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Trump says US needs rich people to be great again

Wednesday, 16 March 2016 5:20 AM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 16 March 2016 5:20 AM ]

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the media following victory in the Florida state primary on March 15, 2016 in West Palm Beach, Florida. (AFP photo)

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump says the United States needs rich people to be great again.

“We’re going to make our country rich again; we’re going to make our country great again,” Trump said Tuesday in his victory speech at his Palm Beach club Mar-a-Lago, after crushing Senator Marco Rubio in his home state of Florida.

“And we need the rich in order to make the country great, I am sorry to tell you,” the billionaire businessman added.

The real estate mogul won Florida with all 99 delegates, dealing a major blow to Senator Rubio.

Rubio congratulated Trump on his “big victory” in the Florida primary and announced that he was dropping out of the 2016 race.

After belittling Rubio for weeks as a “lightweight,” Trump praised his former opponent for running a tough campaign.

Trump, whose rallies have been the scene of chaos and clashes between supporters and protesters, took a swipe at reporters and defended his campaign manager who is accused of assaulting a female reporter last week.

“There’s nothing like it - lies, deceit, viciousness, disgusting reporters,” Trump told the crowd in Palm Beach.

The outspoken candidate branded his surge as a phenomenon “that actually makes the Republican Party the biggest political story anywhere in the world.”

“We have to bring our party together,” he said.

Trump also emerged victorious in Illinois and North Carolina on Tuesday night, but lost big in the winner-takes-all state of Ohio to Governor John Kasich.

Buoyed by his first victory in Ohio, Kasich vowed to stay in the race for the Republican nomination.

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