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Top Google search for Carson: ‘Will Ben Carson suspend his campaign?’

Ben Carson is one of the five presidential candidates on stage Thursday night in Houston, but the top Google search trend for the retired neurosurgeon does not suggest good things to come.

“Will Ben Carson suspend his campaign?” is the No. 1 searched term related to Carson, finished dead last in South Carolina and far behind the pack in Iowa, as the campaign gears up for another run at Super Tuesday.

You have to hand it to Marco Rubio: With the pressure on, he did everything right at last night’s debate. Rubio was aggressive from the get-go. He never let up (unlike previous attempts at going after the frontrunner). He got under Donald Trump’s skin by mocking him (a la Obama at the 2011 White House Correspondent’s Dinner).

Winners and losers from the 10th Republican presidential debate

The 10th Republican presidential debate is in the books. I watched, tweeted and took some notes. My best and worst from the night that was is below.

Donald Trump enters the final few days before Super Tuesday with a commanding lead over his Republican rivals in Massachusetts, one of 12 states set to vote on March 1.

According to WBUR’s latest survey of Massachusetts Republicans, the billionaire GOP front-runner has 40 percent support in the Bay State, putting him nearly 20 percentage points ahead of his next closest competitors: Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

Winners, losers in final GOP debate before Super Tuesday

There were fireworks galore when the Republican presidential candidates took to the stage on Thursday night for their final clash before Super Tuesday.

Front-runner Donald Trump came to the CNN debate in Houston knowing that he would be in good shape for the dozen GOP contests on March 1 unless one of his most serious rivals — Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz — was able to fundamentally reshape the trajectory of the race.

Jeb Bush, who dropped out of the race on February 21, shared the most donors with Marco Rubio—more than he shared with all other Republicans still in the race. Rubio declared earlier than Bush, in April 2015, and initially led in campaign contributions.

Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio at last seized the challenge of trying to slow Donald Trump’s momentum before Super Tuesday. Dropping their long-running attacks on each other, they went after the billionaire aggressively—following sustained criticism that they were making no direct attempt to keep the front-runner from sewing up the nomination in March. But without coordination or emphasis, their scattershot attacks were less effective. Trump was ready to parry and retaliate, showing once again that he can’t be felled easily.