former senator marco rubio making his pitch to the voters before super tuesday and the primary. >> donald won't make america great. he'll make america orange! >> and lifting another spirit. the people hit hard by last week's massive tornado give thanks for being alive. thank you for choosing good day virginia. it's monday february 29.... leap wfxr news is your local headquarters. and most of the nation's political pundits will have their eyes on radford today. republican presidential front runner donald trump will be making a campaign stop at the university this afternoon! wfxr's paris holmes is outside the dedmon center as students and officials get ready for today's event. good morning guys,doors open here at the dedmon center at 10am, with the event expected to start at noon. as you may expect security is tight. federal and local law enforcement agencies are here making sure the area is secure.parking will be tight here with university officials encouraging attendees to take public transportation as well as possibly carpooling.this event comes ahead of super tuesday, which i

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: all of it drove marco rubio to this 11th hour analysis of the party's plight. >> 70% to 65% of republican have already decided they don't want donald trump as their nominee. as long as that vote is being divided up among multiple people, it's good for donald. >> reporter: appalled by the street fighting over second place between rubio and ted cruz, some in the conservative establishment said today it's time to take down the front-runner. in an urgent call for donations to directly attack trump, a superpac, largely funded by the family that oppose the chicago cubs, expressed the worry that, "we are about to nominate a

trump. that rubio has yet to win any state, anywhere, and that ted cruz has more money in the bank, scott, to continue to fight. >> dean reynolds. covering the campaign in las vegas. dean, thank you very much. polling shows that hillary clinton is leading bernie sanders, nearly 2:1 in next saturday's primary in south carolina sheech won nevada over the weekend. by 5 points. putting her back on track after her drubbing in new hampshire. here's nancy cordes.

light on the campaign thinking going forward. foremost is the belief that marco rubio cannot defeat donald trump. that rubio has yet to win any

race for the white house. the major resignation. also, donald trump. is he now unstoppable? rubio and cruz, battling to be the alternative. but with both of them in, does it help trump? >> you're going to say, "please, please, mr. president. we can't stand it anymore. we don't want to keep winning." >> and tonight, has hillary clinton turned a corner? >>> inside the seven hours of terror. the alleged uber gunman in court. six dead. and you will hear from the passengers who got into his uber car before and after the

>> trump erratic, unreliable. cruz calculated, underhanded. the choice we can count on, marco rubio. smart and forceful. the democrats nightmare. marco rubio. the republican who can beat hillary and inspire a new generation. >> so in that add, the super pack backing marco rubio trying to not attack donald trump too harshly. he has pointed out rubio

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time in the upstate. yesterday senator marco rubio was joined by governor nikki haley d senator tim scott, they held a rally in clemson last night. 300, saying they should vote for him because he's the only candidate who wasn't pulling for alabama in the college football title game. he also stuck to serious campaign topics telling the , audience he'll revive the economy. jeb bush and his mother, barbara bush, held rallies yesterday in spartanburg, greenville and central. bush, who finished 4th in new start and a stronger finish , tonight. yesterday, he said he was disappointed when longtime friend, governor nikki haley, endorsed opponent, marco rubio. and some star power in greenville last night for senator ted cruz. he was joind by duck dynasty start phil robertson. robertson officially endorsed cruz last month in a video that shows them duck hunting. he says he believes cruz is the best bet for restoring the country to its christian roots. cruz joked about making robertson the ambassador to the united nations. myra: many of the candidates are staying in south carolina today to wat

important town hall. marco rubio and ben carson in a cnn town hall. they will

morning...it's 8:55. here's a look at our top stories. following campaign 20- 16.... today... marco rubio has two stops in the upstate. this is a live look at the swamp rabbit crossfit in greenville where he is expected to speak any minute now.. then he'll be at the hilton garden inn in anderson...at 12:30. senator tim scott will join rubio -- so will governor

will keep the country safe and understands the problems states are facing. she thinks marco rubio is that person. he is headed for a 6:00 p.m. there governor nikki haley is expected to endorse him. with polls showing marco rubio in third place and the primary three days away experts say this could be influential. about 50% ofmade up their mind and

2. is there enough time for rubio

i'm bernie sanders and i approve this message. marco rubio is blasting ted nigel: marco rubio is blasting ted cruz as a candidate who's "lying." he accuses him of having a campaign strategy to not tell the truth. senator rubio continued an attack on senator cruz that began during saturday night's debate,

record. >> taking the stage with marco rubio and ben carson. >> smallest yet to take the stage and trump will likely be the biggest target. >> the moderator. >> should be a pretty rough debate. all using each other to gain vang. >> in the roim primary, also

issues. they are more socially conservative as a block than even iowa voters. so for rubio and others to

rubio launched his own grenade at trump. >> donald trump has zero foreign policy experience. negotiating a hotel deal in another country is not foreign policy experience. >> reporter: rubio is still haunted by his bad debate. >> we're here to see marco robot roboto. is he inside? >> reporter: those mocking rubio robots following him to south carolina. but at a town hall meeting today, a vote of confidence. >> as far as the robot stuff, you haven't brought that up, but just keep in mind that the terminator was elected twice as governor of california. >> reporter: that won governor schwarzenegger, of course.

targeting marco rubio. >> has anyone here struggled with being lied to? >> i voted for a guy who was a two-party hero on the campaign trail, and went to d.c. and played patty cake with chuck

counted, but the super pack responsible with his political ad claims marco rubio

three-person race. ted cruz, donald trump, marco rubio. but now a real scramble. you could have five or six come out of here.

beat the democrats. they're both right. marco rubio is the conservative who can win, and the clinton machine knows it. rubio beat the establishment. he'll unite republicans and restore the american dream. if you're not with marco, you're electing the democrats. conservative solutions pac is responsible for

who he'd like on his dream team if elected listen to rubio's response. >> from this republican field i think this presidents potential vice president cabinet people huge future present are bust of a very talented field which is made of for very messy and competitive process in the short term. somewhat surprising considering rubio 's been bashed by several days. most notably chris christie. we caught up with christie in between campaign stop in manchester today still talk

hampshire. >>> crunch time. can donald trump turn big poll numbers into a big win? and can marco rubio bounce back from that debate debacle? we go one-on-one. >>> nightmare at sea. panic as a cruise ship gets caught in a ferocious storm and slammed by 30-foot waves and water rushing in and thousands >>> bomb handoff.

points since sunday. then at tied for second after marco rubio lost a point and there was no chance in ted cruz's support. now tied at 10%. kasich gained one point while bush held steady. chris christy gained a point now at 5. carly fiorina at 4. ben carson stuck at 3. also 9% of republican primary voter are undecided the day before polls open. >>> and the tracking poll gives

rubio has that charisma and that excites me but i' m not certain on his experience though. ray shyla bryant is on the fence : between. >> donald trump and chris christie. ray: her husband bob is trying to sway her to the side of the republican front-runner, donald trump. >> she' s pretty independent. she does what she wants. ray some undecided voters told : us they know what they are looking for in a candidate they' re just struggling to decide which one best fits their criteria for commander-in-chief. >> i'

highs in the 20' s. tom: senator marco rubio' s campaign switching around venues

. they were running one two and it came out 1-2 the other way. the real story there was marco rubio, really outperformed his polls and came a very strong third, much closer to trump than trump was to cruz. so you have these three people coming out of iowa with momentum. in new hampshire, trump' s got advantages he didn' t have in iowa. for one thing, it' s a primary. that' s just different. you can go vote. you don' t have go at 7:00. you can go anytime, all day long. and the other thing is, it' s an open primary. fernando: democrats can switch, republicans can -- carl: democrats. there' s nobody in iowa who' s a democrat that went to the republican caucus. you just don' t do that. but plenty of democrats vote, although sanders may keep them. keep running into these people, fernando, and they' ll tell you at these rallies, i' m either voting for trump or sanders. now, in washington, we go what? this a very confused person. maybe not. it' s the opposite side of populism, but it' s populism, things are broken, the little man' s getting screwed. sanders has it identified that it' s wal

we'll see how the rubio moment changes things. i do think it was nice that governor christie welcomed you to your show. >> i was very grateful. >> the key thing in new hampshire is the 40% undeclared here. and they can either vote in the democrat or republican primary. they can decide that day and you're talking about a lot of people that can shift just for

feel marco rubio was exposed tonight? >> i think so. certainly for me he was. i sort of suspected it and i think the first four answers the same answers to different questions because that's really all he had. shelley: that's the view from here. we're going to send it to break.

>> businessman donald trump. >> florida senator marco rubio. >> former florida governor, jeb >> and ohio governor john kasich. >> ladies and gentlemen, the republican candidates. >> and dr. ben carson, please

marco rubio and dr. ben carson. former governor jeb bush and governors chris christie and john kasich, will be there as well. carly fiorina and former governor jim gilmore did not meet the criteria for this debate. donald trump came back to south carolina. he interrupted his busy campaign schedule in new hampshire to campaign in the palmetto state on thousands of people packed friday. the florence civic center. trump is the front-runner ahead of tuesday's new hampshire primary. but all eyes will on the south carolina primaries.

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. wonderful job. >> nationally he is still at number one with cruz and rubio behind him. if they all finish in the top three on tuesday srgs it the end of the road for everyone else?

gets done, but don't brag about things you haven't done. >> if you can't beat marco rubio here in new hampshire, does that mean the end of your campaign? >> no, of course, not. as i've said, this is the first delegate will be selected on tuesday. we got 99% of the delegates left. a long way to go and i think the

that's under way right here. hillary clinton is coming back and marco rubio is coming up. donald trump stays in first with 36%. rubio takes over second place with 15%. ted cruz slips back to third with 14%. and jeb bush has 8% and john kasich 7%. for the rest of the republicans, chris christie, 5%, ben carson 4%, carly fiorina 3%, and undecided 8%. our tracking shows it all.

beat the democrats. well, they're both right. marco rubio is the conservative who can win. and the clinton machine knows it. rubio beat the establishment. he'll unite republicans and restore the american dream. if you're not with marco, you're electing the democrats.

. donald says ted cruz can't beat the democrats. you know, they are both right. marco rubio is the conservative who can win, and the clinton machine knows it. rubio beat the establishment. he will unite republicans and restore the american dream. if you are not with marco, you are electing the democrats. john: as rubio attempts to consolidate establishment

rubio can win and the clinton machine knows it. rubio beat the establishment. he will unite republicans and restore the american dream. if you're not with marco, you're electing the democrats. >> as rubio attempts to

says ted cruz can't beat the democrats. well, they're both right. marco rubio is the conservative who can win. and clinton machine knows it. >> i think that's true, the clinton machine knows it. don't you agree marco rubio is the democrat the clinton machine fears the most? >> one i fear the most is the one doing the best. somebody drops out, i think we could have beaten him.

rubio is upsetting the field with jeb bush. they will keep a tally through the iowa caucuses. >> yeah. the marco rubio cupcake had all the sprinkles on it. [ laughter ] >> i would pick that one too. smily face full of sprinkles. >> the cupcake is bias. [ laughter ]

>>> we're just getting started from here in iowa. coming up, marco rubio will talk about his surge and his rivalries with donald trump and ted cruz. >>> plus, tom brokaw on the importance of the iowa caucuses. do most people know the four c's of a diamond. now, kay jewelers brings you...the newest c:

them. what did marco rubio do? he put $22,000 in personal expenses on a republican party credit card. rubio's bad judgment caused a scandal and for five years rubio refused to release the credit card records. marco rubio: skipping major votes... all over the place on immigration... bad judgment. he's just not ready to be president. right to rise usa is responsible for the content of this message. hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm-hmm all come to look for america all come to look for america

marco rubio and senator rand paul were in sioux city. ktiv's tommie clark spoke with both candidates and has more. << both candidates had packed rooms as they called iowans to caucus.

senator marco rubio was at bev's on the river. crowd cheering. he called the election a country because in his words it's not just a choice between political parties, it's a referendum on america's identity. rubio says caucus-goers will be asked to decide monday night, what kind of country they want america to be in the 21st century. the senator went after obama's presidency and the possible clinton...in his words, this is not a time for patience, not

cruz, 23%, marco rubio at 15%. then we go from there. now in the past, we've seen these poll numbers aren't necessarily accurate. you know, back in 2012, we looked at rick santorum. a few weeks before the caucuses, he was in sixth place. by the final polls, he was i think third. then he ended up win, satellite. >> i think it's unbelievable what can happen in iowa. part of that is because you don't have to register in advance. a lot of polling is done with likely voters. likely voters are those who voted last nightmare. people going out for trump are unlikely voters. we might see trump's numbers come up. on the other hand, we'll see people voting against trump. as many as love him, hate trump. they'll be energized, too, and might be coming out in droves that we're not expecting. anything can really happen tonight. >> all right. we'll see how it goes. lee carter, thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >>> the time now is about ten minutes until the top of the hour. is it really all about iowa, or are other states more important?

for hillary clinton. >> i know we can. >> someone like marco rubio. >> go marco. ♪ all come to look for america >> i'm bernie sanders, and i approve this message. >> and back now with our panel.