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 A top aide to Senator Marco Rubio on Friday urged his supporters in Ohio to back Gov. John Kasich in that state’s primary on Tuesday, giving fresh momentum to efforts to stop Donald J. Trump a day after a debate in which his rivals declined to take a swing at the leading Republican presidential candidate. 
  
 Alex Conant, Mr. Rubio’s spokesman, made the comments in an interview with CNN. He said that he hoped supporters of Mr. Kasich and of Senator Ted Cruz would support Mr. Rubio in his home state primary in Florida, and that he would suggest Mr. Rubio’s backers in Ohio do the same by supporting Mr. Kasich there. 
  
 “I’m just stating the obvious,” Mr. Conant said. “If you are a Republican primary voter in Ohio and you want to defeat Donald Trump, your best chance in Ohio is John Kasich, because John Kasich is the sitting governor, he’s very close to Donald Trump in some of the polls there.” 
  
 He said the reverse was true in Mr. Rubio’s home state, suggesting that supporters of Mr. Kasich and Mr. Cruz back Mr. Rubio there. 
  
 The remarks dovetail with a strategy proposed by Mitt Romney, the party’s 2012 nominee, who urged Republicans opposing Mr. Trump to coalesce around the leading non-Trump candidate in coming nominating contests to deny the nomination to the Manhattan businessman. 
  
 Mr. Conant said that “John Kasich is the one candidate in Ohio that can beat Donald Trump — that’s stating the obvious, that is indisputable.” 
  
 In a news conference in West Palm Beach, Mr. Rubio echoed the sentiment, but did not go as far in urging his supporters to back Mr. Kasich in Ohio. 
  
 “Clearly John Kasich has a better chance than winning Ohio than I do,” Mr. Rubio told reporters. And if Ohioans concluded that the best way to stop Mr. Trump was to vote for Mr. Kasich, the Florida senator said, “I expect that’s the decision they’ll make.” 
  
 Asked directly if he was urging his people to vote for Mr. Kasich in Ohio, he said of his spokesman, “I’ll leave it for John to make that argument.” 
  
 And Mr. Cruz, speaking in Orlando on Friday, dismissed the strategy, indulging in a laugh when asked about it. 
  
 “It’s the Washington establishment’s last gasp: ‘Let’s divide things up. Let’s play games,’” Mr. Cruz said in a taped interview with Fox News. “It’s real, real simple. How do you beat Donald Trump? You beat him.” 
  
 Mr. Cruz argued, as he has for weeks, that he was the only candidate still capable of doing so. 
  
 Those hoping to defeat Mr. Trump acknowledge that if he wins either Ohio or Florida, it becomes much harder to deny him the nomination. 
  
 But Chris Schrimpf, a spokesman for Mr. Kasich, naturally welcomed the idea of having Mr. Rubio’s supporters back the governor in Tuesday’s voting in Ohio. 
  
 “We agree with the Rubio campaign that the best chance to beat Donald Trump in Ohio is by voting for John Kasich, and in that spirit, Senator Rubio should immediately tell his Super PAC to stop attacking the governor.” 
  
 Matt Flegenheimer and Thomas Kaplan contributed reporting. ||||| poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201603/3197/1155968404_4797199571001_4797152951001-vs.jpg?pubId=1155968404" true Rubio urges voters to back Kasich in Ohio to stop Trump 
  
 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Marco Rubio, desperate to save his presidential campaign in his home state, is adopting the Mitt Romney strategy—asking Republicans hoping to stop Donald Trump to support his rival, John Kasich, in Ohio. 
  
 “John Kasich is the only one who can beat Donald Trump in Ohio,” Rubio said. “If a voter in Ohio is motivated by stopping Donald Trump, I suspect that’s the only choice they can make.” 
  
 The flip-side of that strategic gambit is to convince any voters in Florida not backing Trump to support him in Tuesday’s primary. 
  
 “I’m the only one who can beat Trump in Florida,” Rubio said during a press conference Friday morning at Temple Beth El. 
  
 “A vote for Ted Cruz or John Kasich in Florida is a vote for Donald Trump. Any vote that doesn’t go to me is helping Donald Trump win the 99 delegates that this state will award to the winner.” 
  
 Rubio denied any quid pro quo with Kasich. “I have not talked with John Kasich,” he said. 
  
 And Kasich’s campaign, confident of its position, showed no interest in returning the favor. 
  
 "We were going to win in Ohio without his help, just as he's going to lose in Florida without ours,” said Kasich campaign spokesman Rob Nichols. 
  
 But Kasich’s camp wasted little time capitalizing. Chief strategist John Weaver quickly fired off a fundraising email touting Rubio’s support as evidence that Republicans are consolidating around Kasich. 
  
 Last week, Romney, the GOP’s 2012 nominee, suggested that Republicans band together to stop Trump from winning the 1,237 delegates necessary to secure the party’s nomination outright, floating the idea that Rubio and Kasich should urge each other’s supporters to back the other in their critical, home-state contests. 
  
 The three remaining GOP contenders vying to stop Trump also met Wednesday and Thursday with Jeb Bush in Miami. 
  
 “We welcome the support of the Rubio campaign,” said Trent Duffy, another Kasich spokesman, who called any attempt to tell voters what to do “presumptuous.” 
  
 “Voters don’t want to be told what to do. We are not going to be presumptuous to instruct our voters how they should vote,” he continued. “The voters should vote their conscience. They should vote for the best person they think is best able to lead our country. We believe that man is John Kasich…everywhere across the country.” 
  
 Ted Cruz, who has added campaign stops in Florida this week in an effort to help Trump deliver the deathblow to Rubio, scoffed at the broader strategy — or Rubio’s “games,” as he put it. 
  
 “It’s real simple,” Cruz told reporters in Orlando, where he campaigned Friday morning before flying to Missouri. “How do you beat Donald Trump? You beat him.” 
  
 Cruz’s campaign, however, has pulled its television ads that were scheduled to run over the weekend here, signaling a recognition that the money might be better spent elsewhere. 
  
 While Rubio and his campaign denied any strategic shift Friday, the senator’s comments came less than an hour after his spokesman went on CNN and put forth the same argument, acknowledging that only Kasich can defeat Trump in Ohio, which awards all of its 66 delegates to the winner. 
  
 “If you are a Republican primary voter in Ohio and you want to defeat Donald Trump, your best chance in Ohio is John Kasich,” the spokesman, Alex Conant, said. 
  
 “The same is true here in Florida,” he continued, emphasizing that Rubio is best positioned to beat the real-estate mogul in the state’s primary Tuesday for its 99 delegates, also all awarded to the outright winner. 
  
 “If you’re a voter and Marco Rubio is not necessarily your first choice — if you like John Kasich or you like Ted Cruz and you’re here in Florida, you need to vote for Marco Rubio because he’s the only one who can deprive Donald Trump of those 99 delegates,” he said. “And if we stop Donald Trump here in Florida, we can stop him in Cleveland. He will not be the Republican nominee.” 
  
 A recent poll shows Kasich with a narrow lead over Trump in Ohio, while a series of Florida surveys show Rubio trailing the business magnate, although by different margins. 
  
 “Unfortunately, we’ve gotta do whatever it takes to stop Donald Trump from winning Ohio and stop his march to the nomination,” said Jason Roe, a Rubio adviser. 
  
 After an event designed to highlight Rubio’s support for Israel, Rubio shrugged off questions about polls and his long-term political future. 
  
 “I’m not concerned about polls,” Rubio said. “Voters in this election have shown a propensity to change their mind and to do that quickly. We’re very confident about what’s going to happen in Florida.” 
  
 Nick Gass contributed to this report. ||||| Rubio: It's OK if my Ohio voters go for Kasich 
  
 Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio at a GOP debate on Feb. 13, 2016, in Greenville, S.C. (Photo: Heidi Heilbrunn, The Greenville News) 
  
 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Marco Rubio indicated Friday he wouldn't mind if his supporters in Ohio back John Kasich in Tuesday's primary, if that's what it takes to stop Donald Trump. 
  
 While the two campaigns are not in alliance, Rubio told reporters he would expect anybody who doesn't want Trump to be the Republican nominee would vote for Kasich in Ohio and would vote for him in Florida, because they are the candidates with the best shots at beating the billionaire in those two states. 
  
 "I've never talked to John Kasich about this," Rubio said. 
  
 Conversely, Rubio said that any Floridian who votes for Kasich or for Ted Cruz is essentially voting for Trump. 
  
 "In Florida, I'm the only one who can beat Donald Trump," Rubio said. 
  
 On CNN, Rubio campaign spokesman Alex Conant echoed that theme, saying: "If you are a Republican primary voter in Ohio and you want to defeat Donald Trump, your best chance in Ohio is John Kasich." 
  
 When pressed whether Rubio supporters there should in fact cast their ballots for Kasich, Conant said, "Yeah, my answer is John Kasich is the one candidate in Ohio that can beat Donald Trump. That's stating the obvious." 
  
 The approach is similar to what 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney advocated for in a speech earlier this month blasting Trump. 
  
 When asked last week about Romney's suggestion, Kasich declined to say that the roughly 9% of Florida Republicans who support him should back Rubio on March 15. 
  
 “Right now, I think they ought to vote for me. What kind of question is that?” Kasich told reporters. 
  
 But John E. Sununu, a former U.S. senator from New Hampshire who co-chairs Kasich's campaign, was willing to advocate for a Rubio win in Florida. 
  
 "Winning Ohio and Marco Rubio winning Florida would probably cement the fact that no one will get to the convention with an outright majority," Sununu said last week. "I'd like to see him win Florida." 
  
 On Friday, Kasich spokesman Rob Nichols responded less charitably. 
  
 "We were going to win in Ohio without his help, just as he's going to lose in Florida without ours," Nichols said in a statement tweeted by an Associated Press reporter. Nichols did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 
  
 Later Friday, the Kasich campaign used the Rubio campaign’s remarks for a fundraising email entitled “BREAKING: Marco did what?” 
  
 “Marco Rubio’s communications director just said on national TV that Rubio supporters in Ohio should vote for Gov. John Kasich on Tuesday,” the email reads, bolding the second half of the sentence. “Ohioans are consolidating around John Kasich to be our Republican nominee and we appreciate the support offered by the Rubio team.” 
  
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The Marco Rubio campaign is telling its supporters to vote for John Kasich in Ohio in an effort to keep Donald Trump from securing the nomination. “John Kasich is the one candidate in Ohio that can beat Donald Trump—that’s stating the obvious, that is indisputable," the New York Times quotes Rubio aide Alex Conant as saying. Rubio himself says he's fine with his supporters voting for Kasich in the Ohio primary on Tuesday, USA Today reports. In return, Rubio hopes Kasich supporters will return the favor and vote for him in Florida. "Any vote that doesn’t go to me is helping Donald Trump win the 99 delegates that [Florida] will award to the winner,” Rubio says, per Politico. Mitt Romney called for a similar strategy earlier this month. There's only one problem: None of Rubio's rivals appear to be on board. "We were going to win in Ohio without his help, just as he's going to lose in Florida without ours,” Politico quotes a Kasich spokesperson as saying. Meanwhile, Ted Cruz continues to insist he's the only remaining candidate who can beat Trump and wants no part of Rubio's "games." "It’s real, real simple," Cruz says, per the Times. "How do you beat Donald Trump? You beat him.” Everyone involved admits it will be much harder to keep Trump from being nominated if he wins either Ohio or Florida.