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Sen. Alexander endorses Rubio: ‘The stakes are high’

Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) is endorsing Marco Rubio’s White House bid, the Florida senator’s campaign announced early Sunday.

“Marco Rubio is the conservative candidate who can inspire us, win the election, and lead our country,” Alexander said in a statement. “The stakes are high. If our nominee does not win, Hillary Clinton’s justices will control the Supreme Court for 30 years and we’ll be stuck with Obamacare forever.

Donald Trump is leading in the Super Tuesday states of Georgia and Tennessee, while Ted Cruz is ahead in his home state of Texas, according to a trio of new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls.

And Hillary Clinton is topping Bernie Sanders in all three of those southern states by about a 2-to-1 margin.

Rubio pulls big crowd in Virginia

One of Marco Rubio’s four Sunday rallies in Virginia was a boisterous affair, with a crowd so large that hundreds of yards of cars were banked along the road and parked haphazardly on grassy strips off of a nearby shopping center parking lot.

Marco Rubio has an ace up his sleeve going into Super Tuesday: He tends to do very well with late-deciding voters and outperform his polling numbers on Election Day.

The catch? There has to be enough undecided voters left to make up the ground he needs.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are poised to lead the nation’s two major parties in this fall’s presidential election, with a new nationwide CNN/ORC poll finding each well ahead of their closest competitors just as the race expands to a national stage.

Is Super Tuesday going to be Super Trumpday?

Donald Trump’s angry army is poised to march across 11 states Tuesday with enough firepower to anoint him the inevitable Republican nominee by day’s end, while Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are just aiming to survive the onslaught.

Republican politicians are hoping that someone will be able to thwart Donald Trump’s march to the GOP presidential nomination and party insiders believe that in the February 25 debate in Houston, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio stepped into the ring and landed punches.