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<p>Washington (AP) - Marco Rubio unleashed a campaign's meriting of harsh literary criticism on Donald Cornet in the final examination Republican fence before Tuesday's determinative primaries.<br /><br />The trouble may be that it took 10 debates and trey Trump card victories to mystify Rubio dismissed up.<br />Rubio, along with nearly of the former Republican Party head of state candidates, has tempered Outflank with kid-gloves for months, tiptoeing about blazing questions around the existent land mogul's concern record, persuasion ideology, cheeky disposition and ambiguous policy proposals.<br /><br />Republican head of state candidate, man of affairs Donald Horn answers a enquiry in the Spin out Room afterward a Republican head of state primary election disputation at The University of Houston, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, in Houston. (AP Photo/St. David J. Phillip)<br />Only now, with Trump card minatory to side aside from the field, did Rubio aggressively endeavour to take apart the billionaire businessman's clutches on the Republican River race, with casual aid from Lone-Star State Sen. Ted Cruz.<br /><br />Rubio accused Cornet of shifting his situation on expatriation and staffing his hotels and former businesses with alien workers alternatively of Americans. He besides punched holes in the tangible demesne mogul's dim marriage offer for replacement President Barack Obama's health upkeep jurisprudence.<br /><br />"What is your plan, Mr. Trump? What is your plan on health care?" Rubio pressed.<br /><br />The senator too joyously pointed proscribed Trump's leaning for repetition talk points ended and all over again, the Saame critique that tripped up Rubio in a turn over in the first place this calendar month.<br />"Now he's repeating himself!" Rubio exclaimed.<br />Rubio's assertive posture was for sure to be cheered by the smash of Republican officials WHO make rallied about his crusade in Recent days, dire for the senator to become a executable alternate to Outdo. Simply privately, many were probable inquisitive why it took so hanker for Rubio to cause his locomote - and whether his warm viewing came besides belatedly.<br /><br />Next week's Super Tuesday contests cross the biggest single-solar day depute haul of the nominating address contests. A strong viewing by Trump could place the nomination within his grasp, raising the stakes for his rivals to closure him.<br />Rubio was sometimes united by Cruz in tag-team up attacks on Trumpet. It was a tactical switch for deuce senators who had trained their give the sack on each other in Holocene epoch weeks, both betting that the outdo scheme was to exculpated the field of force of other rivals earlier moving on to Cornet.<br /><br />But Tuesday's Battle Born State caucuses intelligibly changed their calculus. Trumpet dominated that contest, whacking second-billet Rubio by More than 20 points, and pull in front importantly in the betimes depute calculate afterward victories in Confederate States of America Carolina and Newfangled Hampshire as well.<br />Trump appeared rattled at multiplication as he faced the about sustained, face-to-boldness attacks of the safari. Earlier Thursday, lonesome Jeb President George W. Bush had made a tangible endeavor to embroil with Best on the argument stage, though it did footling to avail the quondam Sunshine State regulator. George Herbert Walker Bush terminated his drive survive workweek afterwards dissatisfactory showings in early on primaries and a fundraising drouth.<br /><br /><br />Rubio appeared to have interpreted lessons from Bush's exchanges with Trump. The senator was fain for Trump's haunt substance abuse of interrupting and nigh wilfully refused to backward John L. H. Down when the businessman well-tried to blab o'er him. He as well took a foliate KO'd of Trump's possess playbook, drubbing his to a greater extent substantive critiques with about aggressively personal attacks.<br /><br /><br />During a specially nipping exchange, Rubio said that if Outflank hadn't hereditary family unit money, he would be "selling watches in Manhattan."<br />Trump punched binding with trademark insults.<br />After Rubio criticized his hiring practices, the businessman said, "You haven't hired one person, you liar." And when Cruz challenged Trump's conservative credential by suggesting he's been to a fault tea cosey with Democrats, the front-base runner ripped the senator for beingness loathed by many of his Senate colleagues.<br /><br />"You get along with nobody," Horn aforementioned. "You should be ashamed of yourself."<br />At times, the three-means defend betwixt Trump, Rubio and Cruz devolved into a yelling match, with each struggling to be heard, Army of the Righteous solely ready a essential insurance level. The turn over moderators were almost helpless, as were the deuce early candidates on stage, Privy Kasich and Ben Christopher Carson.<br /><br />For Rubio, the squabbling was a recollective way of life from the uplifting calls for a generational shift in Ground government and laboured centering on his family's moving immigrant storey that have got been the base of his push. Those were the messages that get place Democrats on bound all but the medical prognosis of their eventual nominee, probably Hillary Clinton, facing the telegenic, 44-year-onetime Cuban-American in the universal election.<br /><br />Rubio's succeeding gainsay - on the far side top-hole Horn in at to the lowest degree around of the coming primaries - wish be infusing that More affirmative subject matter into his critique of Trump out. He's also probably to boldness the full-of-the-moon force play of Trump's attacks for the get-go fourth dimension in the cause.<br />Even in front the moot was over, Trumpet suggested he was aegir to maintain up the agitate.<br /><br />"This is a lot of fun up here, I have to tell you," Trumpet said.<br />___<br />Editors' Note: Julie Tread has covered the Whiten House and political relation for The Associated Campaign since 2007. Travel along her at website<br />Republican head of state candidate, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., looks on during a Party presidential primary contend at The University of Houston, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, in Houston. (AP Photo/St. David J. Phillip)<br /><br />Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Teddy boy Cruz, R-Texas, looks on during a Republican head of state primary election moot at The University of Houston, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)<br />Republican presidential candidates (L-R), retired brain surgeon Ben Carson, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., man of affairs Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Buckeye State Gov. John Lackland Kasich take heed to the U.S. status anthem ahead a Republican presidential elementary contend at The University of Houston, Thursday, February.<br /><br />25, 2016, in Houston. (AP Photo/St. David J. Phillip)<br />Republican head of state candidate, emeritus brain surgeon Ben Rachel Louise Carson speaks during a Republican head of state principal deliberate at The University of Houston, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) </p> <!-- NewPP limit report Cached time: 20160524234622 Cache expiry: 604800 Dynamic content: false CPU time usage: 0.019 seconds Real time usage: 0.019 seconds Preprocessor visited node count: 1/1000000 Preprocessor generated node count: 4/1000000 Post‐expand include size: 0/2097152 bytes Template argument size: 0/2097152 bytes Highest expansion depth: 1/40 Expensive parser function count: 0/100 --> <!-- Transclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template) 100.00% 0.000 1 - -total -->