Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said Tuesday he won't end his presidential campaign even if he loses his home state.
"Tomorrow our plan is to be in Utah campaigning, irrespective of tonight," Rubio said to Orlando news radio station WDBO,
BuzzFeed reported.
"It would be a lot better to go to Utah being the winner of the Florida primary," Rubio admitted, but added, "It would give us a tremendous amount of momentum. It would give us 99 delegates, and that’s the way we want to do it tonight."
But polls show Rubio trailing front-runner Donald Trump in Florida by wide margins, and even if Rubio won the state, he is mathematically eliminated from reaching the 1,237 delegates needed to win the nomination on the first convention ballot.
Rubio says the public polls are "out of control" and "way out of whack," but admitted he can't "guarantee a win," though he expects to come out on top.
He repeated his previous statement that he intends to support the eventual nominee, but said, "everyday that goes by it gets harder and harder to imagine supporting Donald Trump if he’s our nominee, simply because I think that many of the things he’s doing and has done are damaging to the conservative movement."
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