mel martinez sat down with eyewitness news anchor greg warmoth for central florida spotlight. he said the primary could seal donald trump's bid for the that is an out come he is not thrilled about. >> as a republican, i feel that a donald trump nominee would take us to historic defeat. and i worry about that. >> political analysts say rubio will likely not play a part in trump's cabinet because of comments made on the campaign trail. >>> you can watch more of what mel martinez and our political analyst had to say on central florida spotlight and they talk about the so-called trump protestors clashing. it airs at 12:30 after eyewitness news at noon. >>> as we mentioned, marco rubio is cross crossing the state. tomorrow. center open at 2:00 p.m. you must rsvp to attend. primary, voters in four other states head to the polls hillary clinton and bernie sanders reached out to voters in florida this week. according to the latest cnn poll, clinton is ahead of sanders in florida by more than 30 points. >>> hundreds gathered to say final good-byes to former first lady nancy reagan. she

senator and orange county chairman mel martinez is throwing his support behind marco rubio. he tells wesh 2 his party has been fractured by trump, who he believes will not get enough delegates before the convention. mel martinez: i' m for letting the process go as far as it needs to for us to end up with a true republican who is going to represent what our party stands for, and has stood for. and i think marco rubio would be the logical compromise candidate the guy to get behind so that we , can elect a republican. offices in jacksonville, orlando, and tampa. meredith: big news out of california. a knife discovered at the property once owned by oj simpson is now being analyzed by investigators. the lapd says the knife is believed to have been left there around the time of the nicole brown-simpson and ron goldman murders. they say a construction worker found the blade some time ago, and gave it to an off-duty police officer. >> double jeopardy would be in charge mr. simpson with the s already been s been acquitted. meredith: there are reports that the officer kept the knife f

. >> reporter: with the polls looking back for rubio prior to the primary, mel martinez told me he doesn't think marco's days in politics are over. >> he has four young kids. he probably needs to go to work for a while. he told me that he worried about putting them through college. so they're all coming up in life, early teens and what not, and you start thinking about that. >> martinez said no matter what rubio says, he cannot imagine life. as for endorsements for president, no word on his plans. but based on the ugly primary season, it seems like a safe bet he won't be throwing his support behind donald trump. >>> despite the extra visitors, there haven't been too many serious trouble makers. >> reporter: this year the beach is much more crowded, and they're making more arrests, about 120 on the beach right now, and they expect to make more. before the drinking took hold today, about 20 beach safety officers and deputies gathered to strategize. >> we have a very large group of spring breakers here. a lot larger than we anticipated would be here. we think some of them are coming from pana

senator mel martinez sat down with eyewitness news anchor greg warmoth for "central florida spotlight." martinez says the primary could seal donald trump's bid for the republican nomination, ending an outcome he's not thrilled about. >> as a republican, i fear that a donald trump nominee would take us to a historic defeat, and i worry about that. >> political analysts say rubio likely will not play a part in trump's cabinet if he is elected because of comments he made on the campaign trail. >>> you can watch more of what mel martinez and our political analyst raying foglesong had to say on "central florida spotlight." they also talk about the so- called trump factor. that airs today at 12:30 right after eyewitness news at noon. >>> as we mentioned, senator marco rubio is campaigning in central florida this weekend. he will be in the villages tomorrow. doors at the rohan recreation center will open up at 2:00. you must rsvp if you want to attend. >>> the democratic presidential candidates have a big day on tuesday. in addition to the florida primary, voters in four other states will he

he got former senator mel martinez, but by and large, his biggest hitter was the governor of south carolina, not the governor of florida. >> ginger: nikki haley, exactly. do you think the governor of florida, do you think we'll see some endorsement coming from governor rick scott? >> i think he's come as close as he wants to. i think he's going to wait. i think governor rick scott sees himself as a viable vice presidential nominee. i think he wants to position himself that way. it's going to be interesting. primary, it doesn't help donald trump a lot. i'm not sure how good that will do. >> ginger: you'll be here with us tonight until we have the final tallies, so don't leave us. >> great. >> ginger: social media is huge in this race. our julie broughton is the point person on that this evening. what's going on? >> julie: so much going on. hello to you, i haven't seen you in about 15 years. so nice to see you. of course, facebook, lots of conversation on facebook. one very cool thing we have going on is some exclusive facebook data, tracking conversations over the last month about the electi

mel martinez sat down with me today and says next week's primary could really help donald trump's bid for the republican nomination and push him all the way through. for the white house. >> i think he will probably go back to the private sector. he is a very talented person and is very young. i can't imagine marco rubio doesn't have another act in public life. i doubt he would run for governor at this point. >> rubio also said the same thing to her christopher heath regarding running for governor in florida. if you bills out of the gop race. as for a spot on the trump cabinet mark -- rubio says that is unlikely. you can watch more of what our president clinical analyst had to say about the florida primary on central florida spotlight. they also chime in on the trump fatter -- factor that has protesters fired up and fighting tonight. it airs tomorrow at 12:30. free rubio is campaigning in central florida this coming weekend, making a stop in the villages on sunday. doors at the rohan wreck center will open at 2 pm you must rsvp >>> ted cruz already talking like the gop race is down to

freshman nebraska senator ben and mel martinez said if trump is the candidate, they will not support him. >>> nancy cordes is at a polling place in alexandria, virginia, just outside of washington, d.c. nancy, good morning. >> good morning. virginians are early birds, the even bernie sanders would not dispute that hillary clinton is going to win a majority of the super tuesday states today. the question is, how many? and will it leave him with a chance, even a small one, to catch up in later states? >> virginia is clinton country! >> reporter: clinton country could stretch from virginia to texas today. she's leading by 20 points or more in polls of all of the southern states holding primaries. one of those states is arkansas where clinton was first lady when her husband was governor. >> i think it would take a woman to straighten this mess out. >> i sure like bernie but what he's suggesting, i can't see any way it's financially possible. >> reporter: sanders looks strong in colorado, minnesota and oklahoma. plus his home state of vermont. but those states contain less than a third of

meredith: former florida senator mel martinez is counting on florida republican voters to take the state out of billionaire donald trump' s hands. today, martinez cast his early vote for current senator marco rubio, at the elections office in orlando. martinez is also the former chair of the republican national he tells wesh 2 news trump' s support tuesday night of planned parenthood, and his harsh character are clear evidence conservative voters should not trust or vote for the billionaire. >> i think our party is better than that, i think this man every day demonstrates what a sorry president he would be. he has no temperament. he has no ability to discipline himself. summer: yesterday, rubio opened his campaign offices in jacksonville where he' ll be tomorrow as well as in orlando and tampa. the primary is march 15th. election our issue in focus this weeks is one of the biggest topics this campaign season. today we' re looking at entitlement programs. presidential candidates differ on the future of these benefits. wesh 2' s aixa diaz reports from washington. aixa: tens of millions of

mel martinez saying the same thing. ken melman saying that as well.does this put the party in right now? >> sasse, freshman senator from nebraska, ben sasse said not only would he not vote for trump, but he would like a third candidate run for president if trump gets the nomination. you know, a few of us were up at capitol hill yesterday talking with some of the other senators about this. other republican senators. what was interesting to me is the apprehension to go along with sasse. no one was ready to say, yeah, i'm not going on to vote for trump. senator jim imhoff from oklahoma. i talked with susan collins of maine. a moderate. one of the last clear moderates left in the senate republican side. she said that she called it one of the strangest years she has seen in politics. she wasn't ready to say she would not vote for trump if he was the nominee. she would not go that far. it's very fascinating. it's almost like it hasn't set in yet. >> let's listen to something that ted cruz said yesterday. how today will make it a two-man race. listen. >> sup

. >>> you can watch more of what mel martinez and our resident political analyst rick voguelesong had to say about spotlight." they also talked about the trump factor that has supporters and protesters fired "central florida spotlight" airs today at 12:30 right after eyewitness news at noon. >>> meanwhile, senator marco rubio is campaigning in central florida this wean, making a stop in the villages tomorrow. doors at the rohan recreation center will open at 2:00 tomorrow afternoon. attend. >>> the democratic presidential candidates have a big day on tuesday, not only is the key state of florida holding its primary, but so are four other states, including ohio which is also critical. both hillary clinton and senator bernie sanders reached according to the latest cnn poll, clinton is ahead of sanders in florida by more than 30 points. >>> hundreds gathered to say their final good-byes to former first lady nancy reagan. she was laid to rest next to her husband, president ronald reagan on friday. first lady michelle obama, presidential candidate hillary clinton and former president georg

mel martinez from florida, said amazing comment.l not vote for trump clearly, if there is any, any other choice, living person with a pulse i will be there. doesn't sound like he will be -- david: rebecca, how many of those republicans who say at the could never vote for donald trump would actually do so if it was trump versus hillary? >> well that's, i mean this is kind of the scenario that we're looking at when asking republicans if they would potentially support trump because hillary clinton is the presumptive democratic nominee and to donald trump many republicans would say is now the presumptive republican nominee. even likely republican nominee. in fact associated press asked governors, senators, republican elected officials around the country in no must survey if they would support trump in the general election as republican nominee. even given anonymity, 50% of the republican he elect the officials say they wouldn't feel comfortable supporting trump. they wouldn't plan to. that to me shows they're very serious about think, d

watts, mel martinez, the senator ben sass. are you worried you may make it harder to defeat the democrats in november. i've had tremendous calls from tremendous establishment people and nonestablishment people and the party is going to get bigger. if you look at any one of the primaries that i won, whether you go to new hampshire or south carolina or nevada, you take a look. look at how many people have come out. we're just absolutely the numbers that double and triple in some cases what they had four years ago, we're getting democrats coming in. we're getting independents coming in. we're getting a lot of people coming in and i will tell you as you know, i know the democrats very well also. they are very worried about it. we have tremendous numbers of people coming in and the republican party is growing larger and if it didn't it has no chance. it'll be like mitt romney four years ago, it has no chance of winning. we're getting people into the party that never had before. >> let me interrupt you. that brand-new cnn poll shows

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i don't think rubio is qualified because he has only been here six years, and he took over for mel martinez, and he did not due to good of a job -- not do too good of a job in the senate. guest: bernie sanders has received some criticism for being slow to realize the scale of the v.a. scandal. if you look at other areas of his record, his single point you to a live examples of him fighting for veterans efforts and protecting the v.a. from cuts and things like that. how trump stands on veterans issues, one thing that might be interesting to consider is how trump would use american military power. are we going to start a bunch of other wars and create another healthion with issues a comment. froma host: viewer based on earlier conversations we had that -- health issues. host: a comment from a viewer based on earlier conversations we had. is something bernie sanders supporters have been frustrated with. mean, if we are truly the greatest nation on earth, which so many candidates like to say, why can't we afford to send our children to school? not just college, but why can't we figure out how t

won't support donald trump if he's the nominee, which most have been saying, yesterday you had mel martinezrman of the republican party, saying, i can not support donald trump. ben sasse, the senator from nebraska. >> he's been a senator since 2014. you've got guys like sessions, the soul of the conservative movement in the republican party, that suddenly gave him -- almost validated the campaign. same with chris christie. >> he's got support and he's got support with voters and he's got chris christie. but there's been tremendous blowback to that. >> i think john is -- i'm sorry. i'm larry kudlow. i'm with cnbc. delighted to be here. >> who are you? >> larry kudlow. >> go ahead. >> chris christie's endorsement was very important. and i agree with joe, sessions very important, also. two different wings of the party. i just say, not personal, i really like mitt romney, he's a fine human being, but politically he's a eunuch, okay? let's get serious about this. second, karl rove, a friend of mine. politically, karl's a eunuch. he hasn't won anything in so long, since w. these guys are trying t

they have mel martinez campaigning for them, they have important newspaper endorsements, but this conversationabout what they should do, i've been on winning campaigns and losing campaigns, it usually has very little bearing on what you actually do. >> if you say there is no path, but it sounds like there could be one. >> it's a weird cycle. if you apply to a normal frame to it, you might say that. >> the math is very, very tough for donald trump to get a majority. he has to perform quite well. for instance, rubio, you could argue there's no path to majority and no path to him beating trump at the convention but is there a foopath to a kasich/rubio ticket? sure. is that more likely if he stays in and wins delegates? yeah. >> could that be realistic? it seems to me from the really most knowledgeable experienced people, especially on republican politics from the get go is that jeb bush or marco rubio were the ones to watch. were the withins who would probably make it to the top. i just wonder what has happened at this point. >> well, i was at an event saturday night with a lot of establishment r