

Tyler did not acknowledgment telephone, argument or email letters larboard by The Associated Press gluttonous comment.

It's not the aboriginal time that Cruz's attack has been accused by rivals of application ambiguous tactics. Cruz apologized to GOP hopeful Ben Carson beforehand this ages afterwards his attack answer a account adventure suggesting that Carson was accepting out of the race. Cruz's attack has aswell accustomed creating a website that acclimated a computer affairs to actualize a affected account of Rubio afraid calmly with Admiral Barack Obama.

Speaking during a attack stop in Elko, Nevada, beforehand Monday, Rubio criticized Cruz for the adventure and asked whether Cruz would blaze anyone involved.

"It's every individual day something comes out of the Cruz attack that's ambiguous and untrue, and in this case goes afterwards my faith," Rubio told reporters if asked about the incident. "I assumption one of their spokespersons apologized, and I acquire their apology."

Republican beloved Donald Trump lashed out at Cruz over Twitter on Monday, adage that Cruz "has now apologized to Marco Rubio and Ben Carson for artifice and bedraggled tricks. No admiration he has absent Evangelical support!" He common his calls for disqualifying Cruz because of "his counterfeit win in Iowa."

Trump's attack administrator Corey Lewandowski said Monday that the billionaire agent has been gluttonous admonition from above New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani as he gradually expands his bound close circle.

Meanwhile, enactment heavyweights connected to aback Rubio, with abounding adage they see him as the applicant who can affiliate a cacophonic Republican Party. Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch were the latest to endorse Rubio. South Florida's three Cuban-American associates of Congress aswell said that they confused their abutment to Rubio, accepting ahead accurate for above Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's now asleep bid.

Former Sen. Bob Dole told ABC Account on Monday that he too had been abetment Bush, but he's now acknowledging Rubio because "he wants to abound the affair as against to Cruz. I don't apperceive what he wants to grow."

Since Friday, Rubio has added 12 new Congressional or gubernatorial endorsements, while Trump and Cruz accept added none.

While 5 men clearly abide in the chase for the Republican nomination, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy billed it as a two-man challenge amid Trump and Rubio. Speaking to MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Monday, McCarthy said Trump's achievement and Rubio's second-place accomplishment in Saturday's South Carolina primary dealt a draft to Cruz's action to win the nomination. The California agent predicted voters in Florida, Rubio's home state, would actuate whether Rubio continues or Trump calmly rolls on to the nomination.

Cruz on Saturday characterized a two-man challenge as able-bodied — amid him and Trump. But Rubio, who campaigned in South Carolina alongside the state's GOP Gov. Nikki Haley, has connected to capitalize on the drive from his second-place finish.

Across the country, Ohio Gov. John Kasich angry his absorption to Virginia, which is a part of the dozen states voting on March 1.

Kasich, who accomplished additional in New Hampshire's Republican primary, won the endorsement of Tom Ridge, a above Homeland Security secretary and Pennsylvania governor.

Ridge had accurate Bush for admiral back aboriginal 2015 and campaigned with him in South Carolina. Bush abdicate the chase Saturday afterwards a black accomplishment in the Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries.

Kasich's attack says Ridge is signing on as a civic co-chairman.

Democratic presidential hopefuls advancing off a bound action for Nevada kicked off the anniversary on adverse ends of the country Monday. Hillary Clinton was fundraising in arctic California, while Bernie Sanders captivated a assemblage in Massachusetts, addition Super Tuesday state. South Carolina votes in the next Democratic primary on Saturday.

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