Rubio builds 勢い, Cruz （選挙などの）運動をする shows 調印するs of struggle
ELKO, Nevada (AP) ― Marco Rubio amassed 増加するing support for his 立候補 while Ted Cruz's （選挙などの）運動をする showed 調印するs of struggle as 共和国の／共和党の 大統領の 候補者s crisscrossed Nevada on Monday on the final day of （選挙などの）運動をするing ahead of the 明言する／公表する's GOP （政党の）幹部会，党集会s.
Cruz told reporters Monday he has asked his （選挙などの）運動をする 広報担当者, Rick Tyler, to 辞職する for tweeting a story that 誤って 申し立てられた／疑わしい Rubio 侮辱d the Bible.
"We are not a （選挙などの）運動をする that is going to question the 約束 of another 候補者 for 大統領，／社長," he said, calling Tyler "a good man" and 公式文書，認めるing that he 削除するd the tweet once he discovered it was 誤った.
共和国の／共和党の 大統領の 候補者 Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla, 権利, 迎える／歓迎するs 支持者s after speaking at a 決起大会／結集させる Monday, Feb. 22, 2016, in Reno, Nev. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Tyler did not return telephone, text or email messages left by The Associated 圧力（をかける） 捜し出すing comment.
It's not the first time that Cruz's （選挙などの）運動をする has been （刑事）被告 by 競争相手s of using 疑わしい 策略. Cruz わびるd to GOP 希望に満ちた Ben Carson earlier this month after his （選挙などの）運動をする 促進するd a news story 示唆するing that Carson was getting out of the race. Cruz's （選挙などの）運動をする has also 定評のある creating a website that used a computer program to create a 偽の picture of Rubio shaking 手渡すs with 大統領 Barack Obama.
Speaking during a （選挙などの）運動をする stop in Elko, Nevada, earlier Monday, Rubio 非難するd Cruz for the 出来事/事件 and asked whether Cruz would 解雇する／砲火／射撃 anyone 伴う／関わるd.
"It's every 選び出す／独身 day something comes out of the Cruz （選挙などの）運動をする that's deceptive and untrue, and in this 事例／患者 goes after my 約束," Rubio told reporters when asked about the 出来事/事件. "I guess one of their spokespersons わびるd, and I 受託する their 陳謝."
共和国の／共和党の 前線-走者 Donald Trump 攻撃するd out at Cruz over Twitter on Monday, 説 that Cruz "has now わびるd to Marco Rubio and Ben Carson for 詐欺 and dirty tricks. No wonder he has lost Evangelical support!" He 繰り返し言うd his calls for disqualifying Cruz because of "his fraudulent 勝利，勝つ in Iowa."
Trump's 選挙事務長 Corey Lewandowski said Monday that the 億万長者 実業家 has been 捜し出すing advice from former New York City 市長 Rudy Giuliani as he 徐々に 拡大するs his tight inner circle.
Meanwh ile, 設立 heavyweights continued to 支援する Rubio, with many 説 they see him as the 候補者 who can 部隊 a disharmonious 共和国の／共和党の Party. Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch were the 最新の to 是認する Rubio. South Florida's three Cuban-American members of 議会 also said that they 転換d their support to Rubio, having 以前 supported for former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's now 消滅した／死んだ 企て，努力，提案.
Former Sen. （頭が）ひょいと動く 施し物 told ABC News on Monday that he too had been 支援 Bush, but he's now supporting Rubio because "he wants to grow the party as …に反対するd to Cruz. I don't know what he wants to grow."
Since Friday, Rubio has 追加するd 12 new 連邦議会の or 州知事の 裏書，是認s, while Trump and Cruz have 追加するd 非，不，無.
While five men 公式に remain in the race for the 共和国の／共和党の 指名／任命, House 大多数 Leader Kevin McCarthy 法案d it as a two-man contest between Trump and Rubio. Speaking to MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Monday, McCarthy said Trump's victory and Rubio's second-place finish in Saturday's South Carolina 最初の／主要な dealt a blow to Cruz's 戦略 to 勝利，勝つ the 指名／任命. The California 下院議員 予報するd 投票者s in Florida, Rubio's home 明言する／公表する, would 決定する whether Rubio continues or Trump easily rolls on to the 指名／任命.
Cruz on Saturday characterized a two-man contest 同様に ― between him and Trump. But Rubio, who （選挙などの）運動をするd in South Carolina と一緒に the 明言する／公表する's GOP Gov. Nikki Haley, has continued to 出資する on the 勢い from his second-place finish.
Across the country, Ohio Gov. John Kasich turned his attention to Virginia, which is の中で the dozen 明言する／公表するs 投票（する）ing on March 1.
Kasich, who finished second in New Hampshire's 共和国の／共和党の 最初の／主要な, won the 裏書，是認 of Tom 山の尾根, a former 母国 安全 secre tary and Pennsylvania 知事.
山の尾根 had supported Bush for 大統領，／社長 since 早期に 2015 and （選挙などの）運動をするd with him in South Carolina. Bush やめる the race Saturday after a disappointing finish in the Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina 最初の／主要なs.
Kasich's （選挙などの）運動をする says 山の尾根 is 調印 on as a 国家の co-chairman.
Democratic 大統領の 希望に満ちたs coming off a tight 戦う／戦い for Nevada kicked off the week on opposite ends of the country Monday. Hillary Clinton was fundraising in northern California, while Bernie やすりを削る人／削る機械s held a 決起大会／結集させる in Massachusetts, another 最高の Tuesday 明言する／公表する. South Carolina 投票（する）s in the next Democratic 最初の／主要な on Saturday.
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Riccardi 報告（する）／憶測d from Las Vegas. Associated 圧力（をかける） writers Vivian Salama in Washington, Scott Bauer in Madison, Wisconsin; David Eggert in Michigan, Andrew Demillo in Little 激しく揺する, Arkansas; and Alanna Durkin, Michael 血 and Matthew Barakat in Virginia 与える／捧げるd to this 報告（する）／憶測.
FILE - In this Feb. 21, 2016 とじ込み／提出する photo, 共和国の／共和党の 大統領の 候補者 Donald Trump speaks at a （選挙などの）運動をする event in Atlanta. With its red, white and blue bunting, 愛国的な スローガンs and ubiquitous country songs, the 大統領の （選挙などの）運動をする marching through South Carolina and Nevada seems like an all-American 事件／事情／状勢. But it 持つ／拘留するs familiar overtones to Europeans watching anxiously from abroad. (AP Photo/David Goldman, とじ込み／提出する)
共和国の／共和党の 大統領の 候補者, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks at a 決起大会／結集させる Sunday, Feb. 21, 2016, in North Las Vegas, Nev. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
共和国の／共和党の 大統領の 候補者 Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks at a 決起大会／結集させる Sunday, Feb. 21, 2016, in Pahrump, Nev. (AP Photo/John Locher)
共和国の／共和党の 大統領の 候補者, Ohio Gov. John Kasich 提起する／ポーズをとるs with three and a half year old twins Emerie and Ellie Farnsworth of Springfield, Va. after speaking at a Town Hall at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., Monday, Feb. 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)
