Rubio shoots down ‘House of Cards’ unity ticket with Cruz  —  Marco Rubio on Wednesday shot down the notion that he and Ted Cruz would band together as a ticket to halt Donald Trump's procession to the Republican nomination.  —  Asked during an MSNBC town hall whether he would be open to that, Rubio was firm.

Here's The Math On Why Obsessing Over The Florida GOP Primary Makes No Sense  —  This is the kind of concrete prediction that comes back to haunt pundits, but I'm going to make it anyway (and if I'm wrong, nobody will be happier about it than me): Donald Trump is going to win Florida …

Inside Rubio's collapse: A fateful decision that helped unravel his campaign … MIAMI — Marco Rubio had suffered three electoral thumpings in a row when the Florida senator and his image-makers abruptly shifted strategy.  The aspirational candidate, whose presidential campaign was built …

In Her Own Words  —  On Tuesday night, I went to cover Donald Trump's press conference at the Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida.  I was looking to cover the event like I have covered many live political events for Breitbart News, including an uneventful Trump press conference in Palm Beach the week before.

Scarborough: GOP performs on a ‘fifth-grade level’  —  The Republican Party has “shattered its brand,” Joe Scarborough said Thursday.  —  A day after Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders respectfully contrasted their records and policy differences …

Transcript: The Post-Univision Democratic debate, annotated … Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are holding for their fourth one-on-one debate.  The transcript will be pasted below.  Washington Post reporters and readers will be annotating it using Genius, and will continue to do so following the debate.