Rubio's Campaign Urges Ohio Voters to Cast Ballots for Kasich

Marco Rubio's campaign has a new strategy to block Donald Trump from winning Ohio's coveted, winner-take-all delegate haul: urging Ohio Republicans to vote for their governor John Kasich.

At a press conference in West Palm Beach, Florida, Rubio admitted, "John Kasich has a better chance to win in Ohio than I do."

"I never talked to John Kasich about this," Rubio added.

He also said a vote for Kasich or Sen. Ted Cruz in Florida is essentially a vote for Trump.

“John Kasich is the one candidate in Ohio that can beat Donald Trump,” Marco Rubio’s communications director Alex Conant said on CNN today. “That’s stating the obvious. So if you're a Republican primary voter in Ohio and you don't want Donald Trump to be the nominee, John Kasich is your best bet.”

He also emphasized that GOP voters in Florida who don’t want Trump to be the nominee need to vote for Rubio. “If you want to defeat Donald Trump here in Florida, where there's 99 delegates at stake, you need to vote for Marco Rubio,” Conant said. “He’s the only one with a mathematical shot.”

Recent polling shows a tight race in Ohio between Kasich and Trump, while Trump holds a double-digit lead over Rubio in Florida polling.

Ohio and Florida hold their primaries on Tuesday, March 15.

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