Ted Cruz followed up his first-place finish in Kansas Saturday with another win in the Maine caucuses, while Marco Rubio finished last, not even managing to meet the 10 percent threshold to be awarded a single delegate from the state. With Donald Trump finishing second with nine delegates, the night continued to shake out as the making of a two-man race for the Republican nomination.
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Congrats to Ted Cruz on Maine victory!
— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) March 6, 2016
BREAKING: Cruz wins Maine GOP caucus, state GOP party reports https://t.co/zls6Y1ixgC #Decision2016 #SuperSaturday pic.twitter.com/Lh09TwSGzW
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) March 6, 2016
BREAKING: Maine GOP announces @TedCruz wins #MEGOPcaucus: https://t.co/BUqYBYsrIM pic.twitter.com/Y1pUHFKhKB
— CBS News Politics (@CBSPolitics) March 6, 2016
Rubio in 4th gets no delegates out of Maine. Cruz wins with 46%, Maine GOP announces.
— Carrie Dann (@CarrieNBCNews) March 6, 2016
Rubio in fourth?
Maine GOP Chairman: Cruz 45.84%, Trump 32.55%, Kasich 12.17%, Rubio 8.00%
— David Chalian (@DavidChalian) March 6, 2016
100% of precincts reporting in the Maine GOP caucuses:
Ted Cruz 46% (8,550)
Trump 33% (6,070)
Kasich 12% (2,270)
Rubio 8% (1,492)— Shushannah Walshe (@shushwalshe) March 6, 2016
Maine caucuses: 12 delegates for Cruz, 9 for Trump, 2 for Kasich, 0 for Rubio
— Michael van Poppel (@mpoppel) March 6, 2016
.@JohnKasich won more delegates this evening in Maine that Rubio did.
— SalenaZito (@SalenaZito) March 6, 2016
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Look out below, #Trump is in a slow free fall.
— Howard Fineman (@howardfineman) March 6, 2016
Ted Cruz wins Maine–that makes 2 victories for him over Trump tonight, after Kansas. He does well in caucus states, like Iowa
— HowardKurtz (@HowardKurtz) March 6, 2016
Have media types underestimated Ted Cruz? Well, not anymore.
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 6, 2016
So Trump loses ME despite LePage endorsement. Which Trump endorser is looking better for having endorsed him?
— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) March 6, 2016
I guess LePage ' endorsement wasn't enough
— David Freddoso (@freddoso) March 6, 2016
Reasons Cruz might have risen: Carson out; smart spending. Reason Rubio might have fallen: has gone off-brand.
— Mark Halperin (@MarkHalperin) March 6, 2016
Rubio, speaking at a rally in Puerto Rico, is staying positive, or doing his best to sound that way.
Rubio reax to results tonight, @ presser: "This map only gets better for us. Many of these states are states my opponents do better in."
— Alexandra Jaffe (@ajjaffe) March 6, 2016
Cruz, meanwhile, is in Idaho.
Cruz wins ME, KS. In Idaho, says, "Super Tuesday last wk was a phenomenal night…today on Super Saturday we are doing the very same thing."
— Betsy Klein (@betsy_klein) March 6, 2016
Rubio picked up nearly every Kansas endorsement. Trump picked up Maine Gov. Paul LePage. And Cruz won both states. So much for endorsements.
— Sara Murray (@SaraMurray) March 6, 2016
Bob Dole’s endorsement of Rubio, which was handed down to him after Dole’s first choice, Jeb Bush, dropped out of the race, is one endorsement you don’t want. Could he be convinced to endorse Hillary Clinton next?
Pumped for the two-man race between Trump and Cruz pic.twitter.com/NtI5hOw4BG
— Joshua Green (@JoshuaGreen) March 6, 2016
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