Marco Rubio suspends his 2016 presidential bid - CBS News
His decision to drop out of the race came after CBS News projected that Donald Trump had won his home state of Florida
www.cbsnews.comMarco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign largely culminated in mid-March 2016, when he suspended (ended) his bid after losing Florida’s Republican winner-take-all primary to Donald Trump.[1][2]
Key late-campaign headlines (2016)
- March 14–15, 2016: Rubio suspends his campaign
- CBS News reported Rubio ended his White House bid after losing Florida, his home state, in the critical winner-take-all primary.[1]
- ABC News similarly reported that he suspended the campaign on Tuesday night following the projected loss in Florida.[2]
Campaign context (what happened leading up to that)
- Rubio had been trying to build momentum in the nomination fight, but the Florida result was the decisive blow to keeping his candidacy alive—reporting at the time emphasized Florida as the last major path for him to alter the contest’s outcome.[2][1]
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