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Despite the hosts of NBC’s Today repeatedly demanding that Marco Rubio attack Donald Trump just two days earlier, after the Florida senator did just that in Thursday’s GOP debate, Friday’s edition of the morning show led off with co-host Matt Lauer fretting: “Texas smackdown. Things get ugly at the Republican debate, with Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz both taking repeated shots at Donald Trump....Has the low road become the new road to the nomination?”
In the report that followed minutes later, correspondent Peter Alexander declared: “After three straight double-digit victories for Donald Trump, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz finally ganged up on the frontrunner.” He noted that “the fight felt much more like a brawl.”